Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26

it is safe to say that farming here with
proper mauagen ent has been success
and feel sure that any of my fellow
farmers who have been here long enough
to have any practical experience in farm
ing will endorse my statement.
JOSEPH HEApY,
Perry township, De-. 10Th, 1895.
\ LIMA township originally organ
"A lied as part OF lIummel, in the.
autumn of So w;> settled in the spring
of the year, and on the separation of the
mountain ranges in 1885 from Pembina
county and their incorporation into
Cavalier county, the present township
of Alma, comprising ranges 81 and s.
township l6o, was formed. \ rather
peculiar condition of affairs confronted
the three new townships formed out
of Old lIummel. Their assets were in
the hands OF the treasurer of Pembina
county. and in a friendly tusse in court
to determine to whom the money
should be paid, over Sl2) was swallow
ed up in attorney fees. Legal lore
comes high, and in this instance has
been warning Ito bear the ills we
have rather than fly to others we
known not of.
Alma township, together with her
naighboring towns north and south,
has superior advantages over the alto
gether prairie townships. Ga the
extreme east are nice sheltered farms
nesting under the wing of the
mountains and capable of product hg
almost any kind or species of fruit br
vegetable common to the deniZens pf
of the temperate zone. On the hill
side and mountain top nature hhs
planted trees that with care and no
wanton waste will supply fuel for the
township for generations and west of
these forest lands for over ten miles
are undulating praires that during the
season just p ,st, wherever it had BEEN
''tickled by plow, laughed with a
golden iiarvest !" Yes sir, it laughed
out loud, all the way from 80 to over
50 bushels uf wheat to an acre, a1
that on land that has been almost CO. :
tinually under crop since 1883. y /
without the aid of stimulants either.
Alma township also has good railroA
facilities compared with many. Nolt
of her territory is more tn an IL milel
from an initial shipping point, AMI
most Of it is just adjoining the towns ol
Milton and Osnabrock, which have 4
combined storage capacity of about
100000 bushels. The village of Osna
brock is part of the municipalityofAlmI
and is destined by her locality to b@
good shipping point and is worthy
OF the attention of any seeking such !
We feel considerable pride in pointing
to our low rates Of taxation. OBJ
school rate for the year of 1895 being
only q mills on the dollar on low
assessment. While our seven fairly
we'll equipped school houses are free
from debt. The running expenses are
all paid and a nice surplus remains in
the treasury and we can easily extend
our school facilities right up to the
writer's cranky idea of a central high
school, as proposed last summer with
out burdening anybody, and with an
immense profit to the whole community
For municipal purposes our rate is
only 9 mills. If we could only find
some way Of lowering our county and
state rate we could present record OF
low taxation almost unequalled any
where. Our state we can almost for
give, for in its formation we gained an
inheritance of school land and com
passed it with safeguards that will sus.