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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-07-03

To prevent worry don't take
time from your work to think
about it, then when night comes
sleep will arrive too soon to give
worry chance.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-07-03

Sunday schools of their respective
beats. Blanks can be had also by ap-
plying to w. HI. WADDELL, Sec
etary, or VIM. BUCHANAN, Presi-
dent, Brandon Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-07-03

There are people in this county
holding teachers certificates who
are very little better qualified to
teach school than a monkey is to
teach morals. They just know how
to ape; that is all.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-07-03
EX-SENATOR NOW APRINTER

Everybody remembers at the
time the effort was made to impeach
President Andrew Johnson the de-
Gliding vote against such action was
cast by Senator Ross of Kansas.
He was a famous man in his day.
81 was out in albuquerque, N. M,
not long ago." said Special Agent
j. H. Spooner, a cousin of Senator
Spooner, "and there | saw an old
man in a printing Office setting type.
He was ex-senator Ross of Kansas.
TimeS-Democrat.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-07-03

We suggest that the Brandon
girls start "Rescue the perishing
Club, the object of which should
be torescue the young men who
|are becoming old bachelors by
marrying them off.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-07-03
Poisoning the System.

It is through the bowels that the
body is cleansed OF impurities. Consti-
patioh keeps these posons in the sys-
tenn, causing headache, dulness and
melancholia at first, then unsightly
eruptions and finally serious illeness un-
less remedy is applied. DeWitt's Little
Early Risers prevent this trouble by
slim ulating the liver and promote easy,
healthy action of the bowels. These
little pills do not :act violently but by
strengthening the bowels enable them to
perform their own work. Never grippe or
distress. A. G. Thornton.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-07-03

enforcing the laws of the land
against the tax jumpers, and has,
received the endorsement of every
state convention since he first as
sumed charge of the office. Our
attention has been directed to the
following in one of these exponents
| of the tax-jumping element; "Wirt
Adams, the hated back tax grabber
land constituencies oppressor of the
people, will 60 down in history as
the most despised man who ever
abused the power given him by an
over-confnding and easily lobbied
legislature" (" The most remarkable
thing about this entire statements,
that so much could have been writ
ten without inscribing one word of
truth. If Mr.. Adams is so despised
why is it that he is reelected term
after term without opposition3 If
he is abusing the powers conferred
on him why is it that, without ex-
ception, when these tax-jumpers
seek to have the courts assist them
in evading their duty to state and
county, he is sustained? He is un-
popular, yes, with that class that
have had to pass, through his in
voking the law, their honest obIiga-
tions to the commonwealth. No
sane man doubts for an instant that
the people are with him, as they
will be with every officer who ad-
heres to, and enforces the law.
Biloxi Review.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
FARM LANDS IN DEMAND

How the Northern Part Of the State Has
Been Settled Since ?
1898.
In 1898, when the Great Northern road
began in earnest the work Of bringing i'm
migrati into North Dakota, there was
approximately eight million acres Of gov
ernment lands in the counties: of Walsh,
Pembina, Ramsey land the counties west
of these to end including Ward, says the
Commercial West. Up to Jan. I, 1902,
there had been taken up of these lands
approximately $500, 900 acres. Practically
no government lands now remain untaken
in any county, except a little rough land
in the Turtle mountains, Bottineau county,
and some arid grazing lands in the south
west Of Ward county. 1t was under the
homestead act that this 100000 acres Of
government land was occupied, which
means that no one family got more than
$50 acres. This indicates that about 33,-
900 families have thus taken homes in
this section Of North Dakota in the last
eight years. This does not include the
thousands Of families that have taken up
residence on land sold by private owners.
| In this territory there was no large rail-
road land grant to be held out of general
settlement so that now these counties
are reasonably well settled, as northwest
ern farm settlement goes. It is this WHIP
ing. out Of free government lands north
west that has done much to raise values
of raw and improved farm lands in the
northwest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
NEARLY$l00,00
A Jamestown Papers Estimate Of
: North Dakota : Income
\ in 190l.a;.
It Tells the. Tale of Burning Mort
cages, New Paint, New Build
ings, New Implements.

