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FARGO , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Cass county, See also:North Dakota, U.S.A., about 254 M. W. of See also:Duluth, See also:Minnesota. Pop. (1890) 5664; (1900) 9589, of whom 2564 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 14,331• It is served by the See also:Northern Pacific, the See also:Great Northern, and the See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St See also:Paul See also:railways. The city is situated on the W. See also:bank of the Red See also:river of the North, which in 1909 had a navigable See also:depth of only about 2 ft. from Fargo to Grank Forks, and the See also:navigation of which was obstructed at various places by fixed See also:bridges. In the city are See also:Island and Oakgrove parks, the former of which contains a statue (erected by Norwegians in 1908) of Henrik See also:Arnold See also:Wergeland, the See also:Norwegian poet. Fargo is the seat of the North Dakota agricultural See also:college (coeducational), founded in 1890 under the provisions of the Federal See also:Morrill See also:Act " of 1862; it receives both Federal and See also:state support (the former under the Morrill Act of I89o), and in connexion with it a See also:United States Agricultural Experiment Station is maintained. In 1907-1908 the college had 988 students in the See also:regular courses (including the students in the See also:Academy), 117 in the summer course in See also:steam See also:engineering, and 68 in See also:correspondence courses. At Fargo, also, are Fargo College (non-sectarian, 1887; founded by Congregationalists), which has a college See also:department, a preparatory department, and a conservatory of See also:music, and in 1908 had 310 students, of whom 211 were in the conservatory of music; the See also:Oak See also:Grove Lutheran ladies' See also:seminary (1906) and the Sacred See also:Heart Academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic). The city is the see of both a Roman Catholic See also:bishop and a See also:Protestant Episcopal bishop; and it is the centre of masonic interests in the state, having a See also:fine masonic See also:temple. There are a public library and a large Y.M.C.A. See also:building. St See also:John's See also:hospital is controlled by Roman Catholic sisters, and St See also:Luke's hospital by the, Lutheran See also:Church.

Fargo is in a See also:

rich agricultural (especially See also:wheat) region, is a busy See also:grain-trading and jobbing centre, is one of the most important wholesale distributing centres for agricultural implements and machinery in the United States, and has a number of manufactures, notably See also:flour. The See also:total value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $1,160,832. Fargo, named in See also:honour of W. G. Fargo of the See also:Wells Fargo See also:Express See also:Company, was first settled as a See also:tent city in 1871, when the Red river was crossed by the Northern Pacific, but was not permanently settled until after the extinction in 1873 of the See also:Indian See also:title to the See also:reservation on which it was situated. It was chartered as a city in 1875. The Milwaukee railway was completed to Fargo in 1884. In See also:June 1893 a large See also:part of the city was destroyed by See also:fire, the loss being more than $3,000,000.

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