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- Minneapolis & Pacific
- Built from Mpls to Fairmount, west to Boyton near ellendale, through Forman wanted to bring back wheat to minneapolis to be grinded into flour
- Fargo on the Prarie
- Home Of the RR workers
- Norman Kittson
- one of the 4 men who bought : St. Paul, Minn. & Manitoba in 1874
- 1892
- (Year)G.N. & N.P. divide ND into halves
- Donald A Smith
- Governor Of H.B.C.
- Speculators
- ppl who would try to guess where RR. would be built buy land & sell lots for a town to make$$
- Fargo in the timber
- Fargo was 2 towns what were they
- H. E. Sargent
- Sargent County was named for a official with NP Railroad who was he?
- 1883
- (Year)GReat Northern Reaches
- James J Hill
- driving force of the Gr. Northern Railway , Became a Shipping Agent For Winnipeg Merchants Nicknamed the
- Wamduska
- Became a ghost town 11 mi south of lakota, Big hotel was built rail line didn't go through here
- 1888
- (Year)Soo line formed
- Manitoba R.R.
- bought by 4 guys plan for it was to finish the line to canada in 1878 the line was finished direct rail from st paul to winnepeg
- Minneapolis,Sault Ste Marie, & Atlantic
- Minneapolis Buisnessmen wanted rail line to go to east coast without going through Chicago
- 10%
- RR. could have a maxium grade of__ for every 10ft there was a 1ft rise
- Minneapolis & Pacific
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- 1886
- (Year)GReat Northern Reaches Minot
- fargo on the prarie
- ~ same ? above~
- Southern ND
- What Part of ND did the NP have when ND was split into halves?
- George Steven
- Banker in Montreal
- Northeren ND
- What Part of ND did the GN have when ND was split into halves?
- Fargo in the Timber
- Home To new settlers
- 1890
- (Year)Manitoba was renamed the Great Northern
- Minneapolis,Sault Ste Marie, & Atlantic
- Which 2 lines had money problens by 1887
- Hills Country
- Northern N.D. BEcame knowen as
- Canadian Pacific R.R.
- was a transcontinential RR.
- Fargo
- town named after Charles Fargo