The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
FARGO, n. OAK. LETTER.
From Elder II. Gallaher, Formerly of
Burnt Cabins, is Now Manager Of
an Ice Plant.

ter weather. The thermometer
has registered 81 degrees below
zero. The ground has been GOV.
cred with snow during the past
four weeks, and We have good
sleighing now.
We began to put up our first
cutting Of ice the week before
Christmas. 1t is about % inches
thick. We are getting it on the
Red River. We deliver a small
quantity of ice in town this time
ofyear usually enough to keep
one wagon going. This, of
course, is our slack time. Last
spring, owing to the melting of
the vastquantity of snow sudden
Iy, the river became very high
and partly inundated the town.
Heavy rains in July gave US a
second experience of a flooded
city.
While it is true that we can
produce 22.inch natural ice, in
the winter time, | would not have
you think it does not get hot in
the summer time. Most of June
and all of July last summer was
very hot-so hot that many hors-
es died from the heat, and peo-
pie dropped over in the streets
from sunstroke.
AS to fuel, we can buy hard
coal at Sll 25, and soft coal at
So. so and $4.00. Those who pre-
fer to burn wood, can get it at
So, 90 and $1,000 a cord-depend-
ing upon quality. Many trees
grow along the Red River, and
this town is beautifully shaded. |
In some sections of the State
wood is very scarce, hardly |
enough to furnish kindling.
Our plant which filters the City
water, cost 100000. The men
employed in that plant get from
$50 to Sl6O, a month. They work
about sixteen men in three shifts
a day of eight hours each.
Our fire department has an au-
tomobile truck which takes the
place of two teams. In addition
there are three teams of horses.
A short time ago we almost lost
our High School building by fire.
The City has an automobile
street sprinkler. There are nine
banks in Fargo that pay 3 and 4
per cent. on time loans and lend
the money at s and 10 per cent.
The population is $4,000, 10 grad
ed school buildings, not fewer
than so teachers. Then, there is
the Fargo College, The North
Dakota Business College, Fargo
Auto-Gas Engine School, and the
Ames Academy. There are also
three large hospitals and a sana-
.orium. We have among our
medical practitioners, Osteo- i
paths, who do not cure you with
lrugs, but depend upon the re-
adjustment of your bones and
igaments. !
Our city seems like a little
Heaven since Moorhead went
Try. North Dakota has been in
he dry column for several years,
)ut just across the river from
Fargo is the town of Moorhead
n Minnesota, and that town has
)een wide open for saloons that !
lid much to corrupt the habits of !
'ur citizens. Fortunately the !
question was left to the voters !
# the county in which Moorhead I
3 situated, and out went the sa- :
oon, and both that town and our
'ity are now feeling that we have
,assed out from under a dark |
loud and are resting in the sun :
hine of peace and quiet. .
Orin Cisney, son of McClel- a
an Cisney, formerly of Burnt S
cabins but who is now living in
illinois, spent two summers in
his city. Last fall he went to
Montana and took up home h
tead. =
Philip and Mac Curfman form !
rly of Burnt Cabins, left this :
ity two or three years ago, Phil V
p is at Detroit, Mimi, and Mac q
It New Rockford, N. Oak. Da- v
i'd Curfman is at Page, N. Oak. C