Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-10-31

Reasons Way North Dakota Farmers
are Short Of Money this Fa!i---:in
Unusual Combination of Circum-
stances impossible to Avoid.
The following is a clear and fair state
ment OF the situation AS it exists in parts
OF North Dakota Tie Pioneer Press
has we'll informed itself upon the facts.
and coming from an outside source, the
statement is all the more reliable. There
are few, if any farmers, put to the ex-
tremities mentioned. in this locality.
Timelier showers have brought the grain
TO maturity and in many cases the yield
is quite tn > average. 4 farmer complains
if he has not ready money to pay taxes
and interest, and f.rgets that he is still
getting ahead in the world by the in
crease of stock and in the value OF his
farm improvements. He is inclined to
think. that no where else in the country
is this unfortunate state OF affairs wit.
Dessed. The fact is, that outside people,
regarding us impartially, know the con-
ditions existing here are far more favor
able to us than we think them ourselves.
North Dakota is naturally as rich and
healthy country as the sun shines upon
and the temporary embarassments that
have occurred for the past few years, are
only the incidents known to occur to
every locality The good and prosper
Gus years are always mixed with bad
ones in every country the world over.
The Pioneer Press says:
The appeal made to the chamber OF
commerce in behalf Of the distressed
people of certain counties in North Da-
kota that have suffered from successive
crop failures, is one which should tlnd a
ready response. not only in st. Paul but
throughout the entire northwest. Ihe
case is one of peculiar hardship, because
the destitution which is made manifest
only when the near approach OF the win.
ter season renders the occasion one OF
urgency, is such that it could not have
been foreseen or prevented. These peo-
ple occupy one Of the most fertile sec
iions OF the country, producing quality
of grain that finds ready market at nigh
est prices. But they are not, therefore,
any more removed from the reach OF an
extraordinary combination OF unfortunate
circumstances than the people or New
York are safe from the blizzard, once
or more in Il century. 1t mas SO nap
pened that for two consecutive seasons
there has been a crop failure over some
portions of the new state: and each
time it has happened under conditions
which, although apt to occur at long m m
tervals, are unique and out of the ordi-
nary.
In 1888 it was heavy frost IN the
middle OF the month Of August winch
DESTROYED their resources. The records
contain few instances OF such an occur,
renee. at such !, date, bllghtlng and
shriveling the growing grain and II was
accepted as peculiar hardship, ior
which there was no remedy but fortltude
and redoubled industry. But 1t was tol,
lowed this year by the visitation Oh
drought. The whole northwest mas
passed through season of nnexampie,d
dryness. A small portion OF North
Dakota is unfortunate. not IN being less
abundantlv blessed with a water supply
than contiguous sections. bnt because
that water supply was this yeai SO as
,ributed that it could not help or