The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-01
Everyone Should Bury His Political Ami
mosities and Personal Jealousies
AND BOOST FOR GRAND.FORK
Surprising What Unnanmy Of Sentiment and Strenuous
Pull Together Can Accomplish for the Upbulding Of City
Releeate the. knocker to the Rear-Lets Help
Makes.Mr. Hills Prediction Reality

President Hill has been the closest
observer of of the development OF the
northwest, and especially OF North
Dakota, Of any man in :;ny way iden-
] titled with either. He nas seen Grand
Forks pass from q mere hamlet to u
thriving city. He has seen the wild
prairies that had been troll only by the
foot of the Indian, converted into vast
grain fields suficient 70 s,!pply a
large portion of the nation with tile
staff Of life. He has made I'D vain
boasts. as to the growth of the conE-
try, and, in fact, he has been more
conservative than optimistic. When,
therefore, he states that Grad Forks
will reach the 10000 limit of popula-
ton in ten years, there is every lea-
son to believe that his Judgment IS
based on substantial reason. The
prophesy will certainly become real
ity.
What this means to the city can
hardly be even approximately esri.
mated at this time. Forty thousand
people make city of vast, impor-
lance when located in a territory.
where the land will support a family
in afiuence on every half section at
least. In country devoted entirely
to manufacturing, that sized city
would be nothing mort than ordinary,
but in an agricultural territory the
result is different. In fact, popula-
fion of 10000 in a city situated as
Grand Forks is, would be equal in i'm
/. portance to one of 10000 to $4,000 in
states like Indiana or Pennsylvania.
This means that Grand Forks will be
without question the most important
city between the twin cites and the
coast.
Even now Grand Forks has passed
the stage in its development when its
business interests are by any means
local. All cities of Importance be-
come the distributing point for large
sections Of territory, supplied from
smaller towns. This is the great fu-
ture Of this city, and was the basis
npon which President Hill founded his
estimate OF its, future marvellous
growth With its railroad facilities
reaching to almost every nook and
corner of the state, the advantages of
wholesale houses located in the city
is apparent to even the most casual
observer. Merchants in two-thirds of
the counties of the state could, by
the telephone and shipping facilities
TO and from Grand Forks, fill orders
within twelve hours.
The increase in the wholesale bust
nes1 would mean a corresponding in
crease In all other lines of business.
The local merchants would have a
great advantage in the form of outside
trade that naturally drifts to the larg-.
er cities from the smaller towns
where stocks are more limited:
People from a distance are begin
ming to realize the future of the city
and are getting in as rapidly as possi-
bic: This is not for the purpose of
overcrowding the business, but be-
cause it 5is realized that the city will
soon be of sufficient size even now
is-tO9 justify the establishment of
new businesses and new enterprises,
without ,oyercrowding and with the
full assurance that the future will
only make the prospects better and
the certainties assured. 5