St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-26
GRAND FORKS LIFE.
Local Option Failure and High License
to Be Tried.
MUCH ACTIVITY IN BUILDING.
Large Real Estate Sales---Remarkable
Results of the Labor Of
One Farmer.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
GRAND FORKS, May 25.-The saloon
men of the city have hired two men to
solicit signatures to petition asking
the county commissioners to re-submit
to a vote of the people the question of
local option. The petition is being
quite extensively signed and there is
but little doubt but what the solicitors
will succeed in getting the requisite
number of names to entitle the question
to be again voted on at the November
election. Local option has not proved
a success in this county, and if the tenn
perance people had any reliable assur-
ance that high license would be placed
on the traffic they would doubtless all
vote for license, but without that assur-
ance local option is likely to again
carry.
NEW BUILDINGS.
There are more buildings projected
for the present summer than have ever
been built in this city in any one sea-
son. The building will be confined
principally to residences, and.those to be
erected will be of much better style Of
architecture than anything we now
have. The best and most expensive
house will be built by Mr.. F. r. Fulton,
whose plans are completed and work
will soon be begun on it, George B.
Clifford, III. l.. Withheld and several
others contemplate erecting fine resi-
dences. Besides this there will be built
several substantial business houses, to-
gether with a strong probability of
there being large fine hotel
built, for which there is most crying
necessity, as the present facilities are
nowhere near adequate to take care of
the ordinary business. There is also a
pretty well grounded rumor that the
build large brick depot down town,
and there will be still further improve
mentS made by the erection of two large
iron bridges across the Red river at this
point, which will be of incalculable
benefit to the town for all time to come,
besides giving employment to a large
number of men. Hence, taken on the
whole, Grand Forks promises to make
more substantial progress this season
than she ever has in the past.
WHAT ONE MAN CAN DO.
The Red river valley is not alone en-
titled to fame for its immense yields of
wheat but for the remarkable amount
of soil that can be titled by single
man. All of the facilities known to the
most improved methods of farming can
be successfully employed here, and one
man can perform more labor in one day
than four men can in the agricultural
districts of the East: AS proof of this
attention is called to a days work re-
Gently performed by Mr.. Scott, on the
farm of George Il Clifford, near st.
Thomas. He filled and drew a tank of
water mile and half to his work:
Il, nirrl,t 70
plows, and plowed eight acres, arriving
home at the usual quitting time. This
is but sample of what one farmer can
accomplish in one day in the Red river
valley. With one man being thus able
to alone cultivate from 200 to go acres,
with certain yield of from thirty to
forty bushels per acre, is it any wonder
that farmers in the Red river valley are
prosperous, contented and independent?
LIVELY REAL ESTATE.
Our real estate dealers report greater
demand for farm lands this spring than
during any other season in the history
of the county. Scarcely day passes
without recording a sale or two of farm
lands. The purchases, too, are made
principally by bona fide settlers, many
of whom have tried the country and
have now determined to establish per-
manent home, feeling satisfied that this
is the place to raise their Ebenezer and
plant the vine and fig tree that shall
shelter the home of their future years.
Some of the purchases, and in fact
good many of them, are made by those
who already own and have lands under
cultivation and have become able to
increase the size of their farms. No bet
ter evidence of the prosperity of our
farmers or the desirability of the coun-
try could be given than the fact above
cited. A drive over the country about
here and seeing the substantial farm
houses and barns which are being built
upon nearly every quarter section of
land must convince any one that no
country in the land has better future
before it than the Red river valley, and
no town is better situated to profit by
the great prosperity the country must
experience than Grand Forks. Conse-
quently we are all happy, contented and
Saucy.
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