The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

One of the largest corporations in
the South, in its effort to attract emf
grafton to that section of the country.
declares that for three consecutive
years the Northwest has experienced
a phenomenal land boom. Prices in
many localities have doubled, and even
quadrupled, and even now are none too
high as compared with the actual value
of the lands. Indeed this same adver-
tisement continues, ''the lands will still
further advance with the natural in
crease in population and the industrial
development of the cities and towns"
And it includes North Dakota in the
group of states that must enjoy this
prosperity.
Could there be stronger argument
in favor of buying in the Northwest.
coming as it does from such a source?
There are hundreds of additional rea-
sons in support of the argument that
lands must advance, but they simply
accentuate the prediction made above.
Within the lifetime of u man who has
voted but once for president, North
Dakota has been transformed from it's
place assigned in every old geography
? as part of the great American desert
to the richest, most productive and fer
tile plateau in the United States. The
evolution has been so swift that even
today there remains a lingering belief
III the minds of the older generation
that the barren wastes, bowling biz
yards and a CONCEALED thermometer are
the chief characteristics of that par! of
the country.
They cannot grasp the fact that its
farmers are the richest on the globe
that their products for 1901 aggregated
the enormous amount of $4,000 coo
which was more than $3.50 per CAPITA
for each man, woman and Child in the
state, and that in the single product
OF flax alone its crop is larger than that
OF all the other 1laX-raising states c"m-
blned. They cannot be made to be-
ieVe that its public schools have an
endowment of $5O,OOO,09O, and are
based on the broadcast AMI most liberal
laws Of all the states; that railroads
penetrate to every part of the common
wealth; that the telegraph and tele-
phone are as accessible as in Illinois:
that the half-million progressive and
IaW-abiding citizens make up the 1u-
cleus of what is destined to become the
most progressive, resourceful ard beau
tiful commonwealth in the galaxy of
prairie states.
1t is not to this class that this arti-
Gle Is addressed, but rather to those
who can believe what they see and give
credence to part of what they hear or
read.
North Dakota embraces 70.172 square
miles, or 44,910,0S0 acres. It is, there
Tore, vast domain, and, like all great
stretches of country, is very different
In different parts. East of the Mis-
souri, river must ever be the agricul-
tural and stock raising part of the
state West of the river are endless
plains of good ranges where cattle NAV
be raised at comparatively little cost
IL the season be propitious: but the
iack OF hay for winter feeding more
than offsets the difference in the yaIue
of the lands
mat part of North Dakota to which
this article directs attention is in
the exact geographical center of the
state 1t is, dramatically and otherwise.
especially adapted to mixed farming.
and the experience of those already
established there justifies the predic-
ton that success awaits every man who
would do tolerabIy well in the older
states.
If one were invited to remove to the
South the first question to arise in his
mind would concern the climate. No
man can enjoy life in an unfavora BILE
climate, even though riches are to be
MS reward. The climate of North Da.
kota is one of its chief glories: the at
mosphere is dry and devoid of any hui
nudity during the winter months, and
therefore 1t never penetrates and chills
us does the atmosphere of more south
erh regions. The winters are even less
severe and cause less inconvenience