The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-26
A BOOM COMING.

1t is certain from present indica-
tons that this will be record break
ing year in the matter of immigra-
ton to this state. The tide has al
ready set in and the prospects are
that never during the late years when
the state was being settled by the
sturdy farmers who mean to make it
their permanent homes, has there
been such a demand for North Da-
kota lands. This is especially true
OF the uncultivated lands in the west
ern portion of the state. To them at
the present time the tide of immigra-
ton is directed.
For several years the cheap lands
In the Canadian northwest have been
the ones which have attracted the
great crowds of homeseekers and to
them the vast armies of Industrious
and enterprising men who have peo-
pie that region with the Drawn and
brains in the world have turned. But
while the tide was passing us by, no
one lost hope. Every student of the
advantages and opportunities which
lie waiting for the man who is ready
and willing to take them in this
tot hot ~ th1 do
would turn and the better conditions
which are to be found in North Da-
kota would soon set it in the direc-
ton of our borders again.
That condition is here. Already
the demands for lands has passed that
of other recent years. The men who
are DESTROYS of building homes for
themselves and futures for their chill
dren, men who have been renting in
the older states and realizing nothing
for their labors, and who desire to
start with small beginnings and build
up to competency, the men who
desire to have the advantages of
schools and churches and civilization,
and have all these combined with the
opportunities for making fortunes
which in few years will place them
outside the need of caring for the
future, are coming to North Dakota.
The western portion of the state
will naturally receive the greater part
of this class of citizens, because they
can secure in that part of the state
lands just as good as can be found
anywhere in the world at prices which
places a quarter section within the
reach of every man with energy and
health, and on such terms that he can
be the owner of home so soon as
he becomes a citizen of the state.
There lies in the western counties
of the state great undeveloped en-
pire, richer in natural resources than
the gold strewed lands of the Incas;
an empire where the touch of agri-
cultural industry is rewarded with
the harvest of golden grain; an en-
pire where the hand of Providence
in the ages past has placed an amount
of fuel sufficient to supply the world
for centuries; an empire where towns
and villages and churches and schools
dot the broad sweep of rich prairie
like stars in the midsummer sky.
The people who are seeking homes
have tried the wilderness of Canada
and the remuneration except for the
Spectator becomes fleeting shadow
when sought by the tiller of the soil.
The uncertainty of the climate, the
lack of opportunity, the consequent
failures which must of necessity come
to those who seek to convert an i'm
possibility into possibility, have
discouraged these people and the
others who are looking for homes are
seeking them where there is no need
of experiment, no occasion for fail
ure and no unsurmountable obstacles
to be overcome
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