Oakes Republican. (Oakes, N.D.) 1898-1906, 1901-05-03
A CENTER
Good Location for Whole
sale Houses and
Shippers.

As railroad center and good dis
tributing point, Oakes is beginning
| to attract some attention. 1t may be
the fault Of Oakes citizens that more
| work along this line has not been
Edone before, but while no organized
effort has been made and no adver-
| tising matter has been distributed,
the fact is gradually coming to the
attention Of parties looking for a To-
cation that Oakes presents many ad-
vantages over any other point for
such lines of business as need rail-
road facilities for their proper devel-
opment.
Oakes is the terminus of two lines
of the Northern Pacific, is also tbs
terminus Of the Northwestern run
ming direct from Chicago, and is also
on the line of the 500, which runs
east direct to the Twin Cities and
west to near Bismarck. These are
three of the greatest lines in the
n orthwest, their main and branch
Hines covering the entire states of
Minnesota, Iowa, North and South
akota, and running into Montana.
| There was man in Oakes last
week who was looking Tor location
to establish monument works.
After looking the situation over he
] decided that this was the best place
| in the northwest for his venture, and
will probably establish his plant here
during the coming summer. His
marble will come here in the rough
by the carload direct from Chicago
over the Northwestern, his granite
from St. Cloud in the same shape
over the Northern Pacific. The stone
will be cut ard dressed here, and the
finished product be shipped to his
customers over the five different di-
rectious leading out from Oakes,
without transferring from one road to
another. He will employ from six to
ten men.
| We have here now one institution
that depends upon railroads for its
sue cess, and it is credit TO the town,
We refer to the bottling works of Mr..
Ishmael, who ships his goods about
one hundred miles over each line OF
road, giving him territory of five
hundred miles in which to do busi-
ness.
Another institution is our cheese
factory, which ships its product in
every direction, and could sell five
times as much cheese as it now, does
in this territory if the supply of milk
ould be had to manufacture the
|goods.
There is room here for wholesale
grocery house, and in fact negotia'
tions are now under way with Chi:
c ago parties who are considering the
esta blishment Of wholesale grocery
house a: Cakes this summer.
Being the fartherest north point on
the Northwestern railway makes
Oakes good point for shipping cat
| tie to the Chicago market.
This would be good point for the
establishment. of warehouse or stor'
age house, where the manufacturers
of farm implements could store them
and distribute them from here in
small lots to their customers, making
not only great saving in freight
charges on the small shipments, but
being near the point Of consumption
two or three days time could be saved
over sending direct to the factory. II
such warehouse was built here by a
Company Oh cil'ZeAo ~ "oulo eoon Nc
filled with wagone. buggies, plows,
windmills, cultitators, harvesters and
other goods with not only far profit
to the. operators for storage aud
transfer charges, buc every such es'
tablishment would bring Oakes and
its advantages to the attention of the
: public, and be an incentive to the
establishment Of other lines in the
way of Wholesale business.
A nursery and seed house ought tc
do good business here in Oakes
We have the soil and water for grow
ing nursery stock, and the shipping
facilities afforded here would be I
valuable asset.