The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02

has confidence in himself and in his home
state, and has made a success of his af-
fairs by sheer force of character and in
donlitable energy. Though carrying load
OF. business last summer and fall that
would have staggered most men, he
plunged into the political campaign and
was elected to the state senate from his
district. Only recently he hied himself
from the capital to his home town and
took true daughter Of the prairie to
wife. and is now on his honeymoon trip.
Needless to say, Mr.. Pierce is a good
man for Ransom county and North Da
kota. He is a good, heady advertiser and
inspires confidence when he meets the
prospective land buyer face to face. He
knows all about Ransom county and just
what it will do. He has a facility for dis
patching business and can turn off a pret-
ty good days work before some men have
fairly started. >...l.
Mr.. Pierce knows he is right in pushing
Ransom county, because he thoroughly
knows by long contact and actual expe-
dience it's fertility and resources. He
knows itNAis a leader in wheat, good for
all the rest, Of the northern cerals, big
in hay and flax yields splendidly adapted
! to stock-raising. possessed of good wa ter
endowed with good SOIL. near, to markets
and we'll provided with railroads. Here is
a region, he figured, that has all the ad-
vantages of the prairie west, and it was
good enough for him.
Everybody in North Dakota knows that
Mr.. Pierce transacted an immense busi-
ness, in lands during the season of 1902.
He himself will plead guilty to it If
> pressed to "a reply Large as that bust
ness was, however, he expects to over
top it during 1903. His confidence is in
fictitious and North. Dakotans generally
agree with him that the season is going
to be a good one for all the state. OF the
prospects confronting the state, he says:
I'VE have another big year ahead of
us and no mistake, and look to see the
people come in train loads before the sea-
son is we'll advanced. All the claims for
North Dakota last year and previous years
have been made good. and the news has
spread to regions which we have hardly
touched before Our lands are rich and
: cheap, and diversified farming has showed
that there need be no failures here. Every
energetic farmer is an absolute master o1
the situation and can make his income
| safe and sure. There are no offerings be.
fore the homeseekers and investors sc
good as ours. The proposition has never
| been equaled. .~....-
"Times are still generally good, and the
man Of small means and the tenant farmer
in the east are able to strike out and es
tablish themselves in North Dakota. There
l are as many young men who want farm:
Of their own as ever, and they are going
= to come from the east in large numbers
The opportunities to be found here arr
l better understood than at any time in thu
, past. North Dakota is on the map, ant
pretty nearly all the people have fount
. it out and have satisfied themselves tha
< the state is going to enjoy great prosper
3 ity. Many have resolved upon having |
, share Of this prosperity.
E "I regard this the golden opportun1t.
for the farmer and the poor man. as wei
l as the investor who has a little SPAR
y money to put where 1t will make NOR
money and never give him a. moment
uneasiness for it's safety. Our land i
u wonderfully. cheap. considering what
will do-pay for itself in single crol
=. year. The natural increase in value