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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-21
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
James, wn, N. D., Sept. 19.-Stuts-
man county contains sixty-four town
ships or 100000 acres, and is situated
in the south central part Of the state;
The soil is exceptionally fertile and
produces yields that cannot be sur
passed in any other county in the state;
the soil is heavy black loan, under
laid with subsoil Of clay.
Stutsman county has been good to e
those who have given her their conf
dence; few indeed are the men who
have steadfastly and with Judgment
and industry reposed faith in the
county who have not been faithfully
rewarded, as the beautiful homes dotted
here and there over the prairies, or
nesting down in the valleys will read
lily prove to anyone IN driving over u TINS
county. It must be kept in mind that at
everyone in. this portion Of the west
stands upon an equality of opportuni-
ties; we have nothing of the arrogance
of great wealth to contend with, but
4 the land abounds in possibilities OF
wealth to every man who honestly and
faithfully seeks it here. Instances are
numerous where men have come to the
James River valley with but very
few dollars and today would not ex-
change their 1904 crop for all that has
taken many farmers twenty-five years
Il to accumulate in older. sections OF the
country; the crop alone on many farms
acre than the lands are priced at on
which grown. Rainfall is sufficient fo1
:. all crops grown here. The statistics
. compiled and published by the United
States weather bureau at Bismarck
give this vicinity an average of twenty
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OUT THEY GO TO NORTH DAKOZA
Indiana and Illinois Hoeseekers Taking Ad0antage of the Great
Resources of the Missouri R0er Country.

has more than justified Dalrymple' s
prophecy, as more corn is produced
here now than east Of the river. a..
Creameries.
Creameries are multiplying all over
the slope. Near New Salem alone are
nine creameries and two cheese fac
and food commissioner of Minnesota,
made special report on these, as fol
lows: "Eighty-fve thousand dollars
annually is paid patrons of New Sa-
lem creameries. The average pro-
duction of butter, at one cream
cry, for each cow year, was 100
pounds, as compared, with 166 pounds
The cows were largely fed on native
grasses.'
There are creameries now at. Hebron
Glenullin, Richardton, Taylor and Glad
stone, and one to be established in Het-
finger county.
Some Features Worth Noting.
Wheat production Of the Missouri
slope keeps the mills, of which there is
one. in every town to Dickinson, busy
besides exporting a large surplus
! An annual wool output of nearly
100000 pounds, this years price, K
cents pound.
Some of the finest herds of bloodec
stock anywhere.
Ignite coal enough to supply thu
world.
More creameries than in any othe
portion of the state.
Extensive deposits Of brick and fir,
claws and building stone.
i Thousands of cars of stock shipped
| each year.
A great corn country and the stock
man s paradise.
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Bushels si s to the acre. Flag 'T ran faiiy
twenty bushels and oats sixty-fve
bushels. The adjoining farms made
fully as good showing. The oldest Of
years and the others i've and four
years, and good crops have always re.
warded the farmers Of this section. -
And this report was not overdrawn.
Others have done equally vel.
John Ehr raised twenty bushels Of
fax, seventy-five bushels Of oats, thir-
ty-seven bushels of wheat and fifty-fve
bushels Of barley to the acre.
T. V. Bailey raised twenty-seven
bushels Of fax to the acre.
Henry Stammen raised 1T bushels
Of oats to the acre on fifteen-acre
tract.
na Phes Ss are fovR Hs Vii 0Ga ys 5dl b5Pt sg
idea of average yields: John Oswald
has kept track of one piece of wheat /
for eleven years, and it averaged four
teen bushels to the acre-good years
John A. Botz, Jr., raised .forty-two
bushels of wheat to the acre one year
on a seventeen-acre piece and thirty
six bushels to the acre on the same
tract the next year. He raised seventy
eight bushels of oats to the acre in each
Of two successive years. He raised sew
euLoou UuSuolS OI ldA 10 Inc acre, DolHS
the thirteenth annual crop. He also
raised forty bushels Of corn to. the acre.
Mr.. Botz does not think he has done
better than the average farmer.
