The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-09-25

AOua OOuuIACSs NVOICo sADu AsOCh III
Minnesota and Osceola and Lyon in
Iowa. The location is similar to that
Of Sheldon and we shall probably soon
hear "f another ''Big ~ The land in
u radius Of ten miles around Ellsworth
is said to be about the best If this belt
of ''best land" 1t is the butter from
this ''cream of the prsiries. That is,
when Nature had gathered the cream
of her soil tOgether in this garden spot,
the land down chat way went her one
better and came out butter already
churned. Our exchanges are nearly all
making very favorable mention of the
new town and of the country surround.
ing it. The Sibley Tribune of the 11th
said:
The town is located on sec. 29-1Ol-43,
(Grand Prairie township, Minn.,) and
is some Is or II miles west of Sibley-
halt way between Sibley and Luverne,
aud in one of the richest agricultural
regions Of the Northwest. The site is
indeed the finest that could have been
selected had the company had Il dozen
States to have selected from; in fact
could not have been better had they
had the making of it themselves The
town is laid out on the south side OF
the track on q piece of high ground
and although the plat is half a mile
long and about the same in width there
is not a wet lot, or foot of wet land
in the entire plat, fact that exists in
but few towns. In fact. we know OF
none that is like it in this particular
Besides having so fine site, the town
will be. and is now, surrounded by the
finest farming country ever the sun
shone on. and even now the farm houses
surrounded by great stacks of grain
can be counted by the hundreds, and
as the town grows the country will de-
velop and make it one Of the finest
shipping and trading points in South,
ern Minnesota.
Already the ground for an 1870 foot
side track has been surveyed and work
will have been begun on the same ere
this reaches our readers.
One Of the company's No. depOts
like the one at Sjbley, will be put ul
there and the prospects are that it will
make good town-One that will keel
up with the growth of the couf'try at
least.
Three elevator lots have already been
spoken for and the fourth one IS liable
to be taken in a few days A dozen o,
more of the business lots (prlce from
$3.50 down to $l0O) lave been spoke,
for and one or more new buildings will
sp,ing up there before another issue Oi
Tribune.
The town is named alter f.. $. Ellis
worth, Pres !dent Of the Town Lot Co
Its streets are named after the survey
ors and helpers, one being called Pan
dali, one burgess, one Spencer, Ont
Bal.cock. The town is located too f;,I
from SiDley, however. to hunt us any
even thong, its streets are thus SO i'm
mortaliZed.
Right here it might be we'll to say ?
few words about the prophecy made b.,
Uncle" Stilwrll, now Of Ashton, con-
cerning this section Of the country
The town is located on MIR. Stilwrll'.
old farm. now owned by the Town 10,
Co. Mr.. 5. located on this farm some
time in ~ or '73, and erected small
store building there, over the counters
of which he supplied the early settlers
with the necessaries of life. Although
at that time this country was nothing
but wild prairie Mr.. s. had confidence
in its future. saying town would bt
located there or near there, basing hi:
judgement on the quality of the lanG
round about. To show how near hi:
prophecy came to bring fulfilled. would
say that his little store building is only
about one.half mile east of the tow
site in a small grove set out by hin
along IN the '7O's. And now that hi:
prophecy has proven true, we presume
he is ''kicking himself'' for selling out
But mans foresight is never rs go"G
as his hindsight. fact we all deplors
more than once during i lifetime.
The same paper says in its issue o.
Sept. 18th:
The great demand for lots at Ellis
worth still continues, @ already having
been sold. The most of them will b,
occupied by buildings-business houses
and one or two MISUNDERSTANDING snow
flies.
Work on the first building-San
Stevens and Phil 14attenberger' salOOI
began Wednesday, and by the time
this reaches our readers will be up ant
enclosed.
A Mr.. Butler has the lumber on tn
ground for large elevator, and prob
ably while you are reading this, worl
on the same is progressing. There i:
also lumber on the ground for severa
other buildings which will be hurried
along as fast as men can be employed
t" do the work, but men are hard to get
d. L. Riley already has Is or 20 c;l
loads of lumber on hand for his yarf
here, and will he ready for business il
IL few days.
| &. H. Davidson, Of Rock Rapids. ha.
been appointed as agent for the sale q
town lots. and if he has not alread!
opened an Office he will in Il few days
The Sibley Gazette of Sept. IS, says
The prospects are that the new tow,
Ellsworth, half way between Sibley am
Luverne. is likely to spring into AL i'm
p"rta"t town at once. II has the ad
vantage over most new towns Of being
l"caled il u well settled country. ami,
u prosperous people, who have an i'm
mrnse crop of grain to ship this fall
The location for the new town is fault
less, and a sufficient distance from al
located towns to insure it tributar!
country that will give it large ant
lasting trade. Everyone who has Wis
tied the place and observed its advan
tages becomes interested and predicts
bright future for the place
The plating Of the town was com
pleted Wednesday, this week, aid ~
to that time about twenty lots ha(
been sold to parties who will make i'm
provements at once. Many Of these
parties have their buildings ready t.
ship rs soon as the siding is completed
giving them an opportunity to unload
The prices asked for lots are reasOnabl,
and seem generally satisfactory rs tn
purchasers are among the solid men o
this vicinity The sales will be rapid
hence those desiring to secure lots, tina