Morris tribune., 1882-08-31
H 9 M e S
FOR THE
HOME LESSI
BoNANZAs FOR THE
CAPITALIST!
AGOLDEN TIDE
FOR EVERYBODY.
BA us
THE
BANNER WHEAT COUNTY.

fartles In search of a home farm. q
| business location. or grand place to in
vest their ducats, should 60 to Valley CITY.
the booming metropolis of the Sheyenne
valley, the Garden city of Northern Dako.
Ia. This thriving, rushing, busting town
lies IN the beautiful valley of the Sheyenne
| River, 90 miles west of Fargo, On the line
of the Northern Pacific railroad. The civ
| is protected from the cold blasts of winter
| by timbered bluffs, from the top of which
the finest prairie the sun ever shone on
stretches away for many miles in all direc-
| tons.
| valley City is the county seat of Barnes
county, which contains over a million
| acres OF the best farm land in the world.
The county has just completed a magnin-
cent brick court house at cost of S335, 600.
| 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 $6,0O0-the handsomest
| church in the northwest), Methodist; Con-
gregational Lutheran and Catholic church
| es, four Livery stables and stores of every
NSoSAiPeioh' "A F~c,OOO uOlCl, 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 sun
| piled with fuel at $3.50 per ton, a fact
| which will Immediately secure the estab-
| lishment of numerous mills and factories
in this favored city The Grand Forks.
Valley City & Black Hills 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 40, 900 bushel elevator, new one
of 10O,0 600 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
stores and q population of rs, since which
time stores have sprung up like magic and
the population has increased to 1,500!
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 for houses that a
company has been formed for the purpose
of building 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 to
be found in large quantities.
The Valley of the Cheyenne is covered
with heavy growth of timber, principal.
ly of oak, 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 aid prairie land in
Northern Dakota. These tracts lie in
Barnes, Stutsman, 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.
This magnificent property is located on
the line of the Valley City & Turtle Noun
tain railroad. and is one of the bonanzas
of the Great Red River Valley.
Thousands of acres of No land fol-
sale along the line of the St. P, M. & M.
Railroad, G. f. & v. c. and Black Hills
Railroad, N. p. Railroad, V. G. & T. NJ
Railroad, and Fargo & Southwestern Rail
road, which will be sold in tracts to suit
AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Lonl
time given if desired.
Valley City town property at low price
and easy terms. Lots given away to par
ties who will build on them. This is !
chance in lifetime to invest in the gold
producing soil. A bonanza which shrewt
capitalists will not be slow to "catch on
to before the rise in property which is sur.
to follow the rush of emigration to thi
Garden Spot of Dakota.
Hundreds of acres of magnificent Gov
eminent Land close to railroads to be hat |
in this neighborhood
For further particulars, write or call OF
the
LAND DEPARTMENT