The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-11-14
WHAT CAN BE MADE IN NORTH

North Dakotas manufacturing posi-.
bilities have been almost entirely over
looked. The unfolding of agricultural
resources has obscured everything else,
but the people are beginning to give
attention to projects having i'll view the
conversion of at least portion of their
surplus crops into articles manufactured
in their own midst. In many parts of
the state artcsian wells can Ike made to
furnish water as we'll as power to turn
machinery. And North Dakota has
more coal than any state west Of the
Missouri river. The hard and soft wood
forests of Minnesota are near and the
Great Ncrtllern and other railways
make them available for material to
Use i'll furniture factories and wagon
and carriage shops.
Northern flax fire makes better
binding twinc than the imported stuff,
and enough flax straw is burned every
season than would more than supply the
local demand. And so too with wheat
and oat straw, enough to make all the
Wrapping paper used in America.
In the manufacture Of flour and oat
meal North Dakota should excel. There
are already good many Touring mills
making high grades Of flour, but there
is room for more. In Iowa and other
Western states there are oat meal and
fiaxseed oil mills, the entire product of
which is sent to European countries.
The Dakotas raise as oily fax and as
heavy and edible oats as any in the
North Temperate zone, and the manu-.
facturc of oat meal would be profitable.
England finds that it pays to send to
Iowa for flaxseed oil cake, and the
Dakotas lead the country in tho yield
and quality of flax. The barley of North
Dakota is Of the brightest kind, and just
the thing for the manufacture of pearl
barley. Macaroni could be successfully
made, and macaroni suggests cheese.
Good butter is made and good cheese,
and for both there is u steady demand.
Dakotan -four makes the best bread,
so it makes the best crackers, and yet
stores are supplied with crackers made
in distant cities. Tropical fruits cannot
he raised, but vegetables can be, such as
the warm climates know not of, and
Dakotan sorghum makes good molasses.
Creameries have already been intro
duced and the field is hardly touched.
The pastures are equal to any in the
land, and root crops, valuable for feed
ing dairy cattle, make fabulous
growths.
Sheep, cattle and hogs of North Dakota
Gun be made to furnish supplies of wool
and hides for making cloth, blan-
kets, flannels, leather, SHOES, ETC., while
the packing and curing of meats could
be made important and profitable.
Wooden factories in land where wool
can be 50 easily and cheaply grown, and
where wooden goods can be worn a
great part of the year, would seem tho
practical thing.
In connection with meat packing
houses consider the possibilities of glue
factories. tanneries, soap, tallow and
candle factories, and of the manufac-
turc of fertilizers. for use on the farms
of the East and South.
Dakota potatoes bring u premium in
the Eastern markets. But the growth
Of tubers is SO great that they are some
times drug ut home. This could be
partially obviated by starting starch
factories. Single counties in the State
of Maine have starch factories by the
dozen, the product being made from
potatoes not equal to those grown in
North Dakota.
The situation is not overstated in say
ing that this can be made a self-sus-
tanning country. Wheels can be made
to hum in every town and city, turning
crude materials into useful and profita-
BILE shapes.
North Dakota has two transcontinent-
al railroads, and close connection with
the third, all three connecting with the
great lakes, the Atlantic and the Pacific.
The Great Northern is the principal
railway of the State, reaching with
its main line and many branches
most Of the leading points. These
combine to give North Dakota cheap
and ample facilities to transport
her products to not only American mar
kets, but to Europe and Asia.