Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-09-02
ElDRIDCE TOWN
HAS BUSY DAYS
New Graia Expected From 80
Machines.

Eldridse, Aug. 3O.-This is a busy
opening week in the grain season for
Eldridge, whose three elevators
promise to keep running day and night
for the next three months at least.
Big wagons pulled by four-horse
teams have been hauling grain to
Eldridge, which has been known for
some time as the largest grain-buying
point in the county.
From the advance reports of yields
the crops in this locality will be the
best ever raised, both in quality and
in yield. Although it is yet too early
to get accurate information as to the
average yield, 1t is probable that
wheat will run twenty bushels to the
acre, taking the bluestem, durum
and marquis varieties together. Rust
has. affected the yield of bluestem and
fife somewhat, just how much is not
known; but from what has been
threshed already of the three kinds,
1T is seen that the durum and mar
quis are running over twenty bushels
per acre, while fife and bluestem will
average less. One field of marquis
went twenty-seven bushels to the
acre, one field of fife twenty bushels.
Oats will average between fifty and
sixty bushels, and barley is going
from forty to fifty.
Threshing is already we'll under
way and the smoke of the engines
can be seen in all directions. Ed
ridge will soon be receiving grain
from at least thirty different ma
chimes that are now or soon will be
at work in this locality. This num-
ber of machines will make short
threshing season. Very little ship
ping by private individuals is done at
this station, as the elevator men gen.
orally pay all that is worth, and there
has been no object in shipping to
commission men at the grain termi-
mails.
The new Eldridge State Bank
building is about completed. 1t is
located on the north side of the track,
just east of the Vessey company
store. The cashier of the bank will
be Richard DePuy of Jamestown,
formerly Of the Citizens and James
River banks. The new building is
two stories with living rooms for the
cashier on the second floor. The new
bank will facilitate the transaction
Of business here and will have an op-
portunity this fall to pay out a large
sum of money on wheat checks. The
new bank opens for business Septem-
Der i.
A number of pictures showing diff
ferent scenes in and around Eldridge
have been taken and are reproduced
on postal CARDS for sale at the stores.
One wheat scene shows Messrs Nc
NlllItEdy, " Dcl1 duu INdI
in "a field of fife wheat at least five
feet high. 1t shows the growth of
grain this year. Photos of the new
buildings Of Eldridge and other OBJ
jeets of interest in the thriving little
town have also been taken.
Residents of the town as we'll as
farmers are much pleased over the
road work that has been done in this
vicinity this summer. The grade
grade south of the town has been
completed and will make hereafter
a good roadway across a low place,
which has always given much trouble
for teams with loads in wet weather.
The grade west of Eldridge on the
south side of the track, as far as
Cleveland, is nearly completed and
will fill long-felt want in that part
Of the county.