Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-02

farm with. ! have 135 acres broken,
the balance 10 In pasture and hay land.
Eve raise good crops OF corn every
year, and have never known It to
fail; raise about forty or fifty bushels
to the acre. I believe 1t is q good
country to raise hogs, better than the
eastern states, far better. -
II have good frame buildings and in
good condition. believe my property
is worth $4,000 at least, and would
not sell at that" ~.
John Kline of Richardson states:
"Of course We had very little money
when we got here, about 1,6O0. With
this I bought half section of land.
and you can think for yourself what
good land this is, when tell you we
already five years ago had every
thing paid off, and bought another
half section Of land, and now have in
all whole section, or $40 acres. Our
land with the house. barn and granary,
and stock is now worth in the market
today $4,000. We have a comfortable
house, built Of stone, a barn also built
of stone, which is 80 feet long and 80
feet wide, granary of stone, which
is 80 feet long and 20 feet wide, seven
ty-five head Of cattle, ten horses. This
year we raised 2,188 bushels of wheat
(of which I sold $1,000 worth, keeping
enough for seed and family use)-
1922 bushels Of oats, considerable
corn, 100 bushels of potatoes. In the
meantime we have sold considerable
butter and eggs and this fall sold $25
worth of cabbage
Ray H. Smith gives his experience
in the following letter: 81 came to
North Dakota from Minnesota Nov
ember IA, 1902 land filed on 16O acres.
first built barn 14x24 for horses.
and as soon as I could broke some
ground and planted potatoes, corn and
all kinds of vegetables, and they sure
ly never did better on the well-worked
ground than here on the sod.
In the fall dug good cellar and
built our house, 16x24 land built a
lean on the barn, 14x24; built a sod
henhouse, a sod cow barn 2Ox4O, had
well dug and have splendid water.
I'm the spring I had forty acres
ready for crop and We were we'll
pleased with the crop. Our wheat
yielded fifteen bushels an acre. Oats.
thirty bushels and corn twenty-five
bushels, and all ripened well. We
have a splendid soil and it will pro-
duce anything when well rotted and
taken care of.
In the fall l hauled timber and
built barn for the cattle and horses,
2Sx4O; a granary 10x24, a henhouse
12x14. We did all our building, except
six days I hired a man.
Chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese
do fine here; we raised lis chickens
this year.
"The fuel question is simply wonder
full. We can buy coal for $125 ton
or we can dig it ourselves for nothing.
What more can a man ask for?
Il cut and put up about two hundred
tons of hay; hired a man two weeks.
Our stock will keep and fatten on this
hay as well as cattle do in the east on
timothy hay and clover and ground
feed.
eve have now twenty-four head of
cattle and eight horses. The mail
passes our house six days in a week.
We can count about forty houses
from our place now, and it is no un-
common thing to count from twenty to
thirty teams in day passing by.
''In conclusion, let me say to all the
renters in the east, make strike: do
1t now; pull out and get home. And
to those that are looking for an invest
ment, you can never find a better place
to invest your money than here. Our
only regret is we did not come here
ten years ago."
l.. j. Stoxen tells what a man of
grit and energy can do in this state.
He says: 81 came to North Dakota
with but 81 in my pocket. now
own 1000 acres, all practically clear
OF encumbrance, which, at the prices
at which land is now selling, is worth
at least $4,000. I have a comfortable
home, a good granary, a commodious
barn and cattle shelter for the accom-
mediation Of 100 head of stock. I To-
Gated a good vein of Ignite coal on
my land, from which 1 obtain sufficient
fuel to, supply my own needs ever
since settling here. Ignite coal is
used by every one in this section of
the country"