Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1913-12-12

ern Pacific railroad built its line it laid
out town sites at convenient distances.
many of which it held SO lightly that
they were sold with the quarter-sec-
ton or section on which they were
located as farm land. Such was the
case with Beach. The town site fell
into the hands of Mr.. Fl. A. Hunter
of Minneapolis, and it was not until
1905 that he was persuaded to put
the lots on the market in the hope of
establishing a trading point here for
the convenience of the farmers of the
Valley. On January 18th of that year
the first sale of lots in the town were
made to Mrs. Reichenecker, Joseph
Morris and Win liable, prices starting
at $50 to $50 for business locations
and $35 for residence lots. From that
time on the place maintained steady
growth and in 1908 assumed the dig
nifty of an organized village. Farming
| in the Valley was passing the expert
mental stage, years of good crops with
out failure was giving the people
confidence and Beach began to go for
ward by leaps and bounds. By 1909
she had over thousand people and
was ready to take on the mantle of a
city. Never stopping, going steadily
forward without boom or buster, the
city now numbers 1000 population
who are provided with all the con-
veniences of city. a second-clas
post Office, trading places in all lines
of merchandising that compare favor.
ably with those of cities of much
greater age, size and pretensions
schools the best in the state. church
privileges of various denominations, al
prosperous and doing a great good ir
the moral upbuilding. market famous
the country over as the greatest pri
mary grain market in the world, F;
sewer and water system better thar
any city of its size in the Union, bank
Of recognized financial strength offer
ing abundant facilities for handling th'
finances of the large section, lodges o
he various fraternal orders which ar
always a means of great good to ;
community, we'll equipped fire de
partment, professional men of the bes
training, three newspapers far bette
than the average, machine shops o
large capacity to care for the grea
amount of work in that line, electri
light plant, local and rural telephon
service. in fact this list could be ex
tended almost indefinitely. but read
ing of this paper will give bette
idea of Beach, its people and institu
tions, than any list could do.
The city is organized in three ward
and its present officers are: Mayor
n. P. Reed; aldermen, first ward, A. E
kastien and J. ]. BARLEY; second ware
H. B. Museus and H. Walters: thir
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treasurer, Theo. Maanum; auditor, N
A. Egan: engineer, Thor. Plomason; as
SCISSOR, Robert Fuller; chief of police
Nj. j. Moran; police magistrate. f
Salzmann. and health officer, DR.. "A.
MacNab. By material improvement
of public nature the people hav
shown their confidence in the city an
its future. The greatest stride in tn
regard has been made during the pa
two years By the installation of
sewer and water system.
The sewer system embraces 81
miles of sewers emptying into sept
tank mile from the city. 1t h;
proved complete success and will I
ample for the needs of the city f.
years to come. There are FIVE mil
of water mains supplied from well