The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-01-25
ESTABLISH GENERAL
OFFICES IN N|N0T
Rogers Lumber Co. Are Moving Gen
eral Offices From Minneapolis to
This City.

1t will give the people of this Sec
ton of the state great deal of pleas
ure in learning that the Rogers Lum-
ber Co. are going to move their gen.
eral Offices from Minneapolis to Minot
in the very near future.
Representatives of the Rogers Lum-
ber Co. have made their homes in
Minot for many years, but it remain
ed until now for the entire official FAM
lily to become part of our community.
This move has long been contemplated
and the officers have gradually shaped
their course so that it would be possi-
BILE eventually to locate in Minot, which
nections in Minneapolis and an entire
re-adjustment of the company affairs.
In making this move, the officers
were actuated by the desire to make
the Rogers Lumber Co. entirely
North Dakota institution, in order that
it might become more intimately ac-
quainted with the company's CUSTOM
ers and more closely identified with
the affairs of the community to which
it really belongs.
Every branch of the company, it's
officials, department heads, superin-
tendents, credit department and cleri-
cal force, will make their homes per-
manently in Minot. This will mean
the bringing of upwards of thirty
people to our city, among whom are
six or eight families, many of whom
no doubt will become property own
ers.
Robert M. Graham, the general man.
ager, has been associated with the
company for several years in Montana
and North Dakota, growing up with
the business, and is thoroly conversant
with the lumber business in all of it's
phases. He comes from Great Falls,
Mont, where he has been prominently
connected with the Rogers -Templeton
Co., Of that place. Others of the offic-
ials are former residents of our city
and well known to many of us.
The Rogers Lumber Co. have pre-
pared plans for the erection of large
Office building, modern and freproof,
on the property owned by the company
at the corner Of First avenue and Sec
ond street Southeast. The structure
will be very attractive and the work
on it will be pushed as rapidly as pos
sible, so that the large office force can
move in at as early date as possible.
The Rogers Lumber Co. has been en-
gagged in business in North Dakota for
twenty-four years. The first yard was
started at Leal in 1898, since which
time the business has grown thru hard,
untiring efforts to it's present immense
proportions.
There have been very few progress
sive movements for local or state de-
velopment with which the Rogers
Lumber Co. has not been prominently
connected Probably the most impor-
tant work along this line was the plan
to develop the agricultural work of
the state. This was conceived by A.
R. Rogers and his associates in 1912
and the results as shown at the end of
1916 have been greater than were ex-
pected, the gross agricultural products
having increased over three-fold,
largely due to the farming directors
good work.
The Independent wants to go on
record as stating that we are proud to
learn that this company has chosen
Minot for it's headquarters and in this
we are joined by every citizen in this
section of the state. 1t is another for
ward movement for Minot, which city
is being rapidly pushed to first place
in North Dakota