The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-12
ISSUED FRIDAY MORNING.
FRIDAY. JANUARY, - 1894.
1864, 1904, 1924.

In 1864 the valley of the Red River
of the North was Wilderness. The
buffalo, the Indian, the half-brced, a
ew,whitc, fur-tradcrs, or officials, COM
posed the scanty population.
At the present, thirty years later, is
a wcll-scttlcd country, peoplcd with
vigorous, intelligent, prosperous set
tiers, who already raise onc-fourth of
the wheat of the whole country.
School-houscs. churches, colleges, rail-
roads, cities. factories. and all of the
appurtcnances of modern civilization
are here, in even greater variety aud
numbers than in most old settled
countries of the cast.
To those who have been privileged
10 witness this grand characterization,
its wonders and its greatness are al
most incomprchensiblc. 1t has been
like one who from the mountain-tup
sees the morning light change dark.
ness to day and glow into the blazing
sun.
Thirty years agu-evcn twenty years
ago-a wilderness. to-day II well-settl.
ed prosperous community. a man
standing on the banks of the Red river
thirty years ago and prophesying that
1893 would show what the present
does, would have been deemed an en-.
hlISinst ar ,pf,rsn
Thirty years more and it will be
1924. In view of the facts of the thir.
ty years past, what are the possibilities
and probabilitie of the next three
decades: IT is safe to say that the
productions OF cereals alone will be in.
creased to more than double the pres.
ent yield, while variation and cultiv;l.
ton of other crops and breeding OF
live stock will bring enormous add.
tional increase. Farms will be cut
down in size and titled more carefully
and more completely. Two, three
or more farmers aud their familie.
will live and make living from the
same land now occupied by one
Thousands of farms, now uncuitiyat
ed because in the hands ofspeculltors
or needing drainage, will be- utilized
flour-mills, saw-mills, manufacture
OF all kinds will come close to the pro
Queer and consumer. Railroads vii
multiply on account of the increase,
traffic and the cheapness with whicl
they eau be built. These are but som
things that are to be, Judging fron
those that have been, and not half S
wonderful.
a hundred thousand people in til
now wilderness of Northern Minnesot
who will sell US wood, lumber, iro
and manufactures: and who will blu
our flour and meat: four hundre
thousand people in Manitoba and tn
N. w. Territory, who will find thei
markets in the United States and t
whom railways will be run throug
this natural valley gateway, are NJ
so wonderful possibilities in the mex
thirty years, as the same kind of SET
tlement and progress in the vale
proper, during the last thirty years
We have the largest budy of uniform
ly rich, almost inexhaustibly fertll
land, in the United States, VIC hav
laid the foundation of our government
on morality, sobriety, intelligence an,
equality, we have the best attraction
and advantages for home-makers, W,
nave room for thousands more q
them, and they are certain to come
because, now, such advantages hav,
become limited in other western state
and because like attracts like Thi
is not proplcsy, but history; history
which is sure to repeat itself. w,
saw the shoot as it came out of tn,
ground, the sapling is here, the vigor
Gus tree with its wide.spreading bran
ches Is the natural result.