The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-31
La lN0Mre County Is
"Conzivg Into It's Oun"
Splendid North Dakota County attracting the Farmers
of illinois,, Indiana Ioaoa and the East-7He Conn.
ty Whose Bonds Are Good as Gold.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence
!" hit the trail" continuously in tGood
Old North Dakota" for several months.
We have visited many sections, have
had heart-to-hearto talks with. D." the
builders all over the state, and we
do know that the resources and advan-
tages offered to the homeseeker by this
Hyoung giant of the great northwest
cannot be excelled by any section of
the country. Right here we want to say
to the "hardheaded," you have got
iowa za0 and the middie Wes that we
have ''butted in'' to a section this
week that means permanent prosperity
and STEADY income for life'' to any
honest and energetic farmer if he will
look it over, for no man who is renting
high-priced lands back east or is dis
satisfied with his present condition can
seeing what she has to offer, and viii!
certainly become one of "the bunch''
who are getting rich tilling her fertile
lands. Here is a section only one
nights ride from Minneapolis that
offers every inducement to the home
seeker: Here is a county with 100000
in her treasury, with the best of markets
petlng systems of railroads gridirOning
and reaching every, nook and corner Of
her territory, with the highest class of
educational advantages reaching out all
| over her many school districts where
splendid school buildings house the
boys and girls who are learning how
to shoot" as well as taking some of the
work off the "pater and mater,' all Of
this, together with splendid modern up
to-date towns and a country population
of hardy, progressive men who are ''the
right Sort" and have come in from
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin,
makes this county the ideal spot for
the eastern homeseeker. Out Edgely
way this week we met Brother Daimler,
one. of the hustling, bustling young
the senior member of the firm of Dan
her & Maben, the well-known land firm
handling La Moure county lands. This
| young firm enjoys an enviable reputa-
ton thruout F'the great northwe est
and they live strictly up to their motto
Of "a square deal' for every home
seeker: Mr.. Danher is in close touch
county, and knows it from end to end
like book, and the following little in
terview with him can be relied upon
absolutely. Asked as to the soil and
other conditions, he said:
HThe prairies of La Moure county are
covered with rich dark drift of allu-
vial loan from one to four feet deep,
under which is clay subsoil. which has
the property of holding moisture to a
wonderful degree, and giving it out as
needed for the growing crops. It con-
tains a practically in'exhaustib1e supply
OF soil ingredients most valuable for
agriculture, namely; soluble silica, lime,
potash soda, phosphoric acid, nitrogen
and vegetable humus. There is no bet
ter soil in the: world for general farm
ing purposes, and none any better adapt
ed for the raising Of wheat and other
small grains. 1t is easily pulverized,
and after the prairie is once broken,
cultivation is done with comparatively
little labor. The effect of deep winter
freezing, and the rising of the moisture
to the surface in the spring thaw, is to
mingle the rich natural fertilizers of
the subsoil SO that the natural process
of fertilization is constantly going on
Plenty of Pure Water.
ola Moure county is we'll supplied
with the very best water in the world
The James river traverses the county
north and south, besides there are a
number of creeks and many natural
springs. Wells of pure cold water nav
be secured at a depth of from fifteen
to forty feet. All the water secured in
this county is as pure as any in the
! world. In the rivers fish abound in
great quantities.
What Is Grown.
'There is no crop grown in the tenn
perate zone that will not flourish here