Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-12-11

had then been cleared away. There
We're nov three boats plying on the
river the1oldS international owned by
the Hudson Bay company, and, the
Selkirk and Dakota owned by Halls&
Kittson. The Selkirk was, latd up
winters. at Grand Forks. and a boat
yard in charge ofsD.@ P. Reeves was.
established above the point between
the rivers. During the winter follow
ing the Dakota was heightened at this
yard. Al yet, Grand Forks. 1was but
little moteIthani q settlement. There
were in and around the place the ,Hld-|
SON Bay company store. hotel andSSaM.
mill Captain Griggs' house., another.
but small sized hotel bearing no name,
on .itsstrc9ts and asnuWber of cabins,
andsshacks. Then there vat the fer.
rys5fto take+Bteams over. the fiver,@sthe.
that Westward there were no white.
mon living short of Fort Totem. The.
land around Grand Forks was sub.
divtdedssthat year, but mot open I'd;
receive filings. and persons holding.
claims we're merely squatters. Even.
Capt GriggSxhad no title to thS.
ground HIS house stood upon other,
than as sduatter.s pre-emption right;
ThesS4tyear$ 1874 does not furnish,
MUCH local history In respect to the
settlement at Grand Forks. Along tn''
the middle seventies the people were.
still waiting for Immigration which,
was slack in coming. ,Winship sold
his interest In, the stage s~tationssatI
Turtle River to J.. S. EshelmaniSIa and,
went to st. Paul, resufning. his former
as q compositor on .newspa-;
pers He already dreamed. of estab-.
day. q Geo. H. Walsh, who, worked
IN the ann Office in West st. Paul,
1orestalled Winship by about four
years. The Northern Pacific railroad.
wa completed to Bismarck in/1S73,
and then, came. the failure Of Jay
cooke &"Co..tNew York bankers, who
mad financed the building oflthe road.
This made hard times for the country
IN general until about 1877. and
meanwhile work on the east side VAL
ieH line was not resumed.
The surveyed townships In the part
OF the county around Grand Forks
were declared open to settlement, or
in other4 words, ready to receive fl
lngs. In January, 1874. The United
states land office was then. located at
pembina. but was moved to Fargo
ina year and opened there the first
OF August. The first entries of land
at or near Grand Forks were made
when the land office was at Pembina
ny Alex. Griggs, o. s. Freeman, John
Fadden, ]. s. Eshelman and others.
The reorganization Of the county
in 1874 has been referred to on a for
mer page. Gov. Burbank appointed
Tor that purpose, Alex. Griggs, D. F.
Reeves and G. A., Wheeler, county
commissioners. This board at their
meetings chose the following county
oHcers: James Elton. register Of
deeds; Thomas Walsh, treasurer and
judge of probate; g. A. Wheeler. SUI
n~erintendent Of schools;> Thomas
Walsh and D.. p. Reeves, Justices Of
the peace; Nicholas Huffman, sheriff,
and Thomas Campbell and James
Mulligan, constables.
The next school teacher at Grand
Forks of whom there Is any %ccoun
wal a certain Miss Richmond who
snack measuring is by ~ feet. In
the fall Of that year. after navigation
on the river had closed, Capt. H. r..
-Maloncy and others called, a public
meeting for the purpose of raising
funds to build a school house in the
village. Before the meeting closed
subscriptions to the noun OF $500
were secured, besides pledges for
work. A building for school
time Of the meeting and the following
spring. n :.
Steamboat traffic on the river was
developing in considerable proper
tons. necessitating from time to time
the construction of more boats and
barges. A steamer called the Shey-
emo was built at the boat yard near
the village during the winter OF 1874
s. This boat was a side wheeler, the
first Of that type on the river. In
building boats at Moorhead and
Grand Forks, their boilers and en-
gines We're sent from st. Paul, by rail
delivered on harges: There was some
emigration in progress from Ontario
to Manitoba, but in no large volume,
as was the case with North Dakota
! at that time. =