CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



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First National Corn Show Prizes Won by 



G. M. Gunderson 



B. H. Briggs 



R. H. Briggs 



longer the name Briggs will be as 

 well known in this part of the country, 

 as plant growers and seedsmen, as 

 is that of Peter Henderson. 



William R, Briggs was the pioneer 



of the family. He came to Moorhead 

 from McLean County, Illinois, in 1907, 

 and raised garden truck the first year. 

 The next year he built the first unit of 

 his range of greenhouses and began 



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The Briggs Floral Company's Greenhouse, Moorhead 



