St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-24

trees and beautiful fields OF growing grain
Inasmuch as nature has specially favored
Watertown, it is not strange that it has
been selected as railroad center. There
are at present four lines of road centerlng
at Watertown; the Northwestern and its
Sioux Valley branch, the Minneapolis &
st. Louis from the east and the Burlington
u Cedar Rapids from the southeast In
prospective, the Fargo Southern will be laid
from Ortonville to this place and continue
south, and the Burlington road will be pro-
jected northeast to Jamestown and furnish
! the shortest route from that and surround
ing points to Chicago. Both OF these roads
are assured facts and are not merely paper
lines" mapped out to entrap the unsophisti-
Gated. The right of way Of the Burlington
extension is now being obtained through
the northwestern portion of the county
WATERFOWL is fast becoming the COM
mereial center of Southern Dakota
| The shrieking of trains going In different
directions gives the farmer confidence of a
good market for his produce. There are
| three different routes for freights from here
to Chicago, and as grain market Water
town is unrivaled. The competition in
transportation rates is active, aud as by act of
| the last legislature every railroad Is obliged
| to furnish cars to shippers without discrimi-
nation of rates, the farmers are not left to
! the mercy of grain-buying monopoly.
| The social advantages extended by Water
town are beginning to be appreciated, and
| in few years the business men of the city
will have picturesque cottages built for sum-
mer residences, beside the beautiful lakes
which abound in it's vicinity. Watertown
has six churches, and the clergy are men of
acknowledged ability. Funeral sermons
are very rarely needed.
| The inhabitants of Watertown are lit
erary people, and the fact that a DAILY
| GLOBE man, few days ago, obtained the
| largest list of subscribers ever sent to an
| Eastern daily from this city testifes abund-
antly to their taste in that line. Water
town has system of graded public schools
of which she is proud, and certainly for
good reasons. The manufactures of Water
town are growing daily. A roller Touring
mill of capacity of over 200 barrels per
| day heads the list with pillow factory, a
| foundry, brick-making establishment fol-
| lowing. Watertown needs a creamery.
| The Irvine used in Dakota should be manu-
featured in the territory, and there is a fine
opening for Irvine factory here. A fac
tory for the manufacture of carriages and
wagons would do we'll. Dat meal could be
put into packages here as cheaply as any
place in the United States, and the home
consumption of the article would be large.
| The Citizens National bank, new in
vestment made by gentlemen from Roch-
ester, Mimi, was opened for business last
week, and has capital of $50, 900. Some
| of the leading citizens are interested in it,
Mr.. Wilson of Winona has recently To-
Gated here and represents Youmans Bros.
& Hodges, the lumbermen A fire, light
| ming and hail. insurance company is being
organized, and Is receiving liberal encour-
| agement from the business men Of Water
town. Dakota is profitable field for In
surance and there Is no doubt such an in
vestment will bring forth big returns
WATERFOWL has recently taken unto itself
| the garb of city government, and with
Mayor Thomas at the head of the city adj
ministration, the change is universally sat
| isfactory. The common council sat three
| successive evenings last week as board of
| equalization and their work has been gen
orally approved. Owing to the change in
form of city government the duties of the city
fathers have been arduous of late. The
original plat of WatertOwn was recorded in
| the summer Of 1878. In the year follow
| ing East Watertown and Pettigrew's adj
| ditiOn were added in the order named. In
| 1880 the first railroad addition was plated.
Brooks addition was annexed in 1882, and
| in the next year Carpenters, Millette's,
Mc1ntyre's and Hopper's additions were re-
| corded; the second, Railway, Wylie &
Stones, Kemp Bros and the Syndicate adj
| ditions were recorded last year, and Rice
Bros. have just filed a plat Of their adj
ditiOn. The corporate lines include all of
these additions, and it is nearly fourteen
miles around the city.
The Watertown land district, with head
quarters at this place, is an important one,
and affords plentiful occupation for the land
| lawyers. The residences of Watertown
are especially tasteful, and the grounds
| about them are constantly kept in fine con-
ditiOn. There has been more building done
in the city this year than any previous year
of its existence, and is fact of peculiar
| significance, inasmuch as business through
| out the Northwest as well as in the states
has been almost stagnated during the past
year. The future of Watertown is GER
tain. The ever multiplying industries, the
agricultural inducements. the railroad and
commercial facilities, the social advantages
and the beauty and attraction of it's location
mark out the destiny of the Watertown of
the future. The advantages hastily men
toned in this article are always open for
investigation, and the most persistent per-
sonal investigation will only testify that it
is simple narration of facts, and not the
idle creation of a fanciful imagination.
Dakota Newslets.
Andrew Helgerson, prominent young
merchant of Minor. the past week married
Miss Grace Phelps, charming belle of the
place, and the happy twain have gone for a
bridal tour of several weeks to Chicago, St.
Paul and Lake Minnetonka.
One Prof. Frank Stoohey, advertised as
s'the hero of Niagara Falls, has been Civ
ing street exhibitions of tight-rope walking
in the North of late, apparently to draw
the crowd for fakir. who catches gudgeons
with the jewelry swindle. At Grafton they
took away about 5000 and narrowly escaped
bad eggs.
A Fargo party that spent Saturday and
after church Sunday ON the lake at Orion
vile report that they caught fine, large fish
so freely that they had to throw many of
them over to keep the boat from sinking.
They think that is the finest fishing lake in
the Northwest.
Col. Dawson of the Valley City Record,
claims to have caught la fine fish at De-
troit lake on recent Sunday. That is one
of the most accessible and has been the ia
vorite lacustrine resort of the North. and it
is probably better equipped for visitors than
any of the newer points.
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