Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-12
NORTH DAKOTA GETS THE LARG.
EST CLICE OF THE IMMI-
GRAFTON,
10000 BECOME fuCKtR1AIls
FINE HOMESTEADS HAS BEEN THE
ATTRACTION WHICH DREW
THEM.
NORTHWEST GETS ABOUT $4,000
MINNESOTA AND NORTH DAKOTA
ALSO PROFIT by THE
INFLUX.

ALSO PROFIT DY THE
Sixty thousand people have been add
ed to the population of the Central |
Northwest since the first of the year.
This is equal to the immigration into |
Minnesota, the Dakotas and Northern
Wisconsin for the entire twelve months
of 1901. For the first year since immi-
grafton to the Northwest took such
positive turn, there will be a steady.
moderate movement throughout the
summer with increased travel In the
fall months. Industrial agents, in close
touch with the situation, place the total
immigration for the Central Northwest
ct 100000. It is believed that the esti-
mate on immigration into the "Greater
Northwest" will reach the figure pre-
dicted the first of the year-200,00o.
In the Central Northwest North Da-
kota has taken the big piece of the per-
simmon. Since Jan. 1, 10000 have been
added to the population. North Dako-
ia was credited by the census of 19oo
with 100000 Inhabitants The immigra-
ton of last year, together with that
of the past four months, will bring the
Flickertail states total population up
to $4,000, which demonstrates the Won
derful possibilities of North Dakota be-
tween now and the taking of the next
census. Minnesota's gain through this
years immigration is about 15.Ooo;
South Dakota's, 10000 and Northern
Wisconsin, 5000. South Dakota can
now lay claim to a population of 425,0Oo,
an increase of $4,000 people in two years.
immigration has furnished Minnesota
with a net gain of 10000 people in the
past two years.
Returns from the hundreds Of railway
stations on the various lines show that
1000 full car loads of homeseekers'
household and farming effects have
gone into the Central Northwest since
Jan. 1. This number includes only full
car loads, and does not take into consid-
GRAFTON the several thousand less than
car lot Shipments North Dakota and
minnesota received 5000 of these, by
far the greater portion of which went to
North Dakota. South Dakota took l.
300 or 1900 and Northern Wisconsin
about 600. While railroad statistics on
immigration are entirely lacking In
completeness, enough is known to show
that at the railway stations in the
Northwest more car loads Of homeseek-
ers' effects have been received since
Jan. than during all of 1901, which
was considered remarkable for it's i'm
migration record.
Homeseekers' travel has been steady
since the first of the year. The moder-
ate winter weather Of January and Feb
ruary gave it an early start March
and April, as usual, were the big
months May is making reasonably
| good and rather surprising record. The
| fall months, up to Nov. l, are expected
to furnish a magnificent close.
Homestead land in North Dakota has
been the attraction which has given the
state the major portion Of the home
seeker movement this year. This, as
sisted by the excellent crop record OF
1901, and the advertising done by the
land companies and the railroads, has
sent thousands Of people of small
means. looking for farm, to the Flick
ertail state. Other sections of the
Northwest have homesteads to Offer
but the free farms of North Dakota
have been more advantageously situat-
ed, and in a country adapted to the
small farmer as well as to stock rails
ing. At the beginning of the year there
was more opportunity of this kind for
the renter of Iowa in Western North
Dakota than in any other section OF the
Northwest. Consequently, the big
movement headed that way. Land
seekers by thousands have gone to Min
nesota. Thousands have gone to South
Dakota. There has been good settle
ment in the forest lands of Wisconsin,;
but the Industrial agents say that the
big advertising Of free farms in North
Dakota was large factor in taking the
best of the homeseeker travel to that
state.
This years immigration has pushed
the outposts of settlement in North Da-
kota beyond the Missouri river. In
South Dakota the homeseeker has taxi
en- many of the lands close up to the
banks of the big Muddy" and now
threatens TIE trans Missouri drHnaln
with invasion Cut-over timber lands
of Minnesota and Wisconsin have been
peopled The investor has spread his
buying all over the Northwest ard the
well-to-do farmers seeking homes IN
Minnesota and the Dakotas are includ-
ed in this class. Settlement in North
Dakota has been characterized by big
increases in population in the western
part Of the state. In South Dakota the
homeseeker has been partial to no par
ticular section. In Minnesota the Red
River valley has been favored. and
large number of settlers have invaded
the central counties. The wealthy Iowa
farmer looking for opportunity lin the
North" has crossed the line and settled
in the southern, counties.
The railroads have always been big
factor in promoting settlement in the
Northwest This is to be one of the
most successful years in the history or
the Great Northern, Northern Pacific
and 500 immigration departments. Set
Element has been general along the
main line of the Northern Pacific. in
North Dakota. and heavy on all Of It's
North Dakota branches. The Grea
Northern has carried thousands into
Northwestern North Dakota. The 500
has promoted settlement along all OF Its
lines in North Dakota, and especially In