Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-01-19

ual y Or SOul0 OtlcT uuIuy NuIlVtiSS- oho
encourage the prolific growth of grapes,
currants, gooseberrics, rasp5crrics and
strawberries.
The population of the county IN June.
1880, was 1914; it is now fully 1880, and
with only about one eighth of the county
under cultivation; farms are selling at
from $40 to SIS per acre, aLd lands from
s. to $40 per acre; the value of the taxa
BILE real estate is $3.50, 277, and that of the
personal property $34l ,525, estimated at
only about one third the actual values.
There is no bonded and only nominal
floating debt. The taxes, aside from the
school tax, which varies in localities, are
only l2 mills.
The county agricultural society, organ
lied under state law, gives annual exhibi.
tons upon the grounds OF the Morris Driv'
ing Park association, which has about 80
acres, and permanent, first class improve
ments. These annual gatherings ought to
be made the most pleasant and profitable
| to the farmers of any in the year, where
they can compare notes, profit by each
others experience, and fortify themselves
against errors and universities; but it
should be remembered that the greatest
measure of success is to be assured only by
each one recognizing his individuality.
and feeling that he is individually respon-
sible for its accomplishment. To meet
the growing interest in flax culture, MIR. l..
II. Stanton (son of Hon. E. NJ. Stanton,
late Secretary of War; and others will
build an elevator at Morris for handling
and cleaning fax exclusively, the coming
year.
NORRIS,
the county seat, ut the pationnl census of
1880 had 734 population, while conseTva-
tive estimate now would accord it 1850.
1t is built on Il pretty sight, with viStas OF
hill dale, grove and lake. 1t is regularly
laid out, and has quite Il number of attrac-
tive residences, around which lawns, trees
and shrubbery afford establishment. 1t
possesses intelligent and refined society,
principally American; earnest, enterpris-
ing business men; four chu,ches-Congre-
gational, Episcopal. Methods, and Catho-
lie; prosperous lodges of the A. F. and A.
NJ. and A o. L. W., representing and aus,
tanned by the best citizens, y sch"ol prep,
erty worth $1,000, = graded school Of four
departments and teachers, with high
school dlvision-total average attendance
about 155; and besides thsse the Catholics
have prosperous parish school.
THE NORRIS TnIBUNEi is al eight column
folio, ably edited by w. j. Munro. There
is ample banking capi,al and business,
including certain private interests con-
nected Herewith, and properly included,
of over $2.0O0,000. The permanent i'm
provements for the year foot up $l09,650,
and the commercial business, we are as.
sured, amounts to S2,942.600. There are
three elevators. with total capacity of
! 100, 600 bushels, and the past year there
has been a wheat market of 35u, 900 BUSH
els. The Board of Trade, for the protcc-
ton and promo ton of public interests, in
cludes all the best business men of the
place. The postotlice ranks tnird-class,
and has sold stamps and postal cards to tie
value of So. 105. and money orders to the
value OF over SIC, 00C the past year. An
excellent quality of brick clay and building
sto2e is easily anc cheaply obtainable.
Thsre are also two Touring mills of large
capacity and other minor manufacturing
| interests
There is hall for public entertainments,
but to keep pace with the embryo city
there is need of first class academy of
music or opera house. There is also need
Of Il good hotel, a wagon shop. foundry
and machine shops, flax and tow mills,
crcamcries, a canning establishment, a
merchant tailor, q furniture factory, a
mandatory of products from straw, a
matchmaker and jeweler, barber and a
gunsmith; and the farmers of the county
need, and ought to subscribe for, at least
1000 copies of The Rural New Yorker as
a necessary aid to prosperity.
The Pomme de Terre liver runs near the
town two dams have already been con
structed, one with 81 feet fall and the
other with about S feet, furnishing mill
power. There are also two or three other
power sites that might be improved
for additional manufacturing interests
within seven miles
Morris has the promise of becoming one
of the prominent railroad centres of the
state 1t is on the main line of the St
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad
from which the Browns Valley brancl
DIVORCES at this point. The Little Falls 6
Dakota railroad connects here with the
Northern Pacific, and will be in operation
through Sank Centre to Little Falls, s:
miles from here, next season, and the grad
ing will be completed through and west Of
Norris in 1882. The St. Cloud s. Lake
Traverse railroad, upon which q large
amount of work has been completed, will
be in operation to Morris by July, 1882
These two last not only open trade will
localities that must pay tribute to Morris
and furnish ample competition in rates
ETC., but they provide direct communica
ton with the best oak, ash and other hare
wood lumber N the state, and only sbou
IS miles distant; hence the advantage il
the manufacturing referred TO.
Memory fingers upon our brief acquaint
ance at Morris with pleasure and fond an
ticipations for the future OF this growing
place; the society is cultured, being prin
cipally from New Y ork, Pennsylvania ant
New England. and one feels intuitively a
home. The Board OF Trade has organized
a series of local entertainme nts ola higll,
intellectual order, selling tickets at s.
for the series, and other attractions CORES
pond. Correspondence addressed to til,
Secretary of the Board would receive ccur