The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-06-25
PR0GRESS0F THE WEST
How the People Make the
Prairie Bloom Like
a Garden
Mandan Pioneer.

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ert and it bursts into bloom. Under
his necromancy, farms spring up
to bear their golden burdens,
homes dot the virgin wilderness,
hill and valley harness their forces
with mans purpose, while bounti-
full nature pours her wealth into
the lap of mankind.
The greatest conspiracy of civ
ilization is effected when the right
man plants an honest dollar in
honest soil. In the evolution of
things, human institutions may
pass away, but the hills and the
valleys and the prairies lie forever
under the sun, awaiting only the
touch of human industry to make
them contribute vitally to the
wealth and we'll being Of men and
the progress of the world.
It is hardly too much to say that
the majority of men who have come
to financial afluence, are men who
made their first stake by investing
their first savings in land, and then
watching the interest on that in
vestment piles up day by day in
increased value of land, until every
foot of it was yielding ten times
more than it cost.
FORTUNES IN THE WEST. Il
It is not so many years ago that
eastern men were focking into the
Illinois country and buying land
for almost nothing which cannot
be bought for money today. It is
hardly twenty years since the great
influx of Iowa people into the Red
River valley occurred. Most of
those people are wealthy today, al
though people said at that time it
was a risky movement. This is
true of all the great land movements
The man who gets in on the ground
floor of, a new country and grows
up with it and in it, is generally
the man who has something to
show for his life of effort in later
years.
One year a piece Of land is worth
IS an acre. The next year, owing
to development and colonization,
that land is worth SO an acre, and
the man who was wise enough to
buy when-i it was cheap, has realized
on his Investment without any rad.
ditional outlay Of time, force OF
money on his part.
But apart from the financial view
| Of the question, it 10 also true that
the man who follows q land move.
ment and becomes the owner Of q
part of Gods earth, contributes in
lin q very large and beneficial way ia
the economic and ethical advance
! Of civilization.
The pioneer, in this respect, ID
building for the future ; sure and
safe basis Of civilization. He ID
making the wilderness : home COM
munity. Upon his enterprise the
towns are builded, and towns foster
civic pride and patriotism and
;keener effort, and the result il a
better citizenship and . happier
people. Institutions Of learning
and public betterment spring up in
answer to the demand Of q growing
popul. .tion, and in asfewyearswhat
ras once q desert has become i
| garden in which men work happily
for their own good and the general
| good Of their fellows.
And all this follows upon the Or.
iainal effort Of the land man to in
|duee an honest citizen to invest
HoansT DOLLARS m HONEST soil.
Alarm house Is not only q home
bs II I provision Tor maintenance
"a 13 oeress. II i also the motive
"a pf public enterprise. Aman
ne s ppts q much of his ~ self
int alla that he does . when she
ha home 3of his own. = makes y !.