Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-18
UNCLE SAM
RECOGNIZES
BISMARCK
Government Makes Capital City
Distributing Point For
16 Counties
ENDORSEMENT OF IT'S
COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES
Supplies For $50 Postoffices will
Be Furnished From
Here

The Commercial club this week re-
ports Uncle Sans official endorse,
ment of Bismarck as a trading center.
One of the most important depart
ments Of the United States govern
men has made the Capital City a sup
ply station for sixteen counties-ono
quarter of the entire state
Effective this month supplies for $50
p0stol1ices in sixteen counties in the
southwestern quarter Of North Dakota
will be shipped by freight to Bismarck
and distributed hence by mail. Thru
this order Bismarck becomes one OF
four such supply stations in North
Dakota, the others being Fargo, Grand
Forks and Minot. 49,
The supplies to be distributed
through the Bismarck "jobbing cen.
ter will include all blanks, forms and
and similar materials utilized in hand
ling Uncle Sans mails-practically
everything that a postoftice uses or
sells, with the exception of stamps
and stamped paper. 1t will mean
that 250 postoffices which heretofore
were compelled to rely on freight
shipments coming all the way from
national capital, or which Uncle Sam
was required to serve by lOng-dis-
tance, expensive mail routes, now will
be supplied from Bismarck, at a, saw
ing Of. time and expense. ~ y, 4 So, ~.
q A few years ago, with considerable
difficulty, a new rural route was es-
stablished out of Bismarck. Every
Other-day service was inaugurated. A
few weeks ago this service was made
daily, and the business now handled
by this rOllte--the actual volume of
mail matter delivered, as well as the
quality of the same-is SO far above
the average for the United States,
that it has become a subject for COM
ment. ... -...
Postoffice "Some Industry"
TO take care Of the increased
wholesale" business of the Bismarck
pOstOffice, as well as the rapidly
growing "retail" trade, two men re-
Gently have been added to the local
force which now numbers twenty
The Bismarck postoffice, occupying
the main floor of our beautiful, three
stOry-and- basement Federal building,
is no mean "infant industry" in it.
self. 1t employs high-grade, well-paid
labor. And its staff is increasing in
size more rapidly. probably, than that
Of any other one enterprise in the
Capital City. st,5 :~t@ 1sE ).
- y "There is a Reason"
In 1910 the receipts Of the Bismarck
postoffice were $3S,561.17; in 1915.
they were $74,4S6.2S. The receipts for
1916 will be far greater than those
for 1915. Every month to date has
shown a decided gain over the SINH
lar month one year ago. This show.
ing, coupled with the fact that the
receipts of one local railway Office
for one month of April were greater
by the neat sum of $15,000O0 than
those for the same month one year
ago. furnishes proof that bismarck
is Growing"
Bismarck Banking Gains
Bismarck bank deposits in 1911 were
1851 100000; the last quarterly state
ment for 1916, showed deposits in ex-
cess Of $4,110,000.OO
Bismarck building investments this
year will more than double those for
the greatest preceding year in the his
tory of the Capital City-1915, when
$35O,O0O.00 was invested in construc
tiOn-and this without considering a
several hundred thousand dollar paw
ing project.
Bismarck is growing