The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-08-10
JOHN sArTEaLuNp, pusl1sHr..
Coming to North Dakota

men, all of them clerks in Buffalo
stores. leave this morning for
North Dakota, where they expect
to get work on farms at high
wages, and later take up claims
and settle down as many others
have done before them.
This is merely the latest in
stance which shows the profit
which western and southern states,
and some of the South American
countries, are deriving from their
exhibits at the Pan American
Exposition. They are exhibiting
for the purpose of attracting set
tiers and they are getting them.
"These young men," said w. F.
Gushing of the North Dakota COM
mission, speaking yesterday of the
latest, "are clerks in stores. They
have been farmer boys, but dis
satisfied with the conditions of
eastern farm life, came to Buffalo
and hired out as clerks, working
for small wages: Belknap's father
has a farm of twenty-one acres
near Orchard Park. As they were
dissatisfied with presentconditions,
they have had a number of talks
with me and finally made up their
minds to go to North Dakota.
Harvest hands are SO scarce
out there that the farmers don't
know what to do to get in there
crops, and T had no trouble in get
ting them a place in Cass County,
where they car work during the
harvest season for $3.50 a day and
board. After that they will get
a chance at fall blowing, for which
they will be paid from $1.75 to So
a day, and it will be easier than
any blowing they have been used
to here, for it will be riding on a
sulky pillow. They will get any
how three months steady work
and possibly four. During that
time they can look around and
probably get jobs in stores in the
winter.
"Next spring if they have been
saving, they will be in shape to
take up some land, and in five
years they will have better farms
and several times the size Of those
there fathers have been working
years acquiring back east. There
are millions of acres of govern
ment lands which can be home
steaded in the north and north
western parts of the state. Ward
county alone has nearly 10000 900
acres of open land.
II know personally Of hundreds
Of. cases of men who have come III
there without a dollar and now
own big farms and are well fixed.
There was n man Fin here just
the other day that I saw for the
first time seventeen years ago. He
came to my lumber yard and
showed me $40, all the money he
had in the world, paid me 500
down and I gave him credit on the
rest for enoagh lumber to build
his first shack. He now owns a
big farm near Valley City, takes
life easy and goes either to the
south or California in the winter.
"When he was in here we re-
called the incident of our first
meeting, and I asked him how
much he considered himself worth
now. He said that he and his
wife were figuring up last winter
and they made him worth $4,000.
Hundreds Of Germans have
come into that country with hardly
q dollar, and with their families
and thei: stock in the same box
cor. The man would take up q
claim and perhaps break ten Of
fifteen acres Of it the first year,
and work out with his team during
harvest and blowing time fol
others. Then next spring he'd
break al much more and seed it,
but he'd still have time TO do some
waorkk. for others and get money to
help him through the winter. The
next YER he'd have all he could
attend toSat hons, and an those
who have struck Is iitars wellsd zxeesdl
ina manyoi them ne siel II poqW.