Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-15

Livery, sale and feed stables. .............
Lumber yards 8
and loan agencies, four physicians,
"Bank of Larlmore," private banking house
owned by G. C. Wolcott, with the Merchants
National Of st. Paul and other first class banks
In Chicago, New York and other cities as refer
| ences. The two newspapers, the Larimore
Leader and the Larimore Pioneer, both week.
ly papers, are a credit to the place and are
fully appreciated.
PROSPECTIVE IMPROVEMENTS.
A $4,000 hotel is to be built at once. A
school house to cost not less than $4,000, for
the accommodation OF thorough graded
school, will be ready for occupancy by Novem.
Der lat next. A brickysrd is to be started i'm
mediately. Four elevators, with the following
ownership and capacity, are to be built, ready
for the coming CROP
Capacity
Bush.
Pillsbury & Hurlbert. .100, 600
Transcontenental Elevator Co. .100,G GOO
n. w. Elevator Co. ............,...... $4,000
Merrlll q 70. ............... ou,UUu
While as yet there are no church buildings,
there are several societies just organizing and
at least two churches will be built this season.
Church service Is already held each Sabbath.
From this brief review OF present and pros
pective business aud social interests you can
form some idea, gentle reader, of the thrift,
energy and public spirit which actuates The
people of this booming, rushing town. Yet
unless you stand as now do and listen to the
sounds of life; to the din and thunder Of build
ing; to turn your back after a conversation
with friend and discover the frame of some
new building looming up between yourself
and and, the he horzon' o.. where S but
to have your nostrils filled with the smell Of
new paint, and your eyes with saw-dust,
wherever you 60, you cannot have true
conception of how they build Western
town, and especially how Larimore is being
built.
But you ask me, "Is this not all boon-au
excitement which will carry this town where
1t viii not be possible 10 maintain ity'' ]
answer most emphatically, No. Sir, Iu the
drst place, there is no other place in Dakota
at present north of Fargo which has two
great rival roadside Northern Pacific and
Manitoba, and the latter will soon have its
second line-the Breckenridge division run
ming into town. There Is also strong ex-
pectatiOn that the Milestone branch of the
Hastings q Dakota division OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee i 81. Paul, which is seeking the
famous Red river valley, Will make this town
an objective point.
Then the country adjacent. There will be
40, 900 acres of wheat to be marketed here
this, the first season Ct the towns existence,
aud for all time to come the competing lines
will MAKE 1t the best possible wheat market
for circle of thirty miles in each direction
l answer you that central town, such as
Larimore, in the heart of the best and most
productive section of country the sun ever
shone upon, demands q city of $4,000 In
habitants the moment the country Is thor.
oughly settled and cultivated. One year the
native sod is turned over, the next 1t pro-
duces crop, SO that the whole
face Of the landscape changes almost
to thoroughly cultivated field producing
from twenty-five to forty bushels .per acre Of
No. hard,
possess many points of superiority over the
Red river valley proper in topography and
quality of soil which when enumerated will
not fail to impress the reader as 1t does me.
First Larimore is elevated just 257 fest above
the Rid river at Grand Forks. This eleva-
ton gives sufficient fall to the streams to
insure a most perfect drainage. Then the
character OF the soil Is better. The surface
soil is of the same vegetable deposit forma-
tien from eight to thirty inches deep, but in.
stead OF being uudsrlaid with o
strata of hard clay as upper.
vlous to water as an iron kettle, and which
renders the streets and roads bottomless
quagmire in the rainy season, the subsoil Is
an admixture of clay, mari and sand, which,
while 1t does not leach, is more open and
porous. This deposit of mari In which the
Elk valley is SO rich, furnishes the finest kind
of plant food, and precludes the possibility of
the land wearing out Through this rich,
loose and porous soil grass roots run down to
the extreme depth Of eight or ten feet, which
prevents the effect of drowth FROM injuring
crop, and again the extreme depth to which
frost peretrates, seven or eight feet, keeps the
roots cool and moist without heavy
spring rains. Last but not least, the supe-
rior points Of this wonderful valley is
the water supply. From twelve to
twenty feet below the surface the finsst
water-cool as Ice, clear as crystal and as
sweet and pure as the nectar of the gods-en-
tirely free from alkaline or other deleterious
substances, can be had in limitless guam titles
all over the valley.
This latter feature makes home in this
section more desirable, and those who know q
good country when they see it are sure to be
csptivated with the Elk valley. Soil, climate
and water all that could be desired and land to
be had for the asking, is 1t any wonder
that people are wild about such section as
this.
AS ldT ds Tue JONU 10 COuCoIucus cNeIyUOuy
who has invested in Larimore has made money
on their Investment and all are satisfied. The
Elk Valley Farm Co. have never bought
dollar Of supplies outside of Grand Forks
county, and now that town is started they
propose to stand by 1t and give it their trade.
Such action on their part, SO much at vari-
auce with the course adopted BY other large
farming companies in Dakota,giyes confidence
In the town and when the owners of the
town site put their individual capital into
substantial improvements as they are doing
here, the public are warranted in giving them
| their confidence. There are at present over 225
contracts made for the erection of buildings
the coming season, and by the time snow flies
present residents won't know 1t for the same
place. / find here an excellent class of peo-
Die and am much pleased to note that strong
Democratic sentiment prevails. Reader. /
should like to locate at point possessing SO
many advantages, and if you can visit it and
not catch the fever you will do better, or
worse rather, than have. The proper train
to take leaves the union depot, St. Paul, each
evening over the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Man
| itoba, via Fergus Falls and Fargo, Try the trip