Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-03-17

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THOROUGHLY SATISFIED.
The Mandan Pioneer publishes the
following letter written by q recent
conner to a friend in Iowa: ,e
Flasher. N. D., Feb. 10, 1905.
Mr.. F. w. Dagget:
Dear Sir: You will see by this
that ! have not forgotten you, al
though it has been over three years
since I saw you. l. have often
thought Of my trip to Missouri, the
fall Of 1867, and how often I wrote to
my friends in Iowa Of the fine coun-
try.t.I had found; just the place for
them to come to enjoy life, such
pleasant climate, plenty of fruit and
all man desired to eat, so he might
grow fat and be happy. But before
had been there one year my tune be-
gan to change, for I began to shake
with the ague and to long for a drink
of good water. And the longer
lived there the more didn't like my
new found home / resolved to
profit by that experiment and go slow
on Dakota soil. I feared the awful
drouth the ranchers told me of, but
for nearly three years I have looked
for the terrible drouth and not found
it, yet | am not discouraged. Then I
dreaded the hail storms that destroy
everything the drouth had left, that
would cause us to look starvation in
our midst, but if we could just pull
through those ordained plaques of
North Dakota, the blizzard would
blow us away, and bury us with snow
and freeze the remainder of us. Still
l am not discouraged and keep look
ing ahead. Now you ask how do I
like it, would sell out? Just come
and try me with thirty. dollars an
acre, but don't come with any less.
Let me tell you something. When
We came here three years ago next
April, there were only nine houses in
our. school district. Now I sit here
and count over one hundred and three
families, one large mercantile plant.
q hotel, feed and sale barn, postofice,
printing press, blacksmith and wagon
repair shop, photo gallery, Woodman
Camp, five school houses, a literary
society, dance hall, and five Sunday
schools, and so far as know every.
body but one is satisfied to stay.
Some folks you know always have to
go back to care for the old folks.
What makes us satisfied? Why we
don't find the drouth, the hail or the
awful blizzards. We have found
plenty to eat, to drink, to burn. We
raise from eight to thirteen bushels
of flax to the acre on sod, from
thirteen to thirty bushels of wheat,
from thirty to one hundred and TWEEN
ty bushels oats, and from thirty to
eighty bushels corn. Hogs never
have the echolera, horses live on the
range. cattle and sheep get half their
winters feed on the prairie. We
get our coal for digging it and our
wood for the cutting and hauling. No
country can beat this in quality for
potatoes and all kinds of garden
truck. My wife Is sixtysseven years
old, and last year she raised with her
hoe plenty Of garden truck to do US
g year and sell twenty dollars worth.
She had potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage,
melons, onions, parsnips, carrots,
Swiss chard. mustard. peas, beets,
beans. turnips, radishes, squash, Cd.
cumbers, soup beans and sweet corn.
heard an old lady say today that she
and her husband had never had AS
easy a time in Illinois as they had
had since they came to North Dakota,
nor for the same length Of time lived
SO well, + q man has a homestead
claim here and raises half as much
on It as q renter does ON the same
amount q land IA Iowa. he WIN make
2 better living here. But II You come \
here expecting It to be Heaven. Vol,
VIII get left. but q man told me today
y was the easiest place to make a
living he had ever found. II you
come, come to stay. We have the
best Of neighbors here and want yon
g bring two more. . man and VIE.
3. WING.