North Dakota s. farm products for the
year 1901, at conservative estimate, ag-
gregated 100000 in value. or about
$3.50 per capita, or S1,400 for the head Of
each family in the state. These are the
figures in round numbers: Wheat, 100000
900 bushels. value sS7,000,0o0: oats, 3d.
600, 900 bushels. value s10,50o, 900; rye, 30O,-
600 bushels, value S150,000; fax, 17,000,-
900 bushels, value s21, $50, 900; barley, S.
100000 bu., value $2,000,0O corn, 100000
bushels. value $1,000,O0O; potatoes, 2,000,-
900 bushels, value s1,4oo,0 900; other root
crops and vegetables. $I2oo.ooo; tame hay.
$780, 900 tons, value $1,750,000; wild hay,
2,O00,0 900 tons, value $2.0O0,00O; wool, g.,
900, 900 pounds, value s25o,0OO; poultry and
eggs $4,000, 900; milk and butter, $780,
900; live stock. 100000 900. 80
To these may be added 100000 for
coal, $500, 1000 for wood, and $4,000 for
manufactured products, aside from -four,
as the products of North Dakota for a
single year. What state can make better
showing? . 49,
North Dakota has a population Of AGO.
COO; 3,131 miles of railroad; 800 post
offices; 221 newspapers; 3;0s5 schools;
1900 teachers; 100000 worth of school
property. -.a
People south and east Of North Dakota
are wont to thinlz~of that state as land
Of wild uncertainty says the Jamestown
Capital; +: land Of poverty and hard toll;
state l-iuch after, the old time idea OF
Kansas, tull Of enthusiasm, good air,
good appelites, and long distances, but
nothing much more substantial and sat
isfying. The people of North Dakota car
well afford to be thus thought Of, for the
solid benefit is theirs whatever tradition
about the state may be. :-'s@
North Dakota, counting the actual pro.
duction of the soil per capita, which is the
| is one of the richest spots on the face
Of the earth. The state raised last veal
about fourteen acres of grain for every
man, woman and child III its population
1t raised forty bushels Of flax and 23
bushels of wheat per capita Of population
last year, whichF5sold attain aggregate o
$3.50 per capita. The state has $50 worth
Of live stock per capita, and has NOR,
acres Of good farma land per capita thar
probably any other. state In the union.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

The valley first began to be factor In
the wheat raising world about 1880 and
experienced boom in 1882. The first
wheat raised here was practically all NO.
hard, Scotch Fife being the seed. But
the farmers. finding that blue stem wheat
Northern Is a more common grade In the
Red River valley now than No. hard.
80 Plenty Of Room.
Yet for all it's wealth the Red River
valley is not yet thickly settled, the price
Of it's lands is low, compared with their
productive capacity and value and there
is room in them for thousands. 1t is
true that recently there have been some
sharp advances in prices, but there are
certain to be still further advances, until
the" value Of a farm corresponds to the
capitalization Of the income that can be
derived from it at prevailing interest rates
Mr.. ]. J.. Hill, the great railway man, was
asked while ago what he thought about
the tendency of these lands to advance In
price. He declared that the tendency was
permanent and bound to continue.
HIPS View.
1.-THE population of the United States"
he said. lis increasing at the rate OF
1000 daily. We are growing at the rate of
nearly 1,500,000 a year. We have doubled
in every thirty or forty years Of our his
100, 900, 900. Where are they going? Are
we sending them away? Are they emil
grating to other lands? No: we are TAX
ing care Of them at homo. Where is this
extra million and "a half year going?
Where else but into the new lands Of the
west, and into the northwest above auE
Where else are cheap lands, fertile soil.
healthful climate. transportation factli-
ties to good markets. and conditions fav-
orable to human energy and enterprise SO
abundant and ready to hand as right here
in the northwest?
us there anything Of boom character
about such condition as this? Not a bit.
It is not only normal and natural. 1t in
necessary it is compelled. What else
can this population do. where else can
they go? The cities cannot absorb the
$4,000 900 increase Of the next thirty years.
The bulk Of the population must be en-
gagged In productive occupations. They
| must be at work providing that great and
fundamental necessity OF mankind every
where-food for subsistence. The great
| absorbing industry, the most important
from a practical material standpoint. Is
| the production of food, and food comes
from the soil. The cities flourish and
prosper and our civilization is enduring
only when the vast majority Of the peo-
pie Is on the soil. toiling by sweat Of the
brow to produce food. on the one hand.
and the raw material for manufacture.
trade and transportation. on the other.
The bulk Of this 80, 100000 human increase
| must go to the soil, and they pour into
| the northwest as naturally as water flows
down hill. This population movement into
| the northwest Is as normal and natural
| as the fact that water seeks level"
An Expert Opinion.
| On the point Of land values the Com
Continued on page 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
THE RICH RED RIVER VALLEY
One of the Most Famous Farming Regions the WordThe
Land of No. Hard-45 900 900 Bushels Annually

