Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-14
NORTH DAKOTA PR0DUCTIVENESS
Tremendous Influx Farmers From Middle States Good Slams
Of Future Prosperity.

+, miles of a railway. Not that the alb.
sence of railway has been any obstacle
to the farmer. The soil is SO rich and
the yields of wheat SO abundant that
many of them have found it exceed
ingly profitable to haul their grain
fifty or even sixty miles to the nearest
shipping point.
There are many excellent chances
| to buy fine farms in the Red river val
ley-farms that are under high state
Of cultivation, with excellent buildings
! possessing all modern conveniences.
These lands can be bought at fair
! figures and on reasonable terms. 1t Is
| the most productive land on the west
ern hemisphere and has been APPLY
named the Mile Of the Western
World" These farms are convenient
ly located and the owners or occupants
possess all the advantages of the
Eastern farmer. There are large
number OF. excellent opportunities to
| purchase a splendid farm at minimum
prices. This land is destined in the
near future to greatly increase in
value and the famous Red river valley
becomes a greater producing country
than ever before. To the man of mod
crate means this section of the state
| should prove a great attraction.
The State of North Dakota is des
i tined always to be great agricultural
state. So far there have never been
any extensive mineral deposits found
in it. if we except the tremendous beds
of Ignite that extend all over the Mis-
souri, slope and some excellent depos-
! it's OF clay for pottery and cement. But
With total acreage of almost 45,0OO,-
GOO it had in 1906 less than 100000
under cultivation, or, to be exact, g..
492,Gsg.
And yet with only fifth of it's LAND
under cultivation, the value of the ag-
ricultural products per capita in North
Dakota is the highest OF any state in
The Union. The states farming in
terests have been tremendously de-
veloped by the low rates and exten.
\ SAo1lsS Va iiS' AAAo AAsAo ~
suited in the extension of it's markets
10 a degree that was not even thought
possible ten years ago. 1t is a fact
that it costs less to take grain or Its
products from North Dakota to Liver
pool than from any point in Iowa or
Illinois, except from points bordering
Oh Lake Michigan, and it is only q
matter OF time when Atlantic liners
will be able to take on their cargo at
Duluth, thus bringing the North Da-
kota farmer within 800 miles practi.
oally of tidewater.
1t is difficult thing for any person
to comprehend the development that
is going on without actually visiting
the state. Hundreds of towns have
sprung into existence within the past
two years where before were only
miles upon miles OF prairie. And
there is nothing of a mushroom or
boom character about these towns.
They are there to stay, and when, as
sometimes happens, there are two in
proximity feeling OF the most In.
tense rivalry exists. Settlers pour In
as the towns are laid out, elevators, a
bank Or two and dozen or more
buildings are started, and before the
tracklaying gang Is barely out of sight
business is in full blast.
The way they are piling up wealth
in North Dakota Is another thing that
few people are cognizant of, and yet
{nfnrncfinn ond {n0nraos
sive. 1t Is not any more the land we
are used to hear about as being bur-
dened with mortgages. The mortgages
have been paid off, and now the farm
ers have money In the bank. In 1900
the state had only twentyseven ma
tional banks, with deposits Of $685.
$50. In 1906 the state had 100 nation
al banks, with deposits Of $19,335, 1872.
In addition, 1t has 1S6 state banks,
and the deposits in these are undoubt-
edly in excess of those in the national
banks. This is a pretty good gain,
and vet the last census gave the state
the honor of being the wealthiest In
the Union, and the one with the larg-
est income per capita according to
population.
Here is another little pointer about
the state: The total value of its prop.
crty is more than 81, 900, 100000. With.
out a single city of the tirst-class, ac-
cording to Eastern standards, it has
thirty-six shipping points on one rail-
way alone, the freight receipts OF
which exceed 100000 year apiece.
! This indicates how wealth is being &C.
| cumulated,