Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-02-22

WHEN man decides to pIsl out from
the crowded east and seek home in the
new country of the west, if he be man
of sound judgment, will consider well
the natural resources of the country to
which he &C ntemplates removing and the
commercial advantages by which they
may be made available and profits BILE
He will review and study with profit the
early development of his own country
and find many models for his own guild
ance IN his contem plated new home 10
the west. He will take into considers.
tion the vast improvement IN agricultural
implements and means of tr nsporlstion
10 the markets of the world of his pro.
ducts. He cannot expect to 60 west
now and succeed by harvesting his
grain with reaping hook as did his
father in his own country forty years ago.
He must not invest his means in teaming
outfl.s for hauling grain from one hund-
red to two hundred miles to market as
did his father IN his own country forty
years ago. These are disadvantages and
hardship that are unknown in the west
ern country of the present day. Ponder
Gus railroad trans are now the pioneers
that lead settlement and civilization iu
the west. The far-seeing financial and
commercial minds of the world conceive
railroad enterprises and build them into
the wllds of the west upon we'll founded
faith in the resources and future
development of the country, and it IS
reasonably safe for the home seeker to
follow these pointers in selecting locs-
ton.
With this view, which we believe to be
correct, We ask the man who contem.
plates emigration to the west or north
west to consider the upper James River
valley. In the way of transportation "
have already the great transcontlnenta
line of the Northern Pacific railroad run
uing directly to and connecting with wa.
ter navigation at Duluth, which is an
eastern seaport for the Northwest, an
outlet tor our products to all ports of the
world. 1t gives US direct communication
with the wonderful fruit producing re-
gions of the Pacific slope and the mining
industries Of The Rocky mountains, the
former of which supplies us with the best
fruits of the world as cheap almost as
the ordinary can be grown in tho middle
and western states, and the latter offers q
ready and good market for our manufac-
lures and provisions of various kinds.
Other railroads from the south and east
are making the upper James River VAL
ley converging point and will reach us
with their trains before another crop is
harvest.
In the heart of this valley is the beau
tiful and enterprising city Of jamestown,
containing the division headquarters, re-
pair shops and stock yards of the North
ern Pacific railroad. 1t is the southern
terminus of the Jamestown & Northern
railroad which is in operation to CARING
ton, fifty miles north, there diverging in
TWO branches, one Of which is completed
to New Rockford aud graded to Mime.
waukon, on DEVILS Lake, and the other
completed to Sykeston and heading for
the timber district of the Turtle moun-
tains. jamestown is the northern term
mus of the James River Valley railroad,
the grade Of which. connecting with the
Chicago & Northwestern at Ordway, is
almost completed and over which the
trains will be running by the first OF
next July, with the headquarters and
repair shops at this place. These various
lines Of railroad centering here will nec-
sssanly make jamestown commercial
center aud distributing point for the
vast regions of fne agricultural country
both aorth and south, which ere ~ 70,
but spazssly settled