The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1917-11-02
| Towns li'l' rs
Of Mel \ | ]. can. County
Many Have all Modern City Improve
? nnents-Banks Show Great Proc
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Wilton, Mercer, Washbsrn, Turtle
Lake, Underwood, coIeharbsr. FAT
kirk, Garrison. Max, Ruso, Dogden
and Benedict are the To+sns In the
County =: o. ~ - ss' ~. 81, $s@
Several aourishing towns have
sprung up during the brief life OF &c
Lean county. A ~ fine spirit OF COM
petition and rivalry prevails among
them and they have made rapid pro-
gress. ,..,.zs7 .t4,. ~ ,s-.E. ta5s.
b These towns not only offer many
advantages and possess many facii-
ties but they are well connected with
each other. Excellent roads have been
built, most of them by modern, ma
chinery,. which guarantee not only
easy accessibility from one section OF
| the county to another but also for
the farmers generally to go back and
forth to town, hauling grain to eleya-
tors and taking out the extra neces-
saries OF the farms. ... gvss$s
... &.# Wilton . sa> &
Wilton is the first town reached In
coming on the 500 Line from Bismarck
and has all the improvements which
community of 10000 people generally
possesses. It was the first small town
in the state to put in electric lights
and has better street lighting system
now than any city of its size in North
Dakota. There are two coal mines In
operation In the town, both the. pro-
perty of the estate of the late Senator
w. D. Washburn of Minneapolis.
The Washburn mine, the biggest. is
equipped with modern machinery
and has a total daily output Of 1900
tons. Hundreds Of miners are em.
ployed the year around but the supply
comes up to only about one half Of the
orders. The payroll at the mines aver
age between $4,000 and $4,000
month ~ MI
The town !, has all modern city fns5
provements., The business men are
alert and enterprising and some ex-
cellent department and other stores
|areA in operation. There are two strong
substantial banks, a live. newspaper
the Wilton News, and q well equip
ped, modern school building. s5
| One Of the remarkable features of
the town is the excellency Of It's res
ifdences; some Of them have cost as
high as s25,O00. Also, another notable
fact that attracts the attention Of the
visitor is the number Of churches.
Beside those OF a number Of protes-
tant denominations, there are Ro-
man Catholic and Greek Catholic
churches, with also a Jewish syna-
lgogue. /, Z. ...5z2s5 Ss|5,
n 'Washburn III #s Z. 1s; 81.
Washburn, which has been the
county seat Of Mclean county tor
Ithirty-four years and lis located along
the abig bend" Of the Missouri river.
is one Of the biggest wheat shipping
points II North Dakota. It has Rns
harbor, to- improve which the United /
States government has spent $40 e.0eO
in riprapping the leyee, with addi-
tional $4,000 appropriated by cons
gress to continue the work. Seven {
steamboats,, with barges, make their
headquarters here and they bring
wheat and fax from points as far as j
100 miles up the Missouri river, to be !
loaded from two river elevators into
cars destined for the great grain
markets. One boat with barge will
bring On one trip as much as 5000 bu-:s
shells Sand the aggregate. shipments I
from Washburn each year run into q
millions Of bushels. All the loading
and unloading is done BY modern M
chinery s5sss
Tho ferry here has been In o1erarSS
tionst Tor / q good many years. It haa \
given splendid service and has baea
Al means of keeping the people - tis
two counties ins touch with each othss.
thin ffiye miles Of the town is stie
Bltumina mine, s which is owned bby y
John Satterlnnd, and has q capacity
of 800 tons q day. 1T has been Soperat
|ed 80 years. The mine - eQuiDpel
with the latest improved chinery
II has two boilers. two under erminers.
pnnchlsrs and g 15O horse p,swes
The best coal III Mort
DAKOTA III here min d and vher6 q
now being erected an n electric 49, Y = ]
|bys sthsN Gsntral L Power Comp pany -
which hen ted to stpspii 4
power for: $50 miles of lines
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