The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-14

Chicago, Buffalo, st. Louis and Port
land expositions, winning hundreds Of
medals and prizes In competition with
older states.
1t IL wonderful what can be raised
and the uses to which the products Of
fields and gardens and pastures of
North Dakota can be put.
While not classed among the MINER
al bearing states yet North Dakota has
$4,000 square miles of Ignite coal
fields. with so or more mines in oper-
alton, from which there was an out
put in 1905 Of over 100000 tons. Be-
sides there are extensive beds Of CO.
ment material and an inexhaustible
supply Of the finest brick and pottery
clays on earth. What source of
wealth these beds will be in the CO.
ment and brick age now crowding in
to the expiring age Of lumber.
In healthfulness North Dakota Is at
the head Of the list, the death rate by
the census Of 1900 being to 1000 per-
sons, while the birth rate, IS to 1000
persons places the state In the highest
rank in the north, in which it is Joined
by Its sister to the south. There is no
race suicide in the Dakotas. It was in
North Dakota that President Roose-
welt spent two years and was re-
stored to health.
The school system of the state is
one to which every citizen can turn
with pride. There are nearly 1000
district schools half of them supplied
with libraries. Tho splendid univer-
sity at Grand Forks is the GROWING
feature Of the system, with the agri-
cultural college at Fargo, normal
schools at Mayville and Valley City
the science school at Wahpeton and
the manual training school at Ellen
dale ably backing it up along their
various lines. The schools enjoy the
benefits OF large permanent school
fund, from which the interest is APP
portioned quarterly to help pay teach
ers and thereby reduce local taxation.
The amount apportioned in 1905 was
nearly 100000. This means a great
deal to the schools of North Lakota,
and inasmuch as this fund is intended
to be solely for the payment of teach.
ers' wages, there ought not to be any
reason why the wages of the teachers
Of the state should lot increase more
rapidly in the future than in the past.
The management Of this great COM
mon school fund is matter of con-
graduation to the state. There is now
in the fund an amount in excess Of $4,-
100000 bearing interest from to s
per cent. 1t has been the policy of the
board of university and school lands
to keep these funds at work all the
time, and in view of the limited field
for investment the success with which
this board has invested the funds is
noteworthy. In addition to the COM
mon school funds, there is in the var
ious funds for the state institutions
approximately 100000, and the rev.
enue derived from this is a very ma
terial aid to the support of the var
ious state institutions. Jointly there
Is a fund of 100000 In hand, which
as the landed estate belonging to these
funds passes to private ownership and
occupancy, and helps swell the wealth
OF the state in other directions, will
run to the high figures of not less
than $60,OOO,000.
North Dakota provides the best of
everything for her unfortunates. The
insane hospital at Jamestown is one
of the models of the union, the first in
the union without barred iron win