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

management. The division headduar-
ters of the Northern Pacific are located
here, and a creamery splendidly equip.
ped is in operation as an outlet for
the cattle industry Of farmers too busy
to conduct a dairy.
Jamestown is now. a we'll organized
and well governed municipality. in
which every citizen takes pardonable
pride. 1t is well built, with many at.
tractive residences, while the business
blocks, as a rule, are Of the most sub
stantial character. The water works
belong to the city; are operated at a
profit, and with a gravity pressure of
$50 pounds from high stand pipe
afford ample fire protection by the aid
of a volunteer department Of three
companies. There are ten churches
and a Salvation Army barracks. Every
form of business is represented. in
some cases by establishments which
would do credit to much larger cities.
Improvement has been the rule in
both the town and county for the last
two or three years, and dealers in
building material have been uniformly
busy keeping up their. stocks to meet
demands. No fairer index to what is
going on can be shown than by noting
the business of the posteffiee, which in
the last five years, since the incum-
bency of Postmaster C.. L. Mitchell,
has increased 40 per cent. The re-
ceipts of the office for the last fiscal
year were $1,000 SO, which, after pay
ing the local. expense of Office force
and two carriers, helped largely to pay
To- 80
who make jamestown their headquar-
ters, more in number than at any other
place in the state.
When the pioneers came to James,
town a mixed train ran between Fargo
and Bismarck. There was little settle
ment anywhere in any direction. The
prairies for hundreds Of miles about
We're dotted with the bones of buffalo,
and early settlers realized a good deal
Of money by gathering and shipping
them east the traffic for the railway
running into hundreds of cars. The
splendid passenger md freight service
now afforded by the Northern Pacific
is quite in contrast with the mixed
train, out one day and back the next,
Of those days.
The loyalty Of the 'tJimtowner" for
his town is proverbiala He believes his
city, in the heart of the valley pic
turesquely frfnged by hills, is thesvery.
center of the world. He points to the
fact that the sky comes down at IN
even distance all around, and that :
plumb line dropped from the zenith
would strike the park in front of the
Northern Pacific depot, soon to be
changed into a $50 900 structure
An excellent school system, with a
corps of careful, painstaking teachers,
with Prof c.. c. Schmidt at the head,
now in his tenth year of service, and
who ranks high among the educators
of the Northwest, gives jamestown all
the advantages from an educational
standpoint to be desired. st. Johns
academy, a Catholic school conducted
by the Sisters of ST. Joseph, has good
buildings and a large attendance. The
Presbyterian college building is vacant
at present.
The street lighting is by electricity
There is an excellent sewerage system,
board and cement sidewalks, twenty
miles or more are provided, and alto
gether the city offers from an incoming
train view as pretty as can be seen
of any town in the state. 1t is the
home, too, of a class of citizens who
with a few unimp0rtant eXceptiOnS)
haven't an ounce of selflShneSs in their
makeup, and accordingly it is one of
the delightful residence and business
cities of the Northwest.
jamestown is the Seat of the North
Dakota hospital for the insane, known
the world over as an asylum without
grated or barred windows. 1t is built
on the cottage or detached ward plan,
which allows BETTER classification aand
care of patients, -,
All things considered, the holder of
land in any of the southern or east
ern regions, where lands have reached
or are rapidly approaching the three
figure mark, will find himself more
than repaid if he cast in his lot with
the residents of the James river val
ley, in Stutsman county, where lands
may be had, as has been stated, at a
figure nomiHal beside the exorbitant
values of lands in the more thickly
populated localities.