Whether the best of these results
can be eqqaled this year or not is a
tanned, as threshing has only fairly
scommenced; but if. they cannot be
equaled, they can be very nearly so.
One Of the first farmers to come in dur
ing the present season was james
Foley, who reported that he had threshed
had just received check for $1,s75
to pay for it. The land on which it
was raised is not worth over half that
amount. If the grain (wheat) had
been sold two days later it would have
brought 6 cents bushel more. An
other farmer from his vicinity . reports
that ninety acres yielded $500 an
acre. Another man from north of
Minot reports 1850 bushels Of oats on
| twenty acres Of land Yields of twenty
five to thirty-fve bushels of wheat are
quite common. Still, many Of the best
pieces Of grain in the county are now
not be given. For instance, John Ehr
has 200-acre tract in Maearoni wheat,
and the conservative farmers are esti-
mating the yield as high as forty-tiye
bushels, while all concede that it will
go as high as forty bushels to the acre.
These instances can be equaled by
any good farmer who will work his
land as the farmers in the older states
work theirs It must be remembered
that farming in this country is new
yet, and that most of the farmers are
new. Many Of them are men who, in
the older States, were unable to own
a. farm themselves, and either worked
for other farmers or rented farms. But
can their old employers and landlords
show up any better reports than the
:. above9 Have they got any land that
year after year, than this $12 to 500
an acre land9
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NORTH DAKOTA WHAT IT
OFFERS THE HOlNESEEKER
Far1u 7end Of
Is Steadily Iba0ra Lawds VIII Soon Be Worth
7vice lie for They Bought

leads the union, while it's rank in the
growth of wheat is third. The average
yield of fax a year ago was twelve
bushels to the acre, which at 81 a
bushel in many cases paid the entire eX-
pense of making the crop, besides pay
long considered too far north to raise
corn successfully. yet varieties are be-
ing developed suitable to the climate,
and which compare in nutrltlve prop
critics with the celebrated hard wheat,
which ranks as the best in the, world.
silver medal, at the Pans american ex-
position, in competition with the great
corn states. '' r..
Vegetables of all kinds are success
fully raised. Possibly potatoes lead in
this class, both as to quality and guam
tity. -...
Barley. oats, rye and .speltz are among
the staple crops from which the Dakota
farmers receive good revenue.
Macaroni or Durum.
The yields of macaroni wheat in
North Dakota this year have been most
satisfactory. This variety of wheat is
not yet standard in the markets, and
suffers a disadvantage in price, but its
acreage is increasing, and when millers
learn to handle it to advantage, it's day
will come. ~.
Yields of from twenty to twenty-five
bushels have not been at all uncommon
and yields as high as thirty bushels, and
even higher have been noted. The
macaroni wheat seems more hardy than
the ordinary spring wheat, and is less
injured by climatic changes. One cor
respondent tells of yield of macaron1
wheat of sixteen bushels by the side
of field of ordinary wheat which pro
duced but ten, while in another case
the macaroni yield was 31b times that
of the common variety. &%-
North Dakota's Population.
North Dakota s population is cosmo
politan in character. Nearly every ma
ton Of the civilized world is repre-
scented among it's inhabitants, an(
over a score of distinct languages arr
spoken within it's borders: Almost ex
actly two-thirds of it's people are NATIVE
born Americans and aone-third foreign
born The earliest settlers were nearl,
all from Minnesota and other western
states. Then followed the residents O.
other states farther east. Then on
Canadian cousins began to come acros
the border from Manitoba and late
sent word to their friends in Ontario
who likewise came over to get slic
of Uncle Sam s free land. The praise
, Of North Dakota were sung by Scandi
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nayian farmers, who came from Iowa,
and their friends across the ocean
came over by the thousand during the
early eighties. Then came large dele
county was very largely settled by
andinavians. and also the southern
portion of Grand Forks county. Also
portion of Walsh county, with large rep
reservations in other counties. Then
came large delegations from the central
and eastern states.
Last, but not least, there is growing
up an army of native North Dakotans,
race by themselves almost, sturdy
and vigorous, intellectual, the peers Of
any people anywhere. To these people,
as they GROW to maturity, is being in
trusted to a larger degree the destiny
of North Dakota, for this is young
largely in control in business, in the
professional ranks, in educational mat
tiers and in political life.