There is probably no more famous farm
ing region, in the United States than the
valley of the Red River Of the North. Go
where you will and you will find people
who know or think they know all about
that wonderfully productive region.
Until recent years it's face completely
overshadowed that of other parts Of North
Dakota. The prevailing impression was
that North Dakota was made up Of blist-
cred, arid plains, fringed on the east by
the green Red River Valley. Before men
had learned the ways of nature in the
western part Of the state and how to adapt
themselves to her any fool could raise
wheat and make money at it in the rich,
black, deep soil of the Red River valley
with an abundance Of moisture and moth
mig to do but put seed in the ground in
the spring and cut the resulting wheat in
the fall.
There are few richer land areas in the
world It is not easy to say just where
1.-The valley ends and where it begins, but
as general rule it is considered to be
about sixty miles wide, thirty on each
side Of the river, and to include the coun-
ties of Pembina, Walsh, Grand Forks,
Trail, Cass and Richland, in North Da-
kota; and Kittson,. Marshall, Polk, Nor
man, Clay, Red Lake and, sometimes
Wilkin in Minnesota. At any rate a glance
at the soil will tell whether you are in the
valley or not, and that cannot be told by
the topography, so gradual Is the rise In
most places from the river to the bench
lands. The heavy, black soil of the valley
can be told at a glance. 1t is a beautiful
country to look upon this Red river valley.
A correspondent Of The Journ
who travelled through it in August, 1901
thus described it.:
A Glowing Description.
No better tonic in the world Is there
for the tired and languid people Of the
hot and dusty, drought stricken region
than to sit at car window and skim
over the cool, moist prairies Of North
Dakota, from which the heavy train
| squeezes out not a single particle Of dust
None comes in the open windows, the
| seats are clean, the linen Of the traveller,
like that Of the dining cars, is inmacu-
| late. The air is sweet and pure and often
| fragrant Of the prairie flowers, the hay
and the grain in shocks. The sun shines
brightly out of a clear sky; you feel anG
appreciate it's warmth. but it cannot take
| the GOODNESS out Of the air. The atmos.
| phere is clear and you. can see farm
| buildings rising miles away out Of the
flat plain, plain redeemed from monot.
ony by exquisite coloring.
| AS I took the train at Crookston yes.
terday morning, the sun shining through
the trees struck upon a golden carpet o.
wild sunflowers, which made the little
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

