The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-28
FARGO CENTER OF
Big POPULATION
FARGO METROPOLIS or A PoPu-
LATIoN OF 1882, WHICH IS
TOTAL OF ALL TOWNS WITHIN.
RADIUS OF NINETY MILES OF
THIS COMMERCIAL CENTER.

Fargo is the heart of a population of
129.392. which is the sum total of pop
ulation of all the towns in North Da-
kota and Minnesota within a radius of
ninety miles of N. P. venue and
Broadway, making this city perhaps
in the northwest outside Of M~inneapo-
lis, st. Paul, Duluth and Superior.
With a population of 129,392, &C
cording to the last official census, this
naturally makes Fargo an attractive
point to probable investors and bust
ness men who are seeking locations
as well as big mercantile houses
which Ire looking for suitable loca-
lions for branch houses in the north
west.
1t also makes Fargo the chief city
Of North and South Dakota and north
western Minnesota, a commercial CEN
ter of which the fickertail state
should indeed we'll be proud.
The towns in Minnesota from which
Fargo draws for her trade and with
which she enjoys the most cordial of
trade relations. together with their re-
spective populations, are as follows:
Fergus Falls $500. Elizabeth It's, Car
Isle 25,, Pelican Rapids 1900. Rothsay
$50, GAINESVILLE 1875, Glyndon $50,
FELTON, $50, Borup $50, Ada LOO, Lock-
hart so, Beltrami $50, Erdahl 100, Ell
bow Lake 500, Hereford 80, Campbell
500, Doran 210. Breckenridge 1000,
Wolverton 200, Aliens 25, Comstock
200, Rustad, so. Baker 100, Kragnes
20. Georgetown 100, Perley $50, Shelly
100, Euclid ITS, Mentor 225, Erskine
400. Mcintosh 700, Fosston LOO,
Lengthy 200, Bagley 900, Red Lake
Falls 1000, st. Hilaire 500, Park Rap
ids $3.50, Donnelly $50, Herman $50,
Norcross $50, Tintah $50, Crookston
$500, East Grand Forks $500. All
these Minnesota towns are in COM
munication with Fargo by the Great
Northern railroad.
trade relations with Fargo over the
Northern Pacific railroad are: Bluff
ton 500, Dopelius So, New York Mills
AIS, Perham 1,400, Luce 100, Frazee
/ ZOO, Detroit 5000, Audubon soc, Lake
Park 800, Dale Is, Hitterdal IT'S. Ulen
535, Twin Valley 800, Gary 800, Fertile
625, Stockwood 80, Glyndon $50, Dill
worth 800, Deer Creek $50, Moorhead
$500, Henning 625, Vining 225, Clith-
900, Foxhome 300, Everdell rs, Mel
vim 25. -,~
A Minnesota point of considerable
prominence with which Fargo enjoys
pleasant commercial relations Is
Wheaton of $500 population, reached
by the Milwaukee.
North Dakota Towns.
The North Dakota towns within a
radius Of ninety miles Of Fargo which
have this metropolis as their objec-
tive commercial center that are in
touch with this city by means of the
Great Northern railroad are: Page
$40, Pillsbury 100, Luverne $50, Han
naford $40, Sutton 100, Erie 205, Gales
burg 800, Colgate 10, Clifford IT'S,
Hope 1000, Blabon $50, Portland 600,
Hatton 500, Northwood 800, Kempton
100, Larimore 1000, Shawnee 20, Uni
versity 1900, Emerald 900, Arvilla 200,
Merrifleld rs, Thompson $50, Reynolds,
900, Buxton $50, Mayville 1900, Blan-
chard 100, Grandin ITS, Hunter 365,
Arthur $50, Prosper 20, Klotep so, An
eta 725, Sharon $50, Finley 500, Cum
mings 100, Hillsboro 1900, Kelso 20,
Argusville 100, Havana $50, Paramount
900, Hankinson 1903, Lidgerwood 1900,
Geneseo 200, Cayuga $50, Rutland 225,
Guelph 80, Wahpeton 1000, Grand
Forks $4,000, Dwight 200, Galchutt 100,
Colfax 100, Walcott 400, Kindred $40,
Davenport 23O, Chaffee ESQ, Durbin rs,
Ayr 100. ..
The Northern Pacific points within
this radius are: Binford $50. Jessie 80,
Cooperstown LOO, Walum 100, Darcy
900, Roger IT'S, Sanborn 425, Valley
City $500, Alta Is, Oriska 315, Tower
500, Buffalo $50, Wheatland 375,
CasseIton 100, Mapleton 800, Embden
rs, Alice $50, Lucca $50, Nome 22O,
Eastedge 20, Kathryn 275, Hastings
$50, Litchville 4S4, Marion 800, Horace
Is, Davenport 230, Leonard '215, Shell
don $50, Buttzville IS, Lisbon 1000,
Elliott so, EngleVale $50, Verona 2S5,
1000, Glover 35, Cakes 1900,
Creta 100, Stirum $50, Gwinner 800,
Minor Sal, DeLamere $50, Wyndmere
439, Barney ESQ, Mooreton ESQ, Great
Bend 200.
Points in North Dakota on The Mil
waukee railroad are: Wild Rice so,
Hickson rs, Abercrombie 325, Wahpe-
1000, and Tyler 80.
Certain South Dakota points also
within this radius and tributary to the
territory of which Fargo is the logical
commercial center, re-: Kidder $50,
Burch 80, both of which are on the
Great Northern, and White Rock 500,
on the Milwaukee.
The total population of all these
towns, from which Fargo naturally
draws as the chief commercial point,
is 129, 392, something which but even
few of the travelling men who make
this city their headquarters knew as a
point in favor of the fickertail me-
tropolis. d..