Constant immigration Movement.
The tide of immigration is flowing
strong into various parts of North Da-
kota, but notably into the Missouri river
country and to those vast stretches of
virgin prairie which lie west and north
of Minot and extend to the Canadian
border.
These are regions Of cheap lands, the
last to be had in North Dakota. Home
seekers from the middle west and some
from localities farther east, are pour
ing in, and either buying tracts out
right or making settlement under the
terms Of the homestead law.
All this land is adapted to farming
in most Of it's phases and is we'll wa
tered and can be made profitable in q
years cultivation. Railway lines arc
being extended and new towns started.
From the first the settlers will have
good markets and the facilities and adj
vantages which they left behind in the
east. The opportunities for all classes
and pursuits were never surpassed
Completeness can easily be made in
these favored localities.
Beds Of Ignite coal underlie vast
extents along the Missouri and in
northern North Dakota, and the settler
can secure his fuel at all times at nom
inal cost. The pioneer of the densely
wooded tracts Of northern Wisconsin
and Minnesota had to carve and burn
out his farm, from the forests which
enveloped him, but in North Dakota
he can start his pillow the day of his
arrival if he elects and take off croI
in few months. The opportunity OF
a lifetime is now offered the home
builder in North. Dakota.
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.RICHLAND COUNTY
HIGHLY ENDORSED
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF IN
DIAN AFFAIRS ToNNER ENTHU-
s1AsT1c OVER RIoILAND coUN.
Try, NORTH DAKOTA.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Wahpeton, N. D., Sept. 20.-R. G.
Tonner, assistant commissioner of In
dian affairs, was here recently inspect.
ing proposed sites Of the agricultural
college, for which the United States
government has appropriated 100000
Mr.. Tonner is enthusiastic over Rich
who Who has Just returned from l Washing.
ton, D. G., reports to Barnes & Sha1fel
that Mr.. Tonner advised his depart
ment that Richland county is absolute
" the finest section Of farming country
that he ever has seen. Mr.. Tonner, By
the way, has travelled extensively thru
out the entire United States. 1t is
proposed to make the agricultural schoo
of Wahpeton one Of the very best; Al
- N atatas q h;a scSoo Viii brins
|! $5OO,000 to Wahpeton every few years
| from the government treasury.
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Lisbon, N. D., Sept. 10 am fire.
quently asked by parties in the east
what the railroad, church and school
facilities are in North Dakota, and
find a prevalent impression that these
facilities are largely lacking. It must
be borne in mind that North Dakota is
comparatively new state, and that
when it's school system was established,
it had the opportunity to profit by the
experience of the older eastern states,
and improved this opportunity to the
utmost.
It's school system is one of the best
in the country. At Lisbon, the. county
seat of Ransom county, there is high
school of the first class, and a diploma
from this school admits to the universe
ties Of North Dakota, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Iowa and Illinois. The common
schools of the county are under the
charge of an efficient and up-to-date SUI
of whom have received a normal train
The church facilities are Of the very
best, there being churches of almost
every denomination within easy reach
Of the population: AtsLisbon I found
seven churches, OF as many different de-
nominations.
Ransom county has two railroad sys-
tens passing thru it, the Northern Pa
cifc and the 500 line, another
branch Of the Northern Pacific runs
just along the northern border Of the
county in Barnes county and still an
other branch along the Southern border
in Sargent county,so that market places
are frequent and well distributed, and
the haul for the farmer; is comparative
" short.
The population of this county is com
posed OF. young, energetic, and thrifty
At Lisbon, a town of little less than
1900 people, there is a fine opera-house
where there are frequent attractions of
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The area of North Dakota is 70,172
square miles, containing 44,9lO,OSO
acres.
North Dakota has more schools, in
proportion to population than any
state in the union. Her schools have
900, and rapidly increasing in value.
In few years the schools and state
institutions will be selfsupporting
The state abounds in Ignite coal,
selling at from 81 to So ton, accord
ing to distance from mines.
The ranches number $50. II ..-....,--.
