The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-18

of the Missouri s river, on the west side,
of the northwest. 1t has a popula-
tion of $500 and is the end of two di-
visions OF the Northern Pacific railroad.
1t has excellent graded schools, one of
it's school buildings being Of brick, up
to-date, costing $4,000. 1t has five
churches, brick 5O0-barrel Touring
mill, a brick yard, an abundance Of
paving brick, pronounced by experts
to be equal to St. Louis clay. Compare
Mandan with Kansas City twenty five
years ago. '.-.
The national government has appro-
prlated $4,000 for an Indian school
here. The Northern Pacific machine
shops and roundhouse pay out for labor
at Mandan $4,000 a month.
AS coal can be delivered at Mandan
at $3.50 ton in car lots, Mandan' 8
capacity for manufacturing is unlim-
tied by the use Of either steam or cleo
tricity.
Celebrated for Creameries.
Morton county alone has fourteen
creameries in active operation, and
| their butter is in such demand that
some OF them have been compelled to
ship 1t by express as far east as New
York. The commission houses there
stand the additional expense because,
having created demand for this high
grade butter, they have to supply their
patrons with it at whatever cost.
The farmers in that part of the state,
too, have given particular attention to
grading their stock, with the result that
grass cattle from western North Da-
kota topped the Chicago market at $3.50
a hundred.
Of course, the Missouri slope is re-
noWned for open winters. The average
feeding time there does not exceed six
to eight weeks yearly, and livestock
thrive on the native grasses of the
prairie for the greater part of the year.
Mandan, with her magnificent -four
ing mills, which are second to none in
the state in capacity, certainly proves
to the world that the country tributary
produces something besides cattlc-
which the greedy stockman who mas
had free ranges fer years would make
the new settler believe to brighten him
out of the country.
Morton county. too, leads the state in
quantity and quality of good hard corn
produced and in stock raising.
The Time to Buy.
A farmer in the older states who has
his farm mortgaged for one-quarter to
one-half its value, could sell out and
nave cash enough lett to buy good
farm in North Dakota which would in
crease in value and make him rich. Buy
now-prices are advancing.
A renter in the older states is the
most foolish man on earth. He can buy
farm in North Dakota on terms 80 his
yearly payments will be less than he
pays for rent now.
HILLS Opinion.
Speaking of land values in the north
west, James j. Hill, president of the
Great Northern railway, insists they
must advance.
"The, population. of the United
rate Of 1000 daily. We are growing at
the rate of nearly 100000 year. We
have doubled in every thirty or forty
years of our history. Inside of fifty
years we will have 15O,OOO,0OO. Where
are they goingF Are we going to senc
them away7 Are they emigrating te
other lands? No; we are taking care OF
them at home. Where is this extra mil
lion and a half a year going9 Where else
but into the new lands of the northwest
and into North Dakota above all
Where else are cheap lands, fertile soil
healthful climate, transportation facih
ties to good markets, and conditions
favorable to human energy and enter
prise so abundant and ready to hanc
as right here in the northwests