Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-02-02
IMMIGRATION.
General Washburn Issues Another Cir
cular Calling Attention to Mis-
souri, Slope Lands.

souri, slope Lan0S.
General w. D.. Washburn is still active
in his work Of locating settlers along the
Missouri slope and has issued another
circular descriptive of his lands. The
circular shows a picture of the new ele-
vator at Wilton and contains letters from
various of the Iowa farmers who have
visited this section regarding their i'm
preston of the country. There is also
the following statement with reference
to immigration to North Dakota:
During the year 1899 over 1000 set
tiers located on lands along the various
railway lines in North Dakota. About
one-third of this number moved their
families upon them during the season.
The most of the remainder made some,
improvements upon their lands and will
move their families in the spring. The
bulk of this immigration was to the cen
trail part of the state, along the present
lines of railway, SO that lands have in
creased from 81 and S. to $40 and S12
per acre, and in most localities where the
land was extra good it has been mostly
taken up from eight to twelve miles back
from the railway. Never in the history
of immigration has there been such a
movement of well-to-do, intelligent farm
ers as has poured into and taken possess
sion of the fertile lands of North Dakota,
and the majority have not been %inexper-
fenced foreigners, but farmers of intelli-
gence and experience from adjoining
states, who investigated and found that
North Dakota lands at S. an acre would
produce as much or more than lands
held at $50 an acre in Iowa and Illinois.
They also found that in many instances
settlers had paid for their farms with
one years crop. They found a good eli
mate, good water, live people and an
excellent school system, and they bought
land and are moving in by thousands.
This year 10000 new families will move
into the state and settle on lands, and
the year 1900 will without doubt go down
in history as the banner year for North
Dakota immigration. After years of
waiting the state of North Dakota is
about to take rank as one of the best
agricultural states in the union.
Several letters are published from
Iowans, and one instance is cited thus:
Mr.. D. B. Schwab, formerly of Perry,
Dallas county, Iowa, in a letter dated
January 4, 1900, tells of the visit of a
party OF Iowa farmers to the w. D.
Washburn lands in Burleigh and Nc
Lean counties, North Dakota. He says
when ne started he was somewhat preju-
diced against these lands but he wanted
to see for himself. Among his compan-
ions were a party of ten who joined them
at Coon Rapids, Iowa. They drove from
Bismarck to Wilton, q miles, the last
days OF December, 1899. They visited
the coal mines two miles from Wilton
and 1.-THE crowd all went down in the
mine and examined for themselves" he
says, land that settled the fuel question.
for there are a great number of mines
with an everlasting amount of good coal
just as good as any coal mined in
Iowa. n good enough for a king to
burn: We got to find out while in Will
ton that it makes a good fire, too. Re-.
sides, in addition to this coal there is
plenty of wood along the Missouri river,
about six miles from Wilton" Mr.,
Schwab tells of a visit to the home Of
NJ: Spangberg near Wilton, who was
piled with questions for about two hours
while two girls got dinner for the crowd.
"a picture of the Spangberg farm is on
the folder.) "Mr. Spangberg was form
erly an Iowa man." he continues. "who
came to North Dakota nine wears aco
without any money, and now has lots of
cattle and horses and 800 acres of good
land, as good a house as the AVERAGE
dwelling in Iowa, very nicely fixed IN
side, and a better library than I ever
saw in a farm house in Iowa. He is we'll
educated and it looks as if he was giving
his family the same advantages. x X (
This same evening there came an old
lady and her daughters from South Da-
kota looking for land. l have forgotten
her name, but I understand she Intended
to buy a large tract of land. She had
just returned from Alaska and she was
as shrewd as any man. 4 x X Some of
the boys said or the train coming IN
that they thought they were getting ont
OF society and away from the good people
when they got here, but they left With a
different view. Il x The neonla
around Wilton could be no better. 7
was doubly paid for my trip and I do
not think there was a man in the crowd
that was dissatisfied or sorry that he
came. l do wish that more of the moor
Dallas county renters would take hold of
this and look into the matter. | am
afraid that some of the people that are
going elsewhere will wish they had come
and seen. I think that the time is not:
far distant when land will sell in th;s
county for S25 and $50 an acre. We have
just as good land and raise Just as good
crops and take more dollars off an acre
OF ground than the farmers in old
Dallas l was surprised myself, a. thev
are selling corn raised right in North
Dakota at Bismarck
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