Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-08-31
THE IRON HORSE At LAST
Echoes its Shrill Voice in the
Sacred Precincts of Coopers-
town, the Hub of Griggs
County.
Our Condition Considered from
4 Clear, Cool, Candid Stand-
point is Real and
Assuring.

Why Griggs County has and Must Con.
tinue to Catch the Cream of
Immigration.
The Capital City in Her New Relation.
All is now excitement, joy, enthus-
iasm and push in Griggs' capital. Men
hNrrying hitller and thither with their
elastic tread; mechanics busy with their
pressing duties; merchants waiting upon
their customers with exultant mein; the
throngs Of strangers in our streets and
the sighs of the great steam civiliZer it.
self tell the story. The many who had
grown impatient and those who had be-
come respondent watching and longing
for the engine of civilization, now pull
safe and sparkle with the germs of a
new life. Last Monday will be recorded
as the most important epoch in the his
tory of Cooperstown, for at two O'Clock
on that day tile iron horse came gliding
as smoothly into our place as though it
had always been accustomed to 50 doing.
Already farmers and others are pouring
into our city seeking information in re-
gard to transportation Of freight and
supplies. In a few days the streets of
Cooperstown will he thronged with hun
dreds of teams fleighted with golden
cereal, and a new era will thus be
touched by the conversion of No. Hard
into shining ducats that will serve to
satisfy obligations and procure comforts.
The advent of the Sanbom, Coopers-
town and Turtle Mountain railroad will
be fra,ight with far different and more
satisfactory results than those usually
experienced by frontier towns. The
headlight flashes upon and the iron steed
echoes it's first voice to a town already
well developed-a place thrifty, solid,
and established by Il class of sturdy
pioneers who of themselves form a pow
erful nellcleus as the magnet gathers
particles of steel. With her educational
institute, her bank, her immense eleva-
tor, her extensive mercantile houses,
her elaborate hotels, ler livcries. her un-
excelled society, her mechanics, her al
tisans, and with her liberal portion of
professional men of eminent attain
ments, the initial train toucIiers Coopers-
town-the heart Of a glorious county
with her magic wand of civilization, and
as Minerva sprang forth armed from the
brain of Jupiter, SO does Cooperstowll
arise fully clothed with all these evil
dences Of it's reality and with wealth
of magnificent natural advantages in the
background. The visitor from the
outer world will here behold no solitary
electric light shedding from the top of
a hotel it's lonesome rays over all I'M
peopled townsite. but instead he will
look upon a live, bustling mart, built
upon the faith of men to whose ,mtring
zeal and energy it stands monument
more enduring than bronze or marble.
A few years ago the waters of the
Sheyenne rippled indolenty along through
what is now our fertile county, singing
it's tuneful notes to an untutored race;
a few seasons since the antelope grazed
and the wild OK wallowed undist,rbed
where now stand the imposing business
houses, the public and private edifices of
Griggs co,lnty's capital. Less than
twelve months ago the townsite of
Cooperstown stood unenvironed with
naugbt save the horizon and the majes-
tic landscape of it's surroundings. Why
this metanorphosis of to-day exists is
easily accounted for by the three words
'.March of immigration. The product
i've soil OF Griggs, it's pure waters, it's
noble streams lined with sturdy timber,
it's beautiful inland lakes abounding
with fish and affording grand sites for
elegant homes, combined with the strik-
ing natural advantages of the townsite
form the magnet that has drawn SO
largely upon the over-populated eastern
and middle states.
Consider the fact that what there is of
Cooperstown has been materialized and
developed in the brief period of eight
months and in the absence of railway
facilities, three-fonrths of the lumber.
material, etc, having heen freighted by
wagon forty miles. Reader. when you
conceive the difficulties, the heavy tax of
expense and endurance that was required
to lay the foundation for this prosperous
little city the conclusion must be reached
that Cooperstown is built upon the solid