Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-11-18

Thursday, Nov ID, 1915
1903 The fall previous the track had been laid to Srasburg
Iabout nine miles to the south.
tile time of the coming of the railroad Linton was but
la little country hamlet With the advantages OF railroad
point growth OF the entire county, the county
improved and today find prosperous little metropolis
with substantial business houses and many beautiful
organized city and is rapidly being blocked
sidewalks and otherwise assuming the
OF municipality such as its legal title implies
Its public school system touched upon i'll another article
in this 1t supports neat little churches Every
vclece is provided as trading There
general all the allied business ventures to be
found Although both the courthouse and the school house
would do credit many community there is already de-
cded sentiment favorng and advanced structures
In fact tentative plans for stone brick school house
irapidly assuming shape.
The town is situated in the angle formed by Beaver and
Spring creeks. The former is stream which well might bear
the title OF and the latter is small tributary stream
While much of the territory directly tributary to the county
is rather lilly the location most picturesque and alto
getfer beautiful Since the coming of the Milwaukee
road in 1903 the Northern Pacific has also built branch line
to the 1t hut comparatively short while in follow
ing the lead of its sister road to the south
If anything would be needed to convince those i'm
eresen the prosperity and the general welfare of thecou
yseat Of Emmon county is to be found by glance at the
numerous pages of display advertising in this issue. tt
sure sign of business prosperity to find such liberal avers
ing patronage III the home newspaper.
These few words of description essential Linton,
the county seat will quite likely be the first stopping place of
all to the county. Whether they from the
land in Linton And their first impression should be favor
able
Elsewhere in this issue will be found some figures COM
piled by r. f. Flint commissioner of agriculture and labor
for North Dakota The figures worth few minutes
thought For instance find that the wheat acreage far
and above all other grains This must demonstrate
that the wheatfamer will not be out Of his element should he
decdeto make Emmons county his home On the other hand
there nearly eight thousand mich listed This
that the dairy Wisconsin or Minnesota can well
bn flofst
will repay him literally for his pains.
In connection with the dairy industry it might be well to
mention chat this is comparatively field Of endeavor
locally 1t has been developed most rapidly although there
yet great strides of advancement possible Such development
would have been greater but for the fact that the living
OF our people is 50 comparatively to that many
farmer has summed the confnng labor of keeping up
string OF mich This should mean much to the eastern
daryman who accepts matter of this
filming of work
More than twelve thousand acres of flax are mentioned in
the report Of Commissioner Flint Owing the fact that
nearly all flax land is newly broken prairie these figures show
that practically twenty sections of virgin prairie have been
turned INTO cropproducing soil this season. Tt is not neces
sar IN this county to plant flax old soil There is plenty
OF room fol breaking and year sees its gradual in
crease 1t may not seem possible that flax this year has
yielded high to the acre i'm certain
cases and flax worth $l75 per bshel at the local markets
Yet such is the There is hardly an acre of fax in the
county that sowed under any reasonable conditions that
is not yielding twelve bushels the very least Such 4 crop
must mean real financial returns for the aborer especially
when it is raised soil that rented for dollar an
acre, or for a fourth of the crop
Men who interested in coming VEST To live
will perhaps wonder first of all the average price Of land
In this vicinity be- In short land in Emons countv is
selling from $40 to $50 per There is much good farm
an 70 De mad at 30 per acre The cheapest priced lands are
either more or less rough and stony chiefly adapted
or are SUI quite distant from market Some of tho
better land located considerable distance from rail
y perhaps some OF the very best to buy. Already the
Northern Pacific has tile right of way purchased and
fong tne county and will day make it cutoff for their
trans continental business Just the Missouri the n
aso mas olanci Inc that is graded to Fort Yates the
county sea- OF Sioux county and which will provide railroad
pol 1or large section Of southwestern Emmons when the
iron is laid @ 80
f., ne 1ulopeah Wal and unsettled financial conditions in
e auoh II Is true, have retarded natural railroad deveon
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