. The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest . sscounties, which are immediately adjoining. The fact that thetown is so important a shipping point encourages businessenterprises, among wdiich may be mentioned two banks, am
. The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest . sscounties, which are immediately adjoining. The fact that thetown is so important a shipping point encourages businessenterprises, among wdiich may be mentioned two banks, amanufacturing company, devoted to the production of plowsand general foundry work, numerous stores, six hotels, onepatent roller flouring mill, with a capacity of loo barrels perday, and two grain elevators. The products are wheat, barley,corn, oats and potatoes. A semi-weekly line of stages runs tothe agricultural village of IVrightstoiun, twelve miles distant,with 175 people, and to Parker s Prairie^ twenty-five milesdistant, with 350 inhabitants. Wadena is the eastern terminus of the Northern Pacific,Fergus (^ Black Hills Railroad, which runs into the Southeasternpart of North Dakota. This road also furnishes the citizens ofWadena with convenient and easy access to Battle and Clith-erall Lakes, thirty miles southwest, which are popular picnicand fishing grounds, and also to Fergus Falls and the Redriver 79 80 The Northern Pacific Railroad. NORTHERN PACIFIC, FERGUS &BLACK HILLS BRANCH. From Wadena to Milnor.—Distance, 120 miles. This branch of the Northern Pacific system runs in a gen-eral southwesterly direction from Wadena to Fergus Falls,thence nearly due west, crossing both branches of the Redriver, the Otter Tail and Bois de Sioux, at Wahpeton, andterminating for the present at Milnor, 120 miles from country traversed between Wadena and Fergus Falls be-longs to the beautiful and picturesque lake and park region,which is a combination of prairie and w
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