Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-11-20
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Statistics showing the Advantages of
North Dakota for Home seekers
Hon. H. T. Helgesen, North Dakota's
commissioner of agriculture and labor,
is distributing a recently published PAM
phlet containing the proceedings, with
papers aud addresses, of the first annual
meeting Of the North Dakota State Dali
ryman's Association. The brochure is
brim full f good things and shonld be
in the hands of every dairyman and
stock raiser in the state. The last few
pages of the work is devoted to a sum-
mary of the of the state, show
ing that North Dakota has 10000 square
miles Of prairie lands; that the Red
River valley country is about 900 feet
above sea level, while the Missouri val
ley is 900 feet higher than that of the
Red River valley; that North Dakota
coal that can be purchased at the mines
for 81 and $1.50 per ton, contains a. II
per cent. fixed carbon, 6.92 per cent. of
ash, "a per cent. of sulphur, and 1887
per cent. of water and volatile matter; it
produces but &c per cent: less heat than
Iowa coal, while it can be purchased on
an average of less than half the cost of
coal from either of the states named;
that the assessors returns show that the
sheep of the state have increased from
$4,000 in 1890 to 100000 in 1891; that the
wheat yield of the state this year will be
between 55,000,000 and 60, 900, 900 bushels,
an average of about % bushels
to the acre; that out of 45,OOO,O 900 acres
of land in the state less than 100000
are under cultivation; that, by giving
every family in the state 100
acres of this land there is ample room
and land for 100000 more farmers in
North Dakota, making an additional
million of people, and yet there would
still be land enough for grazing and al
legged waste lands" to equal the total
area OF Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island and New Jersey; that the
entire population of Pennsylvania could
NO PAdCCu III 4NO1Gu DdhOUd III duulGlO0
to its present inhabitants, and yet every
man, woman and child would have
nine acref of land and every family an
average of nearly fifty acres; that were
North Dakota as thickly populated as
Massachusetts it would contain as many
people as all New England, New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey combined,
or more people than the United States
contained in 1910; that some people may
be interested to know North Dakota has
in active operation a state university,
two normal schools, an agricultural COL
lege and a school for the deaf and dumb;
that it has provided for an industrial
school, a school of forestry, a scientific
school, a college for the blind and a re-
form school, these being separate from
the private and UNCONVENTIONAL colleges;
that the state has about 2,5OO,OOO acres
of school lands that cannot be used for
other than educational purposes; that
10000 acres of these lands were recently
sold for an average of about 500 per
acre, the state receiving therefor $115,-
900 in cash, with a balance drawing 6 per
cent. annual interest; that when you
come to North Dakota and want to 90
to church you will find every denomina-
ton represented, worshiping in edi6ces
that would be a credit and an ornament
to some of the older and more thickly
settled states of the union.