Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-12

Trustees-D. D. Brown, N. L. Brown, F.
II. Beach, c. B~ettenhauter, j. E. Dedrick,
Geo. Derr, Burt A. Robinson, w. H. Will
cox, j. e. Jones and Fred Caywood.
Editorially the Republican discourages
the scheme which is natural for a news-
paper published in a region being rapid
ly depopulated of its live, energetic citi.
nj The Republican says lit would be
we'll for the ~colonists to know what kind
of land has been chosen for the colony"
and then in another place, says that
"wheat is the chief product and always
will be" and that anybody who says it
is a corn country, a stock country, or a
country adapted to general farming, tells
what is not true" Doubtless the Repub-
lican does not intend to misrepresent this
country-but it misrepresents just the
same-doubtless through entire ignor-
ance of the country under discussion.
When the Republican says that "North
Dakota possesses a great variety of land"
it speaks the truth. The Red River val
Icy is the great wheat country of the
world. There is no disputing that fact.
But when the James River valley is
reached the ''exclusive" wheat area has
been passed and from that point to the
Montana line it is an excellent stock
country and an excellent country for oil
versifed farming. No region presents
greater inducements to the thrifty
~husbandman than that region of
North Dakota extending west
ward from the Red River valley.
The Republican says that "even potatoes
have to be brought to Dakota by rail
from southern points," This in the face
of the fact that North Dakota potatoes in
the Chicago market bring ten to fifteen
cents a bushel more than those grown in
any other cline. North Dakota raises
the finest potatoes in the world and but
for the expense of transportation could
furnish the world. Two to four hundred
bushels to the acre are only common
yields, while five and six hundred BUSH
els have been reported from specially ia.
vored localities. Potatoes and vegeta-
bles! Go into any of the expositions of
the east, to which the Northern Pacific
has contributed a collection of the pro-
ducts grown along it's line, and see the
specimens. 1.-THE horses are shipped
from the south, and they have no cows"
continues the Republican. No COWS?
What, then, are all these creameries do
ing along the line? Where do they get
cream? They get it from the
vicinity, and the finished product
the finest butter ever made-is sent to
points west of the Rocky mountains to
the very region the Republican speaks of
as "the Greece of America, the ideal
paradise and Eldorado."
"Coal is scarce and DEAR" shouts the
Republican. objectionable ignorance.
The western half Of North Dakota is
underlined with coal-an area half the
size Of the whole state of New York. In
mrny sections and in the whole region
north and west of Bismarck the farmer
can dig his own fuel on his own land, or
he can go to a neighbor and get all he
can haul at a load for 81. What a god
send this would be to thousands who are
eking out an existence in Old New Eng
land, where land is valued from $50 to
$3.50 an acre-land that does not and
cannot produce one-half the crop that
North Dakota soil produces-North Da-
kota soil that is free, or for sale by the
railroad companies at from 81 to 81 an
acre.
The Republican concludes as follows:
If each pioneer family took with it a few
hundred dollars to build a comfortable
house, and stock it with fuel and provi-
sions for a few months. to buy farm ami
mails n tide over a poor crop or two, Da-
kota pioneering might not be very hard.
Dakota pioneers lack. And it is probably
what most of the Binghamton Immigrants
will be short Of. To those who have it,
and the energy and sagacity to use it, we
should say there are fair prospects ahead.
The way to settle Dakota, or any other
new country, so as to shorten the period of
pioneer hardships is to go in colonies and
put up a ready. made civilization. The col
Onizing idea is correct. But do not expect
that everybody In the colony will be upon
the same Industrial, financial and social
footing. The humans race was not made
in that way, or for such a destiny.
In this the Republican is honest. Pho
neers entirely without means are beset
with privations and hardships in any
country, and, as the Republican init
mates, the measure Of prosperity will be
governed somewhat by the advantages at
the start. The destiny of one is not the
destiny of another. Where one prospers
others may fail, but what is claimed for
the Missouri slope and western North
Dakota is that it offers splendid induce
ments to the thrifty farmer who has but
little means, who desires to engage in
stock raising and miscellaneous farming.
The country southeast of Bismarck is