Minot Ship By Rail Club – The Minot Ship By Rail Club was formed to promote the use of
the railroad by the coal companies. The railroads and their employees shared in
the prosperity of Minot. In 1932 to promote the railroad as the main means of
transporting coal out of the area the Club came up with these statistics:
In 1931
the Railroads paid $193,269.47 in taxes to the Ward County Treasury
In 1931
the Railroads paid approximately $975,000.00 in wages to Minot residents
In
1931 these Railroad employees paid about $150,000.00 in Ward County taxes
In
1931 there were over 2500 railroad employees and dependents living in Minot
Impressive
statistics for the time
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