The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-10-07
Some Good Words.

The following is from the pen of A. ].
Carver who formerly lived lin Bottineau,
and is now publishing a paper in Leeds,
Benson Co., this state. The article was
written for publication in the writer's pa
per, while that gentleman was visiting his
old home in Michigan. We commend it
most earnestly to our readers:
HART, Mich, Sept. 10, 18e3.-We pre-
sumo the readers of the News are some
what curious to know what we think of
Michigan as compared with North Dakota.
Well, we confess that the first week after
arriving here, as we noted the fine resi-
dences, beautiful shade trees, and the
somewhat ''homesick'' as it were, to live
once more in old Michigan, but as we had
more time to study the matter we discov-
ered that everyone did othave fine houses
even here, that only a few had beautiful
shade trees growing. and that only the
most industrious have good bearing, pay
ing orchards. W. were also impressed
with the fact that those who have the fine
homes have toiled necessarily and econo-
mized continually for twenty-five or thirty
years to get them and that the less frugal
and enterprising people are in about the
same condition financially that they were
when We knew them twenty-five years ago.
We have made careful inquiry and find
that the most wealthy farmers in this.
Oceana county, can not be rated at over
$40. 600. Probably the number that can
be rated at more than $25, 900 can be
counted on the fingers Of one hand and
those men have been twenty-five years in
accumulating their property. But the
great majority of those who have toiled
and saved here for twenty Or twenty-five
years have not accumulated property to
the value of more than 81, 900 to %, 900.
Now from all this, and more that we
have not time to speak of, we are con-
WINGED that a home can be much easier
obtained and q competent living secured
in North Dakota than here. Notwith-
standing the unfortunate conditions which
the people of North Dakota have expert
enced in the past few years, we are per-
suaded that as a whole, the people there
have succeeded better financially thar
here and we are confident that when Ben
son county is as old as Oceana county it
will be able to number more people who
can be rated at being worth more than
Gas. 900 than Oceana county now can. And
when the people of North Dakota learn to
be as saving and careful in all the little
details of life as the people are here, they
will greatly increase their annual income
and savings. We do not believe we exag-
gerate the facts at all in saying that BEN
son county burns up and wastes enough
feed every year TO keep the stock in Gee
ana county. One of the things thatmakes
this country beautiful is the magnificent
shade trees growing along the roads. but
after studying the matter we were i'm
pressed with the fact that shade trees
along the road would look nice in Dakota,
and we are convinced-thoroughly con-
WINGED that if the Dakota farmer would
take one-ffth as much pains and work to
get trees growing on his farm as the Mich
ligan farmer has taken to get the trees 90
His place. he would in 4 very few years
have 4 fine forest which would supply hin,
with abundant fuel. We shall return q
North Dakota we'll satisfied that all things
considered II is ! much better place te
gain ! good comfortable home than u.
east.