North Dakota railroad mileage expands with 1912 gains
North Dakota shows a 1912 railroad mileage increase of 587 miles over 1911, reaching 6 924 miles of mainlines and branches. Great Northern adds Fargo Surrey cut off and Stanley to Wildrose. Soo builds Drake Fordville branch. Northern Pacific completes Missouri River branch Mandan to Stanton and Pingree Wilton extension.
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North Dakota
Tomong
Felows
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Land Midland Continental
Fargo-Surrey
Stanley-Northwestern
Stanley
Wildrose
Mountrail
Burke
Divide
Williams
Soo
Drake-Fordville
Drake
McHenry
Pierce
Benson
Ramsey
Nelison
Grand Forks
Wala
Missouri River
Mandan
Morton
Oliver
Mercer
Stanton
Pingree-Wilton
The Modern Wizard Luther Burbank Lecture
Dean Melvin Brannon of the State University will lecture on The Modern Wizard Luther Burbank in the library building on November 11. He will discuss Nature’s secrets and Burbank’s plant life work with illustrated slides. It is a notable event for High School Evening.
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Luther Jurbank
Melvin A. Brannon
The
State University
Luther Burbank
Dean Brannon
Northwest
College of Liberal Arts
Biolo
University of Chicago
Prominent rail chiefs offer prizes for Northwest crops
iL W Hill, chairman of Great Northern, promises a $200 silver trophy for the best Northwest potato harvest at the Northwestern Products Exposition in Minneapolis in November and a similar trophy for the best alfalfa collection. Howard Elliott of Northern Pacific adds $100 gold for top ten apple boxes and a silver trophy for best corn bushel in the six Northern Pacific states plus a forage crops trophy in seven states. Offers open to Minnesota and neighboring states. fish prize offered by Midland Linseed Products Co. for best Northwest fish bushel at the Minneapolis show.
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Il. W. Hill
Great Northern Road
Northwest
Minneapolis
Howard Elliott
Northern Pacific Road
Hill
Northern Pacific
Minnesota
Dakotas
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Elliott
Minot and region notes include bank opening and train grain
E V Nelson plans a Makati bank after leaving Citizens Bank of Minot. A Great Northern freight car carried 91 loads of grain through Minot. Towner and McHenry traders retire from mercantile business. A Burlington farmer survived poisoning by carbolic acid. A health bulletin reports 209 deaths and 635 births in North Dakota.
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Great Northern
Minot
North Dakota
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. N. Stice
LE Garage
Wast Breadung, Wilistes, N. D
Wonston State Bank
General Banking
Batery Deposit Bours
Selicisad
Hydle
J. Stafne
V-Pras
R. C. Sanborn Lumber Co
Williams County State Bank
Williston, N. D
M. E. Wilson
M. B. Cottrell
Geo. B. Everson
N. Hayes
O. J. Helland
Ass’t Cashier
L. C. Wingate
Cashier
M. A. Brannon
Lutheran Burbank
N. W
E. V. Nelson
Citizens’ Bank of
Makati
J. Egge
Towner and
McHenry County
Burlington
Joseph F. Dolin
Antelope Argus
Leo Patterson
Plentywood
Argus
Walker
Midland Continental Railroad
Jamestown
Elmer Bloomquist
Bismarck Palladium
Anton Germaine
Antelope
Germaine
Dickinson
George Stotskoff
Frank V. Johnson
Williiams Co
Plainsman
Daniel Bell & Co
Spence
Minot Hide & Fur Co
Citizens National Bank
U. S
B.C. McCartney
James IL Cooper
G.marvey
O.sullopdare
T. F. Marshall, James H. Cooper
H. C. McCartney
W. 5
Davidson
E. M. Atterberry
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