Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-23

Black Hills where dry farming
succeeds, And everywhere in the
West wherever irrigation can be
had. mot by wSndnill pumping.
but by storage or running streams
the settler may know that first
class success only awaits his skill
and patience He is i'm the arid
West, bat not of it. He has an
Advantage over his brother Of the
East: he lis sure of his crops. be
the season what it may
ITO those going west to settle
I would suggest this: take little
time to look the land over and do
not be afraid to ask questions.
Seek out the older settlers You
VIII hardly get anywhere that
they are not to be found Ask
questions freely. What is the
usual course OF seasons, not the
freak season, but the usual things
before the climate changed" If
this country with its very rich
soiS has abundant rainfall, why
are the villages SO poEerty-strick-
en-. the old settlers with their
noses yet On the grindstoneT
You may be too hard on the cozn-
Try in asking these questions
There are old settlers who are
foo ignorant or too shiff1ess to
develop country, but when you
get into 4 new country ask to be
shownt
There lis NO question In my
mind that men are pushing too
far into the dry belt of the
United States. and that they will
suffer hardxnips there and come
away mighty hungry in a few
years. / may be wrong, but saw
one influx into what I consider an
arid region, and saw the exodus
again And today the second crop
of men lis moving into the very
same country"
The Gazette does not particulari1
AS to the exact part Of the west
deems arid, and it is ia point TO sta
that those portions of North Dako
that are being NOW SO rapidly settle
do not come within its preseribs
region The old settlers in westel
North Dakota are not of the ella
mentioned in the Gazette They q
prosperous and coutented, OWN the
own farms, have good crops, III
stock and money. No stock raisii
region in the United States is superb
to the western part of North Dakot
Its grasses are nutritious and mal
comfortable fortunes have be
earned In the cattle business. Hu
dreds and thousands Of settlers a
moving Dakotaward, and tine goyei
ment land is being RAPIDLY take
Careful methods OF cultivation fa
ireturned good crops and will reta
sgood crops. The sozicftude of t
Gazette for the: settlers WHO are me-
ling westward is more properly
soHeftnde for the regions of the no
| die west that are losing 80 many go
citizens to North Dakota f.
/ The same statements now made
1.-THE Gazette correspondent were ma
with reference to other sections
North Dakota that are now and IA
ibeen for the past eight or ten yes
settIed with a prosperous class of p
pie who have learned to look on {
day they decided to come to this ste
ais the day OF their greatest go
fortune. 49, rvs. s ! =
The railroads in the state are tt
lyear building new lines and branch
THAT viii aggregate the greatest nal
Eage under construction In the emit
Estates In any one state. Raflr0a
lido not ordinarily invest their CAPT
lin regions where there is no prom
Ecf returns. These and many oh
ifasts might be cited in reply to
IGazette's statements, but 1T Ia harl
necessary TO remark upon IT furtl
THAN to say that it Is refuted by en-
Agricultural, business and connmerc
Econdition in this state, SO far as 1t
intended to be applied 10 westt
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