Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-23
BREAKING UP OF
THE CORW|N FARM
AN EVENT OF MORE THAN PASS.
ING INTEREST.
New Owners to Take the Land-NeW
Buildings to Be Erected.

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Announcements Of the auction sale
Of personal property Wednesday Oct.
22nd, at the Corwin farm nine miles
south of the city, have more than
passing interest at this time. This
sale marks the breaking up of one
IT the big farms Of Stutsman county.
the passing of the old and the merg-
I ing of the same into new conditions.
, which is typical of the changes that
are going on throughout the entire
state of North Dakoto. The time
has come when the larger farms are
being divided up into smaller hold
ings, when new faces will be seen
in the neighborhood, and additional
families will take the place of the
one household of the big farm, when
more people will occupy the same
land-and none can say but what
the changes are for the better.
This auction sale marks the clos
ing of the farming career of S. F.
Corwin, one of the best known of the
large farmers of Stutsman county,
and who has successfully operated
the farm for thirty years. The farm
was originally known as the Bush
and Corwin place. At the death of
Mr.. Bush, it passed into the hands
of S. F. Corwin who has been the
sole owner and manager of the farm,
which has now been sold to other
parties and will be divided up into
smaller farms. The Corwin fran
comprised 1890 acres, and when the
land was first selected it was entirely
surrounded by paririe,-all raw land
that had never seen plow. 1t was
then considered long ways from any
market. During the earlier years of
farming operations there were many
discouragements with short crops,
and it was a hard struggle. to make
ends meet, in fact in those years
debts were much more numerous
than profits. -s.-.,-.,. ..
The fact that Mr.. .Corwin has been
able to make success Of grain farm
ing and has made competency for
himself indicates the exceptionally
good management and economical,
careful attention that has been given
to every detail of his farm work. Mr..
Corwin expects to remain in James
ownt and to take life more easy here
after. The auction sale referred to
includes all the personal property,
there being some fine horses offer
ed, together with mules, cows, farm
machinery and other farm property.
The Corwin farm was sold few
months ago to the LEM Land & Loan
Co., and W. H. Bohn Of jamestown
I together with Fred Bohn Of Milbank,
! S. D., the latter soon to reside here.
Each party owns about one-third in
terest. The big farm will be divid-
ed and sold into half sections, and
farm buildings with residences and
barn put on each. On the north
half of section 8-13S-63, a six room
house, together with barn 2Sx40,
we'll and granary, will be built at
once.
The closing out of the Corwin farm
and the retirement of the owner
from active farm work will be noted
with regret by many of the old-tim-
ers of the county, for the farm has
been a landmark for many years.
But his success in farming is an as
surance of the stability and value Of
the lands he has parted with, test
of nearly third of a century under
the most adverse conditions incident
to q new region. The proved worth
of the land Of the Corwin farm is
also an assurance of the value Of the
| other lands of this county.
Besides it is a guarantee to the
new corners and purchasers Of Stuts-
man county soil that their invest
meuts are on q substantial founda-
ton with a positive assurance Of
further money value in these acres
In the near future. ~.
, MARRIED AT DICKEY.
A pretty wedding occurred Tues