St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-25
BOOMING CAKES.
A Descriptive Write-Up Of a
Dakota Town Which
Has Had zsssa
A Marvellous Growth and Is
Destined to Be a
Great
Railroad and Commercial
Center--What Her Bust
ness Men
Are Doing and the Improve
mentS That Are Now Be-
ing Made.

Special to The Globe
OAKES, OAK, Feb. ga great deal
has been said and written during the
past year concerning the future of the
booming little city of Cakes, Dickey
county, Dakota. One needs only to ey-
anime the map of Dakota and study the
location of Cakes and the railroads that
center here to understand why it is that
her citizens are so Sanguine of her
future. When its system of rail
roads are understood, and the influ-
ence they must bring to bear to-
wards the development and growth of
Cakes; the claim that it will some day
be the largest city in Cnntral Dakota
does not seem so prepOSterOuS after all.
Three immense railroad corporations
are how operated into Cakes, viz: The
Chicago IL Northwestern railway, the
Northern Pacific railway and the Min
neapOlis Il Pacific railway. Cakes is
the northern terminus of the Chicago
x Northwestern railway in Dakota, also
the southern terminus of the Northern
Pacific railroad. These two lines are
the
CONNECTING RAILROAD LINKS
between South and North Dakota; and
through them Cakes becomes the pas
Senger junction and freight transfer for
all travel and freight between the two
great sections of Dakota. When we
look at the vast stretch of country
traversed by these two great railways,
we must see the immense transfer bust
ness that will eventually exist between
them at this point. The most important
east and west line of railroad that has
been extended into Dakota is the Mfn-
lie 1. Dnn Il
extension of the Minneapolis. Sault Ste.
Marie Il Atlantic railroad, but better
known as the Great 500 SYSTEM"
The Minneapolis Il Pacific, which is
now operated into Cakes and gives
us an air line to st. Paul and Min
neapoliS. when extended into Bis
marck will be 100 miles shorter than
any other line running between Bis
marck and st. Paul. With its connec-
tons via the Sault Ste. Marie it brings
Cakes and Central Dakota over 400 miles
nearer to the seabOard and the Eastern
cities and manufactures than any other
railroad. When we contemplate the re-
ductlOn i'll passenger and freight rates
by this short route and the facilities
Cakes will present as a distributing
point. one can hardly realize the magni-
tude OF the business to be transacted.
The Minneapolis 4 Pacific, looking for
ward to the Importance of this point,
have made it the end of both passenger
and freight divisions, and have secured
thirty acres of land upol which they
have contracted and agreed to erect eX-
tenslye machine and repair shops the
coming season.
There is still another road which the
people OF Cakes hope to Secure-the
Black Hills branch of the Northern Pa
n TO nil M
Minor, Oak. about thirty miles distant,
and which i'll its westward course an
other season will cross the James river
valley either at Cakes or La Moure.
There is also some probability that the
Rock Island system, already in Central
Dakota, will put out an arm to reach
this general meeting point.