Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-06-22

| acres of the best farm land in the world.
The county has just completed magnif1
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 a cost Of $6,O00-the handsomest
church in the northwest), Methodist, Con-
gregational, Lutheran and Catholic church
es, four Livery stables and stores of every
description. A $500 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 the surrounding country will be sup
piled with fuel at $3.50 per ton, fact
which will Immediately secure the estab.
lishment of numerous mills and factories
in this favored city. The Grand Forks,
Valley City & Black Ellis Railroad Com.
pany are building 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 40, 900 bushel elevator, new one
of 100, 600 bushels capacity will be built
before the harvest of 1882. The last i'm:
provement will be necessary to accommo-
date this vast quantity of wheat that will
be marketed here next fall.
In July, 1879, Valley City had three
time stores have sprung up like magic and
the population has increased to- /. 500!
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 fer houses that q
company has been formed for the purpose
of building number of cottages to accom-.
modate the incoming tide of emigration.
Fhe 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 to |
be found in large quantities.
The Valley Of the Cheyenne is covered
with heavy growth of timber, principal.
~ Of eak, elm and Box Alder, interspersed
with some Of the richest Valley Farm Land
in the far famed Golden Northwest.
The Land Department of the First Ma
tional Bank of Valley City has large tracts
Of the choicest timber and prairie, land in
Northern Dakota. These tracts lie in
Barnes, Stntsman, Ransom. lie Moure and
Griggs counties, and are the first selections,
having been selected Immediately after
they were surveyed two and three years
ago. Among other choice tracts this de.
partment has one of $1,000 acres in one
body, all of which Is rated as number one
and one and . quarter.