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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26
COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA
It's Resources and Possibilities It's Soil Something
Metropolis Valley City. a

piled and have hogs, sheep and chick
ems to put upon the market whenever
the occasion requires it.
The county is fast filing up, and
what was once a vast, unbroken prairie
is now one grand picture of farming
operations, splendid homes and school
houses for the education of children.
There is no crop grown in the tenn
perate zone that will not flourish here
most of them in greater abundance
than elsewhere. Until recently farm
ers OF this county engaged almost ex-
clusfvely in raising small grain. With
in the past few years they began to
diversity and raise stock Wheat and
flax have been the great staples. Corn
was successfully raised here by the
Indian before white man trod these
prairies. Lewis and Clark in their expe-
dition in 1904 replenished their stores
from corn raised by the Dakota In
dams. 1t is only during the past few
seasons that corn has been given prop
er attention by the Barnes county
farmer. Corn during the year just
past doubled the acreage of any former
year. Corn yields from 40 to SO BUSH
els per acre; last season wheat yielded
as high as AZ bushels per acre, flax
from 10 to rs bushels, oats so bushels,
with some yields up to 116 bushels,
barley up as high as 70 to 80 bushels,
while rye, millet and tame grasses
produce very abundantly.
Since farmers have quit the all
wheat system Of farming and have
gone into stock, corn, millet, potatoes,
etc., and have cultivated the land be-
fore sowing crop on it, they are
making as much money per acre as
is made on lands in Iowa and Mime
sofa that are selling for three times
what ours are selling for. Many farm
ers netted SIS to $40 per acre last year
from crops and have feed for another
year besides, while the crop last year
was no better than it has been for
several years.
One Barnes county farmer during
the season of 1903 raised 100 acres of
millet, which produced 5000 bushels,
5000 of which he sold to Chicago par
ties free on board cars for so cents per
bushel.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26


present name was, however, selected
by common consent, and most proper
name it is, considering the surround
ings. 1t lies in. the heart ola beautiful
little valley, and is bounded on three
sides by the banks of the river. The
waving verdure Of the trees on the
hill slopes about the city form a pleas
ing picture during the summer months,
and the ample water supply and good
drainage have combined to make it
the healthy city it is.
Valley City has grown from pop
ul&t on Cf less than 800 people in 1880
to a population aggregating ten times
that figure today. The city owns its
own water system and electric light
plant, and are operated at a profit. 1t
is a compact and substantial little
city, and it's very compactness has al
lowed the laying out of well graded
streets, lined with sidewalks. A good
street-lightfng system is in operation.
1t boasts of good schools and churches,
being the home of the principal state
normal school in North Dakota. Mr..
Andrew Carnegie has added to the
properties of the city a substantial Ii
brary building, which is not only sup
piled with the best ia literature, but is
kept up excellently as well.
among the industries Oh the CITY
may be numbered one Of the most ex-
tensive Touring interests in the state.
The old mill building burned year
ago, but, like the Phoenix, a new and
more substantial structure has taken
the place of the old, and the manufac-
turing continues uninterruptedly.
Many substantial and well kept homes
surround the business section Of the
city.
Barnes county is in an exceedingly
fertile district The soil is a deep
black loan with clay subsoil, gently
rolling and is especially adapted to
general farming.
The farmers are, as a RUE, Well-to-
do and have. made money by diversity
ing their farming operations. Being
well supplied with the best of hay land
they have each a goodly number of
horned cattle. raise a sufficient num-
Der of horses to keep them well sup
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

