The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-11-23

farmer in the county, he asserted, car
drive to Leith and return home the
same day. A majority OF the people
Of Grant county, he declared, are fol
Leith, Even far-aWay st. Joe, in the
extreme northwestern corner Of the
county, is for Leith. Patterson re-
ferred TO the abundant coal within
two miles Of Letth. and to the fact
that farmefs drive in from radius
of twenty miles to procure this fuel.
Leith, he stated, offered the county as
q temporary county building struc-
ture three stories high. with full
basement, and occupying a ground
space So by 80 feet, admirably suited
in every way to the purpose. Pat
terson endorsed for county commits
sioners William WaAe of Wade, r. X.
Hague Of Minor and Fred :Ewald, Of
New Leipsig.
Fer Ferguson and Wade a.
Z Major Belden of Shields announced
that he favored no. particular town
for county seat but did endorse Fer
guson and Wade for commissioners.
New Lelpsig's Claims
A. H.. Meter. president Of the State
Bank of New Leipzig. declared for F..
Bwald, Jr., z. ]. Ruasch and P. r.
Schoetter for commissioners. called
attention to New Leipsig's two rail-
roads, and commented upon its good
roads, serving territory "a miles
north and south. New Leipsig, he de-
clared, is accommodating more Grant
county people than any other town in
the new county. Some commercial
statistics which he gave for 1915 fol-
low: Freight business, $107 ,544; tele-
phone, $4,000; blacksmithing, $500;
automobile garages, $46,957; grain,
476,000 bushels; hardware and sup
plies, $45,131.92; general merchandise,
$4,000. O5: lumber and machinery,
$27l. 945.14; banking loans, etc, ST.
094,975.5S. In the eight townships
served by New Leipsig on the western
frontier of Grant, declared the bank
err, there are 655 farms of 24O acres
each, Of which fifty per cent of the
acreage is under cultivation.
Others Speak
George Schultz spoke for Elgin; A.
J. Herbert OF. Miner, for Leith; George
Kerrl, ,26 years in the county, for Car
son; Neil McGarry of. Paradise, for
Leith; Joseph Hague. for Leith; Mr..
Brown, of st. Joseph, for Leith; Mr..
McGinnis for Boettcher and Bleick;
J. J. Ryan, for Leith; Wade and Fer
guson, candidates for commissioners,
and Urell, for sheriff, had nothing to
say. a S,ss 4.
G.. C. Leonard of Raleigh declared
Charles w. Bleick, Of FL
gin, recently elected member Of the
state railroad commission, was not
James Clofkee of Bris-
bane, was for Leith. Joseph Miller
Of Elgin stated his town could 60 New
Leipsig one better on grain, having
shipped 49,, 1000 bushels in 1915; that
it was the largest freight station on
the Mott line, outside of Mott; and
that in 1914 more freight was receiv-
ed and dispatched at Elgin than at any
other town on the Mott branch.
FavOrs Center 4.
Clark Hill, a pioneer, favored the
location of the seat Of government as
near the center of the county as pos
sible: Frank Blaick of He'll was for
Elgin; George Kimball was for Leith
and competent business men on the
county commission; J. Summerville
declared for Leith, as a wide-awake,
moral community; A. B: Heggemann
was for Elgin, on the strength Of its
hotel. accommodations; E. A.
Peterson; spoke for Carson; Martin
Calstead for Leith: Raleigh for G. C..
Leonard as q member Of the county