The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-09-05
A Land of Plenty.
bismarck Trlbune.)

bismarck Trlbune.)
Frank j. Mead, corresponding for the
Minneapolis Tribune, writes rs follows:
And now, after more than 1900 miles travel
through the grain fields of North Dakota,
after having personally visited moro than
100 fields and carefully examined them, and
after having talked with more than 200
farmers and an equal number of men en-
gagged in other branches of business in that
state, I shall proceed to give final word
in relation to the most remarkable crop of
grain ever paoduced in the northwest.
The yield all over the state will be phen-
omenal. discover that the statistician of
the east has placed North Dakota at 20
bushels per acre for the entire state. 1t will
gomore than that The country has given
that yield before, and history gives no
record of any crop ever produced so uni
versally excellent as that of 1891. 1t will
go into history as the most prolific yield
thus far vouchsafed to the farmers of the
northwest, and probably for forty years to
come will be used as the season for COM
parsons and contrasts. The "old settler"
has been surpassed, and hereafter the ten
derfoot's account of the crop of '91 will
take the cake when told to the listening
multitudes of the coming years.
More than half of the immense wheat
crop of North Dakota is to-day in the stack.
Already the smoke of the threshing machine
engine piles its columns against the blue
sky in every direction. Reports of ''lna-
chine measure'' are coming in, and in every
instance they surpass the most sanguine
estimates. Indeed it has been impossible
to estimate the grain in the fields of North
Dakota. There was standard of COM
parison. Old land and new land, rolling
land and fiat land, high land and low land,
have all been on common level in pro-
ductiveness in this marvellous year. Ma
ture occasionally delights IN surprises
and this has been one of her seasons Of
blesseed surprises For years the north
west has been cursed with small crops and
small prices. The fates seemingly have
striven successfully to make amends for
the bucolic misfortunes of the past five
years. Giving to the "effete monarchies"
of the old world small harvest returns,
some good fairy has waved his magic wand
of plenty over the fields of our golden
northwest, and the whole country laughs
heartily with the most magnificent crop of
the century.
Let there be no error made by readers
of the evening Tribune. Tho era of pros
perity so long predicted for North Dakota
has opened. The years of detection, sup
erinducted by the natural aud necessary
reaction from the boom period, are over,
and the season OF solid success is at hand.
Every sign is propitious, every indication
pointing unerringly in the same direction.
have met no mark of encouragement IN
the face of any dwellsr upon these proud
and prolific prairies; have heard no wish
expressed to leave the state, no purpose of
any man to emigrate to other localities.
On the contrary, have seon many old
acuuaintances and friends who have been
on a two Or three years. jaunt to the Pacific
coast, and who have returned to the rich
fields and healthful atmosphere of their
first love, contented to live and die in
North Dakota
There are just s!!many millions of wealth
lying buried under the green grasses of
this state as there were ten years ago.
Millions of acres still awaiting to be titill-
ated by the plow that it may cachinate
with bounty. Whether it be to raise wheat
on the level plains of the Red and James
river valleys, or raise sheep, cattle and
horses on the rolling lands of the west
Missouri, there is still room for and wealth
awaiting the men and women who prefer
labor and honest independence to idleness,
pauperism and crime. The hour is aus
picious. The hand on the clock of fate
point to the hour of prosperity's high IL.
Come to bounteous repast at the call OF
North Dakota's dinner horn!