Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1886-02-10
REMEMBER!
That the Entertainment Of the Will
Transport Dramatic Club takes place
Thursday evening, Feb. IL.
INFORMATION.

AS many letters are being received by
Williamsport people from parties in the
East, asking for pointers in regard to
this section, the RECORD will give some
OF the information most frequently
sought:
There is plenty of land few miles
from town subject to entry under the
homestead and prc-emption laws.
The timber-claims have been taken for
a greater distance from town. The filing
on a trce-claim by one who does not in
tend to live somewhere near the land
taken is losing investment. A non
resident must hire his work done, and he
does not know whether the law is being
complied with. The raising of ten acres
OF timber as a means Of obtaining title to
l6O acres of land is not picnic, even to
the practical farmer who lives near his
claim. 1t requires careful cultivation,
and plenty of it. A on-resldent wres.
tling with timber-caim, is liable after
several years of worry to find himself "a
sadder and wiser man." with much ex-
perlence, less money, and not enough
trees" to supply an old-school peda-
-gogue for one term. Unless he is on
the ground to do the work, or see that it
is done, it is much cheaper in the end to
purchase land from the railway company.
Land within three miles of town, owned
by private parties, can be bought at from
$4 to Sc per acre. The Northern Pacific
still has lands for sale a few miles distant
from Williamsport.
There is not an acre of barren land IN
cultivation it makes the very best of pas
ture, as the grass grows luxuriantly, even
on the tops of the hills. There is consid-
erable land with surface deposit of
mostly small powders scattered over it.
This will be passed by until that free from
stone IS taken but the soil is of the
same quality, and the powders can be
removed without a lifetime of labor, as is
the case on the many limestone, hard
scrabble farms of the East.
There is no better country anywhere
for raising horses, cattle, and sheen.
There are three or four extensive sheep.
raisers and ten or dozen herds of cattle
in the county. Of course, being farming
country, there will never be any NAM
moth ranches here, like those of Montana
and other purely grazing regions. Blu,
man with few hundred head of cattle,
who wants to farm as we'll, can do no bet
ter than in Emmons county. One of our
cattle men, who has lived here many
years, estimates that it costs him $6 to
lt'ioO ~ lu1 1CC- y yCdl-Olu StccT LOT ludTKCC.
Our sheep men are also we'll satisfied.
Spring water is plentiful, and the aver
age depth of wells is about forty feet.
The water is clear and pure
There is timber on the Missouri river,
fifteen miles from Williamsport. Lignitu
coal abounds throughout the county A
small amount has been taken out this
winter a few miles from town, and by
next autumn there will be enough mined
for all purposes.
The weather here in winter is sometimes
very cold-according to the thermometer /;
but it is not of the soggy, penetrating
sort. There are people here from all
parts of the Union and the Dominion !;
and without exception they prefer the
climate of the Missouri Slope, to that
of the sections whence they came.
The Williamsport country is settled by
an intelligent and entcrprising class of
people, and the Sunday school, regular
church services, reading circle, dramatic
club and temperance society show that
mental and moral progress are not neg
lected. Immigrants coming to this neigh
borhood will have all the benefits of an
established society, and at the same time
be able to take advantage of the many
opportunities to be found in new
country.
There are five school-houses within a
radius Of few miles from town, and the
people will vote within few days on the
question of building two new ones. It
will thus be seen that proper attention is
being paid to providing educational fa-
cilities
The best Endorsement of this country
is the fact that not 4 dissatisfied man or
woman can be found here Once in a
while some one returns to the old home ;
but in few months back he comes, and
that is the last to be heard of his repining
Many comfortable and happy homes are
being built up in Emmons county; but
there is plenty of room for more.