wooded dale as respondent as any palace
of kings, and far more beautiful. And
from there up to the Canadian line and on
to Winnipeg, 100 miles away, the golden
CLEAN Of those beautiful flowers Of the
prairie never ceased. They crowd the
railroad embankment the cuts, the fur
row pits, the country road, the unplowed
strip along the fences, the corolla ever
turning toward the sun. Supporting their
sisters In color are vast stretches of the
two kinds of golden rod, taking over to
themselves pasture lands and fallow
fields. Then there are the grayish-yellow
fields Of standing wheat; the silver green
white in the sun, almost brown in the
shade; thu pale blue of the poisoning
flax, the rich brown Of the matured flax;
the COOL dark green Of the fodder crops;
the stubble field notified with red, the
light green Of the meadows. And to all
this "a line Of green forest on the far
horizon, deep blue sky overhead dotted
with feecy clouds. make allowance for
the tonic air and sunlight and you have
some faint idea of the quiet Joy one feels
in a drive across these pralries at thirty
miles an hour behind the iron horse
AS the train gets farther north there
Is a little change In the scene, but not
much. White tansy and yellow butter
cups are added and there is more stand
ing grain ana more Wild iand.
Striking Comparisons.
The valley Is about $50 miles long.
If we call it go miles wide it has an area
of 1880 square miles. That is about
one-seventh Of the total area Of Mime
sofa and about one-thirteenth that of
Minnesota and North Dakota together.
These two states together produce in an
average year about $50, 000,0 900 bushels
Of wheat. The Red River valley in good
years produces 45,000,000 bushels or more.
According to the United States census
it produced in 1899 100000 bushels.
Thus 8 per cent Of the total area of these
two states produced q per cent of their
wheat.
In 1889 the North Dakota valley coun-
ties, which had about 1900, 900 acres in
wheat, produced as follows: Pembina
| 3,434,08; Walsh, 3,753,322: Grand Forks
3,966,146; Trail, 3,931,212; Cass, $751;
PA; Richland, 2,ss4,25s; a total of 25,-
036, 100.
! In the same year the Minnesota coun-
| ties produced wheat as follows: Kittson
1,772,120; Marshall, 2,225, 440: Polk, 4,128,.
$40; Norman, 1,459,030; Clay, 1888, 800
Red Lake, 747,450. The Minnesota acre.
age was $4,000.
And this, remember, Is only wheat. I,
takes no account Of the other cereals and
fax and there is besides the great vege.
table and stock and dairy wealth Of this
favored region.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
PROSPEROUS NORTH DAKOTA-NCOME $Q4000O00

production Of wheat and barley. The
subsoil is strongly impregnated with lime
and alkaline elements, which serve as per-
petual fertilizers" - u -
North Dakota is essentially prairie
state, yet with great variety and diver
sity of surface. 1t has the fiat plains of
the Red River valley in. the east, the hills
in the Coteaux regions west of the first
bench land above the valley, the higher
prairies that descend to the Missouri river
on the west and south, the rolling coun-
try west of the Missouri, with the rough
Bad Lands still further west, and the
bold hilly country Of the northwest. The
state abounds in -'7es and rivers, many
Of which are borGored by timber, and In
the Turtle mountains in the north boasts
some considerable attitudes. -. -.
Much Ignite. r '-|'
Many counties of the state, including
Ward, Mclean, Burleigh, Oliver, Morton,
Billings, Dunn. are fortunate in the pos
session of inexhaustible strata of Ignite
coal underlying the surface at such a
shallow depth that it is easily mined. This
! coal affords a very cheap fuel and many
farmers are their own coal miners. Al
Washburn and other places. it is being
mined on a very extensive scale.
North Dakota has total land area Of
about 70 10000 square miles, and a rapid
about 10000 square miles, which, however
by the census of 1900, was only 319,040
1t has 5000 miles of railway, 200 newspa
| pers, spends 81 500, 900 a year on it's public
schools, Of which it has over $1,000, will
more than 1000 teachers. Its school prop
erty is worth $4,000 the state is as
sessed at about $3.50, 100000 and the schoo
lands endowment Is worth 50000,000.
Profits from the Soil.
On 100000 acres Of land the state
! raised 100000 bushels of wheat in 1899
| on 900 acres Of land it raised Over
100000 bushels of oats, and on less thar
| 800, 900 acres of land it raised nearl!
1000, 900 bushels Of barley. Those wer,
the principal cereal crops. The total value
of the crops of the state for 1899, tho
| year in which agricultural statistics were
gathered for the 1900 census was $54, GAO,
| SIT. The principal crops were valued a:
| follows:
Wheat, s31, 733,7e3
| FlaXseed, S7,735, $40.
| Oats, SIS, 1852, 615.
| Hay and forage, $5,1S2,s17.
Barley, s1,s96,0s2.
! Another Immense Crop.
The state is enjoying an immense crol
! again this year and the average income O
S1,190 from each farm in the state III 1885,
will doubtless be greatly exceeded thi!
year. That $1,190, by the way, is abou
| 5000 more than the average income Pc
farm for the great and rich state of Min
| nesota.
! Live stock raising is a very inportan
feature of farming in North Dakota The
number Of head of live stock in the state
increased AZ per cent during the last de
cade. It includes $4,000 dairy cows
/ $4,000 other neat cattle, 100000 horses
451,ooO sheep, $4,000 swine. The tota
value of this live stock is over $42, 900, 900
The farmers of North Dakota derived il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
H0MESEEkERS AND LAND BUYERS
They Throng the Rich Looking for Bargains the
Cheap
Fame Of the States Fertility and Wealth Attracts Thousands
Millions of Acres.

