The Irish standard., 1915-09-01

Ranking third in wealth per capita
of all the states in the Union, North
Dakota has reason to be proud of
her capital city. Bismarck is CEN
trally located upon the eastern bank
of the Missouri river and in addition
to being the capital of the state is
also the county seat of Burleigh
County The city is the distributing
center of large territory compris-
ing the best mixed farming coun-
try in the world. Being situated four
hundred and fifty miles from the
Twin Cities minneapolis and St.
PauD, it's wholesale houses have. a
better opportunity of competing with
these larger points. The shipping ia
cilities enjoyed are not excelled any
where.
Citizens are justly proud of their
most up-to-date business district and
wide-awake business men; of their
beautifully kept homes, lawns and
shaded streets. The churches,
schools, hospitals, hotels, and public
buildings will stand comparison with
cities many times its size. Nine
denominations are represented by as
many houses of worship; there are
three completely equipped school
buildings with faculty Of thirty-four
we'll chosen instructors In addition
to the public schools, St. Mary's Pa
rochial School is conducted by the
Benedictine Sisters and has an en-
rollment of two hundred and twenty
five students. Two very valuable in
stitutions are the Bismarck Evangeli
can and the St. Alexius hospitals
which are presided over by a corp
of noted physicians. The Benedictlne
Sisters completed a new St. Alexius
hospital building, which was opened
last March, at cost of $15O,OO0. This
building and its equipment is the fln-
est and most complete of any in the
Northwest and much credit is given
the Sisters for their magnificent work.
The hotels are we'll and ably con-
Quoted and the new Hotel Mckenzie,
seven stories and freproof, is said to
be the finest between Minneapolis and
Spokane.
These accommodations also make
it a convention city and many hum
dreds of visitors are entertained year.
ly. Water, sewerage, light and tele-
phone systems are most complete
and service of the best. With a pop
ulation of seven thousand Bismarck
boasts of ffty-two miles of plated
streets; twenty miles of graded
streets; eighteen and one-half miles
of concrete sidewalks; ten miles of
sewer mains; eighteen miles of water
mains, and two and one-half miles OF
ornamental white-way.
Burleigh County.
Man alone cannot build so success
full city. Credit must be given to
surrounding territory The efforts of
the builders of Bismarck have been
aided because of the goodness of ma
ture in providing an immense, al
though only partly developed, terri
tory. Burleigh County contains L.
O7288O acres of land, the majority of
it fertile and tillable The surface is
rolling prairie with a dark-colored
loan and clay subsoil. There are
1853 farms which successfully pro-
duce crops of corn, wheat, oats, flax,
speltz, barley, rye, millet, potatoes
and vegetables. During the past five
years much attention has been given
to the production of successful corn
and other forms of dairy feed. AS
result of the increased acreage of
these crops the live stock industry has
grown tremendously. Land values
have increased proportionately and
it is simply matter of time until
Burleigh County and North Dakota
lands will command the attention OF
the nation in the same manner as
those in states south of us are at the
present time.