Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-09-04
Another Article From Frank Meade
Regarding North Dakota Pros
perity and Wealth.
A Man Representing Himself as a
Minneapolis Journal Man, De-
frauds the Clergy.
The Enforcement League Finds No
Liquor in Mandan to-Quench
Their Desires


~ An
Minneapolis Tribune, writes as follows:
And now, after more than 1900 miles
travel through the grain fields of North
Dakota, after having personally visited
more than 100 fields and carefully en-
amined them, and after having talked
with more than 200 farmers and an
equal number of men engaged in other
branches of business in that state, I
shall proceed to give a final word in re-
lation to the most remarkable crop of
grain ever produced in the northwest.
The yield all over the state will be
phenomenal. I discover that the statis-
tician of the east has placed North Da-
kota at 20 bushels per acre for the entire
state. 1t will Igo more than that. The
country has given that yield before, and
history gives no record of any crop ever
produced so universally excellent as that
OF 1881. 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 comparisons and
contrasts. The "old settler" has been
surpassed, and hereafter the tenderfoot's
account of the crop of 81 will take the
cake when told to the listening multi
tudes 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 thresh-
ing machine engine piles it's columns
against the blue sky in every direction.
Reports of machine measure" are COM
ing in, and in every instance they sur
pass the most sanguine estimates. In
deed it has been impossible to estimate
the grain in the fields of North Dakota.
There was a standard of comparison.
Old land and new land, rolling land and
flat land, high land and low land, have
all been on a common level in product
lveness in this marvellous year. Nature
occasionally delights in surprises-and
this has been one of her seasons of
blessed 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 mon
arches" 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. The era of
prosperity SO long predicted for North
Dakota has opened. The years of dejec-
ton, superinduced by the natural and
necessary reaction from the boom peri
cd, are over, and the season of solid sue
cess is at hand. Every sign is pr%opitious,
every indication pointing unerringly in
the same direction. I have met no mark
of encouragement in the face of my
dweller 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, | haxe seen many old acquaint-
ances 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 as many millions of
wealth lying buried under the green
grasses of this state as there were ten
years ago. Millions of acres still await
ing to be Initiated by the pillow 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 suspicious. The
hand on the clock Of fate points to the
hour of prosperity's high -. Come to a
bounteous repast at the call of North
Dakota's dinner horn!