The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-06-15
BUILDING RUSH IN NORTH DAKOTA
New Structures Sprouting Up All Over the State-General
Material Improvement in Towns and Cities.

In a state Of great distances like
this, 1t is difficult to secure anything
like an accurate estimate, at this time
OF the year, as to what is really going
on in the line of material improve
ments for the reason that many of the
houses ETC., that are going up are not
reported in a way to bring them into
prominence in The widely circulated
papers in the state, all correspondents
have a not a nose for news" in this
line, thus the periodical lists of new
buildings which are being erected here
and there, farm houses, school build
ings, barns. churches and stores,
probably by the hundred, are not of
the encouraging character as they
might be. The best that can be done
is to review those which come within
the scope Of the reports made.
In Fargo, Grand Forks and other Of
the larger centers of the state one
often hears the statement why does
not some speculative builder do this
and that to supply certain wants? In
large eastern centers the speculative
builder is a great developer, and cuts
an important figure in the upbuilding
OF cities. While there are no specu-
lative builders, say in the larger cities
and towns in this state, his counter
part is here in the shape of loan socie-
ties and building associations who,
through h means of printers ink,
are ICpjno manila f0 cc or o~-1,,
such savings as they may have in the
building Of homes, and the most fav-
orable terms are offered. Stop pay-
ing rent is the hue and cry. 1t is
all done, of course. to make lots and
lands productive.
Open the conversation about build
ings anywhere, and at once the re.
mark is made, one scarcely realizes
the number OF homes that are being
erected now, and have been put up
during the last two or three years.
Especially is this so in Fargo. just
now it is an instructive undertaking
to make an excursion over the differ
Ell. loops Of the electric street railway
an enterprise, Dy the way, which
has done much to give impetus to the
upbuilding of the outlying parts OF the
city Of Fargo. Back of the street rail
way enterprise has been developed the
desire OF many people to own their
own lots and houses with the advan,
tage now. of convenient and rapid
transportation TO store, school, college
or church. This development is not
yet OF considerable prominence, be
cause it is so scattered. but the unde
niable fact exists that the development
has been given a start, and it is great
err this year than it was a year ago
The real estate men appreciate the
numerous small deals concluded in out
lying parts, for that means more.
Plans are being prepared for {
school of forestry at Bottineau, to cos,
100000; Drayton is to have a high
school to cost $4,000; the corner stone
of the Carnegie library for the agricul
tural college at Fargo will be laid this
week; school houses are under way al
Rugby, Clara township, near Lakota;
improvements at Edgeley and Wimble
ton schools, new schools ordered a.
Milroy, Rogers, Pleasant Lake, Ion5
Tree, Lear Tasker; a $4,000 building
at Drayton; a high school at Fair.
mount is under considerations; an
eight-room school house at Bismarck,
to cost $4,000 land thousands of dol,
lars are to be spent at Wahpeton by