Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-11-14
GROWTH Of STATE
HAS Been STEADY
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and portions Of Montana and South
Dakota. The Bismarck payrolls OF
these concerns aggregate hun.
.dreds Of thousands. Large sums are
here for fuel, supplies and materials.
Bismarck's retail establishments
have made the city a trading center
for a territory of hundreds of square
miles. It's large department stores
do an extensive mail order business.
Every incoming train brings its horde
of shoppers. The elevators and colo
storage plants affording a market for
farm products, attract the rural popu-
lation of the Missouri slope country.
The excellent train service and splen-
did hotel accommodations play an i'm
portant part in the commercial devel-
opment of the city.
Industrially, aside from the devel-
opment of its flour mills, cold storage
plants, foundry, woodworking estab-
lishments, its great seed houses anc
floral establishments, Bismarck has
not to date found time to pay much
attention to the encouragement OF di.
versif1ed manufacturing, which is in
vited by it's wealth of raw materials,
its economical fuel, cheap power and
unusually good transportation facili-
ties.
Some Industries Projected.
bismarck is an excellent location
for a packing plant, utilizing tae heel,
pork and mutton produced so abund-
antly in this region. Such an estaJb-
lishment, situated on the banks of the
Missouri river, with the benefit of
both river and rail transportation;
perfect sanitary conditions; excellen:
facilities for icing cars and plant,
and with a wide field to be supplied,
could be made a success.
The %briquetting of Ignite coal o..
fers a futere for Bismarck, situated
as it is on the very edge of NORTH Da-
kota's great coal fields. The Com
snercial club is now corresponding
with an engineering firm contemplate
ing an investment of 100000 in a
plant consuming 900 tons of coal per
day, and producing naptha, cresote
and ammonium sulphate, in addition
to briquettes and coke. The North Da-
kota college of mining engineering
has long been experimenting Wits
similar processes, and there now
seems to be no question tiat such an
industry could be operated probably.
Flax Fibre Mills.
The farmer who grows flax today
has no market for his fibre, which
should be a highly valuable produces.
The. Commercial club is engaged in
an investigation which it hopes will
result in the establishment of a mill
utilizing this resource and opening to
the agriculturist an important new
field for profit:
With more than aalf Of a million
pounds of wool clipped every year n
North Dakota, there is an opportunity
here for an extensive wooden indus
try. Such an establishment would
find the high, level, well drained land
bordering the Missouri river ideal for
its purposes. 1t would effect a large
saving in freight on its raw material,
and be in a position to serve most
economically the great northwest,
which affords the best market in the
world for high grade wooden products
of all types.
Resources in Clays.
The development of North Dakotas
great resources in clays, ranging from
the toughest grades used in the man
ufacture of common brick and tile 10