Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-02-23
COMMITTEES DISCUSS IMMIGRATION
'loint Meeting Of Appropriation Committees Talk
Over Proposed Bill
Valuable Suggestions Made By Railroad Men As To Best
Methods Of Inducing immigration

The appropriation committees of the
house and senate held joint session at
the capitol Yesterday morning after the
session of the house and heard the ar
guments for an appropriation for immi-
grafton presented by Col. G.. w. Mott,
general immigration agent of the
Northern Pacific railway and Max
Bass, the we'll known immigration agent
of the Great Northern. The entire men,
bership of both committees was present,
and Governor Sarles also attended the
meeting. The representatives Of the
railroad immigration departments point
ed out what the roads had been doing
toward directing immigration to the
northwest and how the state could help,
through its department of immigration.
Both gentlemen addressed the commit
tee Mr.. Bass told what had been done
by the Great Northern road toward at
tracing settlers and Col. Mott made an
extended address. In the course of his
remarks, he said. 49,
1T is, hardly necessary, gentlemen,
that I should expatiate on the beauties
and advantages Of North Dakota to
those who are already acquainted with
them. You know better than l do, the
fertility of the soil and the comparative
ease with which it may be titled, as well
as the lavish manner in which nature
has laid away bountiful supply of fuel
beneath the soil in so many parts OF the
state. You know how spring opens in
such way as to best subserve the in
terests of the farmers, gradually melting
the snow so that the soil is just fitted
for the plow, retaining the frost be-
meath the surface and liberating it as
the season advances, sending the nlois-
ture to the growing crops.
You know the beauties of the North
Dakota summer, whose warm sun ripens
the grain during the daytime, while the
cool nights give it that hardness which
has made it famous, and also give the
farmer an opportunity to enjoy that re-
freshing sleep which fits him to 60 forth
4 again in early morning to take advIn-
tage of the long days during the grow
ing and reaping season. 81. -. ,.>
; you do not need me to tell you OF
the 'glories of the Norih Dakota fail,
lengthening as it often does, into the
early winter, the warm rays of the sun
making themselves felt beyond Thanks
giving and sometimes almost to Christ
mas. ..,.
y)t% "Nor are you afraid 10 be reminded
Of North Dakota's winters 1t is true
that these are often made bugaboo by
those who are not acquainted with them,
and the NORTH Dakota blizzard IS often
made the gibe of the eastern Journalist,
but you who live here know full we'll
( that the middle and eastern states have,
i this winter, and in fact have had in
many winters, far worse billiards than
North Dakota, and more of them; and
to you it has been given to know some
thing Of the compensations offs North
Dakota winters.
Coming, as it does, after the severe
strain of harvest, it affords time of
agreeable relaxation and recuperation,
which is not given to the toilers in the
cities. The long winter evenings furnish
an opportunity for family association
and training which is of incalcuable
benefit to the state. The little gather.
4 ings at the village store make possible
an interchange Of opinion and thought
which tends to produce race sturdy not
& only physically, but mentally, and it is
no wild dream to predict that North
Dakota, consisting as it always will, of a
population tWo-thirds of which will be
devoted to agricultural pursuits, will
become famous not only for. Drawn and
muscle, but also for brain and those
sturdy traits of character which made
the New England states noted the world
over. 3s ISL
JUST as in our crowded cities we are
beginning to recognize the absolute
4 necessity OF laying aside here and there
& a block or two of land for breathing
spaces, SO, in the landscape of Our COM
monwealth it is we'll that there should
be some states where men can breathe
not only physically, but intellectually,
and where the depleted manhood of the
cities can be reinforced by the fresl,
y stock which is constantly pouring into
it from such state. VI &
That North Dakota is admirable
adapted to supply this want, / do not
think will be questioned by anyone who
lis acquainted with the facts. IT has
been ordained that In the sweat Of his
brow shall man eat bread, and do
not know Of any combination better
fitted to produce the best results than
4 a state where by the sweat Of his brow
man may produce bread in abundance.
and that is certainly true Of North Da-
Y kota sss Va III I'll 4 5s4
OF course in your state, as in all
Others, the man who would make the
most Of his opportunities must carefully
study his conditions, and the farmer
who does 50 need have no fear about
his ultimate success. Diversified farm
ing Is the keynote Of the prosperity Of
North Dakota, as in almost every other
state, and there are few states where it
Is SO absolutely certain to pay The
man who can find on his unbroken land,
j pasture for his cattle which exceeds in