Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1883-03-02
THE CITY OF BISMARCK.
WHY TITS DESTINED TO BECOME
a GREAT METROPOLIS. -

Its Location Compared with that OF
St. Paul and Minneapolis Shows
Its Advantages Equal to
Those Cities.
The Northern Pacific railroad in its march
across the continent, spans tho Missouri
river at Bismarck, Dakota. The Missouri is
the only navigabls river of national impor-
tanoe which is crossed by this great trans
continental thoroughfare in its entire course.
Bismarck, city of $500 Inhabitants, and
the county seat of Burleigh county, is situ-
ated upon the eastern bank of this great
natural highway in 46o 49, north latitude,
and 1000 49, west longitude. The perma-
nenoe of the location has been decided by tho
erection the past season of mammoth
work of art-a bridge constructed entirely of
iron and steel, having three spans of
400 feet each, and costing, with its approach
es, $1,5oo,0oo. =
Everything points to an active season at
Bismarck this year. The building industry
was large during the year 1882, but this season
that years record will probably be more than
doubled. There were numerous residences
built last year, yet it is almost impossible to
rent one. There is demand for more build
in9s of every sort. Business houses are in
nearly as much demand as residences, and it
has been the unexceptional rule that the store
rooms and Offices IN every building yet erect
ed in Bismarck have been rented to good
tenants at fair and even high rents before
the buildings were completed. There is also
demand for
MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES
at Bismarck. It being natural trade GEN.
ter and distributing point and the whole
northwest being in a prosperous and healthy
condition, doubtless large number of such
institutions will locate here during the CON-
ing year. .. -
this paper, is the most convincing proof of
the commercial value of Bismarck's geo.
graphical position. She stands o-day with
out a rival of importance in location and
surroundings. Bismarck is within forty
miles of the actual center Of Dakota terri
ritory, eur1ouuded for many miles on every
side with as fine an agricultural and stock
raising country as there is in the known
world. Few localities, if any, combine il
such marked degree the
ADVANTAGES OF LooAT1oN 80.
with country surrounding of almost unpar-
alleled richness. which Bismarck possesses.
The intersection of great transcontinental
thoroughfare, with the largest river on this
continent navigable for l 200 miles north and
west of Us, and carrying the commerce of q
number of states and territories upon its
rushing waves south to the Gulf of Mexico,
insures by all the known laws of trade, q
great commercial center. The history of
Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis and St.
Paul is as certain to be repeated here ais
anything in the future can be. For Bismarck
has greater natural advantages than either
of the cities mentioned. She is just as
favorably located as either Kansas City or
Omaha, with much better country sur
rounding and less competition, being 700
miles from any commercial town of impor-
tance on the Missouri river, and almost 500
miles from st. Paul. The development of
the country north and west of st. Paul and
Minneapolis has made them the great cities
which they to day are. It is not many years
ago that st. Paul was no larger than Bis
naarok is at present, and with much poorer
prospect at that time for great city than
Bismarck now enjoys. Nature has certainly
done all for this favored spot which could be
asked. For beauty of location she stands
without rival on the entire line of the
Northern Pacific.
THE SITE OF THE CITY
is mostly level, with succession of gentle
swells, rising toward the rear portion of it,
and forming series of the most delightful
locations for residences that the imagina ton
could picture. Owing to its location the
drainage is perfect. with little or no expense,
and as result Bismarck is now, and always
has been remarkably healthy city. A
location of such natural beauty in the heart
Of country 90 rich in agricultural and stock
growing resources, with unlimited supplies
of coal and fire olays for brick, tiling and
crockeryware, would insure q large city
anywhere. So, also would her geographical
position, being at the in tersectioh of the two
great national thoroughfares of water and
rail, even if the surroun dinge were as poor as
the cactus plains of Colorado; most certainly
then when these advantages are SO happily
combined as they are at Bismarck, there can
be no room for doubt aa to its future. The
facts set forth in this paper, and we vouch
for them as facts, and only desire opportu-
nifty to substantiate them, warrant US in the
belief that Bismarck is destined to be the
largest city in the heart of the continent. Her
resources for varied industries stand without
rival. But especially valuable are her
resources for great commercial center.
She is the
ENTREPoT TO MONTANA.
She sits as the gate keeper to tho immense
empire, drained by the Missouri and it's
tributaries, whose valuable productions,
consisting of the best export commodities