The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18


fur traders hunters between the scattered military
then maintained among the Indian peoples These Occasionally
hidden in the SOIL but such mostly treated un
p0rt;nt gossip or SEQ secuted unlikely o, untrue
ural might well be emedhad crossed the Red River
various established themselves the land Trail
Glass; Rchand and Grand Forks counties These their de-
here capable even re-
By q and
daring initiative and long sustained patient effort They
full force of immigration developed With that event the dev
settlement drove into the center Of the State point advancing
the railroad building progressed its TANKS spreading
farther westward as that fertile plain filled with settlers
Here last the land of promise the American Valley Of the
ME- its stored , with for him ad who da1eo the M
appointed time and born though unnamed
+h se@ Of the nd Farming was on
colossal scale homes bui villages towns and cities
the in the the
Of occupation and methods those there
R g
air Of prosperity and civilization that good to look New
demanded and gradually adequate system Of ansporta
Northern railway became factor
north Fargo Grand Forks and pushing rapidly westward
hampered with land grant this railroad enterprise brought
prosperity and in its trail as by mag g
space time The virgin praries broken and their re-
brought practical The wedgeke ADVANCE OF CIVIL
aon lost its form and expanded into broad OF
limited only by the boundaries the territory With the cross
Missouri River Bismarck by the Northern Pacific and
the march of the Great Northern the country
vaded and wede6ned lines OF agricultural development Perma
established These lines later to be extended and broad
until practically the whole state under the rule OF the
o the assumed its proud position the most
purely agricultural state in the Union.
In 1882 with. the coming of independent statehood North
Dakota mastery Of desine From that time
her history has been of brilliant at first
that husband With her expanding have
almost phenomenal increase in population the birth and
growth of admirable school system the OF state
state institutions the railway systems and many
constructive testimonials the needs Of critical and exacng
people, conscious of their determined and able satisfy them
materially the development of the state: the Milwaukee,
through its branch from lines South Dakota and later
by its main line through the southwestern poron and the great
500 system entering the state in the southeastern in 1892
Their lines and branches opened territory gave means
transportation settlers and their products out
During the passing the fostering Of manufacturing indus
neglected With growing demands Of the
this comparatively early stage Of their development
these industries adequately supplying more of the needs Of the
people. %ss*.
elsewhere in this found full recital Of North Da
wonderful agricultural operations They constitute record
which proud In respects they stand by themselves
the climax effort the highest attained AS whole
sgedness Of those early who first their across
the Red in the early 0 and to those who continued the work so
well begun
Let us ALL t greatest years in the states history
give r1aise heroes earlier days. and pay
gratitude them for the practical in which they
how Energy seeking expression
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