Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-22
FARGO.
The Home Of the Rsal Estate
"soomsr."
VOW THAT PARSONAGE THRWEs,
Aad the Methods Pursued by Him in Great
ing a Metropolis in the
NJ Of the Wilder
ness.
Seoul COrrss,,o. d -'.ce oTns Sunday Register.
Fargo.


Of Dakota VII ch most teuderfeet" SEA.
II il sltutted uu the west bauk of the
Red River If the North, which river
forms the EASTERN boundary of the Terri
tory for over two hundred miles, or
from q p iut few miles south OF
DakOta's central east aud west liue, to
the British possessions. Fargo Is about
sixty mics uurih of the TerritOry'S
central east AMI west line. Tue town
is Ilon the Northern Paciic's main
road and i also crossed by one of the
lines Of the st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba system, so That il has two
railroad routes to st. Paul and Min
nraIOlis. T'.~re is also branch line Of
the Northern Pacific running 10
sUulhws>t,riy direction from Fargo
fily-siX miles To Lisbon. Fargo has
probably about 5000 inhabitants, and
claims ln,OUO TO 1900. II Is the county
seat Of Cas- county and has three good
sized hotels, besides several smaller
ones, seNen churches, five banks, two
daily newspapers and three weeklies, a
court hruae, car wheel works, y. P.
railroad Repair shops, street railway,
electric light y stem with u tower one
hundred aud !"rty feet high, a telephone
eAchazgr, three elevators capacity
.55,uU0 bushels, two planning mills, a
tluur mill lcapucity PSI bblS. per day,
one high >cuOOl tcust 81, OOO) aud three
ward schools "a Rew school edidce just
completed cost $1,000, Holly system
ot water works, Il gus company (gaS
works new Iii q ~, a chamber of
CumEeICe, library III bar associations
and Ouaru of L derwriters. Tue
thought may occur ia tue reader, as il
CId To your cOrGe>pOL tent, that such au
array of Institutions rs that stated
lady core spOnds tU 3 population of
seven or eight thousand people, but
The ySIerN Is soon explained. Car
iyle's r, maxi Was, think, that Eng
iaud had twenty niilliOa people
''mOstly fools In like mauuer It
might tx sand Fargo has eight thous-
and people, mostly real estate boom
crs." The town has SO far developed
and thryeu, priucipa ly, if not almost
entirely, upon the ADVANCE in the value
ct It real estate which has been con-
sequcnt on the most energetic aud
smsTtesl kind of blooming" Situated
10 the town Is, In
A RIeb Agricultural Country,
with tie railroad facilities mentioned
and the additional advantage of being
upon tue Rcd River a very narrow but
rather deep stream, navigable for small
steam. boats, few miles south from
Fargo and north Tor over two hundred
miles To WIunepegl, still is has no adj
vantages for manufacturing, aud being
without any special advantages for
jobbiug trade and also being over
Swallowed in that n. by 1t. Paul and
Minueap,pu ~ eau never, think, have
= large " hOl sale trade. y heavy eX-
ptnuIlure ui money in advertising and
in the establishment Ot metropolitan
Institutions may, with a large exercise
of wit and energy in booming the
y ace, make il fair sized town, but
without Tar better advantages that It
pos, sSeS, or Is likely TO acquire Tor
manufacturing or jObOing trade il can
uereT be come city. The only natural
advantages tor trade the place has aside
from its proximity TO that wrong !
headt a., often overlooking stream, the
Red river is its being good supply
Joint for the farming country in its /.
immediate neiyhbOrhOOd. 1t Is the !
fashion OF the FargoerS, who shear the !
golden fleece of the eastern lamb who
j. hunting for new pastures, TO hold
forth eluquenlly on the growth OF DA-
kOta in general and of the Red River
Valley IN particular, the richness OF its
soil and its wondrous crops and the
stranger inv tel to infer as matter Of
course that Fargo must grow in pOpula-
ton and trade just as Dakota does.
Right here ~ the iallacy. Fargo will at
tract the retail trade OF the farmers
within a convenient driving distance OF
1t; those beyond will go TO the next
town. The truth is that as this mag
nfiCent agricultural region develops, It's
doing 50 will rather occasion the spring
Ing up OF q great number OF small towns
than the building Of many such
mighty cities" as the FargOers go so
far a. tO assert their village will some
day become.
The progress Of
Railroad COnstrue ton
may make great changes in the Terri
tory, but i'll the absence of cheap coal
or water power for manufacturing, in
the alsepce OF SPECIAL transportation adj
vantages for u ] ,obing trade anu over
sh allowed as they all are in that line by
the great railroad center at st. Paul and
Minneapolis, il is difficult TO see how
any OF the ambitious towns OF Dakota,
East of Bismarck on the Missouri
river. il to bec.Ime q mighty city"
Like many OF the small towns in our
own section, such IS st. Clairsville and
Cambridge, which were villages 3
generation ago and are villages to-day,
these towns will each have the farming
trace o. the country for a few miles
about il, aud whenever the farming
population 10 any direction beyond =
limited radius becomes sufficiently
numerous % support general store"
If not sooner, in anticipation OF SUCH o
population q new town will be started |
In that neign6Orhood.
Fargo has enjoyed an excellent trade /
IN agricultural implements aud other I
QUILTING x 4OGs for settlers, but Is now
sharing that trade with large number |
Of newer towns which have sprung up /,
81 the railroads. have advanced. Being
At the pOiut where the Northern Pacific /,
Railroad enter, Dakota, 1t Is the 1rSt |
town Ia the Territory which the "prOs- |
pecjOrr usually stops over at, and as |
might be expected the
Real Estate Boomers !
gather here in considerable numbers.
The arts and banishments OF these |
gentlemen are the perfection Of human J
ingenuity aud their exercise Is carefully !
Saugtd To suit the Investors tempera- /
ment and degree 81 intelligence which |
an experienced boomer can diagnose
unerringly aud very quickly. IL the
stranger is young and enthusiastic
they are 'gsssy" TO hun; IL he Is
Oh aud vary they stuff him
IN quiet and sympathetic manner.
lie mOneyed Traveller who stays day /
OF twn in Fargo, and gets away without
making an investment IS rdra Gris
and, as thIdg- are now, not to be class
ca with the geese either. Nothing but
an empty pocket or very clear heat
could reeisI taking advantage at the op-