The state has an area Of 70,f72
square miles.
The population in 1900 was $40, JAG.
Estimated population for 1903,
900.
The postoffices number $50.
There are 246 newspapers.
The value of the dairy and creamery
industries for 1903 amounted to $3,OOO,-
900.
The assessed valuation of real and
personal property-less than 20 per cent
of it's actual value is $146,537 ,4t4.
The value of the farm products of
1903 was fully $135 100000.
There are eightyfour Touring mills.
Ignite coal taken out of sixty eight
mines.
There are eight cheese factories.
two, with plans for about twenty more
under discussion.
There are 43, 1858 farms.
Ahead In Live Stock.
The entire state of North Dakota is
adapted to the growth and develop
ment Of the best types of live stock
from the rich farming lands of the Rec
River valley on the eastern border tt
the so-called Bad Lands, or broker
country of the state s western slope.
In the eastern portion of the state
live stock can be raised and handled il
the usual manner practioed in farming
communities. AS we 90 west the alti
tude increases from 903 feet above Sc;
level at the Red river to 2.403 feet a
Dickinson. on the Northern Pacific rail
wav, and 2,7S4 feet at the summit Of tn
bad lands.
In the western part of the state larg
areas Of public land yet remain ope1
for settlement and are available TO
grazing purposes by the settlers in tina
Vicinity. Here the live stock industr
flourishes while the country is in tran
sition from the pastoral to the agricu]
tural stage.
Where Cereals Flourish.
In the production of fax the stat
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Strong and Representative
Interests of North Dakota
Who are Offering Splendid
Investments to Home
seekers and In
r.. veStOrS. ..-

Wells & Dickey, Jamestown, N. D.
and Minneapolis, MINI.
J. 3. Folsom, Fargo, N. D.
William H. Brown, Chicago; Man
dan, N. D., and Richardton, N. D.
Lund's Land Agency, Minneapolis,
MINI. and Dakota Branches.
Adam & Frees, Lisbon, N. D.
Walter Williamson, Lisbon, N. D.
Hackney, Boynton Land Co., st.
Paul, MINI.
Wheelock & Wheelock, Fargo, N. D.
Commercial Club, Minot, N. D.
Barnes & Shaffer, Wahpeton, N. D.
L. w. Torgeson, Minot, N. D.
A. j. Williams, Riverdale, Mich.
Frank P. Root, Lakota, N. D.
j. S. Murphy, Minot, N. D.
Morton g. Co., Fargo, N. D.
Ransom Go. immigration Associa.
ton, Sheldon, N. D.
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FARM LANDS IN NORTH DAKOTA,
South Dakota and Minnesota. Excur-
sions first and third Tuesday each
month. Write for details to
r. M. WARNE, AMBOY, IND.
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NOTICE.

Land interests wishing repre-
sentation on Journals weekly
page devoted to North Dakota,
write Ward D. Williams, manager
northwest advertising.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-07
Literary Notes.

The late Seton Merriman Oh. S. Scott)
left a novel in manuscript, and it will soon
be brought out in serial form. IT is a curl
Gus coincidence that this last book of his
is entitled The Last Hope"
These well-known authors died during
1903: Julian Ralph, NJ. De Blowitz, Edna
LyalT' DADA f. Bayley), Joseph Henry
Shorthouse. Hillary Bell. Richard Henry
Stoddard, Max O'Rell. William Z. Henley,
Noah Brooks, William f. II. Leckey, Prof.
MOmmsen. Herbert Spencer, Dean Farrar,
Paul du Challu and Richard II. Savage
George BorrOw's stepdaughter Henrietta
Clarke McOubrey has just died at Great
Yarmouth, in England. She was that
Henrietta of whom Borrow says in wild
Wales" that "she has all kinds OF good
qualities and several accomplishments.
knowing something of cOnchology, more Of
botany. drawing capitally in the Dutch
style, and playing remarkably we'll on the
guitar-not the trumpery German thing so
called-but the real Spanish guitar" Mrs
McOtbrey inherited the greater part Of
Borrow's papers. and from her they passed
into the hands of DR.. Knapp, her step
fathers American biographer. She was
much attached To Borrow, aud i'm her later
years was continually inquiring as TO how
his works were received by the public Her
venerable figure was often seen on the
beach at Gorleston, where she delighted in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-07
A Natural History Study
SAVE OUR STARVING BIRDS


the country to feed our starving birds. and
l know that in some sections there has
been hearty response. To those who have
as yet done nothing, take this opportunity
to appeal again in the name OF ali lovers OF
birds-in the name OF all kindly-hearted
people who have sympathy for wild Great
ures in distress.
