Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-03
TO BRING IN SETTLERS.
The Northern Pacific RailrOad
Planning for North Da-
kOta Immigration.
How Farmers who are Already
Here Can Help the Cause
Along.
Letters About the Crops, Stock,
Farming and the Country
Wanted.
Letters Wanted.

Letters Wanted.
The Northern Pacific railroad company
will spend a great deal of money this
winter placing the actual results of small
farming in North Dakota before the
farmers of other states. The plan by
which this is to be best accomplished is
gathering statements from farmers in
this state in the shape of letters Farmers
are invited to write letter of this kind
and forward to p. B. Groat, general emil
grafton agent, St. Paul. Last year $780,
600 copies of folder of this kind were
issued and distributed in the United
States, Canada and Europe. They were
printed in four different languages and
the responses to them have been very
numerous. A similar folder will be is
sued this fall, and mailed free to all
whose names and addresses are furnish
ed. The letters will be corrected, where
necessary, and put in shape before send
ing to the printer. Each farmers name
will be attached to the letter. If he can
not find the time, some one of the child
rem or member of the family can do a
little effective missionary work by writ
ing the letter for him. The tide of imml-
grafton is seeking vacant farm land con-
stantly in the United States, and as
about all is taken, except in the DaKotas
the farmer who would like to see the
prairies populated and get more neighbors
around him should not neglect to give
the results of his years farm work for
use as above mentioned. The topics
which it is suggested that farmers write
about are, briefly as follows:
Give nationality and size Of family,
date of removal to North Dakota, full
postof1ice address, and any special Incl
dents connected with the removal, and
start in farming; amount of money and
other property owned at time of settle
mert; acres taken, and whether govern
ment or railroad Land, and price; cost of
getting title to government land, and if
so, whether sum was paid out of crops
raised; acreage broken aud cultivated.
kind of crops, and prices realized success
IN garden products,poult and dairying;
buildings erected, number and kind of
stock. farm machinery and property
owned ut date of letter, to show progress
made since settlement.
Statements should be made concerning
the nutritious qualities of the native
grasses and extent of the natural past
ures; the water supply for stock; the ex-
perience in stock raising, with usual
length of time Of feeding stock in winter;
the fact that some winters are SO mild
that but little feed Is required; opportun-
tiles to secure hay for feed, and it's cost;
shelter required for stock; rapidity of in
crease of cattle, horses and sheep, and
opinions with respect to the adaptabllity
of the country for successful stock rails
ing, the profits of this industry, and the
advantage of combining stock raising
with general farming.
The public schools and churches.
The area of unoccupled government
and railroad lands open to settlement in
the vicinity.
The products which the country Is
adapted to, and the superiority of the
hard spring wheat and other grains raised
in North Dakota.
The fertility of soil; the healthfulness
of the climate and character of the
spring, summer. autumn and winter sea-
sons: the freedom from mud and excel
lence of the travelled roads.
1t IS desirable that each letter be writ
ten by the individual furnishing it, but
If from lack of convenience for writing,
or for other reasons, the letter is written
by a representative, it should be copied
IN the words and expressions used by the
individual in giving his experience, so
as to give individuality, originality and
variety to the series of letters included in
the folder. If the letters differ in con.
struction and contain original express
sions, IN the words and terms actuclly
used by each writer, the folder will fur
n1sh publican that will not only be in
structiye, but will be interesting,
and insure perusal by the
general reader of the entire series of
letters.
The order in which the various subjects
appear in the foregoing suggestions of
items desirable to have included should
not be followed too closely in each letter.
IF the order in which the suggestions
are given is followed closely by each
writer, it will give too great a similarity
to the letters Each writer should put
his statements in such order rs he may
think best, and need not necessarily in
clude all of the items of information that
have been suggested herein.
The letters should be furnished as soon
as possible, it being the intention topub-
llsh the folder at an early day, and it is
important that each section OF country
be represented by good letters from
farmers in each district.
Prohibition Prohibits.
Valley City Alliance: Prohibition
prohibits. There hasn't been barrel of
beer nor box of liquor unloaded here
for two days. and there were only thirty