Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-01-27

IMMIGRATION.
The Present Year Promises Well for
North Dakota.

The Present Year Promises Well for
North Dakota.
Residents in northwest Dakota in
position to know believe that the CON-
ing spring will see all immigration rec
ords of the past broken. The demand
for North Dakota land is steady and in
creasing.
Several years ago the Great Northern
road and it's immigration agent, Max
Bass, began the work of bringing set
tiers to North Dakota in systematic
way. The work was carried on chiefly
in Indiana and Illinois among the Dun
kards. These people were located
mostly in the Devils Lake land district,
along the line of the Great Northern in
Ramsey or Benson counties, and on the
st. John and Bottineau branches of that
road. a.
The Northern Pacific followed with
several train loads OF Indiana and Hi
nois people who were located along the
Jamestown & Northern. Then came
the 500 with more of them. Last year
was the greatest year for immigration in
the history of North Dakota. The new
comers, as a general thing, were in bet
ter circumstances than those of three
years previous. Many of those brought
in by the Great Northern came from
Michigan and brought with them
enough stock and means to make re.
spectacle start. The Northern Pacific
also sent many of these people into the
western part Of the state. Lands on
the slope were taken up rapidly, and the
country tributary to the 500 north of
Darlington saw the greatest rush for
land in the history of that section of the
state. Many of the people who settled
on the slope OR along the 500 came from
Iowa. The Devils Lake, Minot and
Bismarck land offices showed a wonder
full record of homestead filings for the
year.
1t was not the much h-talked-o of drought
in North Dakota last year so much as it
was the annoying rains in the fall that
made the crop disappointment, the first
approach to failure in years. In the
western part of the state the fax acreage
was large and in spite of the disagreeable
weather a good yield of that grain was
finally run through the machine. The
price was strong, consequently the new
arrivals who were on land in time to seed
fax were we'll satisfied with the result of
the seasons work, and that meant many
happy letters to the old home in the east
the best kind of advgtising for North
Dakota
The immigration movement to North
Dakota this year will be an easy influx
Of people who have heard enough about
the state and its fertile lands to have
confidence in it. Michigan, Illinois and
Iowa will contribute class of i'm
migrants with means and ideas in farm
ing who will greatly benefit the state.
The star of empire has always moved
west, because the eastern farmer who
wanted to see his sons settled on farms
Of their own has been obliged to, go west
for cheap land. The tenant is obliged to
do the some thing TO become a land
owner The young man instinctively
move west because opportunity beckons
him. North Dakota has attractions for
all these and her lands are in demand.
This years immigration will do much
toward developing the resources Of the
southwestern part Of the state, including
the Missouri slope, and push Bismarck,
the capital, on farther toward larger
commercial center and distributing point
for that section OF the state. General
Washburn and his new railroad are con
5tributing toward this end. ss5 5s
Mrs. Nation on the Warpath. .
81 Topeka, Kas, Jan. s2se Mrs. Nation
entered joint. and was attacked BY
women. and rescued Nv ,olican,ar