Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-12-24
MINNESOTA J0BBERS TO
60 AFTER n D. TRADE
PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR
EXTENSIVE CAMPAIGN
NEXT YEAR.
NEXT YEAR.
New Railroad Lines Increase Facit
ties to Handle Territory and Many
New Statesmen added to Forces.

i ST. Paul Pioneer Press: Railroad
! extension in western North Dakota
i and eastern Montana, much of which
! has been completed late this fan and
l will open new territory to the jobbers
I of ST. Paul next spring, has forced the
| wholesale trade to extend its activi'
i ties and to seek new capital to keep
| up with the development OF new ter
! ritory. Indicative of this was the in
| crease an Monday in the capital stock
Of Foley Brothers & Kelly from $780,
600 to 81 100000. The officers OF that
company say that the recent railroad
expansion i'm western North Dakota
and eastern Montana has forced the
| need of additional capital in their
| business.
New Statesmen Added.
The jobbers of st. Paul will have to
readjust the territory of their sales
men the first OF the year. Most OF the
statesmen are in, and the process of
re.routing them has begun. A num-
Der of men will be added to take care
of he new territory which has been
added by actual laying Of steel and
railroad survey. When once rail-
way survey is made settlers rush in.
to a country anticipating the actual
road building by several years. 1t is
then up to the jobber to extend his
trade to them. As a result of the
many surveys made in recent Years
inland towns have grown up in the
western country with remarkable rap
idity.
The capital stock increase of Foley
Brot hers & Kelly was provided for
partly out of the surplus and the rest
was subscribed by stockholders of the
company. No new stockholders have
entered the company as result OF the
increase.
The Stanley Brtnch Helps.
In western North Dakota the Great
Northern has been busy opening ter
ritory out Of Stanley, town mid
way between Minot and Williston.
This new branch proposes to run be-
tween Stanley and Powers Lake. For
years there have been group of pros
porous inland towns, but with actual
railroad construction more towns
have grown up. 1t is thought that
work on this branch will be continu-
ed in the spring and it will be open
'or traffic in time to move the crops
next fall.
One of the most important pieces OF
which opens a rich ter
'itory to the St. Paul jobbers is the
aBinvlle Plentywood branch on the
Treat Northern, in eastern Montana.
For some time the construction COM
pany has been accepting carload
freight for towns along this line. The
steel has been laid most of the way,
md it Is expected that the construc-
ion company will turn this line over
% the Great Northern in the spring.
st. Paul jobbers have been covering
his district in general way for
some time, but the opening of the line
% general traffic, which will come this
spring, means work for new men and
'eadjusting the salesmen's territory.
More Business on the Mott Line.
The activity of the Northern Paci-
ic along the Missouri river at Mott, ,
Y. D., has called for other readjust-
nents and the placing of new men to
leVelOp new lelllIoly. TIC hotI ,
branch for some 100 miles in length
las opened a rich agricultural coun
ny, and one which will be covered
more generally by the jobbing houses
aud manufacturing interests of st.
Paul next year.
When the jobbers make the new
additions in their business maps,
vith .,.. ttie next two weeks of confer.
,nce with their statesmen, the gradual
cushing out of St, Paul's market will
be apparent in a marked degree. One
If the greatest extensions of the trade
is in the new territory opened by
the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound. The entry Of this trans-con-