. Hon. Johnson : a partial copy of his letters, travels and addresses . les of railroad track within itsborders, now it has over 200 miles. At that time Fargo had apopulation of 2,700, and a good many were not residents, in fact,while last spring we had over 8,200 and we have increased steadilyever since. At that time 207 pupils attended the public schoolsnow there are 1,049 i^ attendance. Then the assessed valuationof Fargo was $524,035; in 1885 it was $4,444,450. Everythingelse has kept pace with our increase in population as can be seenby going into any of our machine shops, wagon shop
. Hon. Johnson : a partial copy of his letters, travels and addresses . les of railroad track within itsborders, now it has over 200 miles. At that time Fargo had apopulation of 2,700, and a good many were not residents, in fact,while last spring we had over 8,200 and we have increased steadilyever since. At that time 207 pupils attended the public schoolsnow there are 1,049 i^ attendance. Then the assessed valuationof Fargo was $524,035; in 1885 it was $4,444,450. Everythingelse has kept pace with our increase in population as can be seenby going into any of our machine shops, wagon shops, mills, etc.,where you will find hundreds of mechanics at work; or into ourbanks or mercantile houses, where you will find small armies ofclerks in the various departments of their immense business. Eastern capitalists and manufacturers appreciate our import-ance as can be seen by the immense warehouses they have builtand placed resident managers therein, to attend to their businessfrom the whole northwest. We must not forget that a very large part of all this is due to. Each to Himself— Now, Thats Meant for a Josh on One ofUs—But Which One, I Wonder! THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOn, LENOXTILD&N FOUNDATIONS | WRITINGS AND ADDRESSES loi the excellence of our daily and weekly newspapers. I desire tobear testimony to the fact that no city has ever had more earnestworkers in its behalf than Fargo has in her newspaper men, or,take it all in all, better conducted papers. They have as arule been hard worked and poorly paid, and not half appreciated,though they will be as time rolls on and I trust that they will receivetheir reward for their labors. While some of our sister cities were fighting for the politicalcapital of Dakota, our wideawake business men put their shoul-ders to the wheel and their hands in their pocketbooks and builtanother line of railway and laid the foundation for the commercialcapital. A prize that is worth more than all the political hubbubyou can get, an
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