The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1907-03-30
TIDE OF IMMIGRATION
The Month of AoriI Viii Witness a
Great Invasion of Settlers to Differ
emit Points in North Dakota.

lac tide of immigration to the west
on the Northern Pacific has begun: in
TACT, the flow has been greater than
the ordinary person has any idea of
These remarks are intended to apply TO
the movement only in this state
Where one letter was sent olt of che
state in January by some pessiinistie
feeling individual about alleged sll3rt-
age Of fuel and severe winter Weather,
there Were fifty other persons writing
10 the folks. back home and telling
the truth about things. The settlers
on the farms in North Dakota were
warm and comfortable and conditions
were not one bit worse than they are
on the average holding in the centfaf
and eastern states, in fact nlany OF
them demonstrated that they We're BET
ter off-they were accommodating lands
and farming plants much faster. lands
did not cost as much, Yields were pet-
ter, just al sure on tie average ard
in general the returns for thrift apd
Industry averaged much greater.
An arrival in the city last night from
the east was b. c. Shaw of Hope, a
representative of the Hope Land & I'm
proyement Co He has been spending
some time in Illinois interesting people
in the fertile regions of Billings c3uu-
ty, that great land of promise betygsn
Sentinel Butte and Beach.
Mr.. Shaw says he went east expect
ing to have to combat all sorts of re-
ports instead ofthat he says ne practi-
cally heard nothing at all detrimental
TO the state. Certain reports which Wore
common about this state. the early Uart
of the wear, had no effect by the ide
Of the personal letters which were be-
ing written by actual settlers who told
the people back home what tneir eN-
periences We're and had been for the
last two or three years, and what their
successes. had been,
Mr.. Shaw, during the several Weeks
he was there, sold twenty one sections
Of land north Of the track between tlae
stations at Sentinel Butte ana Beael,
and the land will be improved by
twenty-one actual settlers this season.
AS evidence of the stability of the buy
ers the sale was practically cash
proposition. and every man interested
has capital and stock with which to
start farming operations, just as soon
as the weather viii permit. The van
guard of the party of new settlers viii
arrive at the scenes of their new
western homes between the first and
middle OF April.
Mr.. Shaw SAYS that he visited ii
great many points in the state Of Illi-
nois and places about the borders OF
the state, and the one thing he kept
himself attuned to was whether there
had been any influences at work during
the winter aimed especially to divert
immigration from North Dakota. He
found that IL there had been any such
attempt it had failed. for in every COM
munity where there We're people with
intentions to move west had their ideas
centered upon North Dakota ana Mr..
Shaw says that from personal obserfa-
tons he is Of the opinion that the i'm.
vasion of newcomers will be as great
this year If not greater than it was in
19O6sor 1906. The fertility Of the lands
and the rapid development Of farms
during the past five years in all parts
of this state have told their own
stories