Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-22

| ~ made money when he deserved TO los
IL, but The prices of real estate has
grown 81 much faster than the town
las, and there Is Sd much evidence of
'sttEIng after stage effect" in the cflar-
scttF vi most OF the Improvement
Mbeh nave GCeu made rather than
ihtie Is Vi compliance with tue de.
6tEIaLus or the public needs, thai the
ebu oil tie loom Cannot be far off. Bust
htse prOpt rty III Fargo sells at 800 to
S+OV mont loot ia tile best squares aud
Tie DSst Iesluebce property about QUE
mile nom the business center Is selling
al hom 1910 To 81 900 for lot OF tifty
lcet mont. There are great many va.
cant lots IN lhe town, which covers about
lOur square miles, sufficient II built up
with ordinary oOmpacLnesS for ten
times tie present population. There
are come rather handsome private re,i-
usncts III Fargo, but like every other
new Western 10 All, small cheap frame
houses are the rule. On the two princi-
pal business streets there is a pretty
god class OF two story frame ahd brick
buildings with u few three story build
lngs. The character of the business
buildings does not correspond at all to
the price of the ground they are on, but
when speculation set to work 10 make
money by buying each other out, with
the bOems to help them iui,e prices,
hgures are apt to rule pretty high.
Specializing in Real Estate
has been such profitable business in
In Fargo that everyb Idy is AZ fait on
the prlce OF town lots and the very bows
al school are we'll posted on the subject.
Even the ladies talk talk lots, VIII ca is
iacI perhaps not To be wondered at
unuer any circumstances.
Que OI the Oddities at Fargo is Col,
Fat Douan, a gentleman whose elusive
style Ut speech aud composition might
put ole IN mind of Fa.uer Profits
'Tantng, roaring lrishnlan," and VINO
edlts With no small ability the Fargo
Argus" an eight page daily paper
Which seems TO exist mainly for the
purpose Of booming Fargo. Col. Tat
with admirable frarkutsS remarked
recently, Catch Dakota man where
you Will aud you'll find fellow ready
70 talk, swear, fight, aud IT necessary lie
little Tor bis region. They put up tnier
money with [ eprUmp s,Ut veterans;
gamble on every schv me that tends 10
promote the public interest; they al
Nay take il for granite that their in
diV.dual interests are bound I'D In tie
common veal. AT Fargo it only re-
quneS an announcement that some
scnt me for the bent Fl. of the ci is o.
Jtcted, to put thesubscriptIun papers on
the street, and there has never been an
instance in which the full amout of
money required tor any such object was
not obtained within an afternoon"
MUorbead, Mum, q town or about
three thousand people, Is located on tue
east side Of the Red river opposite Far
20, which 1t will be connected by two
bridges for driving vehicles during
this year was settled in 1872. In 1875
II Was mere hamlet. From that time
its growth commenced and in 1880 ac-
cOrdIng to the U. S. census It contained
2,6OQ Inhabitants. AS already stated, it
las now probably as many as 5000 peo-
pie. FargO's taxes of all kinds, territor-
nal, county school and town, aggregate
about tour per cent. on valuation Of
about One-tuird the market value of
property.
While at Fargo, i met DR..
II. CaPehart, formerly of Bridgeport,
Ohio, aud welt known To many of your
readers. The doctor looked very well
and he praised the climate OF Dakota
very much for its hraIth-giving quail
tbs. was told that bis practice IN
Fargo was quite large. / also met ut
Fargo DR.. ID. Ii. Dlcl.ain, who has been
unul quite recently a citizen Of Wheel
ing. He has bought several sections of
land near the town OF CarrOlltOu, some
fUrty-three miles north of Jam -s:own,
Oh the jamestown branch of the y. z.
railroad, and has substituted the Occu-
potion of bonanza farming" for that
of dentistry. He is enthusiast over
tie country aud its capabilities and
thinks he has good thing of it in
business way.
Jamestown
This town is situated on both sides Of
the James Tor Dakota) river on the
main line Of the Northern Pacific Rail
road, ninety-four miles west Of Fargo.
1t has q most picturesque location aud
occupies part of basin surrounded by
y circle of gently slOping hills of mod
crate height, but whose SUBMITS are
sufficiently high to afford very beauti-
Jul view OF the neat little town and the
country around. jamestown has lately
grown very rapidly. Five Years ago it
had q population Of one hundred and
tiity people in 1880, four hundred peo-
rle, and 1t mas now, by actual count it
is stated 2,0A. 1t has three banks, six
hotels, three churches, two elevators, q
large Touring and planning mill, a fine
school house, q court house now build
ing to cost $50, 600, large railroad re-
pair shops and two daily newspapers.
In the character of its buildings, in the
way i'm which it 10 laid out with broad
streets and handsome public square
with q band-stand in its center, and in
general attractivenesS of appearance,
jamestown will compare favorably with
any Dakota town ] have seen. James
town Is the county seat OF Stutman
county and Is surrounded by one of the
beet agricultural districts In Dakota and
is certain TO grow considerably and to
be always . good town, whether it ever
arrives at the dignity Of city or not.
Ii has for railroad facilities the main
line of the Northern Pacific and branch
line of the same company running 43
miles north TO CarrolltOn, and to be ex-
fenced soon to the Davil's Lake, with
feeder running Off from CsrrOllton in
the direction of the Turtle Mountain
country. There is pretty fair chance
of jamestown getting the Chicago,
Milwaukee Il St. Paul Railway during
the present yesr.
The prices of real estate are not at all
high in jamestown when all the pros
poets and advantages of the place are
considered. The best business property
sells at so to 800 per foot, and good
residence property ten minutes walk
from Business is worth $3.50 for o lot OF
fifty feet trout. Taxes OF all kinds ag.
gregate $40 on the 500, valuation, but
The tax valuation Is only about one
fourth the market value Of real estate.
Most of the flour made at jamestown
Is sent west to help supply Montana,
but the wheat marketed there Is ship
ped east to Minneapolis and Duluth, to
either of which points the rate is eigh-
teen cents per bushel.