among the highly prosperous and
progressive counties of North Dakota,
and one which added its full quota to
the magnificent sum which has earned
the state its position as the leading
wheat growing state of the world, is
Barnes county, of which Valley City is
the county seat and metropolis. Barnes
county is one of the counties of the
state which keeps up crop record on
a par with the counties of the Red
river valley. A year ago its yield was
2,416,T32 bushels of wheat, 1,82562
bushels of oats, 677,8 12 bushels of flax,
609,029 bushels of barley, besides corn,
rye, potatoes and other products of the
soil in handsome quantities. Is it then
any wonder that the farmers fill the
local banks with money and that the
bankers have found it necessary to
send it East to keep it in circulation?
There are but four counties in the
state which exceed Barnes county in
the assessed valuation of real and per-
sonal property as returned in 1908.
This county's showing was $5,013,0S1.
The county contains fOrty-two con-
gressiOnal townships of land and is
crossed centrally from north to south
by the Sheyenne river. It is, too, COW
cred by a network of railroads. The
500 runs diagonally across the coun-
try from the southeast to the north
west. 1t has within the county fifty
three miles of main line track The
Northern Pacific's main line forms a
belt across the center of the county
from east to west, with eighty-nine
two roads, with their various sidings
and other shippers accommodations,
provide amply for the rapid shipment
and marketing of products and stock.
Valley City was in its early days
merely siding known as the Gross
ing of the Sheyenne." It was also for
a time called Wahpeton, and suisse
quently known as Worthington. It's
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

1t is a far cry from the deserted
prairie grass plot of twenty-one years
ago to the well organized, prettily laid
out and prosperous city of Minot,
county seat of Ward county, the larg-
est subdivision Of North Dakota, and
few thought in 1885, before the Great
Northern railroad reached Minot that
the progress achieved today was posi-
bic. Yet >Minot today boasts a popu-
lation of over 1000 and is growing
rapidly. Minot, the county seat Of
Ward county, and the commercial cen
ter of Northwestern North Dakota,
nestles costly on either side of the
picturesque Mouse river, the outer
banks of the stream rising majestically
beyond the city on either side to a
height of nearly 200 feet. The city is
growing. From the small frontier town
of a few years ago it has come to be
one of North Dakota's chief cities,
ranking third IN size, with a population
of over 1000. Its tributary territory
has not only increased wonderfully in
population within the past few years,
but has been rapidly extending in every
direction, and Minot is now the COM
mercial center of a vast territory COM
prising all of Northwestern North Da-
kota and of Northeastern Montana as
well. An indication of the development
of this entire section and of Minot is
found in the fact that the business Of
the Great Northern railway at Minot
has increased fully 1000 per cent in
the past five years.
The Great Northern and 500 railroad
lines intersect there and ten daily pas
senger trains give the people for a
hundred miles in either direction easy
access to Minot with it's business adj
vantages.
Minot is a division point on the
Great Northern and the company
maintains extensive repair shops,
stores, etc, for both divisions, giving
employment to large number of men
besides the train crews who make their
headquarters there.
Minot is a substantially built city,
nearly all of its business structures and
public buildings and many of it's resi-
dences as well being built Of brick.
The city has excellent schools, and
numerous churches. 1t is lighted by
electricity, has an up-to-date telephone
system. a municipal water system, a
splendid fire department and other
modern facilities.
The first settler on the site Of the
city of Minot was Eric Ramstad, who
is still a resident there, vice president
of the Second National bank and a
member of the city council. Mr.. Ram
stad settled there in 1888 and has been
q resident there ever Slice he NTlcciL
Northern railway in building its ex-
tension west from Devils Lake located
station at Minot late in the fall Of
1886 and this was the terminus for the
winter. BY the time work could be
resumed on the road the following
spring large quantities of material had
been brought as far as Minot for the ex-
tension to Great Falls, many train loads
in fact. and this became the headquarters
of the railroad werk for the next year.
Hundreds of men were employed, attract
ing a large floating population and the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26
Railway satellites.

