Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-17
BISMARCK HAS
GREAT FUTURE
Editor Of Steele Ozone Takes
q Birds Eye View Of The
Capital City
Bismarck IS Destined
TO Become Leading CON-
mefCia| CeOter

oISSIS oH~hS
had a royal sight for a city, and has
had the prospects of a big town. 1t
has been making Roadway right along
| the past ten years, and recently has
! got a great momentum. While the
| citizens there are more or less scrap
| py, over municipal affaiors, it Is no.
| ticeable that when 1t comes to the
! interests of improvement and growth
and more business, they work in ex-
cellent degree of unison. Political
enemies and hard hitters can get to
gether amicably on local advance
ment. 1t has been a pleasure to note
the steady Improvement Of the city,
its new residence growth, and its fine
new business houses, with the In
coming distributing depots of big con-
Germs such as Standard OIL, lnterna-
tional Harvester, Case, and wholesale
grocery and fruit concerns. This
means good for the tributary region
and the slope has a vital interest in
DlSLldTCh plOSIcoS.
All state capitals are not good bust
ness points, but ours is defined to be-
come one of the foremost in the north
west. A practically ideal location,
a magnificent Typographical surround
ing, a big river and a vast area OF
fertile agricultural and stock country,
supply all that could be asked from
nature in a prairie country. A live
lot of business men, and such avail
able local capital render other ad-
vantages highly valuable. Improved
snitary and civic conditions have
come, and it Is getting to be the habit
of people on the Slope to look to-
wards Bismarck as a desirable place
for investment and residence, on re-
firing from smaller places of from
the farm, if they wish to have the
advantages a city offers.
Just now the proposition to bond
the city in excess of debt limit by
some $4,000 is before the citizens,
in order to build a municipal audi
forum which will cost around a hun
dred thousand dollars ere all is done.
This overbonding is because the
bonds already vote fell short Of the
amount which the architects plans
call for. While an auditorium is a
fine thing for the Guy, it is doubtful
if the taxpayers will indulge, in this
day Of effort at curbing extravaganza
in going SO far beyond the debt limit,
Bismarck struggled through that
slough Of despond once, and it is now
on the high road to we'll being f.
nancially and otherwise, but the ten
dency to overdo is always with us,
and it may be that the microbe will
bite deep in Bismarck, a contingency
we cannot but view with alarm"
A handsome new high school build
ing is well under way and Landlord
Tatley is making a new four story
addition to the Grand Pacific, which
is all to be raised to four stories.
There seems to be no end to hotel
building in the city. The big Nc
Kenzie, which is the monument to E.
G. Patterson's tremendous energy and
faith in Bismarck, was thought to be
the leader for some time, but Tatley
keeps right on, and with those two
opposing forces. hotels are on the
rise.
The newspaper business is also
bigger than formerly, there being five
newspapers in the city where there
used to De but three, and n of them
has a real libel suit going. The Tri-
bune will put in a perfecting roll
press, and has increased its staff of
able specialists. We regret to see
the possibility of the state printing 60
ing outside the state, with as costly
a plant as the Tribune has to do the
work with. 1t may not happen, and
it would cen work ought to be done
as cheaply, and it certainly can be
done as well at home as in Mime.
apolis.
Among other new structures, the
government is erecting a very hand
some federal building, just back of
the Tribune, of white hasota stone.
1t will be an architectural ornament,
as well as a public utility.
Editor Streeter of the Linton Rec
ord urges Emmons county people to
keep up its excellent reputation by
having another of those fine exhibits