No state has profted more by the great
population and land buying movement of
the last few years than North Dakota.
That state found itself most happily stu
ated when people everywhere began to
realize that land was scarce and a good
thing to get while still cheap. The hard
times OF the early nineties caught North
Dakota before it was found to have mil
lions of acres Of good government or cheap
privately owned land waiting as 1t had
through all the centuries for men to come
and take it.
The homeseekers soon realized this fact.
There ensued a great rush to get free or
cheap land-50. 900 people in two years.
Practically all the good arabic easily &C
cessible government land was soon taken
but large amounts Of virgin prairie still
remain in the hands of companies and
individuals that have for the most part
secured 1t from the original land grants
of the Northern Pacific railway. Land
values were so ridiculously low In North
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

1899 an income of s10,211.67 from animal
products. OF this amount 1916 per cent
represents the value Of animals sold and
slaughtered on the farms; 27.9 per cent
that Of dairy products; 1875 per cent that
of poultry and eggs. -. .- -.
It should be said here that North Dako-
ia is now the greatest fax producing stat.
in the Union. In the last two years the
flax acreage and yield has increased i'm
nensely, the. latter having reached about
100000 bushels as against about 49,
900. 900 for the whole country. :
North Dakota is declared to be the rich
est state in the Union in proportion ~
population. It has about, 400, 900 people
now and about $500, 100000 of wealth. 5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
NOT DISSATISFIED
Farmer Wanted Rest After Flfteel
- Years Of Big Crops.


49,. Years Of Big Crops.
'Cando Record.
A. Paulson gives lis the following in
formation in answer to our inquiries con-
corning the report Of his disposal of his
big farm and removal from the state: II
am offering the farm for sale, but it isn't
on the bargain counter, by any means. If
any of those prospective buyers ever come
up to my figures they can have it,, IL
not, I'll keep it. I have been farming here
for fifteen years, and can afford to take a
rest Have never had failure Of crops.
In 1888, when everything froze, my crop
was untouched. and yielded 20 bushels.
Have not kept track Of the yields, but
am sure that the average for the past fif-
teen years has beenF2o bushels per acre.
or better. North Dakota Is all right, and
: though seek a home in other c1imes, I
can have nothing but praise for tho state
that has yielded me such bountiful har-
vests It might be observed that with
record Of 20 bushels per acre for fifteen
years from one Of the biggest farms in
the county, it is no wonder that Mr. Paul
son IS tired of making money and wants
to take a vacation. ~
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CONTINUED on page 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
An Impartial Authority.

An Impartial Authority.
Every state Is so much interested in
putting itself forward as a region of sur
passing fertility that it is we'll to seek
for the verdict of an unprecedented author
ity. The United States census reports
ought to be such authority. In the bulle-
tin on agriculture in North Dakota the bu-
reau says that except for some Of the
southwestern counties, especially adapted
to grazing, 1.-The soil throughout the state
is unusually fertile, being nearly every
where rich. black loan, varying in depth
from a few inches on the highest hills
to from five to eighteen feet in the valleys
It is easily titled, and as it's composition
favors the absorption and retention OF
moisture it is especially adapted to the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

Dakota few years ago that even though
there have in some parts Of the state been
increases of a hundred per cent within
a few years intrinsic values have not yet
been exceeded anywhere.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
PREMIER FLAX STATE
North Dakota the Leader by a Clear Ma
-. : Jority-The Efuures, "a

According to the very close estimate OF
the Orange Judd Farmer, a recognized
authority, the flax yield of North Dakota
In 1901 was larger than that Of all the
other flax raising states together The
following statement shows It's estimated
average yield of flax seed per acre, and
the total production by states, in 1901: