The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1913-06-07
Dickinson Is Growing

DICkJnISOU u 0IoWInS
Last week Geo. F. Mcpherson of the
Bismarck Daily tribune attended the
annual meeting of county auditors in
Dickinson and here is what he wrote for
his paper about our city and the way
our people entertain:
Dickinson is coming city. There
has made several trips there during the
has been very noticeable improve
ment in every direction. as to improve
nlent in old established lines. as to
new residences, as to new buildings of
semi-public character. and in many
other ways.
Until this week it has never been our
privilege to be in Dickinson when the
people had made an effort to entertain
outsiders, and we want to say right he e
that we do not believe the people of
that city are excelled by any class or
city in the world.
From the time the first of the dele
gates to the 9th annual meeting of the
county auditors of the state stepped
| from the train Tuesday afternoon, un-
til the engine bell indicated that No.
6 was ready to start east Thursday
night. there was not single minute
that Dickinsonites relaxed in their
efforts to show their guests that they
were welcome and that there was moth
ing too good for them.
| Jack Hughes, county auditors of
Stark county, was of course one of those
most interested in seeing that the visit
ors had the time of their lives and to
mention the rest of those who took an
active part in the enter ainment afford
ed would be but to publish a directory
i of the business and professional men
OF the city. The commercial club rooms
were thrown open for the meetings, var
lous entertainments were afforded and
on Wednesday evening dozens of auto
mobiles were placed at the disposal of
the visitors and various points of in
terest were visited. The big RUSSELL
Miller Milling company was revela-
tion to those from the eastern part of
the state, and this establishment that
has been running day and night shift
since last September and turning out
800 barrels of flour daily, was inspected
from top to bottom, .and it was some
trip as Norman Black and Addison
Leech can testify. The brick yards
were also visited and these concerns
are running two shifts at present in or
der to keep up with the demands for the
product.
Another of the business enterprises
of the city is the Lehigh coal mine
which has been worked to capacity all
winter to supply coal for local and for
leigh consumption. This mine has been
enlarged and developed until it is in q
position where it will soon be one of
the largest producers in the state.
The auto tour included visit to the
state experiment farm. where there is
practical evidence of what can be
done in raising of grain and forage
crops in that part of the state. Prof.
Waldron is in charge of the station
and one of his ambitions is to perfect
a variety of winter wheat that will
be adaptable to this country, and his
experiments have been successful as
far as he has gone, and he states that
it will be only a matter of few
years until he will have a winter
wheat for North Dakota. and when that
is accomplished it will mean hund-
reds of thousands of dollars every year
to the farmer of the state. He is also
experimenting with alfalfa and has had
great success with the crop. He has a
number of varieties and will instruct
farmers as to what is the best class
adapted to their soil. The experiment
station is surely sight for sore eyes
and shows what can be done with the
aid of scientific farming.
The residence portion OF the city was
also visited and many remarks of sur
prise were heard as to the character ol
the buildings. Dickinson has recently
put in a number of blocks of white way
lights and widened the sidewalks ir
the business portion of the town.
Among the new buildings recently
erected is the new Elks home. which
is the finest there is in the northwest,
outside of Minneapolis. 1t is so by 14(
and three stories high The two upper
floors will be used exclusively for Elks,
while the ground floor has been rented
to retail store. The furniture ha.
been purchased but not installed as yet
Plans are being made for great cele.
bration when the hall is opened for use.
Other cities in the state will have tt
sit up and take.notice of Dickinson, fo
she is coming to the front just as fas
as good men and good methods car
bring it. Bismarck will have to pu
on her hustlin3 clothes nexl. spring il
she wants to make as good an impres
sion on The county auditors of the stat,
as the city in Stark has done.