The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-31
CASS COUNTY THE GATEWAY
COUNTY OF RED RIVER VALLEY
Resources Prospects Prosperity ETC., as It Win Be Set Forth
IN the Forthcoming Year Book Of the State, Pub
IShed BY Commissioner Gibreath

There will appear in the year book
of the North Dakota Magazine. pub
location issued by the state under the
direction of w. c. Gilbreath, commits
sioner of agriculture and labor, a four
page article devoted to Cas- county.
The material for this article was
compiled by Sec c. g. Baernstein OF
the commercial club and is largely
statistical. This morning Secretary
Baernstein received several thousand
copies of pamphlets In which is printed
this article and these will be used by
the club and the real estate and BUSH
ness men in advertising this part OF
the country.
The pamphlet contains many inter-
esting things relative to the county
of Cass The article is as follows:
Cass, the gateway county OF the Red
River valley and the entire state, was
named in honor of George w. Cass,
who, at the time the Northern Pacific
railroad entered this territory, was its
president.
Situated in the center of the famous
Red river valley, known as the bread
! basket OF the world,r Cass county
today stands pre- eminently the strong
est in the state from a financial and
productive standpoint
The soil is of a rich black loan from
one and one-half to three feet deep,
undertake with yellow clay subsoiI.
The county was organized january 4,
1873. 1t is situated on the west bank
of the Red River of the North. which is
the dividing line between the states
OF Minnesota and North Dakota.
| II has an area of 1,764 square miles
Al miles In length to the west, by 49,
miles in breadth north and south, and
contains approximately 1,152, 900 acres
of land
Cass county has fifty organized
townships, two cities, six organized
villages twenty unorganized villages
and contains a population Of 100000
which is estimated to be about one
half native born, the older settlers be-
| ing principally Scandinavians, Ger
mans, French and Canadians, with a
fair proportion from the central states
Cass county has q banks, 113 eleva-
tors, 10 daily and weekly newspapers
and 100 churches, of all denominations
and languages.
There are 17S schools in the county,
with an attendance OF 1918 pupils, and
30s teachers, and a salary list of $1,151-
SS1.54 annually. The assessed vaula-
tion Of school property is $605, 1857.
and improvements during the year
amount in value to $32,s3s.17. These
schools are giving a better grade of
instruction than the ordinary school.
owing to the fact that our farmers,
all being prosperous, demand the best
there is.
Cass county is well supplied with
railroad facilities, having two trans
continental lines, namely: Northern
Pacific. 100 miles; Great Northern, 1877
miles; also the Chicago, Milwaukee g.
st Paul, with 1914 miles, which roads
extend in all directions throughout the
county, making transportation OF the
very best, both passenger and freight.
The county is completely netted with
122 miles telegraph and s56 miles of
telephone wires.
Rural mail routes, reaching in all
directions. give the farmer and entire
community an opportunity to do busi-
ness intelligently and i'm businesslike
manner. far different from the way pro-
ducts were formerly handled.
The assessed valuation of Cass coun-
ty is $20,950, $500. which is rather
an under valuation than over, as is well
known.
Cass county has court house,
built at a cost of S20000o.O0, without
Indebtedness, which was paid for In
cash, and is today the pride OF the
entire state.