Morris tribune., 1903-04-25
INTRODUCTION.

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raising, dairying and farming in the
Big Bend country. 1t tells of a tract
of country that has mads successful
and independent the man of thrift
and industry who came here poor
from the closely settled east and the
middle west; who began his work
under the adverse conditions and the
privations with which men in a new
and untried region must contend;
! who has tried and used it's rich re-
sources and has prospered splendidly
thereby.
These earlier settlers have blazed
the way for the great numbers that
are now coming. Today no part OF
this region is more than twenty miles
FROM Touring mill and grain eleva-
tor; good markets are found for every
kind of farm and garden produce;
creameries are very successfully
established, and dairying forms one
OSSS@0~'~'
of the chief industries; and Organized
s3,counties, postoffices, schools and
kchurches furnish comforts of civiliza-
ton.
Thus, with settlement, opportunities
have grown and multiplied, 80 that
now the new settler has the aid and
benefits of established communities,
added to the abundant natural adj
vantages of GOOD SOIL. PURE WATER
AND PLENTY OF IT, HEALTHFUL
CLIMATE, AN ABUNDANCE OF EXCELLENT
FEEL, AND A FAVORABLE LOCATION.
THIS PAPER CONTAINS VALUABLE IN
: FORMATION. We trust you will read
it carefully.
To all who examine and learn the
GREAT resources of this tract of coun
try this paper will come as a message
of opportunities.
This country has record that
merits the closest examination of in.
vestors, stockraisers and farmers.
Lands that have produced as these
lands have, not only in single years.
but during a long period of years,
must increase greatly in value.
THE PRICES AT WHICH THESE LANDS
APE SELLING RANGE AT PRESENT FROM
SIS TO $3.50 PER ACRE; and they CAN BE
bad on favorable terms. We sell in
large and small tracts.
To every purchaser of land we will
allow on the purchase price OF his
land his EXPENSES FOR LIVERY AND
BOARD on THE GROUNDS; to pur, hasers
of one half section we will allow also,
the price of LANDsEEKERs TICKET FROM
ST. PAUL TO NEW SALEM AND RETURN;
and to one who buys section CT
more, we will allow, also, ENTIRE
PRICES OF HIS ROUND TRIP TICKET.
LOCATION.
The Big Bend county may be gen.
seerally defined as that portion OF the
Missouri Slope country comprised
within the great bends of the Mis-
souri, river made at Coal Harbor and
Washburn, and situate in westerly
and northwesterly direction from Bis
marck, on the west and south sides of
the Missouri river.
THE LAY OF THE LAND.
The general surface of this coun-
try is that of rolling prairie; thus
giving the land the proper drainage,
and we'll adapting it for agriculture
and for diversified farming. A long
range view of the unbroken virgin
prairie, covered with it's wealth of
thick and hardy grasses, presents a
beautiful country, and one of oppor-
tunity.
THE SOIL AND SUBSOTL.
A matter of first Importance in the
selection of farm and grazing lands,
is the character of the soil and sub
soil. The soil of the Big Bend coun'
try is rich, dark: alluvial loan, rang
ing from six inches to three feet in
depth. Beneath are several strata of
clay of different varieties. This clay
subsoil serves to hold and to save all
the moisture and to give it up as
needed for the growing plants. Its
richness in the elements and condi-
tons needful for the raising of all
grains. forms practically inexhausti-
BILE basis for agriculture.
Seeding commences as soon as the
frost is out of the ground to small
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