Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-01-26
CooPERsTOWN.
The County Seat Of Grfggs Coun.
ty, and what its Signs OF
Promise Are.

4 VOlll1SC Are
A Word Concerning its Protectors, Sur.
roundings, Advantages, Etc.
Search history as long as you desire.
and we will warrant that not another in-
stance can be found where town has
been started as substantially suspicious
as was the capital Of Griggs county.
Within three weeks from the date the
plat was filed for record, the people of
Griggs said most empllatically with lheir
little ballots: ''Cooperstown shall be
our seat of government" And why was
this honor conferred upon a town pos
sessing not even the dignity Of a single
citizen, may be the query of many of
our distant readers. The reasons are
plain and quickly told. Cooperstown is
plated Oh one Of the lovliest, most adj
vantageous sites on Gods great footstool,
and within forty rods of the exact geo
graphical center Of the county, a very
important desideratum to fair minded
settlers; its founder. r. G. Cooper, is
recognized as having done more for the
development of this section than any
ten OF twenty men; is known throughout
this entire region as a man of not only
unlimited financial backbone. but as a
person in svrong sympathy with every
honest tiller of the soil, as well as warm
friend to all who put forth leasonableen-
deavors to improve their conditions.
His indomitable energy, integrity and
being 50 well under
stood by nearly every settler in Gliggs
county, they were perfectly willing, yea,
more than pleased to vest the county
seat in even the embryo of a town where
they knew Mr.. Cooper was interested,
for with his name connected Herewith,
they felt sure it meant success, and a
thriving city right in the center of their
most Prosperous county.
When Mr.. CooInr's associates in the
town site are brought ,rto due consider
alton it makes one of the strongest com
pallies ever engaged in the dt velopment.
of new Dakota city. Mesarx. G. a
Roberts, of the Fargo Roller Mills and
General Manager of the Sanborn, Coop
erstown Il Turtle Mountain II. r.; n.
l.. Lehman, OF the immense Barnes cotnl-
ty melchantile, lumber and wheat firm
of Lehman u Co.; j. NJ. Burrell, of the
Barnes Co. Bank, and T. j. Cooper,
Chicago capitalist, are Individually and
unitedly putting forth their best EN-
deavors to make Cooperstown the pride
of the prairie and a glowing monument
to their menory.| y csegentlemen have
all reaped a rich reward of worldly goods
and Dakota having contributed largely
to their financial success, they now pro-
pose to manifest in q measure their love
for this prosperous CLINE. Their energy,
hearts and money have been enlisted in
the cause OF Cooperstown, which they
will build up, instead of booming it
solely for speculative purposes. Every
one of the town site owners will be in
terested in business operations i'll the
county capital in various capacities, such
as bankers, hotel proprietors, lumber
dealers, Touring mill owners. etc, which
ensures the place of their constant fos-
tering care and enterprise.
y liberal policy toward every project
that is in any manner desirable to town
or public has been adopted and will he
continued until shall be seen as the re-
suit of such libelality All important,
blstling little city. which shall serve as
the supply mart of the country for miles
in every direction. That their extensive
plans shall all have absolute existence
and the brightest reality there is no
doubt.
The town lots for this assuming young
trade centre were placed on the market
late in November. since which time the
sales have continued daily, the making
ont Of deeds requiring the constant ser
vices of AN efficient clerk. While there
VAS no spread-cagle advertisements in
the papers: no glowing posters hung in
the streets: no iriedeemable pledges
made, and not even a single boomers
trick Iesorleal To. it was noticeable that
those most eager to get Mt the plats To
make their selections were of the con
scrvative Mxt.O men. who fully under
stood the lncation Of Cooperxtbwn, and
bought with the intentionr of building.
Located in the richest tract of farm lands
in America besides having the advantage
of being capital Of growing county and
Tie terminus OF II railroad were impor-
ialld factors Of Il town S prosperity that !,
1 Nn.a ueSirluu lllSiueSs lucuiOu OF i'll !