Warren sheaf., 1915-09-01


rooms The club was organized some ten years ago
and has proved leading factor in everything that
pertains to the upbuild not only of Warren but Of
the whole county Of Marshall, and result it has
accomplished things. The officers of the association
are: G. E. Lundquist president; w. F. Powell vice
president C. A. Nelson, treasurer; August A. john
son, secretary.
WARREN AS LEADING MARKET
AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER.
The finding of market and the creation of
market in any broad sense is dependent upon reason
able and ample means of transportation. Thus COM
merce first developed along the coast and navigabe
rivers which quarter of a century ago thought
to be the natural arteries of transportation but rail-
road construction made possible the inland railroad
ports of entry which have to great measure reversed
the situation to transportation advantages once
possessed by primary markets and distributing
ters Great distributing centers that held undaunted
sway by Of their natural watercourses or the
construction of artificial ones have experienced con-
tinual decline, owing to the combination of al-ral
and water transportation, combination that has
wiped away cheap water rates, and made fixed charge
based upon the railroad freight rates. To illustrate
the full meaning of this, it is only necessary to point
to the st. Paul Minneapolis jobbing and industrial
business compared with that of Duluth with its Won
derfu deep harbor and extensive dock facilities on
Lake SUPERIOR giving it the advantage of cheap waer
1ueSe were
and water haul giving St. Paul Minneapolis an undue
advantage that of Duluth, by making it the back
door of the inland ports of entry, until the rate was
adjusted in 1914 by the Interstate Commerce Comms
sion. Kansas City and Omaha have both built up an
immense inland obbing and industrial business owing
to their commanding position distributing centers
for providing for the wants of the retail trade trbu
tary to them. The same is true of Warren situated
in a rich territory covering large portion of the
Minnesota Thn itv ic toGa
vding for the wants of the retail trade and furnish
ing cash market for grain, live stock, poultry and
potatoes, owing to. Warrens geographical location
distributing center by virtue of the Great
Northern and 500 Line railroads that gridron this
section of the Valley, and that is why this is the
largest city in population, wealth and shipping
point north of Crookston to Winnipeg, Man., by the
Great Northern railway and west to Kenmare, N D.,
on the 500 Line. Warren is the billing center for
nine elevators, with combined capacity Of 28500e
bushels, and there shipped from these ell
evators from the 1914 grain yield 100000 bushels,
forty carloads of live stock, five of poultry and
twenty-five of potatoes which was the surplus
after providing for the home markets of this great
productive section This tells part of the story of why
every farmer is SO prosperous and wealthy in the
Minnesota Red River Valley, of which Marshall county
has the very cream Of the soil, fifty illustrated by
the bank deposits Of the county, which exceed
S3,000,000 and figured per capita basis, would
give every man. woman and child In Marshall county,
s185.78 ~ -
The story of the evolution of the Minnesota Red
River Valley as partly represented in Warren's mar
kets and distributing facilities, reads like fairy tale.
Thlrty-fve years ago where this great citadel of
wealth lies the country opened to homestead
settlers and considered away out West Now
let ask "where is the West" 1t is merely will
ohewisp dependent entirely unon the point of view
If the viewpoint be false one, the West embraces the
hit:
to the Pacific Coast But by consent
the people have chosen fixed point to reckon drec
tons from, and this point has been transferred from
Chicago to St. Paul Minneapolis, geographically the
center of the nations domain, a dividing line be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the center
of American activity in the vast territory running
westward to the Pacific Northwest and the
Canadian Northwest The average citizen does
not to appreciate the vastness Of our
country, the tremendous scope of its
resources. He knows that the Northwest extends
from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound and that it
measures something like 100000 square miles in ex-
tent but he does not stop to consider that this
territory greater than that of England France,
Germany, Belgium and Holland combined. He does
not know that it has population of about 900
and does not take the trouble to learn that when it
becomes densely populated Germany, it will sus-
tain population of 135,000000, when compared
with England it is capable of furnishing homes and
livelihood for 325000,000.
At the rate of the movement now in full sway-a
statewide filling up and the propaganda of better
farming, that the cutting up of the big farms
into one hundred and sixty, and three hundred and
twenty units-it is reasonable and not at all
speculative to predict that Warren will have a pop
ulaton Of 100000 and that some Of her rival sister
cities in the valley will exceed this for there be
no question but what the census Of 1920 will give
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