The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

while the Northern Pacific quarters it,
with lines east and west and north
and south. The country schools num-
Der about 120.
Stutsman county was organized June
TO- 1873, by the Tenth territorial as
sembly, in accordance with an act APP
proved on Jan. OF the same year. In
the following November the first cleo
ton was held. in which eighty votes
were cast. The county was named fer
Enos Stutsman surveyor, who came
from Ohio in the early days, and rep
resented Pembina county, which at
one time pretty well included all of the
North state, in the territorial assem-
bly,.
Unlike the Red river valley, there
are few bonanza farms here represent
ing imported wealth on the start, anu
every evidence of wealth in the form
Of improved farms may be understood
to be the direct outcome of the labor
of the farmer applied on a richly pro-
ductive soil. They indicate, too, that
unfavorab1e crop conditions felt else
where are a quantity too trivial to be
reckoned with here as a check to pros
perity.
Stutsman county may have been
properly known as a poor mans coun-
~ in the early days, and though it
can never again be truthfnlly entered
IN that classification, it is a credit to
the present wealth of the section that
in almost every instance the start was
made at 0. Now comes in the lands
SO long held back to allow the new
corners to repeat the success of the
earlier settlers, without the drawback
of high values, which commonly follow
the advance in wealth of a farming
community. The consequent advan-
tages are apparent-good markets, sta
bility of business, plenty of money in
circulation, the conVeniences of good
roads, telephones and mail deliveries,
schools, churches and good neighbors.
StutSman county is a vast area of
fertile land, containing over 100000
acres. 1t is we'll supplied with railroad
facilities, by the 500 and Northern
Pacific mail lines and branches. Spirit
wood lake, the prettiest sheet of wa
ter in the Dakotas, occupies the center
of the county.
No greater yields are encountered
ley The soil is a heavy black loan
from fifteen to twenty-four inches
deep underIaid by yellow clay of great
fertilizing value.
Stutsman county is peculiarly the
agricultural center of North Dakota
because of its position in overlapping
both the grain belt and the great stock
belt each of which has no superior in
the world. The eastern half of the
county has been gradually demon
strated to be fully equal Of the famous
Red river valley.
In 1901 the rainfall of Stutsman
county, 1855 inches, was second only
among all the counties of the state.
The northeastern corner of the county,
along the line of the 500 railroad, is
especially famous as being the great
est fax producing belt ON earth. In
1901 there was scarcely a field that
did not yield fifteen bushels to the
acre, most fields exceeded twenty
bushels. Twenty bushels an acre, sell
ing at more than 81 10 bushel, makes
a productiveness for land almost un-
paralleled. Cases in which farmers
have paid for their land from the pro-
ceeds of one crop are frequent, and as
a safe, uniform and successful pro-
Queer of wealth there never has been
a gold field to compare with it, Stories
of North Dakota wheat are too we'll
known to require repetition and the
largest of them has been equaled in
Stutsman county. Twenty-Five and
thirty bushel yields of wheat meet
ones eye in every direction from
Jamestown, while barley and oats run
Two and three times that figure.
The real estate offices in jamestown
are filled with splendid samples of all
these grains, as we'll as of corn, COM
paratively new industry in North Da-
kota, but one that has attained a sue
cess astonishing indeed for country
so far north Corn is being raised each