Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1914-10-23
j. Nj. Still Writes
on County
Seat
Farmer Friends:

Farmer Friends:
On November third an inn
portant question is to be settled
for all time( The question of
whether or not it is good policy
to remove our county seat from
the city of Beach to the Village of
Sentinel Butte.
Feeling that the mutual inter-
ests of the farmers of Golden VAL
ley county is the essential point
for our consideration and, in or
der to arrive at just decision as
to the proper place for our county
seat, we must weigh the PROPOSE
ton from a farmer standpoint
rather than from the standpoint
Of which we may personally wish
to benefit the City of Beach or
the village Of Sentinel Butte. Our
hope is that each Of them may
grow to be great city, and we
should endeavor not to estab-
lish a feeling of prejudice against
either place in arriving at a final
conclusion. Such feeling might
benefit us in securing votes and
perhaps influence many to vote
against our mutual interests as
brother farmers of the Golden
Valley, but would it not be an
injustice to our GLORIOUS Golden
Valley to locate our county seat
under such conditions?
If every farmer in our county
weighs the county scat PROPOSE
ton carefully, considering both
the present and future welfare of
sour mutual interests as trainers,
considering the question form a
proper viewpoint such as which
is the most convenient place, con-
sidering the peculiar shape of the
county, the natural lay of the
land also the natural trend of the
road leading to the place where
we wish to conduct our business,
not allowing personal desire Of
giving benefit to either town, il
based on prejudice or selfish in.
terests, influence US. Then, and
then only will the county seat ol
Golden Valley county be located
properly with regard to the mu
tual interest cf the farmer. Each
should take a personal interest ii
the proper location Of our coun
ty seat, such location to be where
it will. serve the mutual Interests
of all.
To assist in arriving at a con
.clusion that you will never regre
let me invite you to a few mo
ments study. and let your un
biased conclusion be final, re
gardless of whether you ma.
agree with me or not, Then w
will each vote right.
Follow the lines of your count
from north to south; consider tn
general conditions; thus far yo
will agree with me that the coun
ty seat should be located some
where along the lines of the No,
thern Pacific railway, but just a
what point is for us to dc
eide. We wish to build aroun
our county seat, a modern city
therefore-as we must look int
the future-we must consider
location where other railroad
may cross from north to south,
location to which the count
roads from a greater portion {
the county naturally lead; CO,
sidering the lay of the land as
basis of where the most peop
are living. and will be in the Fl
ture, therefore giving opportunit
for new towns in the agricultur
communities to be convenient
located with regard to the ce1
trail place where our court hou'
should be.
Select the ideal, spot for a ci
good drainage. not too low {
fiat, neither too rough nor hill:
now begin at the east side of O
county and continue west, W
naturally stop at the first lev
spot which might be large e
ough for your city, and notice,
is about half way or what W
might term the geographical ce
ter. Do you find favorable &C
ditions for city? Do the roa
naturally lead from the four &C
ners of your county to this place
If not, why not. Are the me
productive agricultural porto
of your county contiguous to Il
place? Will anything prevent t