The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-05
EARLY EXPERIENCES
IN THE STATE
OF IOWA
Des Moines Paper Tells About
Snow Blockades and Trou-
bles Years Ago.
WILL CONTINUE TO GROW
North Dakota to Ever March
rd-Planting of Trees
is Necessary.
WILL CONTINUE TO GROW

The following editorial is taken
from the Upper Des Moines Qowa)
Republican:
We are saying nothing of the wis
dom of the hegira into the land of the
Dakotas. 1t would do no good if by
good is to be meant the keeping of
people out of there. How singular 1t
is that young men in this section
which has itself been reclaimed from
snow waste and blizzard are not sat-
isfied to stay here or to go south or
southwest. Why do not the milder
climates attract them? Is it to be
counted as cause or effect that
through all times has identified the
strong and virile people with fierce
climates and the weak and decadent
with tropical and semi-tropical? No
matter. AS the boys desert the fur
mace heated room and seek the storm
and wallow in the snow, these settlers
of the northern wilderness have gone
into the teeth of the blizzard, known
as such since it was first heard of,
and there they seem bound to stay.
Some of these new settlers are sons of
men who drove OK teams into Iowa in
the fifties in the face of billiards as
dangerous. Our country is under the
greatest obligation to the men who
have pioneered into the west since our
first settlers encountered what was
considered the most inhospitable of
climates on the Atlantic coast. There
has been succession Of pioneering
which have been the marchings for
ward of settlement and civilization.
and these pioneerings, having been the
making of the greatest nation of the
earth.
Some of the new settlers in the
Dakotas were surprised when after
four or five open winters the terrible
storm and cold of last December came
upon them, just as the farmers of
Iowa were surprised not many years
ago to have their entire corn crop COW
cred up by deep snow in October so
that they could not pick till Easter.
Likely the hard winter will give a
set back to the enthusiasm of some
who were figuring on going up there
this spring. 1t ought to have the eff
feet to prevent influx of unprovid-
ed women and other unable to cope
with emergency in an inhospitable
cline. 1t may eventually be good
thing by keeping out of the country
all but the hardy and the capable. 1t
needs men and women of the sterner
stuff to make the bone and sinew of
great commonwealths.
But as to the test of the Dakotas,
we incline to the belief that it is yet
to come. II the country has enough
rainfall it will continue to grow in
wealth and population in the years
to come. If the people plant the tim
Der they will likely get the rainfall.
People forget this state of Iowa
has been redeemed from the dominion
of the blizzard. In the first place the
early settlers had precisely the same
impression OF the country when they
came here that the Dakota settlers
had of that region when they hunted
claims there. They came here Just
the same and most of them staid.
Iowa people whose fathers endured
hardships in this state equaling any
thing reported from the Dakotas are
saying that this winter settles the
case of those states. 1t doubtless will
in the minds of many. but 1t probably
will not much change the trend of
settlement. It did not for Iowa and