. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ooperstown sprang, into existence and became thecounty seat of Griggs County. The same rapid settlement followed along thisroute. Odell, Dazey and Hannaford became centers of traffic. In 1882 theJames River Valley Road from Jamestown to LaMoure was built and by shortextensions met the C. & N. W. and C, M. & St. P. railroads which had builtfrom the south, and a sptir track was built from Carrington to Sykeston, whereMr. Richard Sykes had bought lands and opened several large farms in WellsCounty. All these roads bearing separate c
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ooperstown sprang, into existence and became thecounty seat of Griggs County. The same rapid settlement followed along thisroute. Odell, Dazey and Hannaford became centers of traffic. In 1882 theJames River Valley Road from Jamestown to LaMoure was built and by shortextensions met the C. & N. W. and C, M. & St. P. railroads which had builtfrom the south, and a sptir track was built from Carrington to Sykeston, whereMr. Richard Sykes had bought lands and opened several large farms in WellsCounty. All these roads bearing separate corporate names were btiilt as branchesof the Northern Pacific and were projected by the impulse given by the rapidinflux of immigrants that followed the settlement and cultivation of the landsalong the main line in 1879-80. The wave of immigration spent its force in the spring of 1883, and someidea of its extent may be formed from the following figures of Stutsman, Foster,Wells and Eddy counties, and equally strong, if not yet stronger figures could be. COLONEL ilAl;l;\ l:l;()\\\S()\ AND (.LERKS. IIISMAKCKNOKTHKKX IACIFIC KAILKOAD, 1873. COLONEL BRowNsoN seatp:d AGENT, HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 335 given of the counties along the hnes of the other branches if they were at hand,as tlie wave swept steadily and evenly over the rolling prairies west of the RedRiver Valley. In the census of 1880, the County of Stutsman had a population of1,007; o^ this number Jamestown had 392. In the census of 1885 the countyhad 5,632, and of these Jamestown had 2,382. In 1880 the present counties of Foster, Wells and Eddy had not over twenty-five settlers within their borders. In the census taken in 1885 these three countieshad a population of 1,932. In 1880 there were no farms worked in these threecounties. In 1885 there were 392. Some of them, notably those of Carrington &Casey and Richard Sykes were large ones, the rest varied from 160 to 640 acres. The class of settlers who fomied the wave that
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