Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-03-28

IN NORTH DAKOTA
THE PLACE FOR THE FARMER OF
h BOTH SMALL AND sUFFi-
GENT CAPITAL.
WHERE THE PENNILEss BUN
1 HOMES AND PAY FOR THEM
THE FIRST YEAR.
North Dakota has entered upon a
campaign for immigration as a re-
suit of the appropriation made by the
legislature at the recent session.
Several large newspapers circulating
extensively through the United States
have been chosen as one means of
reaching the large class of home
seekers and prospective settlers and
printers ink will be literally used to
attract attention to the splendid OPP
portunities for the homeseeker in
North Dakota. In Saturdays issue Of
the Minneapolis Journal appears an
article from the commissioner of
agriculture, which gives some of the
advantages of North Dakota as fol-
lows: ....t.n. -.
Probably no state in the union pre-
sents greater opportunities for those
seeking homes than North Dakota. 1t
is quite certain that no state has
made more rapid growth, achieved
greater success in accommodating
wealth or demonstrated to greater
certainty that it is the mecca for the
poor man and homeseeker. Its soil
is fertile, its lands are cheap and it's
capacity to produce crops in great
variety has been proven beyond ques-
ton. It's climate conditions are ex-
cellent and during the past few years
there has been an activity in farm
ing, and a period that the demon
strated that North Dakota is one Of
the great and varied grain producing
state Of the western country. The
uniformity and reliability of its
crops has dispelled the hallucination
that has existed that it is only a
periodical grain producing state.
For many years it was claimed
that it was only occasionally that the
soil of North Dakota could be depend
ed upon to raise crop. This fallacy
has been removed and facts and fig.
ures have shown that it can be relied
upon, each year, to bring a golden
harvest and give the tillers of the
soil a rich reward for their industry.
Eastern North Dakota hid been re-
garded as only a wheat, country, but
of later years its farmers have tried
corn growing with gratifying and
profitable results. And today the
farmers of the fertile Red river valley
no longer depend solely upon wheat,
but plant corn and grow all other
kinds of cereals with success, thus
giving variety to the product of their
farms.
= 1t was only a short time ago that it
was the custom to speak slightingly
of the agricultural productiveness Of
the soil of the Missouri slope and the
western portion Of the state This
great section was given over to
ranges and very little grain was pro-
duced, in fact, not much more than
was required for home consumption.
Now all this is changed. Those
prairies where roamed countless cat
tie, horses and sheep, are being rapid
ly turned into farms and the land in
the summer time is dotted over with
growing grain of every description.
For the past three years, or since
the owners of the lands have turned
their attention to farming, there has
been no section of this state where
the soil has given forth more bounti-
full crops. The country has been
transposed from bleak prairies, with
an occasional herd of cattle, to teem-
ing, thriving farmers who are grow
ing rich from wha. they are getting
from the soil. E2 ...
The following letter is reproduced
because it clearly sets forth the actual
condition of affairs and for the further
reason that it was not intended for
.}e-..
Dear Sir: 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 country
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 long my tune began to change,