Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Bismarck

BISMARCK, city, capital of the State of North Dakota, and county-seat of Burleigh co.; on the Missouri river, and the Northern Pacific and the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie railroads, 194 miles W. of Fargo. It contains the State Capitol (which cost over $500,000), the State Penitentiary, court house, city hall, opera house, a State Hospital for the Insane, St. Paul Seminary, U. S. Indian School. The river is here spanned by a bridge that cost $1,500,000. Bismarck has improved waterworks, electric lights, several flour mills, a National bank, the State Library. The city is a supply and trade center for an extensive agricultural section. Pop. (1910) 5,443; (1920) 7,122.