St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-26

drive there and back, when his family
want to go shopping and he wants a little
relief from the monotony of farm life.
This land which can be bought
at such absurdly low prices is just
as good as that which earned
, the North Dakota farmers this year
from Sl5 to $50 per acre net. after pay
ing all costs of making the crop, includ-
| ing wages to the farmers themselves,
and fair price for the work of their
teams. Thousands OF farmers III the
state receive more money for their
wheat crop this year than they valued
their farms, improvements. stock and
machinery at a year ago.
North Dakota is not a distant region.
You can leave st. Paul at o'clock in
the evening, arrive in Fargo early next
morning, and III jamestown, one of the
central towns of the state, at IL O'Clock.
There IS 10 village of 200 inhabitants in
! the whole state that is not reached by
rail. 1t is not frigid region, as so
many people in the East. imagine.
Farmers always pillow up to the middle
of November, and some years as late as
the first week in December. As a rule.
there is gOOOd slefghing all winter, and
when the snow goes off it is full spring
at once. without any season of storms
and mud. The winter is a season of
bright sunshine and dry, crisp, cola air.
Storms are not as frequent as in the
Atlantic coast states, or in those of the
Mississippi valley. Periods of extreme
low temperature are no more frequent
than in the same ATTITUDES in the East,
and while the mercury may go 10 deg
lower, the cold is not so severely felt,
and this is shown by the fact that on the
horse ranches near Bismarck, and also
west of the Missouri, the stock run out
all winter without any care or protec-
ton, feeding upon the dry prairie
grasses, are rounded up IN the spring
in excellent condition without the loss
OF an animal.
Room for Settlers.
North Dakota is going to attract
many thousands of new settlers during
the next few years. The new period of
growth upon which il has entered will
last until it is pretty we'll filled up with
prosperous people. Its towns will double
and treble in size, and its prosperity
will be directly felt in the city of St.
Paul, which is now, and will probably
long remain, the real commercial me-
trOpolis of the state.
There is not labor enough in North
Dakota at present to do the work of the
country, and the state offers an excel
lent field for immigration of sturdy, am
bilious young men to work on the farms
until they can get little start and buy
or homestead places OF their own. The
heavy harvest of the present year could
not have been gathered and threshed
except for the great efforts made by the
railroad companies and by the JObbers'
Union of st. Paul to send in
an army of laborers from 9TH
er states. Several thousand men
could find work the year round as farm
hands at high wages in North Dakota
and also in Northern Minnesota. They
should go out in the early spring in
order that farmers may make their ar
engagements for putting in large crops
next year. Any industrious young man
who is willing to do faithful work for
an employer for year or two will be
sure to find an opportunity to get good
quarter section of land for himself,
either by homestead entry or by pur-
chase on long time and at a low price.
In very few years he will thus find
himself an independent farmer, instead
of merely the hired man of other peo-
pie. During his time of working for
others he will learn thoroughly the
methods of farming in the Northwest
and will be prepared to make a success
on his own account.
Minnesota Greatness.
Let US now turn to our own home
state of Minnesota, which is also an ex-
cellent field for immigration. This is
especially true of the whole prairie
region of the state which stretches along
its entire western border, from Iowa to
Manitoba, distance of over 400 miles.
and reaches eastward for distance of
from fifty to seventy miles. Topographic
cally speaking, this region is a part of
the same great prairie which extends
through the two Dakotas, and so on
southwark through Nebraska, Western
Iowa, Kansas, the Indian Territory and
Texas to the Gulf Of Mexico. The Min
nesota portion of this vast fertile plain