Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Fargo

FARGO, a city and county-seat of Cass co., N. D.; on the Red river, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Northern Pacific, and the Great Northern railroads; opposite Moorhead, Minn. Here are a United States land office, Fargo College (Cong.), the State Agricultural and Mechanical College, high school, court house, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, several banks, hospitals, parks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. It has the car shops of the Northern Pacific railroad, flour, planing and paper mills, large grain elevators, knitting mills, bottling works, and large brick yards. Pop. (1910) 14,331; (1920) 21,961.