Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-03-30
It's Resources and Possibilities
For the Homeseeker Are
Presented.
THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
No Land Superior or Equal to
Those Offered in This
County.

for set in the season of 1898. The
papers of the state are daily calling
attention to the arrival Of settler,
from eastern states and different
points in the British Dominion.
Cavalier county has already well
coined a large number of new set
tiers and others are arriving daily.
Those who labor under the delusion
that North Dakota is bleak and
inhospitable region have only to
refer themselves to figures given IN
the report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture and Labor for the past
year, or the recent sale of sc.lool
lands in the state. Such facts as
these are beyond dispute. When
farmers are willing to give $50 and
upwards per acre for improved
land they surely must be fully ac-
quainted with the possibilities of
the soil and climate.
The soil of North Dakota is uni
formly richer and better adapted to
agricultural purposes generally than
any other on this great continent.
The markets are naturally better
and the climate has more to recon-
mend than to condemn it. Such
facts as these are the inducements
that have drawn the tide of imigra-
ton to North Dakota, the wheat
belt of the American continent.
Southern California is delightful
to look upon and to read about, but
when you get down to the practical
it costs much money to irrigate the
lands and undue patient waiting for
returns, and then the world does not
regard it's products as essential to
their life as they do the products of
North Dakota. Without irrigation
most of California, Wyoming, Ida
no, and parts of Washington and
Oregon, are as barren and worthless
as the bad lands of North Dakota,
and in all of these regions there are
disagreeable features that more
than overbalance the one complaint
as to cold winters in North Dakota
In December 1892 in the regions of
Oregon and Washington where irri-
cation is not necessary there were
twenty-six rainy days, and the rain
fall for the month was greater than
the usual rainfall in North Dakota
for the year. Had one anything to
sell it would have become impossi-
bic to nave reached market. The
roads were simply impossible dur
ing nearly six months of the year.
With advantages inferior to those
offered by North Dakota, Washing
ton found itself overwhelmed by a
rnsh Of settlers when it's land was
thrown open to settlement. Every
one rememberes the rush of settlers
to the great Sioux reservation and
to the Wahpeton reservation when
thrown open to settlement. Show
the world that our lands are super
ior to these from every possible
standpoint. Show them our sales of
school lands, purchased by our own
people; show them our crop samples
and our crop statistics, and my word
for it the cost will be quickly re-
turned by increased development.
CAVALIER COUNTY.
Ten years ago Cavalier county
was part of the Indian reservation
and white settlers were only found
at rare intervals. Its hundreds o1
I thousands of fertile acres were
vet in wild state. Since then the
advantages of modern civilization
have developed its vast resources
and now it affords happy homes
for over 10000 contented citizen'
of Uncle Sam. Each succeeding