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

have never known any warmer shelter
than barbed wire corral. And vet
these same cattle will come out in the
spring in as good condition as the STALL
fed cattle of states less favored by ma
ture.
Even more important than climate
or grasses is water. In this respect the
central part of North Dakota stands
unexcelled. Thousands of failing
springs and hundreds of small, fresh
water lakes make that region an ideal
spot for stock raising. And this is not
all AT any place at depth of five, six
or seven feet to thirty feet water can
be obtained in plentiful supply, and
better water cannot be found 1t is as
pure and limpid as the kind you were
used to when a boy and absolutely free
from alkali or other disagreeable con-
tamination. Much of the water of
North Dakota is anything but pa1at-
able; but the water found in the CEN
trail part of that state is as pure and
refreshing as any on earth.
North Dakota is one of the few states
that is absolutely Independent of the
NOol DciI OlIS' w llIIlIl IlGI DOIueIS dI Z
inexhaustible deposits of Ignite coal
that furnish a satisfactory solution of
the fuel question. Ignite coal is wood
in the first stage of conversion, and
while it has not the heat producing
power of anthracite, it is superior to
the general run of soft coal. 1t is sue
cessfully used for all purposes and
makes a splendid domestic fuel. In or
binary times it sells at the mines for
81 per ton, and may be had by settlers
in the central part of North Dakota
at a slight advance over that figure.
These coal deposits vary from ten to
twenty feet in thickness, and, as stat
ed, are ineXhaustibie. Some of the
lands offered for sale by this company
are underlaid with deposits of Ignite,
and all are within a short distance of
the coal mines now in operation, and
quite recently coal was uncovered in
the immediate vicinity of these lands.
Coal is now mined on a large scale at
Coal Harbor, Wilton, and other places
in Mclean and Burleigh counties. Dur
ing the coal famine of 1923 many of
the large office buildings in ST Paul
and Minneapolis and other Northwest
ern cities used Ignite coal with most
satisfactory results. A recent test
made by the Northern Pacific Railway
company on a locomotive engine at
Bismarck showed a saving of AZ per
cent over the soft coal previously used.
Wood Of all kinds is for sale at low
prices, for it is brought from the for
ests of Minnesota, less than 200 miles
away.
North Dakota enjoys the best school
system in the United States. The law
as originally designed was copied after
that Of Iowa, but it has been material
ly improved. With the munificent do
nation in the shape of public lands. its
public school system has amassed an
endowment of S5O,OO0,OOO. In 1901 there
were over 1920 schools, EMPLOYING
more than 1900 teachers, and the value
of school property aggregated $780,
600. North Dakota churches are almost
as numerous as its schools, and nearly
every denomination is we'll represented.
Usually the smallest village has two
or three church edifices, and FREQUENT
ly at various places in the farming
district others may be seen.
OIiooIADCeuly .IlS WONDERFUL products
Of North Dakota are due in a large
measure to the even and timely dis
tribution of annual precipitation. The
rainfall of Central North Dakota, ac-
cording to the government records at
Fargo, which have been kept for more
than quarter of a century, show that
the average rainfall from April to Sep
TENDER inclusive is 1888 inches. and
from October to March inclusive els
inches. This makes two solid feet of
water per year.
The land of short seasons is also
that of long summer days, which, for
agricultural purposes, may outvalue
the former. These long days, combin-
ed with the equal fall of rain at