Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-02-10

and honest way, than by pursuing the
course that has been adopted as to
the extreme figures placed on land!
The greatest trouble with the state
of North Dakota is that immigration
has come into this state In larger
numbers and more steadily than into
any other state Of the union. 1t is
leading the people to the conclusion
that the resources of the state of
North Dakota are just as the immi-
grafton agents have represented to
them. So that say to people in the
east. you people have everything to
gain by coming here and nothing to
lose.
want to advise you gentlemen who
are here representing the real estate
interests of the state, in the first
place to make it possible for the set
tier brought into this country by the
railroad companies to remain here,
and do not drive him out by the un-
reasonable prices asked for the land.
II you bought land for five dollars
an acre few years ago it is nothing
for you now to ask fifteen dollars an
acre for it. Considerable has been
said here about the competition of
the Canadian northwest. The condi-
lions existing in Canada today would
not have come about If it were not
for the actions and policies pursued
by you real estate men in the United
States. You have driven the Ameri-
can farmer into Canada. The real
estate men of Devils Lake have seen
the values Of land In that country in
crease over twenty dollars an acre.
In addition to that, there are real
estate men who said to themselves,
HNow this land is going up pretty
high; have so many sections OF land
and I can make good profit out of
this and then / will go to Canada and
buy land for two or three dollars an
acre." And yon real estate men did
1t. You said to people who came to
this state, after you had got your
Canadian lands, "come with me to
Canada and buy land for two or three
dollars an acre: do not buy this
North Dakota land that is so high.
priced"
And it has come about that the
same conditions that exist in this
state are now being produced In
Canada, and the farmers are getting
afraid to go to Canada because the
prices of land are SO high. (Applause. }
Do not forget that you are yet a
new state. Remember that you have
not demonstrated to the people OF the
east yet that Norh Dakota Is a state
adapted primarily to agricultural pur-
poses--that is, producing grain ex.
clusively. You gentlemen should he
satisfied when one man from one
locality settles on any land you haye.
When he comes say to him that he
must not go into the exclusive raising
of grain, but get him to take up
diversified farming. If you will read
the publications issued by the Great
Northern railway company, ana les.
pecially those parts relating to the
western part of the state, the counties
what we have been telling the peo.
pie to do. For the last three or four
years we have told the people not ia
he misled by the present conditions
not to imagine that they can raise
grain enough to supply the world, but
to go into diversified farming. That
is what you will tell the settlers who
come here, If you gentlemen are
wise. Do not let the settler believe
that this is an exclusively grain rails.
ing country. Get him to 20 into
diversified farming and in the course
OF five years promise you that you
will see the country settled by the
best kind of farmers in the country
(Applause.)
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against the man with large family
or with family growing up, who
wishes to become a settler in this
state. Your hands have reached a
value today that you might say was
imaginary.
But TO return to the subject OF
diversified farming. We tell the
eastern people that II they take this
North Dakota land and, go into
diversified farming and dairying, that
the settler will be prosperous and his
land and the surrounding lands will
increase in value in the same proper.
ton as they have in Illinois, Iowa and
Ohio and Minnesota, with the result
that the lands will have to be cut up
into smaller farms. And the result
OF that is general and permanent
prosperity. (Applause.>
Now inquiry is made about the
methods of organising Inv real4 oaf ato