The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-09-26
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10y MaH orfeapondenca,l
DEVILS LAKE. n. II. sept &c
thousands continue o. pour into
Devils Lake. ON the slender chance
90 winning a great prise Ia uncle
SANS lottery. lt IL good natured
crowd and it is being we'll enter
tained
Tho people here tell some very
EOod stories ON their country aud
climate. A SWcde went back 10 his
former home in New York. vas an
swefiug questions about the new
country. and was asked what the
winters we're like.
"Nust about like dcy bin here. he
replied
How about the summers"
eNcn. ! don't know. / yuat bin
dere n months"
This Il similar To another state
mcnt by a man who has lived there
several years. Who said there are
only two seasons In North Dakota.
July and winter"
Another oid-umef here objected
90 anyone's roasting the country on
account % the mosquitoes which
breed In the small lakes and pot
holes and sally forth % devour the
Innocent pasaerby
Young man. be said u one
chap. 4 want yea GO know that
everything In North Dakota serves
some useful purpose
Well said the youth II you
can tell me any use that has ever
been made Of mosquitoes viii shut
up
Young man. he replied. "per-
haps yea have noticed how large
everything grows ia North Dakota
Wcil. yea don't have % believe this
unless you want TO- but ! was out In
- county a couple Of years ago
and ! was a-cussin' the mosquitoes
purity much as you've been a-doin
today
They wasn't no timber In that
country. bat pretty soon I came 10
a fence and I noticed that al the
posts seemed % have the same odd
bow=lcgFed sort of slant I
couldn't make cut what kind % TIM
Der they was made o. SO ! got out
and examined 'em close. ard ding
my buttons Il every one OF them
fence posts wasn't made out Of
mosquito legs
The last % years has witnessed
great change In the west and
northwest Where once was a vii
deFness. row there are prosperous
farms and busy thriving cities with
electric lights. telephones and al
the modern improvements. The
Great American desert nas a myth
There was no great American dea-
eFt Il simply needed grlt and push
90 make the so-caIied desert bios
som a. a rose.
Settlement has been pushed west
20 the very mountains. further stu.
the valleys have been settled and
vast tracts of arid land are being
reclaimed By irrigation every year
The north II settled clear % the
Canadian line. More startling still.
the movement ~ American farmers
20 the Canadian northwest has been
simply enormous and. last year.
over 81 .00o COO was taken to Canada
from the state % Iowa alone. and
this boom 20 the extreme north aud
away from the flag Of Uncle sam.
And the Canadian boom Is due 70
newspaper advertising alone. While
better land In a much nicer climate
IN cur own country has been neg
iscted simply because u gas not al.
xertIaed
In all the stories Of Advertising.
there could be no better instance
cited TO show the value Of well
placed attractive Advertising than
the creation ~ the Canadian land
boom. There IL much better land
AL through the great southwest
Missouri and Kansas have better
land Oklahoma though settled 70
the very western border Htlli has
better chances for the homeaeeter
than Canada. bat Ia Texas. pafticu-
larry south Texas. there - more
good undsEel0ped lard awaiting the
farmer than In an ether states COM
hined. and n The people % Texas
wake up 10 Ia vllue OF Newspaper
advertising the present tide u im-
migration which ia setting toward
Texas viii become a veritable flood.
Uncle sam has opened about his