Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-11-26
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BISMARCK FUTURE.
A City Destined to be the Metropolis
Of the Northwest.

Of the Northwest.
The North Pacific railroad company
has secured $40,000,000 with which they
will complete the Northern Pacific to 9
connection with the Pacific coast line
within the next three years. Within that
time the Milwaukee s. St. Paul, the Chi.
cago & Northwestern and Jim Hills road
will connect with the Northern Pacific q,
Bismarck. Within five years from to-day
Bismarck will be lighted with gas, heat
ed largely by steam, with street cars
reaching nearly to John Quinlan's, and
will have daily newspapers and opera
houses that would do credit to town of
twenty thousand people. But business
men should awake to their interest and
work to bring about these results, aud be
! on the alert to reap the advantage that
coming prosperity will surely bring. Let
them become known for their enterprise
in business and for their public spirit,
rather than tor their personal controver-
sizes aid their business jealousies. In the
great northwest there'is no city SO favor
ably situated for trade center as Bis
marck. Its location is superior to St.
Paul, even, and only inferior te Minneap-
oils because it lacks its immense water
power, but it's inexhaustable veins of
coal; its great beds of fire clay, within
easy reach; its immense wheat fields and
millions OF acres adaDted 10 grazing give
1t all of the avantages needed to build up
a great city.
The time will never come, after COM
peting lines ofroad reach Bismarck, when
this city will not have shipping advan-
tages equal to those of ST. Paul, greater
than those of Fargo or any other point
on the line of the North Pacific. Right
here the steamers on the Missouri river,
the milling interests of Minneapolis, the
transportation lines operating on the
lakes and the rival lines from Milwaukee
and Chicago will make fight for the
very superior wheat that has been and
will continue to be raised in this great
valley. 1t will not be possible to build
up within four hundred miles of Bis
marck, or indeed at any point, a city that
will compete with Bismarck for the trade
that belongs to it. Glyndon to day has
as great advantages as Fargo Moorhead,
Mapleton, Valley City, Casselton, San
born or jamestown are likely to be as
much favored. Fargo has outstripped
them all only because her business peO-
pie have pulled as one man would pull
to exalt Fargo and attract attention to the
country surrounding it and they have
reaped their reward. Let Bismarck now
come to the front and advertise the adj
vantages offered by the country surround
ing it.
The suggestion Of street cars may pro-
woke smile but The TRIBUNE recog-
nizes this fact: Competing lines of road
will connect with the North Pacific near
the mill. There is room for side tracks,
round houses and shops. The coming Of
these interests will bring with them hun
dreds of families who will take advan-
tage of the cheap property to be found on
the Williams and Sturgis additions while
Van Etten and Quinlan's land will he
wanted in five and ten acre tracts for gar
dens and homes. So rapid will be the
growth of this section that THE TRIBUNE
does not hesitate to go on record with
this prophecy.