Morris tribune., 1882-07-06
Valley City is heheountY seat of Barnes

acres of the best farm land in the world.
The county has just completed a magnitl
cent brick court house alta 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 instutions of the
country, Getchell's Opera House; Dakota
House, High Schools and Common
Schools, Episcopal Church, Quilt of native
stone at cost of $6,000-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 s. 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 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 id Valley City the coming sea
son, besides orders from abroad
Although the town is already supplied
with IA 40, 900 bushel elevator, new one
of 900 bushels capacity will be built
before the harvest of 1882. Tie last i'm.
provement will be necessary to accommo-
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
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
company has been formed for the purpose
of building a number of f,cottagestoaecom-
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. b.ys.4lg
The Valley of the, Cheyenne is covered
with heavy growth of timber, principal
ly of oak, elm and Box Alder, linterspersed
with some of the richest Valley Farm Land
in the farifamed Golden Northwest. =. q
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, Stntsmar, Ransom, lie Moure and
iGriggs 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 $4,000 acres in one
body, all of which is rated as number one