Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-05-30
BEACH, THE COMMERCIAL
PIVOT IN WESTERN n, D,
Synopsis of Tribune Write-up of Beach
and the Golden Valley

and the results of the work Of this station
demonstrate a richness of soil and
climatic conditions that if produced
under less careful measurements would
not be believed. But this work cleary
demonstrates what the countryis cap
able of doing. Thorough tests in
rotation of crops as we'll as the kinds of
grains and grasses suited to, this latitude,
are made and so far have shone better re-
suits than were epeeted. But as this sta
ton under the careful management of
Charles f. Barber, is worthy of full re-
port. which it is hoped can be given at a
later date this part of the subject will be
passed over for the present
In 1902 the postof1ice WIS established.
Mr.. Heath being appointed postmaster.
In 1904 The Pioneer Store was built and
this was the starting of the town, and its
growth for two years can be seen by look
ing at the cut at the head of this page
which shows the town a. it was two years
after the starting of the first store and
which at that time was put in to accommo-
date few ranchers at distance and an
occasional settler that had the llardihood
to attempt to grow grain west of the Little
Missouri. :.
But times have changed and now there
are in the neighborho.,ci many settlers
breaking up the sod with horses horses and
putting in crops that have shown them
selves to be money makers and the first
of May witnessed nineteen steam and two
gasoline breaking outfits at work. Some
OF these engines pulling as many as twelve
II. inch plows in their work.
The town has grown rapidly and now
has three general stores carrying the var
ious lines carried by department stores
two hardware stores, and one of each the
following: drug store, millinery, laundry,
meat market tailor shop. photograph gallery
livery stable, bank, harness shop, feed mill
barber shop coal dealer, pool hall two
lumber yards, three machinery houses
two blacksmith shops, four firms connected
with contracting and building, two cement
block manufactures, two house painters,
two hotels, one European plan, and the
other American, one elevator completed,
two to build Immediately and Touring
mill under construction, one modern
equipped creamery, three churches and
good graded school, while the professions
are represented by one physician and four
lawyers. The land business has now four
Offices and all doing we'll. The press is re-
presented by live, wide-awake weekly
paper in connection with which there is
good job Office.
There are many other lines such as
three we'll drilling machines, threshing
outfits and hay bailing presses that are
actively engaged in their various lines.
The Northern Pacific has coal docks,
water tanks ect at which there are several
men employed.
The shipments of the station are large
for new country and two of the most
noticeable items being seventy car loads
of immigrant moveables being received in
less than two months and seventy.tivs car
loads of hay since last August being shipped
out to western feeders.
That Beach is to be good town cannot
be doubted but if the town and country
are to get the best results from her
possibilities and the settler from his labors
it might be we'll to intersperse the lines
of production and instead of a one crop
country, try with grain growing darying
stock raising.
That man in almost any line of work
can do we'll in this community cannot be
doubted but the farmer, the man willing
to Diversity and milk the COW and raise
chickens and to look carefully after the
wonderful markets just to the west of him
is the one above all others that is needed
just at this time. Such man with a very
small capital but plenty of hustle need not
hesitate moment and if be has more
capital SO much the more will his profets
be on his investments.