The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

town was lively one in more ways than
one. Minot was incorporated as city in
1887 with Hon. ]. II. Schotield as it first
mayor. The city had several disastrous
fires during the early years of, its eX-
istence, one in 1887 destroying the larger
portion of the business section. One re-
suit was that the buildings erected to
take the place of the burned structures
were largely of brick. Many residences
were also built of brick and Minot has to-
day many more substantial brick build.
ings than any other town in the state in
proportion to population.
The city now has an excellent volun
teer fire department, with an equipment
of hose carts hook and ladder, trucks, etc,
for fighting fire, and its own water works
system, mains extending through the
principal streets, with fire 'hydrants at
hill the south side Of the city, filled
from a city pumping station at the river,
furnishes a constant fire pressure.
In 1893 the 500 railroad reached Minot
and the settlers from Eastern states set
Ting along the new line of road brought
largely increased population to Minot's
movement toward the settlement of the
country along the Great Northern line
west began and as the new settlers have
been coming in by the thousands Minot
as the trade center of the rapidly settling
district has been growing rapidly.
The public and semi-public buildings
of Minot are a credit to it's citizens, and
the substantial business blocks are q
glowing tribute to the progress and pros
perity Of the merchants and business
men of the city.
and jObbing interests, those sure indi-
Gators of progress. The international
Harvesting company has made Minot one
of its central distributing stations, and it's
state are shipped from there. The Grand
Forks Mercantile company, Dakota S
foremost wholesale grocery house, main
tainS prosperous branch there, owning
a fine three-StOry brick building for the
accommodation of the building. A large
flour and feed mill is doing a thriving
One of the best gauges of the prosper
ity of city or a section of country is
the condition of it's banking interests,
and the showing made of its general bust
ness condition by it's bank statements.
Judged from this standpoint the city of
MinOt and the entire northwestern portion
of the state, the tributary territory of
M1not, are in an aSsuredly prosperous
condition as well as growing at a marvel
Gus rate commercially. The clearances
of MinOt'S two national banks for the
month of October last aggregated 1857, geo.
This is an increase of nearly 100 per cent
over the clearances for October 1901. The
deposits in these two banks aggregate
nearly half a million dollars. an increase
of $780, in the past year.
It may be interesting to note that of
the three United States depositaries in
North Dakota tMo of them are located in
Minot
Probably the leading bank of the city
is the Second National, of which Mayor
Joseph Roach is president and r. E.
Barron, the cashier and active manager.
The Minot National bank also handles
a considerable business.
Both banks are United States depos-
itaries.
Ward county contains 155 townships of
SO square miles each, or a total area of
nearly 1000 square miles, more than the
states of Delaware, Rhode Island and
Vermont combined. 1t has the Canadian
territory to Assinaboia as its nearest
neighbor on the north. On the east ara