Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-17
County seat of Divide County, and

County seat of Divide County, and
prosperous commercial center.
The one big asset to a new town is
the advantage of location. In COMPARE
son with this all other influences are
belittled. And in Dakota an advantage
GUS location means good transportation
facilities, territorial distribution, and a
large and prosperous farming area.
Crosby has an advantageous lOca-
ton. It is situated on both the 500 and
the Great Northern roads, yeing the ter
minal of the branch from Berthold, and
one of the largest towns on the branch
Ofuthe 500, west from Flaxton. This
gives Crosby the shipping advantages Of
any two competing towns, an advan-
take. Of two roads and competing
rate.
Crosby is not the hub of vast dis
trict as some western towns, but its ter
ritory is evenly divided on both. the
north and the south. Ambrose, and
other towns to the east draw from these
two sides. Wildrose is twenty miles to
the, south and the Canadian ports are
far4;to, the north, The area tributary
toSCrosby is as, thickly populated as
any place in Divide county. The land
is fertile and productive, of good crops
if titled according to dry farming meth
DDS. Dairying and diversified farming
is still in its infancy. Along this line
Crosby has a great future.
The County Officers.
Crosby is the governmental head of
Divide county,, and as such is the
home Of the county officials. w. E. Vad
nais is the auditor; cter Rudscr, treas
urer; ]. G. Oddcn, register of deeds;
Olaf Braatelien, cler kof court; B. M.
Pierce, county judge; Geo. p. Homnes,
states attorney; Orlando Henderson,
sheriff, and John H. Phelps, superintcn-
dent of schools.
These men, as politics has taught
them, will give you the glad hand, but
they are faithful servants of the people
and undoubtedly many of them will
be returned this fall.
K: With the Bankers. Az
Some idea of the prosperity of a com-
munity can always be obtained by d
glance at the banking business. One
bank, or two at the most, is generally
sufficient to take care Of the money
business of majority OF, the smaller
Dakota towns. Compare this with
Cr0sby,w]ierc wesfiHd four banks, all
doing asland Office business.
The Citizens State bank is capitalize
cd at s25,O00. This bank has deposit
Of Bl54,000 against $4,000 at the same
time a year previous. A. NJ. Eckmann
is the presidcnt;53W. J. Deck, vice pres
ident; Sigurd BHc, cashier; and joe H.
Pass, assistant cashier. Mr.. Rue has
been here for the past two years and
to his busincsslikc bethods is due much
of the prosperity of the Institution.
The Security State; hank has the next
largest deposit, $136,O0O.s II ise capital
izedlat $4,000, and has $4,000 in sur
plus and undivided profits, r.. w. Rou-
seaut is president, and w. d. Mcdonald,
vice president. This is firm whose
business is conducted on conservative
lines and merits the confidence Of the
people. II ~
The First State bank has a paid in
capital of $4,000, but its deposits
amount to Sl15,O0O. The surplus and
undivided oprofit is $1,000. OF this
bank sC::J-e Weiscr is president 0. J.
Clark, vice president; c. J. Clark, CASH
icr, and H. I. Wilson and D. S: Riley,
assistant cashiers. This firm needs no
attcstation of the bank examiner to
prWe its soundness, nor'is it affected
by a change of government administra-
ton. A.
And, then, there is the Divide County
State bank, with subscribed capital
Of $4,000, and deposit Of fifty thou
sa1d. Here we find E. +. Volkmann pres
ident, B. H. Edmifister, vice president,
Harry H. Martin cashier, and E. F. Nor
lin, assistant cashier. These officials
name Is the symbol Of square dealing
and conservative banking principles.
Thus the combined banking industry
of Crosby represent over $455,OOO in
deposits. These figures in themselves