Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-03-07
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BisMARck's NEED OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION.
~ If ever an opportunity was offered
q community to develop speedily into
a real and substantial metropolis
that chance is now open to Bismarck.
Are our citizens alert to the situa.
ton? Will they grasp the golden op-
portunity that may never come again
+ If lost now? IA, s ~
Thousands, yes millions of dollars,
have been made available for use in
and about Bismarck, beginning this
spring. (
The military post Is to be doubled
in size this year and when finally
completed will represent a million
and half dollars expended by the
government
~ The Indian school half million
more. from $4,000 to 100000 to be
expended this year.
The new capitol and executive
mansion, representing a million more,
& work on which will begin at once.
Additions to the state penitentiary
and Irvine plane that count some.
A sewer system is to be put in
/ that viii establish Bismarck as the
most sanitary. city in the northwest.
With the renewal Of the water COM
pany's franchises so that extensions
can be made to the military post and
other state and national institutions
means an expenditure OF large sums
of money. 1t ds proposed to extend
the mains into the outskirts OF the
city. thus affording fire protection
/ and water privileges to many homes
now unprotected and without city
water.
$ A new school building, that will
cost $25, 900 to $4,000 is also to be
1 built.
A city hall and addition to the
{ court house are also improvements
needed and likely to be definitely
authorized this year.
Further extentions Of stone walks,
the putting in Of many permanent
! crossings and the grading OF streets
means employment to labor
Never have building operations
been more active. More new resi-.
dences and substantial business
blocks have been definitely decided
{ upon for this season than have ever
before been built in Bismarck in a
3 single year. ~ =
The government has also provided
for the expenditure OF $4,000 on
river Improvements near Bismarck
and tributary points above.
!. Greatest Of all and meaning more
for the substantial benefit and growth
of the slope, county, and Bismarck is
the prospective work OF the govern
ment under the reclamation act. The
preliminary surveys have already
been made, a half million dollars
. have been set aside for the Bismarck
project, engineers have been chosen
to prosecute the work and 1t now re
mains for our people to agree on the
details. It is up to us whether this
whole valley shall be turned into
veritable paradise Of trees, Of fruits
/ and flowers and beautiful homes
y and thousands of them-or whether
we fail to secure the comforts and
benefits enjoyed by other peoples in
D other localities. "a
The extension of the 500 OPENING
up q larger country tributary to Bis
\ marck and increasing the Importance
OF division headquarters, the contem
4 plated improvements of the Northern
Pacifc--the rebuilding of the great
bridge at this point and the employ
& ment Of q couple OF hundred men all
the season the further development
q OF Burleigh county coal mines all re-
mind us of the wonderful opportunity
for Bismarck. s
What must the people Of Bismarck
do?
Nature and influential representa-
tiYes have done much, It remains for
\ our people to do the the rest.
With all these improvements lin
sight we should have a business-like
administration Of the city's affairs a
wise. progressive, harmonious city
government. free from factions, free
from prejudices, free from personal
animosities
We want business administra-
tion, pure and simple.
Thus the importance Of choosing