GRANDIN, =146 m.= (898 alt., 172 pop.), is the largest of these towns. It was named for J. L. Grandin, one of the two Tidioute, Pa., brothers who bought 99 sections of Red River Valley land and farmed them under the bonanza system. Dividing their land into 1,500-acre farms, each with a superintendent and a foreman, they harvested their first crop in 1878. They had 14,000 acres under cultivation near Grandin, and 6,000 at Mayville. Before the advent of the railroad the wheat raised on their land was hauled on barges towed by the steamers _Grandin_ and _Alsop_ to Fargo, a distance of 90 m.--overland Grandin is 35 m. from Fargo. The Grandin farm was one of the earliest practical users of the telephone, although whether the first in the State was installed on this or the Dalrymple farm (_see Tour 8_) is in dispute. GARDNER, =154.5 m.= (891 alt., 108 pop.), named for the town site owner, was founded in 1880 when the surrounding territory was being developed as wheat country, but was not incorporated village until 1929. ARGUSVILLE, =161.5 m.= (889 alt., 115 pop.), is believed to have received its name from the _Daily Argus_, Fargo newspaper published at the time of the town's founding in 1880. HARWOOD, =169 m.= (892 alt., 82 pop.), was named for A. J. Harwood, a prominent Fargo real estate dealer who bought all the town sites between Fargo and Grand Forks when the G. N. Ry. was built. At =179.3 m.= is the junction with a graveled road. Right on this road to HECTOR AIRPORT, =0.5 m.=, a U. S. Department of Commerce A-1 field, land for which was donated by Martin Hector, pioneer Fargo banker, in 1931. The buildings include a city hangar of laminated truss-arch construction, completed in 1936 under the Works Progress Administration. FARGO, 181 m. (907 alt., 28,619 pop.) (_see_ FARGO). _Points of Interest_: North Dakota Agricultural College, Veterans' Hospital, Dovre Ski Slide. At Front and 13th Sts. is the junction with US 10 (_see Tour 8_). The WILD RICE RIVER, which the route crosses at =188 m.=, was named for the wild grain which formerly grew on its banks. Near here, in a battle between the Sioux and Chippewa in 1807, Tabashaw, a Chippewa chief, was slain while avenging the death of his eldest son, who had been killed a short time before by the Sioux. At =189 m.= is the junction with a dirt road.