Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-09-07
BANNER WHEAT COUNTY.

Parties in search of a home, a farm. a
business location. or grand place to in
vest their ducats, should 90 to Valley City,
the booming metropolis of the Sheyenne
valley, the Garden City of NORTH ern Dako.
ia. This thriving, rushing, busting town
hes in the beautiful valley of the Sheyenne
River, IS miles west of Fargo, Oh the line
OF the Northern Pacific railroad. The city
is protected from the cold blasts of winter
by tlmbered bluffs, from the top of which
the finest prairie the sun ever slone on
stretches away for many miles in all direc-
tions.
Valley City is the county seat of Barnes
county, which contains over million
acres of the best farm land in the world.
The county has just completed a magnih-
cent brick court house at a cost of $35 900,
which is the finest building of the kind in
the Territory. Valley City contains the
finest brick and stone buildings in Dakota,
among which are the First National Bank.
Zone of the solid banking institutions of the
country, Getchell's Opera House, Dakota
House, High Schools and Common
Schools, Episcopal Church, Quilt of native
stone at cost of $G,000-the handsomest
church in the northwest, Methodist, Con-
gregatiOnal. Lutheran and Catholic church
es, four Livery stables and stores of every
description. a $4,000 brick hotel, in
course Of construction, will be finished
early in June. The Valley City & Turtle
Mountain Railroad is being graded from
the south line of the county to Valley CITY,
thence northwest, through magnificent
country, past the far-famed Devils Lake
Region to the immense coal beds of the
Souris River Valley and Turtle Mountain.
When the road is completed, Valley City
and mt lo
piled with fuel at SO 80 per ton, a fact
which will Immediately secure the estab-
iishmcnt Of numerous mills and factories
in this favored city. The Grand Forks,
Valley City s Black Hills Railroad Com
pany are building a railroad from Grand
Forks southwest to Valley City, from
thence to the Black Hills, on which cars
will be running at the end Of the present
year. The Valley City Brick and Tile
company manufacture the finest brick in
the Northwest, large numbers of which are
shipped to other points in Dakota The
company already have contracts for sever
al millions OF brick to be used in new
buildings in Valley City the coming sea.
son, besides orders from abroad.
Although the town is already supplied
with a 10, 900 bushel elevator, a new one
of 100000 bushels capacity will be built
before the harvest of 1882. The last inn
provement will be necessary to accemmo-
date this vast quantity of wheat that will
be marketed here next fail.
In July, 1879, Valley City had three
stores and population of rs, since which
! time stores have sprung up like magic and
the population has increased to 800!
Hundreds of settlers, with their household
effects, arrive daily, and the rush for land
is unprecedented in the history of the town.
So great is the demand for houses that a
company has been formed for the purpose
of building a number of cottages to accom-.
modate the incoming tide of emigration.
The land in the vicinity of Valley City is
the finest farm land in the world, and in
many instances has yielded fabulous crops
of wheat, oats, barley, corn and vegeta-'
bles. The land is gently rolling, while
here and there the surface is broken by
beautiful lakes, in some of which bass,
pickerel. pike, and other game fish are tc
be found in large quantities.
! The Valley of the Cheyenne is covered
with heavy growth of timber, principals
! ly of oak, elm aud Box Alder, interspersec
with some of the richest Valley Farm Lane
in the far famed Golden Northwest.
The Land Department of the First Ma
tional Bank of Valley City has large tracts
| VI hiiS SiolSSSt tliiIUSl lauu IL
Northern Dakota. These tracts lie in
| Barnes, Stutsman, Ransom, LIE Moure anG
Griggs counties, and ale the first selections,
h wing been selected immediately after
they were surveyed two and three years,
ago. Among other choice tracts this de-
partment has one of $4,000 acres in ono
body, all of which is rated as number one
and one and quarter.
This magnificent property is located or
the line of the Valley City & Turtle Noun,
tain railroad. and is one of the bonanza;
of the Great Red River Valley.
Thousands of acres of No. land TO
sale along the line of the St. P, M. 4 NJ
Railroad, G. F. & " C. and Black Hill
Railroad n P Railroad, V. G. & I. NJ
Railroad, and Fargo e Southwestern Raj
road, which will be sold in tracts to sui
AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. LonS
time given if desired
Valley City town property at low price
and easy terms. Lots given away to pa,
ties who will build on theme This is =
chance in a lifetime to invest in the golf,
producing soil. A bonanza which shrew,,
capitalists will not be slow to "catch ON
! to before the rise in property which is sur
to follow the rush of emigration to thf
Garden Spot of Dakota.
Hundreds of acres of magnificent Gov
eminent Land close to railroads to be hao
in this neighborhood. ~
For further particulars, write or call o
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