The Saint Paul globe., 1904-08-29
. GASS COUNTY

wheat crop OF this valley is a factor IN
making the price in the great markets
on: both sides of the ocean. This wheat
makes better flour, and the flour makes
more and better bread than any other
in the world. It may not be generally
known that -four made from Red river 4
valley wheat, supplies the table of thefi
English royal family, as it does snatu
rally. the tables of most of the nobility
of Great Britain. -. < : =. :
Fifty, years ago but little. -was:knoWyyTs
of this sbountiful region. The active.
agricultural Development really began
some thirty years ago, and in this. Pc
riod of less than a generation, as times
is measured in the life Of man. a mar
velous transformation has. taken place;
thriving cities, towns and villages are
to be seen where the bison roamed at
will half a century since, and the whole
surface of the valley proper, is now a
succession of splendid farms, . inter- .
spersed with towns. ~i
In a general way, it may be said that
the surface of Cass county consists of
more or less undulating plain, we'll.
drained by rivers and creeks, all of
which lead to the east. Central Cass
county is known the world over for its
hard wheat and is universally recog@
nized as one of the most important ag-
rlcultural districts on earth. The farm
ers In this part of CaSs county have
never had a crop failure and do not
Know what 1t means to harvest much
less than the following crop of 1901:
In 1901 Cass county produced 4O4. 4.O35
bushels of corn. against 1S3,7 ,715 bushels
III 1899. There are 71S,14S acres under
cultivation in Cass county In round
1gures the products were: Wheat,
5,0OQOO0 bushels; fax, 100000 bush
els; oats, 100000 bushels; barley, .50O.-
UO0 bushels; rye, 1000 bushels, and po-
tatoes, 100000 bushels. The popuIa-
LIon IS about 30, 900. The assessed val
uatlon Is $12,914654, a pretty good
showing for thirty-one years of de-
Nelopment, the first farm having been
settled upon in 1871.
rms year the estimate is. Wheat
~ bushels to the acre: corn. so to 20
baskets to the acre; oats, 40 bushels
10 10 the acre; barley, 50 bushels. and
lax Il bushels to the acre. Casselton
is the grain market for this section
of Cass county, having a combined
Elevator capacity of 100000 bushels
rms section of Cass county has the
pest OF graded roads; school houses,
from two to six in each district:
CIeamerleS in all, parts Of the county.
j he best of hay land in all parts of
the county, making is a great dairy
country. The best of water. obtained
from twenty to thirty feet in depth, |
good for man or beast, and flowing ar
teslan wells all through Central Cass
county. The farmers in this section |
seed in April and this is the first back. |
ward season in years.
rom a table prepared by the United |
states weather bureau showing month |
~ rainfall in North Dakota since 1870
we note that the month of June gets |
me most rain; May stands second in |
lhe list, while July has almost as much |
ram as May. It is interesting to OBJ |
serve that the rainfall for these three |
months exceeds that of the other nine
months of the year Iowa, Illinois and
Indiana get about as much rain in
winter as in summer, While we are
more favored and get our rainfuu |
while crops are growing-just when |
we need it,
From an Eastern gentleman [ have |
been asked this question: ''Why is it |
advisable to buy land in North Da-
kota rather than in Manitoba or West |
ern Canada ?''
There are several good reasons, |
among which I consider the following |
the most important:
First-And above all. because North |
Dakota is a part Of the United States, |
the most enlightened and best govern |
ed nation under the sun.
Second-Because North Dakota has
more and better schools than are found |
on the other side.
Thlrd-Because wheat and all grains !
sell for from 10 to IL cents per bushel |
more in North Dakota than in Mani |
toba. Write this on the tablet of your
memory; it is too important to forget. |
sFourth-Out of every ten men who |
buy land in Western Canada, nine of
them buy to hold on speculation while
one goes there 10 live; while in North
Dakota the reverse is actually true,
and nearly every man who buys here
comes and makes this state his home.
The legitimate result is that while our
state is built up and improved in a
surprising manner, there are great
tracts on the other side which are held
by non-residents, unoccupied and un-
improved.
The soil is deep black loan run
ming from two to three feet in depth;
the subsoil is clay, all containing a re-
markable supply of plant food. The
price of land runs all the way from $50
to $50, and if you want to see land
that you can raise wheat enough on in
two or three years to pay for your
farm, just get ticket and come over
the Great Northern railroad to Cassel- |
ton i'll Central Cass county, N. D., and
you will find the farm and home you
are looking for.
CASsELToN
Casselton is finely situated, right in
the very heart of Cass county, being
almost midway east and west and
north and south from the boundary
lines of this large subdivision, 1t is
upon rise of ground, and angling
through the heart of the city is Swan
creek, which seven miles further east
enters the Maple river. The location
is. everything that could be desired,
and in the past ten years business
buildings have been erected, homes
built, street graded, trees set out and
cultivated, until the visitor of the pres
ent day eXclaims upon beholding it
that CasseltOn is a gem of a town.
The townsite was first laid out in
1877, and since then its course has
been steadily forward in all that tends
to give sOlidity and worth to a COM
munity until it occupies second posi-
tion in this great county, and is eX-
ceeded in beauty of location and per-
manence of structure by few places in
the state of North Dakota. At this
particular moment it contains a popu-
lation of LOO people and is growing
very fast This is one of the busy
towns in North Dakota and the town
has two of the greatest railroads in
the world, the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific, giving the town the
best of. freight and passenger service