Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-13
MANDAN wins VICTORY
IN RIVALS TERRITORY
Equity Packing Plant Committee
Puts Off Final Decision
for More Data

Fargo, n. D., Sept. 12.-Mandan
today won victory in its rivals own
territory, when the Equity committee
appointd to select site for the mil.
lion-dollar packing plant viewed the
location proposed by the Fargo Com.
mercfal club, but in executive session
decided that more data must be Sc.
cured before decision was reached.
This will doubtless mean that the
whole proposition will be left for the
annual meeting of the state branch of
the Equity to decide when it meets
this winter in Bismarck.
More Time.
This morning the committee held
a secret session, when, it is stated,
all the merits of Mandan and Fargo
were discussed, those being the only
two cities left in the race, according
to the announcement made after the
meeting at Valley City last week. At
the conclusion OF the executive SEES.
sion this morning the committee
again announced it's inability to come
to a decision as between Mandan and
Fargo and an adjournment was taken
to receive more definite data, it was
given out.
The following letter, pledging the
support of Dickinson to the Morton
county town, was read to the commit
tee yesterday:
Dickinson Letter.
Dickinson, N. D., Sept. 8, 1916
To the Honorable C. J. Lee, Valley
City, North Dakota; A. Walton, Mi.
not, North Dakota; p. N. Casey,
Lisbon, North Dakota; Members Of
the Equity Committee for locating
the Packing Plant in the State Of
North Dakota
Dear Sirs-The Commercial club OF
the city of Dickinson, with an active
membership of upwards of $780, and
representing the commercial interests
OF the city Of Dickinson, hereby re.
specially urges upon your committee
the selection Of the city of Mandan
in Morton county as the ideal place
for the location of the packing plant.
Strategically situated on the Mis-.
souri, river, the gateway to the vast
empire comprising the Missouri Slope
and contributary to population
south and west Of the Missouririver
of approximately 100000 in the most
rapidly growing and developing part
of the state, and in that section Of
the state particularly adapted and
actually employed in the production
of livestock, Mandan would seem to
be the ideal place for the location
and operation successfully of such an
institution.
Sheep Here.
Practically all of the sheep raised
in the state of North Dakota are in
the section OF the state in which 'Msrl-
dan Is located. Believing the site
selected for the location of the plant
at Mandan, which your Honorable
Committee has seen and Inspected
cannot be excelled and possibly not
euualed by a sit offered by any other
city aspiring for the location of the
plant, and believing also that at least
100000 of the stock in the plant
would be placed west of the Missouri
river in North Dakota we most re.
specially join with other cities in
western North Dakota in urging upon
your Honorable Committee the desig-
nation of the city of Mandan as 'he
place of location for the proposed
plant.
We have delegated L. A. Simpson
Of this city, member of the Com
mercial club, to present for us the
reasons why, in. addition to the fore