Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-02-17
IMMIGkATION BOARD.
OF interest to every one who oWns
. Feet Of Land In Dakota.

Or interest to every one who owns
Feet Of Land In Dakota.
The Northwestern Land Journal will
publish the following in its next issue.
The ALERT heartily endorses and concurs
in the proposed scheme and will aid it 80
far rs possible and to that end suggests
"Wednesday the 10th day 0: March as .
convenient day for the meeting in Fargo:
NEARLY year ago the Land Journal
commenced to aeitate the subject of "a
immigration board for Northern Dakota,
and even At this lats day ws are glad to sec
one ortwo Of our exchanges waking up to
importance Of such scheme. It will de-
pend wholly upon the press of northern
Dakots to keep this subject before the
people until something practical results.
No one can doubt the efficacy Of such IN
agency IN bringing settler. to this. region
if it 10 properly managed. Thousands and
hundreds Of Thousands, scattered over the
whole world s1s discontented where they
are and are contemplating change. Whore
shall they 60, To that locality certainly
which offers the greatest inducements. We
who live here KNOW that northern Dakota
has the greatest inducements to offer, but
how shall these thousands IN the eastern
and the middle states and in foreign laads
know it: Their knowledge comes
chiefly from what they have placed in
their hands to :ead. What is being placed
there's. Glittering documents from Kan
sas, Nebraska, Colorado Texas and other
states and territories south Of US. ..
Who is placing the knowledge of those
localities in the hands of these thou,
sands of men about to remove somewhere?
The board Of immigration of these various
states mentioned, are doing it, aided By
the far seeing and liberal railroad CON-
panles whose lines stretch out to the west
and southwest. It is no new scheme, no
experiment with them. but . system of
liberal and judicieus advertising that they
have been conscientiously and persistently
following tor years. 1t has paid them or
they would have discontinued it ere this.
The statistics Of immigration prove that
it has paid. The expense and labor At
tending comprehensive diffusion of
knowledge regarding this favored region
is too great to ask one man, one town or
one railroad company even to bear it all
What We need il union of force and sys.
tenn in the work. The Land Journal in
connection with its efforts in this direc-
tion has gathered abundant proof that
such work p.yslthe county and all the
people here. It twould not be an impos-
sible task to demonstrate that the
distribution of q, 900 copies of this paper
has actually increased the selling value of
every acre Of land in Stutsman county
at least one dollar, ana that an advance of
one dollar per acre il attributable wholly
and only to the publication and Gistribu-
tion of this paper. Whatever may have
been done for our own county may be
done with proportionately better results
by an active and united effort along the
entire line. We do not want to be under.
stood as urging this movement for the
purpose of advancing the price of land or
to claim that such an advance has been a
direct benefit to our county, but our read
ere will all understand the force of the
illustration given. Prices are increased
only by increased settlement and result
almost wholly from the increased demand
and it is this increased settlement and in
creased demand that We claim to. be
respons,ble for ia part.
If the press and the real estate men
along the line would unite in calling
meeting ofall who are willing to cooper
ate in such . movement we believe that
some practical scheme for IN immigration
board, would be the result of the meeting
No time should be lost if it is intended to
accomplish anything this season. Let
the newspaper in each town or county in
northern Dakota take the responsibility of
naming . day when the citizens Of that
locality shall meet and select one or two
delegates to represent and act for them At
. general council to be held. say in Fargo,
at IN early date. The n. p. Co., shsuld
and doubtless will. send representative,
empowered to assist to considerable ex-
tent in any plan Of operation that may be
decided on and that gives prom,se Of
accomplishing the end in view. Now let
40 hear Esaxn the nnaaa and x,aas,ln n, This