Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-01

DAY MORNING, MARCH y, 1907.
veloped Resources Hon, r. N.
Stevens.
THE State as a Whole 81.
g. .;.. Governor John Burke
Commercial centers Of the State
by y. a. Sorley.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 1t is not
respected that am going to make any
speech this evening. In fact. we have
no speakers in the house. These gentle
men from the senate are the orators in
the assembly, and any speeches that are
expected this evening you will evidently
hear from them. i had an. -intimation
about two weeks ago that / was TO speak
here on this occasion and / took the
pains and prepared very elaborate
speech. I wrote it out, rewrote it. went
over it repeatedly before the looking
glass and practiced on it several times,
but unfortunately I left it up in my
desk at the capitol, and it disappeared
/ with the minutes in regard to the rail-
rad commission so / am minus my
speech, and I would not be surprised
butwhat you will hear that speech this
evening from some Of the gentlemen who
will follow me. 81.
This is meeting Of the real estate
men. Now, I don't want to flatter the
real estate men and / am not given very
much TO fattery, but I presume that
there is not an agency outside Of the
press, perhaps, that has done more to-
wards building up and developing the
state than the real estate men. You can
not be real estate man unless you are
9 wideawake fellow They are the ones
taat build up your schools, they are the
zones you 60 to for subscrip when
You want aid for anything that pertains
toyour locality, and man that is not a
hustler, that don't believe in ego and
lget' cannot be q real estate man, be-
Cause he has to be up early and late.
And they are the men that have been
one Of the greatest agencies in develop
ling this state.
@ You men who have been here any
length Of time will remember that the
state was, say % years ago, barren
waste almost, and the early settlers that
came into the Red River Valley hardly
expected to see the day when this state
would be developed and have the set
Elements and commercial centers that
we see here to-day.
/ remember when came to this state
in 1880 When men came to the Red
river valley they confined their sett,e-
ments along the stream, and it was q
common remark that the prairie between
the Wild Rice and Red. River would
never be settled, but we find the extent
Of population such that theysare not
only settled between the Wild Rice and:
Red river but We are now developing
into one Of the best states. In the union.
If we look at the resources Of this
state We find that we have everything
here, and I knoWthe men who have come
TO thi state are men swho came here
poor; they had nothing when they came
here, and we find that il We compare the
progress OF the men who have settled
upon these prairies, and who have been
here ten to twenty-five. or thirty years
you will find that they surpass any thing:
that you win see in any Of the men Of
the eastern states. We have established
g reputation OFF what We raise. We.
raise the wheat that makes the best
bread in the country, we raise the bar,
ley that makes the beer that made Mil
Waukee famous, we raife the potatoes
that make every Irishman smile, We
raise everything that pertains to an agri-
cultural country, but that is not what +
am assigned to talk on. ! am to talk on.
The Commercial Centers Of the State. !"
Well, now, there is only one, and that
is the city Of Grand Forks. Now. you
don't need any proof OF that fact, be-
cause any man from Grand Forks will
admit II. ! am in no position to speak Of
the commercial centers Of the state. I:
viii begin, however, with the city Of
Grand Forks where I live. We have
stated that it was quite q commercial
center. We have saw mill there that:
employs $50 men per day; and they run
day and night, and the output 81 that
mill amounts to over q million dollars
|a year There are many people in this
state that are not aware Of this fact. We
have -four mill belonging 70 Russell
Miller Co. the output Of which is over
SIC, oOO,O 600.
We have the Red River Brick Com
pany that employees from rs to 100 men
and whose output amounts TO over a
s100, 600 900. We have 4 cracker factory
that employs over 30 men. We have q
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