Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-11-18
Stutsman County; Where
1t Is, And What 1t Is

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This paper is printed in James
town, the county seat Of Stutsman
county, in the state of North Dakota.
Stutsman county is half way between
the Minnesota state line and the Mis-
souri, river. 1t is in the center of the
great mixed farming and stock rails
ing portion of the state; the part
where there is the greatest individual
prosperity; the portion that has the
small farms, the nearby towns, the
school advantages, and neighbors not
to be found where the large, exclus-
i've grain farm, with sparse country
population, prevails.
General Features.
Stutsman county is about ninety
miles from the Minnesota western
border and about one hundred miles
from the Missouri river.
Any folder of any railroad running
into North Dakota has map which
will show you where Stutsman coun-
ty is located and how easy it is to
reach it. There are railroads rum
ming into the county from all direc-
tions and the county is traversed by
three different lines Of road: the
Northern Pacific, the 500 and the
Midland Continental. The Northern
Pacific main line passes directly
through the center Of the county and
has three branch lines traversing
the north, the west and the south
east portions of the county.
east portions of the county. The
main line of the 500 railroad crosses
the northeastern portion of the
county, serving two thriving towns,
Courtenay and Kensal.
The Midland Continental line runs
through the eastern part of the
county from north to south, travers-
ing the. entiEs county. with Office and
division. headquarters in jamestown,
and serving four county towns. The
Midland Continental makes direct
connections at Edgeley with the Chi
Cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road
tron Chicago and the twin cities 1tI to t
jamestown.
Stutsman county is little prin-
cipality by itself and is one of the
larger counties in the state. 1t is
4S miles square and contains ga
townships. Each township has SO
sections of land and each section $40
acres. making the total acreage of
1,474,56O acres. About half of the
land is in actual cultivation. Stuts-
man county is larger than two states
of the Union-Delaware and Rhode
Island. In fact the latter state could
be contained twice in the limits Of
Stutsman county and enough left
over to make two ordinary eastern
counties. Ten thousand families
could live within the limits of Stuts-
man county and each family would
have a farm twice the size of the
average eastern farm. A population
of 100000 in addition to the trades
and professions could earn a liveli-
hood within the county borders.
The county is fourth in size of all
in the state.
The soil is a fertile loan with yell
low clay subsoil. The subsoil is suf-
fciently retentive to hold the mois-
ture near the surface and porous
enough to permit the raising OF
ground water by capillary attraction.
This is the soil condition most
sought after by the well-informed
farmers, as it obviates the necessity
Of drainage, while at the same time
strong drouth-resisting
texture. No less an authority than
Professor Daniel E. Willard, former
~ geologist of the North Dakota
State Agricultural college, at present
development agent for the Northern
Pacific railway, pronounced the soil