St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-23
No City in Dakota Shows a
Record to Compete With
That Of This City.
How the New Roads Are Ex-
tending It's Traffic and
Business Radius,
And Fastening 1t to It's Des-
tiny as the Center of
Trade and Travel.
Special to the Globe

o.hDEEN, June 22.-Eyery year OF
| the eight which span the history OF
Aberdeen, from the founding of the CITY
u The present time, has it's record of
progress and substantial DEVELOPMENT.
Like every young city of the West. bar
rem 1lg trees, full of promise, but prom
Use fruits, have risen, flourished and
aleo' out in no towp of Dakota has the
diary OF progress recorded more perma-
nent events of lasting influence and far
reaching Importance to the city's well
rare IMAM Aberdeen. For every unreal
lzed prediction dozen facts in cold and
substantial brick and stone can be re-
Ierred to. Each year has shown an in
creased prosperity, and, leaving the
stofy OF her growth, best told in her
railways, business enterprises, substan-
tlal stores, elevators and warehouses.
neI thrlvlng trade, her society, churches
ana schools. Men who study a city be-
lore !ocatlng or Investing capital within
ltS limits naturally asks: "What has
1 Auetueen d. accomplished during the past
year.. Inc general answer would be:
MORE THAN ANY CITY IN DAKOTAv
more in most directions than anv new
Guy In the Northwest. Towns which
depend upon the agricultural resources
OF a region, cities which find in railways
ana trade their chief sources of nros.
perity develop slowly as compared with
inning towns or cities built nm NV the
discovery OF some hidden natural wealth.
puG the danger of imitation and fictitious
real estate values is less, while the ulti-
Hiaue prosperity of towns dependents
upon SUCH resources is greater. Aber
oeens prosperity is the result of her To-
caIioh IN the richest and newest of agri-
Gultural areas OF the country, and to tine
iogIc Oh railway iron. In both these i'm
p0rtant FACTORS of growth in inland cities
Aberdeen has moved in the front ranp
curing the past year.
THE MANITOBA LINE"
which through snow and ice Excelsior
IKE entered the city from the northeast
At tne dawn OF the year 1887. was an i'm
portant factor In the growth of the citv.
"a line to Duluth had been the de-
mand, and the great Manitoba system
answered it. The road reached the city
from Its junction point at Fergus Falls.
stllin.' and. had, by the reduced rates
upon coal, lumber and other commodi-
IieS, brought many of the advantages
anticipated before the opening of
spIillg. IL was not until the grain crop
VI 1867 began to How into the market
towns OF the region and the improved
prices which the opening of a new com.
peting market at Duluth secured. that
the full benefits of the new road were
realized: Stimulated by the active
competition of the great lake port. the
price OF wheat advanced at Aberdeen
from TO cents per bushel over that
paid at other points. Nor did the CITY
reap all the benefits. Towns i'm the
region also secured the benefits of the
market created. Aberdeen at the same
tl1ne made the price and drew into her
own elevators the grain of wider region
OF country than ever before. There
money was left in the parish of Aber-
deen's trade, and the grain shipments
dlrect from the city alone amounted be-
tween August l, 1857, and January /
lSSS, to over 500, 900 bushels. The total
shipments of grain of all varieties dur
ing the past year might safely be esti-
mated at
ONE MILLION BUSHELS.
The stimulus of this increased traffic
in the staples of Dakota was observable
in the various lines of retail trade. The
stores of the city were crowded during
the fall months, especially with farm
ers, buying their winter supplies of
groceries and clothing, while the trade
in lumber, lime, hardware and build
ing material showed that what was be-
ing taken from the deep fertility of the
soil in one farm was being returned
to the farms in the form of substantial
buildings, fences and other improve
ments. Of the immense cash product
from the crops of 1857 it may be said
here that a large amount went
for the payment of membranes
upon farms created in 1882 and 1888. the
years in which the largest settlement
came into the country. Many man
who in 1888 had just erected house OF
paid the government price for land, and
stood facing an Indebtedness of from
$500 to $1,000, in 1857 paid up the last
dollar and looked out upon splendid
farm, we'll cultivated, provided with
good buildings, equipped with all the
appliances of rapid modern farming.
While this prosperous condition of the
farmers of the James river valley is
due to no one railway system, the build
ing of the Manitoba road is generally
recognized as an important factor in the
marked prosperity of the past year, both
in county and city.