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WILLIAMS | COUNTY.A Brief Description of Its Great Inducements to Settlers.WILLIAMS COUNTY is the extreme Northwest county of the State of North Dakota, with the'Missouri River forming its southern boundary, and it has a river frontage of about 250 miles. The County covers an area of nearly 4,500 square miles, and embraces about 3,000,000 acres of excellent farming and grazing lands. About one-half of the County is underlaid with a superior quality of Lignite Coal, which is found in stratas varying from three feet to twenty feet in thickness. There ore also numerous beds of sulphur of extra fino quality. The soil is rich and durable, and by reason of the peculiar formation of the surface of the country, irrigation is rendered both practicable and cheap. Cereals of all kinds and vegetables flourish here in abundance,and always pay the producer a handsome margin for his labor.As a stock-raising country Williams County is equal to any other region in the western states. Hay and shelter are found in abundance along the Missouri river and the small streams running through the interior of the county.Williams County oilers the most advantageous inducements to settlers by its famous stock-raising ranges, and its own cheap fuel in wood and coal. The winters are mild, and all classes of stock graze out on the ranges nearly the entire season through, requiring but very little extra feeding. All kinds of building material and excellent clay for brick-making can be found in many localities throughout the county.Financially, Williams County is absolutely out of debt, there being not a dollar of bonded indebtedness, nor any outstanding warrants, as shown by the official statement of the County Auditor and Treasurer on July 1st, 1895.WILLISTON, the County .Seat of Williams County, is beautifully located on the Great Northern Railroad, with the Missouri River washing its southern limits, and situated only twenty miles from Fort Buford.Williston lias two hotels, six stores, two saw mills, a first-class blacksmith and wagon shop, two meat markets, one newspaper and job printing office, four restaurants, two dress-making shops, a carpenter’s shop, two brick yards, a bar-ber-shop; two churches, a school house, a court house and jail, two billiard halls, and four sample rooms. It is the freight division of the Great Northern Railroad, with its roundhouse and shops located here. In fact, the volume of business transacted here will compare favorably with any town of its size in the northwest.R. H. Copeland,ATTORNEY AT LAWWILLISTON. N. D.
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Williston Graphic
Williston, North Dakota, US
Fri, Jun 05, 1896
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