Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-27
mo WONDER that
HETTINGER GROWS
WITH A LOT OF BOOMERS LIKE
THE BUNCH NOW VISITING BIS
MARck ANY TOWN WOULD
THRIVE.

States Attorney P. d. Morton, G.. T.
Hurd, county auditor, and A. A. Jack
son, chairman of the board of county
commissioners, all of Adams county.
arrived in the city last evening, and
will spend today transacting business
of a legal nature. Mr.. Hurd, who liz
also manager and editor of the Adams
County Record, published at HettingeE
has an interesting story to tell of the
remarkable growth of that town.
Building operations have been push
ed all winter, and from village of
practically no buildings on October
"a, the town has now "a more or less
substantially built adifbces. While the
growth of the town has been rapid.
it has also been substantial, he says
A mammoth cement plant, com
modious public school offering thor
ough facilities for learning and an au-..
ditorium, built entirely of stone, so /,
by 100 feet in dimensions and to be
uSSo ASlaf PNDliC DpCanAAE,,t SOnSCAl4puES
and dancing purposes. sare among the
many public buildings erected. The
auditorium is the largest building west
of the Missouri riverrln either North
| or South Dakota A creamery and ans
agricultural fair are about to the es-
tablished,l which undoubtedly viii add
much to the city,s growth and which,
/ are interesting projssts. One snlid
block of stone buildings. six in Number.
1 grace the little towns business street.
Preparations are now being made to
handle the spring rush which is ex-
pected in about three weeks. Letters
received by the Commercial club and
the newspapers of Hettinger Indicate
that rush Of thousands viii take
place as soon as the weather win per-
NIT. The chief reason. for this is the
fact that the Milwaukee road is now
running through trains over their new
extension. The fact that number of
settlers anticipated the railroad ana
settled in that locality before the
steel serpent was laid also adds Ito
the popularity of Hettinger. They be-
came successful and boosted the conn-
try to their friends back east. Corn
can be grown m.st successfully in this
locality and the average yield Of po-
tatoes is know to be between 500 and
600 bushels per acre.
No better place in. the world is
known for stock raising facilities. ME-:
Hurd says, as the native grass is the
most nutritious known. The steers
raised and fed near the Cedar river
north of Hettinger hold the record IA
being the highest priced grass fed
steers ever produced in the world.
Mr.. Hurd states that a fortune
awaits all farmers who practice diver
sified farming and do not depend .1or
the yield of grain alone, as practiced
in the Red River valley.
Hettinger now numbers 400 inhabi
tants. Many business men spent theft
early days in the new town by living
either in the back of their store build
ings or in, box cars on the side tracks
} Articles of Incorporation were grant.
ed to Hettinger but last Tuesday, in
cooperating it asia village.
Mr.. Hurd started his paper in the
new town last April and has built up
the circulation to 1900 in that short
time. It is an enterprising sheet of
handsome appearance, and its growth
has been as remarkable as that of the
town.