Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-02-24
CAPITAL CITY.
A Plain Statement Of Facts Connected
With Jamestown.

A Plain Statement Of Facts Connects
WITH Jamestown.
An Eastern Town Backed Up by Wester
Enterprise.
That jamestown is destined to becom
large city in the near future, is admitte
by all acquainted with her history. Eve
her rivals, when forced to speak, conced
this They no longer speak sneeringly o
her growth or prospects; indeed many o
them have quietly invested in her tow
lots, knowing full well that throughou
the length and breadth of Dakota there i
no town on a more solid bass or witt
brighter prospects for the future. Th
'1ittle hamlet on the James, has grown
into busy bus;liag town that is takin!
giant strides towards wealth and pooula
tion-a town settled by thrifty, cultured
! people from the best communities in th
East-a town within whose borders a e 4
be found broad avenues lined with com
mOdious business houses and tasty dwell
inGs, Two beautiful churches, graded
school, one private END two nationa
banks, daily morning newspaper con
tainimg news from all pats of the wocld
one monthly and two weekly papers, iou
large hotels, three public halls including
a first class opera house, a variety of man
ufacturing interests among which a.e s
mammoth flour mill, extensive brewery
and furniture factory, railroad shops, ele-
; vators, large lumber yards, prosperous
merchants and p, OCCASIONAL men and
most of the elements that 60 to make q
city of the first class. Its prosperity is
such that brick buildings aye taking the
place Of wooden structures which mark
the earlier years of a village. Its limits
have so expanded and its population so in
creased that capitalists are moving to
build a streetrailroad. Her school popu-
the five thousand dollar school house no
growth has been steady from the start
at first slow, at present fairly leaping.
Her advance is not checked by the sea-
sons. Even the cold of winter cannot
keep her builders idle and on every street
can be heard the hammering of carpen-
ters even while the mercury is coquetting
with zero. Visitors speak with admira-
tion of her improvements, and well they
may, for in no other town in the north
west can the like be seen.
Her population is constantly increasing
When last summer the school board in
angurated graded school, no one
dreamed of a greater enrolment than one
hundred during the school year but 10,
ere Christmas rolled around the names of
two hundred punils appeared on the roll
and the number bids tnir.tO exceed three
hundred before the sunmcr vacation.
But why this rush Of people to James
town! The reason is not alone her match
less 'ora,on which nature evidently III
tended for q large city---a broad basin
surrounded by grand bluffs and washed
by a timber fringcG river; nor the fertile
fields Of the golden James River valley
fields that ueed only to be tlckled with
hoe to produce an abundant harvest, nor
in the pure crystal water to be found all
around us, nor is it the health. giving at
mosphere which we all breathe-though
these alone are sufficient to insure the
permancncy of a city numbering its in
haotants by the thousands; but beyond
us to the northwest is a region at present
but little known, but one undoubtedly
rich in timber, grass and above all, coal
coal, the one thing needed to give our
territory boom compared to which the
growth of other new countries would sink
into insignificancc. Take map, exam
inc the location of the Mouse river region
and it is as clear as MONDAY sun that
jamestown is naturally the entrance gate
to the famous Eldorado. But the North
ern Pacific Railroad company is con-
branch road from this point
to that country-a railroad not on paper
Or in the fertile minds of ambitious
neghhors, but one actually under con-
This road, the first in the
f,1l will o1-o n1>
commerce to the northwest which will
pour untold wealth into the Golfers Of our
merchants and manufacturers.
In view of such resources it is no Won
der that contracts are let for many costly
buildings; no wonder that railroad shops
employing 400 men, and a thirty thousand
dollar court house will be erected the
coming spring; no wonder our mer-
chants are about to establish wholesale
houses. The confidence in Jamestowns
future is not confined to her citizens who
invest their capital freely within her Inn
its, but is shared by many shrewd men in
all parts of our country-men whose
names appear in the list of owners OF
jamestown real estate. But ifany doubt
ing person desires convincing proof o.
perfect confidence in our future prosperi-
ty on the part of capitalists, he need only
eSsmine our banking institutions. Capt.
tai i. p:ovcroia,ly f:mid and selfish, vet
here, in town offering splendid soecula-
tions in real estate thet is steadily lncreas-
ing in value, are found keen, far-seeing,
monied men who have established banks
w.tiI working capital Of $150,0O0.
Ald Tor wilaG purpose? In the hope of
calling immediately on their ;"v..t
ments? Everyone knows that our vol.
ume Of business would afford only mod
erste profit in the above banking capital
al the sta.t They wee willing to wait
for the iu!l realization of their hopes, feel
ing se.isficd tial in short time bonan.
"a awaited those banks first In the field.
So far their expectations have been more
than realized in constantly Increasing
business
Spring will soon be he'e, and with it
will come many people from all paris of
our country. Every mail brings orders to
our land agents, to secure houses for inn
migrants. There are no vacant buildings
in our town. Spring will open with
still greater demand for house ROOM
The building improvements of last sum-
mer, amounting TO over $154, 900, will be
tripled the coming season and before
snow flies next winter over 5000 people
will have their residence among us. To-
day jamestown is attracting more atten-
ton than any town in Dakota. Her re-
sources need only to become known to at.
tract within her limits during the next
FIVE years prosperous population of
$4,000 people.
Oar Se.'asI Accommodations.
The annual school meeting occurs on
Ihn tirst Tuesday in nr:l and as thnre