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

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ll|llIIINORTH DAKOTA
Continued from page 81
couraged, and keep looking ahead.
Now you ask how do / like 1t; would
1 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 dis
trict. Now / sit here and count over
one hundred and three families, one
large mercantile plant, a hotel, feed
and sale barn, postoffice, printing
press, blacksmith and wagon repair
shop, photo gallery, Woodman camp,
1--WE schools. a literary society, dance
hall and five Sunday schools, and so
far as I know everybody but one is
satisfied to stay. Some folks, you
know, always have to 60 back to care
for the, old folks. What makes us
satisfied? Why, we don't find the
drouth, the hail or the awful bliz-
yards. We have found plenty to eat,
! to drink, to burn. We raise from
eight to thirteen bushels of fax to the
| acre on sod, from thirteen to thirty
bushels Of wheat, from thirty to one
hundred and twenty bushels of-oats
and from thirty to eighty bushels of
corn. Hogs never have the cholera,
horses live on the range, cattle and
sheep get half their winters feed on
the prairies. We get our coal for
| digging it and our wood for the cut
| ting and hauling. No country can
| beat this in quality for potatoes and
all kinds of garden truck. Ny wife is
sixty-seven years old, and last year
she raised with her hoe plenty of
garden truck to do us year and sold
twenty dollars worth. She had pota-
toes, tomatoes, cabbage, melons,
onions, parsnips, carrots, Swiss chard,
Mustard, peas, beans, turnips, rad
ihes, squash, cucumbers, 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 we'll.
If man has homestead claim here
and raises half as much on 1t as a
renter does on the same amount of
land in Iowa, he will make a better
living here. But If you come here
expecting 1t to be Heaven, you will
get left, bit man told me today it
was the easiest place to make living
he had ever found. If you come,
come to stay. We have the best of
neighbors here and want you to bring
two more, a man and wife"
In 1890 the federal census valued
the lands in North Dakota at $751;
7SO, 200. In 1900 the same authority
valued those lands at $19S,780, 700, or
an increase in ten. years of $123,470,-
395. There are only four states out
Of total OF twenty-three states and
territories west Of the Mississippi
river that can show a greater increase
during that same period. Those four
states are Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri
and Texas states that are so many
years older that they should not be
placed in the same class.
While laying no claim to being in
that section OF the world where there
is perpetual sunshine, yet it can be
asserted that few states only have
more favorable climate conditions or
where the winters are less rigorous
than in North Dakota This state Is
comparatively new and sparsely set.
tied, yet its record will compare fav-
orably in point of freedom from crop
failures with our older and more
densely3 populated sister states.
E North Dakota has the soil and that
soil has the producing qualities and
all it needs Is the people to cultivate
1t. 1t 10 no disparagement to other
states and countries to assert that nc
state on country In North America
presents such opportunities for the
poor man or the one desiring t.
secure q home at minimum cost al
North Dakota. There are thousands
Of acres Of institute lands selected by
the state and granted to them by thu
government which can be purchased
at reasonable figures. These lands
are among the best In the state
Then there are thousands Of acres
owned by firms and individuals
These lands can be purchased ranging
IN price from % to $15 Per acre, de
pending uDon locality ana 6,,olffv