Two grand transcontinental rail-
roads-the Northern Pacific and the
500 traverse the county, east and
west, north and--south. These two
great thoroughfares keep up a healthy
competition, much to the edification
and advantage of the farmer. These
conditions keep the freight rates down
and create a desire on the part of the
roads to offer extra inducements by
way of liberal supply of cars when
and where most needed. In other
words, they are each bidding for the
farmers trade, and must make liberal
concessions in order TO hold 1t.
Schools and Churches.
From an educational point of view
Barnes county is especially favored,
inasmuch as at Valley City the state
OF North Dakota has established it's
principal state normal school. Here
the teachers of the state receive their
higher education and are fitted for
the life work of their chosen profess
sion. The county schools number 141,
most of which are in the hands of
graduates from the state normal. The
city Of Valley City is blessed with most
excellent advantages along this line,
inasmuch as they have one of the finest
public and high schools, equipped with
the very latest modern advantages, as
we'll as a public library, the gift of Mr..
Andrew Carnegie. 1t is a most impoS-
ing structure, costing not less than
$4,000. The state will expend 100000
in new buildings. at the normal this
season.
The county is well supplied with
churches, including Episcopalian, Con-
gregational, Catholic, Methodist, Luth-
eran, both German and Scandinavian,
all being supplied with clergymen who
carry on the work, from Sunday to
Sunday during the entire year.
1t is small wonder that numerous
settlers from the states lying east and
south have located in this county, on
farms where lands are producing fully
as well as that in the districts they
have left and which cost not to ex-
coed half the price at which the lands
in the older territory is held.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

Two manifestations four miles south Minot
town OF 5000 on the Great Northern 500 railroads
Lana partly broken. Black loan SOIL with clay subso
well drained and the best wheat land in North
if desired.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

Two quarter sections of unmproved wild land
southeast OF Minot Well lying and be easily
opened Land near by has sold at SIS per acre This
can be had on better terms The best grazing
tefpriSing -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

Three adjoining quarter sections due north of Mnot
Wen drained and good soil Good grass land and easv
of cultivation The best kind land for wheat and fax
Also good stock land We offer the land at barpin
prices II interested, will be pleased quote prices
and furnish full information pe'
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

Elghty acres of choice land mile east of Mnot
ylng along the Mouse river. Buildings house etc An
ideal dairy farm with good products snap
for the right man. Worth investigation
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

Two sections Of land northeast Of Minot that are bar
gains Within easy reach of the town accommodations
ncudlng markets, railroads. schools churches, stores
ETC. First-class land which had at low prices
and on long time. Ideal land stock farm
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

Two Al sheep and cattle ranches one near Wiliston
N d., and the other Ridgelawn Mont we'll stocked
and equipped with buildings necessary corras and ev
erything pertaining to a first-class ranch.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26
MinOt, County Seat Of Ward County, N. D.

Brief History Metropolis
Fiomeseekers of
Highly ProduCt Lands-S HSomeF Homes eads
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Continued on Last Page
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-25
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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-25
Poisoned Constable Grady'S
Chickens.

Daily Argus, Aug. 10.
The house in which Constable
Henry Grady lives is being re-
paired, and his family has moved
out until the work is completed.
This morning when Mr.. Grady
went in the yard to feed his chickens,
which he does night and morning, a
strange sight met his eyes. He
fouLd eleven fine chickens dead in
the yard and the rooster was just
breathing his last, making twelve in
all lead.
It is supposed that the chickens
were poisoned, as they were we'll and
alright when he fed up last night. 1,
Mr.. Grady says he don'tthink the
dose Was intended for his chickens,
but for those of one of his neighbors,
as a cook was recently discharged in
that locality and left very mad.
The police are at work on the
case, and as suspicion rests very
strong on a lady Of color, some future
developments may be expected.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-25
WATSON'S OPPORTUNITY

It is to be regretted that Hon.
ThomasE. Watson has seen fit to lend
the influence Of his name and his tai
ents to a cause which can by no pos
sible chance bring practical results.
If all of Mr.. Watson's contentious
were true, which we by no means
concede, the practical, sensible way
to promote the reforms for which he
argues would be by joining hands
with the democrats of the country
and, as a first step, throwing the
republican party out of power. In
stead, he chooses to fritter away all
opportunity for doing good by lend
ing himself to as forlorn a hope as
was ever launched upon the sea of
politics.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-25
On the Sick List.

