Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-03
NORTH DAKOTA CAPITAL CITY is ENJOYING
ERA OF PROSPERITY and GREAT DEVELOPMENT
Continued from page L.

commercially. 1t would be strange if
it had MOI for it has a geographical
location 70 make it natural COM
mercial centc". Business has been
greatly stimulated since the entering
of the 500 road il % this territory
merchants of every e,oss soon dis
covered that they had much larger
| field to cover and thousands more
people to invite to come here to
trade An index of this is the con-
spicuous success Of the Bismarck
wholesale grocery house. It was
established two or three years ago.
The first years business doubled the
expectations of the mana cement and
| the second was doubled again, and
the house still enjoys a substantial
standing. There is also wholesale
fruit house, the Lewis Vidger-Loomis
Co. There is also a transfer house
here of the International Harvester
Co., and it will soon occupy an i'm
mense building of it's own. The out
put this year will far exceed that OF
1905, which was remarkably heavy.
The J. 1. Case Threshing Machine Co.
does a heavy transfer business from
large building which they own. In
general agricultural machinery three
retail firms carry very extensive lines.
The growth of this branch of bust
ness in Bismarck the last three
years has been conspicuous.
Business expansion is prominently
t reflected in the fact that thirty-three
travelling men and their families re-
side at Bismarck and there is a
council of the U. c. T. maintained
here. On Sundays the boys make
their home at the rooms of the Com
mercial club.
Trading visitors to Bismarck will
find no lack of facilities, for every
branch of business is remarkably
we'll represented. There are three
department stores carrying stocks
which would do credit to cities dou-
BILE and treble the population of Bis
marck. The majority of the stores
are particularly striking for the mod
ern excellence of their appointments
and display of goods-the metropol-
itan city air is everywhere apparent
Bismarck merchants have kept pace
with the greater possibilities and to-
day are using every advantage tend
ing towards business growth and ex-
pansion.
/ Hotels and Buildings.
! By the ides of November the Capt.
ital City will be able to fill the bill
as to capacity and quality of hotel
accommodations condition which
! will be hailed with joy by the legis-
lators and hundreds of people at
tracted to the seat of the state gov
eminent.
/ The Grand Pacific is new, mod
ern structure to cost 100000, three
stories high. 1t is attractive in de-
sign and will be perfect in appoint
ment. 1t is on Fourth street and
closely adjacent to the railway pas
senger stations
The new 500, between Broadway
and Main street, is another enter
prise. This new pile is to cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000. Extensive
improvements are contemplated in
existing hotels.
An addition to the brick block in
which are the postoffice and other
government Offices, to cost $500
and fifty feet in size, is in course of
completion. The Northern Pacific
freight house, brick, has had to be
doubled in size this summer in order
!. to meet the larger in and out bust.
ness which has been stimulated by
; expansion of business territory, and
| the new activity which has come tc
Bismarck. The Taylor store and Office
/ building is another prominent i'm
!, pfovement. To meet the largely in
creased patronage, the Bismarck
Steam Laundry Co. has had to inves
Il $4,000 in new and larger quarters
| The Bismarck Wholesale Grocery Co
!, have perfected arrangements for I
new and substantial pile next to tht
500 depot s@.s s.&..l =
4 The International Harvester Co. il
: to have a warehouse and office build
Ing Of monster proportions similar t.
Z NOUS grounds and environments, tt
Il and Grand Forks " g$
e In course Of erection by the Mis-
i souri, Valley Milling Co. Is ney
!, Touring mill il 200-barrel daily ca
pacity, with a possible increase 0
t 400 barrels. It is to be equippe,
4 with the best Of machinery and labor
$ ! saving devices of every character.
I The Hughes Electric Co. is expend
e ing $4,000 in structural additions /
], its plant and the power and capacit