Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-02-07
BISMARCK HEARTILY WELCOMES
THE REALTY DEALERS

gafulnS our SCHOOLS, churcheS and
social conditions. We are in receipt
of hundreds of letters, asking us to
select homestead for the writer.
This, however, shows the decided in
terest they are taking in the state,
and demonstrates that you real estate
men have circulated good reports
about North Dakota, and are educat-
ing the people to come where the ad-
vantages are the best.
statisticians have been busily en-
gagged in figuring out what each set
tier is worth to state. The price
agreed upon is $500. This is certainly
good price, but it is we'll worth it.
Andrew Carnegie, in recent address
in New York City, said: eff owned
America and was running it as a
business proposition, 1 would give
every man who could support himself
and family, premium to come here,
and consider it the best bargain I
ever made in my life. Taking the
value of man, woman Or child in
this republic as low as slave, and
that was an average of about $1,000
fifty years ago, and we are getting
100000 people year, which means
100000, 900 cash value"
The settler is a very important
factor, a necessary adjunct for the
development of this state, and we can
i'll afford to permit him to escape
to Canada, even if we have extradi-
ton laws with that government.
We must not place too low an
estimate upon our state, nor should
we undervalue it's productiveness and
great future possibilities. We should
lay particular stress on it's agricul-
tural values, and it's unequalled con-
ditions as state where diversified
farming can be made great success.
When we contemplate the fact that
this country is growing at the rate of
million and half of people year,
the question naturally arises where
are they to go, and how many can
we secure of this vast number. They
must come to the northwest, and
many of them certainly to North
Dakota. No other state presents such
favorable conditions for human en-
ergy and enterprise, or so abundant
opportunities for aecumulating
wealth. We must teach the people
that if they are looking for some
thing for nothing, they can come
nearer finding it in North Dakota
than anywhere else on the face Of the
globe. If they cannot find what they
want in one section or locality of the
state, they can find it in another. 1t
matters not where we live in this
state, each portion thereof is bene-
fitted directly or indirectly by set
| tlement, by immigration, whether it
be in the fertile Red River valley,
or in the only partly developed
western portion of the state. Our
interests are too closely allied to en-
gender either local or sectional feel
ing or to arouse jealousies or excite
| envy. Every new settler in this state
whether he locates on the Red OF
Missouri river, increases the poula.
ton of the state, and not to a partic.
ular. locality. .... -.
One of the things TO be avoided Ii
knocking. The real estate dealers
cannot afford to knock. They canno
lafford to denounce one section of thu
| state, with the hope of benehtine
4 another. This method is too danger
GUS to be either useful or beneficial
It impedes progress in immigratio,
to the state. If you belittle the con
dltions that exist in one portion o
the state, with the; hope of maxim,
your particular section appear in /;
more favorable light, you may in til,
lend create critics !, who will gener
ously and persistently circulate tn
tobiections you have raised .agains
a certain part of the state as beinI
applicable to- all parts Of Nortl
Dakota. You may, .unintentionally
furnish our common enemies tn
VERY weapon they are diligently. i
search Of to hammer our plans o
immigration, and destroy the goo
. work that is being accomplished t
a secure capital and settlers. Don
!. knock! Speak well of the entir
state. If You cant do this, don't sa
anything detrimental about 1t.
Il Harmony of sentiment is what W
want. Unison of action is absoIuteI
necessary to bring about great good
With Canada on the north. with 7
united force, composed OF bright an
energetic workers, with plenty L
financial aid back of It; ON the ives
Wide-aWake and pushing men, yea
iously presenting the cause of the Pa
Icific coast. and ad Joining states, wit
y II