Mr.. Robt. A. Creech, the popular
West Centre street jeweler, who
has been confined to his home by
sickness, is able to be out again, but
three of his children are still con
fined to their bed by illness.
Mr.. J. w. Winslow, of the Colds.
boro Book Store, is confined to his
home by illness.
Mr.. Matthew Woodland, the carp
enter, is. confined home with fever.
Mrs. Dallas Howell, of this city,
has gone to Wilson to enter the
sanatarium for treatment.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-25
GOOD TOBACCO ..BREAKS'
On the Floors of Both Of Our

On the Floors of Both Of Our
Warehouses This Morning.
The Farmers Warehouse, Messrs.
Tew q Jones, proprietors, opened
up this morning for the sale Of leaf
tobacco, under very favorable cir
cumStanceS.
1t is estimated that there was dis
played on this floor and offered for
sale, 10000 pounds Of the golden
weed, which sold readily and
brought very satisfactory prices.
1t is said that tobacco is much
heavier this year than last, and the
prices paid is far in advance Of any
thing pasd last year. The quality
is also much better.
The sale this morning vas very
satisfactory to the new managers.
They say they have advertised ex-
tensively and expect 10 do a good
business.
There is much more tobacco in
the country than is generally sup
posed, but the farmers are busy
pulling fodder, ETC., and have not
yet had time to bring it to market.
We heard a farmer remark this
IA orning, after the sale, that a pile
of tobacco that brought y cents a
pound would not have sold for 8 cts.
last year.
Tobacco growers r requested to
grade their tobacco before bringing
it to market. 1t will thus bring a
far better price.
The Planters Warehouse also had
a good "break" this morning, esti-
mated at from 5000 to 6,OOOpounds.
AS before stated in these columns,
farmers need not hesitate to bring
their tobacco to this market. Our
buyers are paying the very highest
market price.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-25
NOTICE.!

Having qualified before the Clerk
OF the Superior Court of Wayne
County, North Carolina, as Admins
TRAITOR with the will annexed on the
estate OF William Haywood Smith,
deceased, notice is hereby given to
all persons indebted to the said
estate to make immediate payment
to the undersigned, and to all per-
sons holding claims against the said
estate to present them to the under
signed for payment on or before the
End day of August 1905, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. August End. 1905.
j. A. Smith, Administrator with
the will annexed of VIM. Hay-
wood Smith, Goldsboro, N. G.
az w6w
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-25
The Sale Closes This Week,

Mr.. Dave ,Rauh,,,who has been con-
Quoting the auction sale of high
grade jewelry and silverware in
Goldsboro the. past several weeks
will finish his sale here for MI. L. D.
Giddens, Jr., this week.
Mr.. Rauh has made many friends
during his stay here and has proved
himself perfectly reliable and honest
in all his transactions. MI. Rauh has
conducted the largest auction sales
throughout this entire section and
has the reputation of being one of the
finest jewelers. Auctioneers in the
country, having had Is years exper-
fence as a jewelry Auctioneer. He
agrees to forfeit $4,000 for any piece
of goods he sells that the quality is
misrepresented. A child can buy at
his sale as well as an expert, as he
describes every piece ofgoods he sells
exactly as it is and no person need
hesitate to buy any thing at a sale
which is conducted by him.
At the auction sale, which begins
tonight at s p. No., some valuable
jewelry will be offered, such as fine
diamond brooches, watches, rings,
etc. If you want to secure some gen
mine bargains come out tonight.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-25
To Our Patrons and Friends.

