Morris tribune., 1882-05-04
BANNER WHEAT COUNTY

Parties in search of home, farm, a
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, bustling town
lies in the beautiful valley of the Sheyenne
River, 50 miles west of Fargo, Oh the line
of the Northern Pacific railroad. The city
is protected from the cold blasts oil winter
by timbercd 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 million
acres of the best farm land in the world.
The county has just completed magnih
cent brick court house at cost OF $35 900,
hch 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,
lone of the solid banking institutions of the
country, Getchells Opera House, Dakota
House, High Schools and Common
Schools, Episcopal Church, Quilt of native
stone at Il cost of $S000-the handsomest
church in the norlhwesD, Methodist, Con
! grcgatonal. 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 the surrounding county will be sup
piled with fuel ut $3.50 per ton, u 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, II new ore
of 100, 900 bushels capacity will be built
before the harvest of 1882. The last i'm
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 70, since which
time stores have sprung up like magic and
the population has increased to 1900!
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 a 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 and prairie land in
Northern Dakota. These tracts lie in
Barnes. Ststsman, 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 $4,000 acres in one
body, all of which is rated as number one
and one and a 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.
sale along the line of the St P, NJ. & Nj
| Railroad, G.. f. & V. G.. and Black Hills
Railroad, N. P. Railroad, V. G. & Il. Nj.
Railroad. and Fargo & Southwestern Rail
road which will be sold in tracts TO suit,
AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Long
time given if desired.
Valley City town property at low prices
and easy terms Lots given away to par
| ties who will build on them. This is n
chance in lifetime to invest in the gold
producing soil A bonanza which shrewd
| capitalists will not be slow to "catcll on"
to before the rise in property which is sure
to follow the rush Of emigration to this
| Garden Spot of Dakota.
Hundreds of acres of magnificent Gov
eminent Land close to railroads to be had
| in this neighborhood.
For further particulars, write or call on
the