Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1905-09-07
WORDS I Of WISDOM. ). o. 4.

]. J, Hills Remarks on, the advantage
of the Land Owner In North Dakota.
Views on Panama Canal and Orlen-
tai Markets. &
The entire address Of J.. J. Hill, at
]. Grand Forks is replete with meat and
matter worthy of consideration by
every resident Of this state. Among
the most important points brough t
out were the following taken from his
address: a..e.-..
s'I remember my first sight of where
Grand Forks stands. 1t was thirty
five years ago on the Goth of March.
and about 6 O'Clock in the morning.
I had travelled from Frog Point from
midnight until that time when I
came to where Grand Forks now
stands. There wasn't a house here
there,was but one house and that was
at Georgetown. I might say two, be-
cause there was man named Hutch
living in the wOOds-twO houses be-
tween here and, Fort AbercrOmbe.
Now I have seen your growth and q
man would be made Of ice whose
heartstrings didn't throb and whose
gratitude didn't warm at the sight
that we see today. ,-ss.@
Now, you must pard % me it an old
man talks sometimes-and | am In
the habit of talking at a mark II |
can-if I give advice to the eldest son,
you must take it as we'll meant. You
have opportunities here in North
Dakota far beyond those of other
parts of the country. You are doing
well but you can do better, and [
want the time to come when you will
do better. Remember this, that in
our country the natural increase Is
about million and half year In
population. The emjgrants coming
from other countries is a million more.
Two million and half Of new people
coming into this country every year.
What are we going to do with them?
The old campaign song was Uncle
Sam is rich enough to give us all a
farm. Today he hasn't got it. Our
public domain large as; it was, is
practically all occupied, except the
acres that can be brought under culti-
vati)n through irrigation.
CAN DEPEND ON FARMER.
Whenever the nation wants its sons
toiro forth and hold up its hands, the
man who follows the plow, the man
who has his root in. the soil, is the
man who can be depended upon. Take
itin your own state of North Dakota.
What have you got except soil and
climate? Everything that is of value
in the world comes from four sources:
the sea, and you have none OF that;
the farm, and YOU have your share;
the forest, you have none Of that; the
mine, / might say you have none OF
that, but the farm is the foundation
Of your prosperity, Of your population,
Of all your schools, your churches,
every social organization, every COM
mercial organization and everything
that you have or ever will have must
rest for it's prospersty and its progress
upon the cultivation Of the soil.
And I want to advise our farmer
friends and every man in North Da:
kota-fw we all depend upon the
farmer-.I want to advise them to see
that every man has fair opportunity
to do his work in the NEST approved
/. and sk1llful manner. Nothing short
Of the best will give the results that
we ought to have and the results thai
will surely come to you If you taze
advantage Of all the opportunities YOU
have. Sfs, ,.
DRAINAGE is NEEDED.
You can get rid OF every drop of the
water BY drainage. And let me give
you an object lesson: Il you will
spend s2 or even s5 an acre and s5 a.
acre would be %, 200 on section, and and
you can't spend it in draining It'll
5 you will drain your land thorough,
YOU will add s25 to $50 an acre to the
value Of every acre Of it. I remember
when lands were selling at slQ OF sls 81
\ Il acre and it doesn' 4 seem to be but
. short time ago. And do you thin1t hin
that every acre Of it was worth 9, sS5O y 3
Il Il Today . sfeWss acres, q lew rare pieces g
Z, nav be sold iat $50. say to you tha1
land in the Red river valley is bettel
worth 500 an acre than land that 1H s:1l y
selling readily in Illinois and Iowa v g 9
500 an acre, because you y e can l rails! Il'!
everything that they raise, you Y. cal sl
raise most Of the things that a ~ the!
raise ia greater perfe ction1 than y the! tlu''!
can and II you /, can market III from II
dollar Is aidollar and hall an a acr q,
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