Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-01-11
WARREN IS
M|SREPRESEN7ED
Is Crookston Jealous of Warren's
Growing Importance as a
Railroad Center.

The following article appeared in
the Crookston Times last Saturday,:
'Traveling men returning from
Stephen, Marshall county report the
appearance there this week of several
crews of surveyors in the employ of
the Great Northern who have been
running direct line from East
Grand Forks northward on the east
side Of the river to Drayton, North
Dakota, passing midway between Oslo
and Alvarado.
The new wheat belt line will COM
plete the Ct. Northern line of feeders
north and south from the main trunk
line and should head off several mil
lion bushels of wheat which would 20
to the 500 under present conditions.
Warren heretofore has been the mark
ct center for great portion of this
country, but with the building of the
500 and the building of elevators on
either side to east and west where
short hauls are made possible, Warren
has lost heavily and last year only re-
ceived some co. 600 bushels of wheat
while a little station between that
city and Argyle at which an elevator
was erected by the Red Lake Falls
and Crookston Milling company pull
ed in nearly 200, 900 bushels.
The line proposed by Jim Hill will
run almost directly north from East
Grand Forks on the east side of the
river and will still further take away
from Warren's grain patronage and
position as wheat center of this
section The new feeder will in
large measure forestall the 500 line
road.
The surveyors refused to divulge
any information and Stephen people
are fondly hoping that the new line
will tap their place. This is not.
likely however as there would be no
object in SO doing. The new line as
described above is on the Great North
ern maps for this year in blue dotted
lines which is very sure sign that
the road will 60 through in the
spring.
The above from the Times looks
like a studied effort to misrepresent
Warren and the business conditions
existing here. The inference to be
drawn is that the 500 railway has
practically killed the town by cutting
off territory formerly tributary to it
for purposes of trade, and that the
building of the Great Northern
branch from East Grand Forks north
ward will wipe it off the map COM
pletely. Now let us see how much
truth there is in the statements of
the Times article. The merchants of
this city reports the volume of ~busi-
ness done by them last fall as greater
than any fall previous. While it is
true that Warren has lost some as a
market point for grain, yet we are
glad of that-glad that the farmers
have an opportunity to sell their
grain without having to haul it Is to
25 miles and even farther in all kinds
of weather, in order to get to ship
ping point, wearing out both them
selves and horses on the roads. The
fact that they now have elevators
near at hand is big saving to them,
and the business men will be the first
to profit by the savings of the farm
ers. But the farmers will and DO
come to Warren to do, their trading.
It is much easier to drive 10, 20, or
80 miles in a cutter, buggy or r. light
wagon than to haul a big load Of grain
that distance. The railroad also
makes an easy access to this city from
both east and west and the large
traffic on the 500 between Warren
and the stations east and west clearly
indicates the large possibilities of
trade opened up to the merchants of
the city by the road. Every train
brings in farmers from both the east
and west to transact business. War
rem is in the same position that
Crookston was in the early days and
which contributed much to her
building up. Being the biggest town
in the valley everybody naturally
went there to make important pur-
chases, or to Grand Forks another
large town. Now people do come to
Warren for these very reasons We
admit that much depends upon the
merchants of the town, how they
reach out for trade, how we'll they
treat the farmers, and how well they
keep up their stocks, and sell at 1v-
inc profits. But the business men OF
Warren are enterprising and fully
alive to the situation, and will not be
wanting in this respect.
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