The Buffalo Pitts Threshing Machine Company was located at 420-424 NP Avenue, along "Machinery Row." The company was established in Fargo 1880 and sustained a loss of $50,000 in the great fire of 1893. Their new warehouse (shown in the 1908 postcard to the right) was built over the ruins of the old building. It was 75x170 feet. A spur track of the Northern Pacific railroad ran to the rear of the warehouse where there was a 30x75 foot platform with a 24-ton traveling crane to assist in unloading machinery. The offices were in the front of the building.

In addition to this building, Buffalo Pitts had a 50x75 foot warehouse on the banks of the Red River.

From 1880 to 1894, the company had sold 1800 threshers and 1300 engines. The manager of the Fargo operation, in 1894, was S.G. Wright.

I am not sure when the firm went out of business but it is not listed in the 1923 Fargo Telephone book.

Although the two advertising posters shown right (from 1900 and 1905) show a native American chasing a Buffalo, the firm was named for the city in which it was founded, Buffalo, NY.

The firm produced very popular models of traction engines and threshers. Shown to the left is one their models in use in North Dakota.