Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-03-24
Thousands Of the Honest Yeomanry In tho
East Shake the Dust From oil
Their Weary Feet
TO Take Up Their Abode in tho James Riv-
or Valley, the Land Of Peace
and Plenty.
Thirty.Eight Carloads OF fEmigrants' Move
ables From One Town in Michigan
En- Route TO Jamestown.
Iterns of Local Importance Carefully Sc
lected for the Alert's Vast and
Appreciative Audience.
Railroads.

Ohio and Illinois railroad said, on a re-
cent visit to Jamestown: dakota will
make as great progress in ten years as was
accomplished in thirty years in Ohio, Illi-
nois and Wisconsin, because here the rail-
roads precede settlement instead of fol-
lowing q good many years behind it,"
The writer can remember when Central
Wisconsin farmers, after discouragingly
hard labor id preparing their timber open
inxs for crops, were obliged to haul their
wheat hunded miles over bad roads and
sell for from so to 80 cents per bushel, and
in spite of that fact struggled along and
in time became independent. How differ
ent tho conditions under which North Da-
kota is being. settled. Any man who will
can buy on easy terms and at a cost of
from 81 to $40 per acre the best gram land
in the world, requiring only the turning
of the sod to fit it for the seed within sight
of the railroad, over which some twenty
trains day are steaming by.
The government land can be had by
every applicant at distance of from ten
to twenty miles from these same compile
ted roads and Immediately alongside Of
other roads now beng built And these
roads, unlike tae weak, puny stab roads,
which, after twenty years OF patient wait
ing first glad 4ned Jne hearts Of the early
settlers in the middle and Western States,
on all great wealthy trunk lines extending
from us, way back hundreds or thousands
of miles to the homes we abandoned when
coming to Dakota's prairies.
The Northern Pacific railroad was COM
plsted from Duluth, on Lake Superior,
across Minnesota and through Eastern
Dakota to the Missouri river when there
was not settler on the great prairies for
200 miles along its route, and at time
when all the world believed these prairies
q barren, unproductive waste. Every set
tier in Northern Dakota has come here in
. palace car. This giant corporation has
now pushed its road from Lake Superior
on the East and the Pacific ocean on the
West until its two divisions are almost
Joined at the Rocky Mountains. A little
more than year hence and the trains on
this road will pass our door that carry the
worlds commerce from Lake Superior to
the Pacific ocean without break or q
change.
The James River Valley, by its wonder
full fertility, is attracting to it all the great
roads of the Northwest. The Chicago,
Milwaukee s. St. Paul, which already
traverses the States of Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Iowa and Minnesota with its 1000
miles Of road, is reaching into this valley
from two directions. Its through North
nd South line is, with the exception Of
ono, or two short gaps, completed to =
point in La Moure county, only fifty
miles south Of Jamestown, and will in all
probability come in here during the pres
ent year.
Another branch of the same road from
St. Paul and Minneapolis, via Ortonville,
il surveyed in here and completed to with
in sixty miles. The Chicago & North
western, always just ahead of or closely
following the Chicago, Milwaukee & St..
Paul, il also pushing its line up along the
James river, with Jamestown as its objec-
tive point. The North Pacific in the
meantime will not allow the jim river
valley to be invaded by these outside lines
without struggle AID to retain its share
OF the results is, in addition to its trunk
line crossing the river at jamestown,
pushing branch from Fargo south
west to the James river at Grand
Rapids, forty-five miles south of James
town, and the same company has under
construction two important feeders in the
valley to the north, both starting at
jamestown, one running northwest to the
Mouse river region and the other almost
due north to Devils Lake and the British
possessions.
The Jamest own, Grand Forks & Mis-
souri, River Railroad company is but re-
Gently organized, has announced its pur-
pose to push a line at once from James
town northwest TO Grand Forks on the
Red river and southwest to the Missouri
river near Standing Rock. These roads
are not the only ones that will, inside the
succeeding three years, tap the jim River
Valley, but are sufficient to prove the pro-
position that North Dakota will show
greater development in ten years than the
middle or older Western States did ir
their past thirty years.
Our Washington Lotter.