The long sustained effort of the people living on the stage route from Bemidji to the Red Lake Agency have at last resulted in having a daily service ordered on the line from and after the 10th of December, 1917. The contractor, Tom Smart, will have four teams on the work and will make a station at Charles Durand’s where horses and drivers will change. The trip is fifty miles and the stage will leave here at 6 a.m., reaching the Agency and the end of the line at 8 p.m. The contract price for the service is $2250 per annum. (Bemidji Sentinel, Dec 8, 1904)
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