Perhaps the best and quickest way TO al
leviate the suffering is through the children
of the schools. Most of these children have
an intelligent love for the birds. and will
gladly give up an afternoon. or day, for
that matter TO assist in distributing food
for their feathered friends. AS my own first
experience may be OF assistance 10 those
who desire TO try a similar experiment. I
will relate IL. AS soon as / knew how ser
ious the conditions were. 1 wrote letter TO
the local superintendent OF schools. asking
him TO kindly cooperate with me in an
effort to feed the birds in and around his
town by urging the boys in the public and
high school to help in distributing food the
next afternoon. / requested that all who
could bring bird seed. grain, suet, bread or
table scraps. or anything else which birds
could eat. would do so, and that the others
would come provided with bags or baskets
to distribute such food as my friends and
would have ready for them. The letter was
sent by messenger. and in two hours re-
ceived word from the superintendent that
thrty-four students from the high school
would be at the school building and ready
to assist me at half-past two on the follow
ing day On my arrival found the students
awaiting me, provided with baskets OF
broken nuts, barn-foor sweepings, and all
manner Of bird food The boys were d.
vided into squads OF four five under the
leadership of one who knew we'll some par
ticular bit of woodland or stretch OF open
country. There were eight squads. and they
marched away in orderly fashion. each In
a different direction, with instructions TO
cover about one-eighth OF the country I'M
mediateIy surrounding the town Each
squad had at least one shovel. and In open
places, such as fields and meadows. good
generous spaces were cleared Of snow and
covered with seed and grain. scraps Of meat
and the like. Had the food been simply
thrown on the surface OF the snow IL would
soon have been buried and inaccessible, but
on bare ground in the middle OF an other
wise snow-covered field. IL attracted the at
tention of every passing bird.
In every squad there was at least one
boy who could climb. and the suet. in gen.
erous Jumps, was tied TO the branches OF
trees where IL was likely TO attract the
birds, but where II was quite out OF the
reach OF any prowling cat.
The help which / received from the stud
ents of the Stoneham High School was
cheerfully given and highly satisfactory.
and believe that similar help could be OBJ
tanned anywhere in this country by any
one who would ask 1t In the name Of our
starving wild birds.
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London Letter


Clarence Ludlow Brownell whose anus
ing and graphic book, THE Heart of ia
pan, was published just in time to ride
into prosperity on the war wave, started
for his old stamping ground at four hours
notice last week. He was loafing along a
country lane down in Essex on Tuesday
morning, when boy dashed after him
with telegramsfrom William Maxwell, the
famous war correspondent of the London
Standard, asking the author If he didn't
associate. In four hours Mr.. Brownell had
packed up, arranged his affairs, said his
good-byes and was the train, although
he had arisen that morning without the
slightest notion OF, going TO Japan. He
turned up in the Standard office at mid
night and, according TO his own account
of the affair, given at the steamer train,
the following interview took place between
him and Mr.. Curtis. the editor of that dig
nified old journal.
Mr.. Curtis-You can go to Japan for us?
Mr.. Brownell-Yes.
Mr.. Curtis-Very well. Good evening
After a trifiing fOrmality downstairs with
the cashier, BrOwnell boarded the train for
Liverpool, OFF on a journey to the opposite
side of the globe.
Brownell is not the only American sent to
Japan in behalf of the London papers Per-
cival Phillips. bright Pittsburg newspaper
man, who was on the staff of the London
Express for some time, mas gone for that
journal, and the Chronicle will be repre-
sented, through arrangement with Collier
Weekly, by Frederick Palmer, author of
The Ways of the Service" and THE
VagabOnd.''