The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-27
MIN0T The CITY
OF DESTINY
An Able Article Published in the
Irrigation Edition OF the ST..
Paul Daily News, Concerning
Ward County and the Best
City Of the State.

| located dU CQe intersection OF Tilt
main lines of the 500 and Great
Northern railways, is the me
tropolis of Northwestern eDako
ia. Organized in 1886, it had .
population ofonly l ,277 in 1906
Since then it's growth has beer
most rapid, the population being
over 4, $50, according to the cen
sus OF 1905, and about 5000 to-
day. . .-.-.. WI
Being so favorably located mi
not has naturally become the
leading Wholesale and retail cen.
ter within a radius of 200 miles
and all large corporations are
seeking locations in the city for
branch distributing plants. and
the contractors and builders
have no rest, summer or winter.
Four years ago a Grand Forks
wholesale house started a
branch" in Minot. In less than
a year the ''branch' was doing
more business than the parent
house. The ''branch" now has
erected q large building, and an
other wholesale house has Open
ed up headquarters and is erect
ing a large three-story building
-botE to supply the grocery
trade, while an exclusive whole
sale fruit house is also doing a
large business in the city. The
largest hotel in the state, with
another tirst-class hotel and
seven other hotels, five livery
stables (including the largest i'll
the state), eight churches Zone
new one just erected and three
new ones to be erected in the
early spring., three large schools
1.-TWO erected in the last three
years., division headquarters on
Great Northern railway large,
fine new passenger depot and
much larger freight depot, are
some OF the straws which indi-
cate what Minot is doing.
The farmer finds a ready mar
ket for his product. Miuot has
seven large grain elevators.
Three retail concerns in the
city sold 40 threshing rigs dur
ing the past season, and the
branch OF the International Har-
vesting Co. sold 1920 binders
and l 900 mowers from Minot.
thus leading the world. The
business OF Minot can best be
comprehended when it IS realized
that the Great Northern Rail |
way Co. did 81 900, 900, and the
500 railway 100000 worth Of
business from Minot during the
year 1905, and the business of
both roads is rapidly increasing.
Minot is supported entirely by
the surrounding country. Broad |
fertile plains surround it on all
sides. The soil is rich, black
loan, with IA reten tive clyy sub
soil, and the land has always
produced good results, beating
any county in the state ever
since it has really been cultivat
ed. A few years ago these broad
plains were inhabited by the En-
dian and the buffalo.
Today the busy farmer hascul-
tivated major portion OF this
land, and the crops he produces
cannot be excelled anywhere-no
matter how priced the land is
considered. Wheat, oats, barley,
speltz, rye, fax. potatoes and
vegetables grow in as great
abundance as anywhere in the
world, and only the best grade
OF all these is to be found in
Ward county. One can drive in
any direction from Minot and
meet farmer after farmer who
came to the county penniless
within the past five years, whose
worth today is from $4,000 to|
$4,000, and the cases are quite
common.
Coal can he found in abun-
dance in the county within five
miles Of Minot); climate moder-
ate, healthful, and as mild as in
much more Southern states; air
clear and bracing; a reasonable
rainfall, sufficient for good crops
every. year (averaging from IL
to 20 inches to the year,; pro-
grassive, up-to.date, modern
northern people, with hustle and
energy; good markets for all
grains; good competition among
merchants to sell to the farmers,
and the richest soil in the world,
with land at cheap, low prices.
These are a few of the things
that explain the rapid growth OF
Ward county, and the table be-
low, taken from actual census re-
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