We need no introduction you all
know us -as we have been before
by and for you-for some several
years and want to say that we are
still the FARMERS FRIEND. The
Goldsboro Tobacco Market is by no
means dead, nor has it been sick,
If you will bring that load of to-
bacco to the G%Oldsboro market and
stop at the old reliable Planters
Warehouse, we will thoroughly con-
vince you of the fact that we are in
the business to stay and will see that
you get as much for your tobacco as
you car get on any market, regard
less of size. You have the tobacco
we have the Market. Now you
come to see us and we will do our
part.
Below we give just a few sales of
First Primings made on our floor.
Read for yourselves:
S. w. Tew. S. G. Pate.
100 at 6 $50 at 7
$50 at 7.25 1873 at 1880
122 at $50 90 at - IS
46 at 1925 60 at 16
X. M. Mitchell.
80 at 11.75
22O at 9
100 at 6
80 at $40
w. E. Blackman. Nathan Hines.
$40 at 6.25 112 at $50
376 at 6.25 1913 at $50
236 at 8.75 80 at S.75
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-25
AN CENTRE.
GOldsbOrOHas Many State Agen-
cies and Still They Come.

cies and Still They Come.
Goldsboro's superior Rail Road IA
~cilities r not only recognized in
the manufacturing and commercial
world, whereby her progressive bus
mess men have been enabled to build
up here splendid and constantly
growing manufacturing enterprises
in many lines of industrial employ
ment, and a wholesale trade of mann
moth proportions in all lines of COM
mercial barter, but also as a desirable
and advantageous centre for those
whose professional duties require
them to travel much in all directions.
And so Goldsboro has come to be
an Insurance centre, where many of
those %congenial, persuasive and ire
sistible gentlemen, and in every way
desirable citizens, whose abilities
have advanced them to the very top
of their profession in the State, make
their head office and have their
homes.
And still they come!
The latest State Office to be estab-
lished here is that OF the old reliable
"Security Trust and Life Insurance
Company of New York." the State
agent for which is MI. J. Foster
Rogers, who succeeds Mr.. Scott B.
Appleby, Jr., of Raleigh.
Mr.. Rogers is an experienced and
popular Insurance man, and we'll
known throughout a wide territory,
and his advancement to the head of
his company's affairs in this State is
a merited tribute that will give great
pleasure to his many friends here
and throughout the State.
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FOR STEALING CHICKENS.

Henry Anderson Steals Capt. j.
j. Robinson's Chickens and
Lands in Jail.
Henry Anderson, a negro who has
been working for the John Slaughter
Company for several days past, is in
trouble.
Last Sunday night some one en-.
tered Capt. J. J. Robinson's chicken
house and stole therefrOm a number
of his fine fowls. He notified the
police Monday morning, and since
that time the officers and Capt. Rob.
inson himself have been keeping a
close watch on the chicken coops OF
the city with the hope of catching
the thief.
Yesterday morning while over in
Webbtown Capt. Robinson discov-
cred two or three of his chickens in
Mr.. John Hinson's coop. He inquired
of Mr.. Hinson where he got the
chickens and from whom he bought
them. Mr.. Hinson informed him
that he bought them from a negro,
whose name he did not know, but
said that he would know him if he
, could see him again.
Mr. HjpCOp cana cx-or tn town opI
commenced to look for the negro
and he finally located him at the
John Slaughter Co.'S shops, and
identified Henry Anderson as the
negro who had sodium the chickens.
Anderson stole the chickens Sun
day night and carried them over to
w ebbtown Monday morning and
sold them to MI. Hinson as above
stated.
A warrant was Immediately
sworn out for Anderson and he was
arrested and placed in the lookup.
AT the same time the chickens
were stolen Capt. Robinson also lost
some milk pans. The officers went
to Henry's house yesterday after
noon and asked his wife ifhe had car
ried any pans home recently, and
| she produced the pans without hest
tation and Capt. Robinson identified
them as his property.
Henry did not sell all the chickens,
but kept some for his own use. In
one of the pans produced by his wife
! was part of a stewed chicken, show
ing that Henry had been enjoying
himself with his favorite dish.
: He will have to content himself
| with a different diet for sometime to
, come, as Sheriff Stevens hardly ever
feeds his boarders on chicken.
Anderson was given hearing this
morning before Mayor Hollowell,
admitted his quilt, and was bound
over to court, and in default of bail
was placed in jail.