Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-02


were working dn a city for wages, even
II he has only an eighty-acre farm.
;E worked on a morning newspaper
from the time was eighteen and
got to think that such life as that
was one that wouldn't lead much
longer, utterly unsatisfactory in every
way. So i made up my mind to go
west. The next thing was to get my 1
mind settled on some section Of the
west, so went to Clark street to some
Of the railroad Offices to get some of
their literature, and the first one
happened to go into, and the only one
was the Northern Pacific. They gave
me a lot Of literature and copy of
The Bismarc X T r Id un e. 1T was
what we used to call boom edition
/ knew nothing about Bismarck and !;
knew nobody there, and SO believed
what they said. I wish to say this to
show what a few real estate men with
the assistance they may receive from
the newspapers may do, and as to
what it did in my case, and ! know it
has done in every county Of the state.
4 took that copy Of The Bismarck
Tribune home, and will say that as /
was not then acquainted with the
newspaper men of Bismarck, / believ-
ed every word Of it. The next thing
did was to subscribe for it, and got
my attention so centered on this coun-
try-that was in 1881that went
| right through the eastern part Of the
state and came out here. And here
am, thankful for it. got out here
and found the country very new. EN-
4 mons county at that time was not or
ganized. In the year 1880 in the coun-
a ty where live there were just thirty
eight people. When the county was
q organized in 1883 and went down
4 there in the spring of 1884, when most
of the settlers went in, the chief oc-
u cupation of the settlers was gathering
buffalo bones and hauling them to
y Bismarck, and some here tonight will
!. tell you this. That county having 3S
people in 1880, not organized until
4 1888, and not having more than 25o
Tor 800 people at the time 4 went down
there in 1884, while DIT has made nc
such great progress as have Ward and
8 Mclean, having such an enormous
d growth, still there has been steady
and reasonable increase. believe the
percentage was something like 81
!, from 1890 to 1895, which, of course, il
perfectly satisfactory. Now then, .
find, coming into that country at thu
B present time, what you might call {
second batch or second coming O
81 settlers from all over Iowa, South Da
kota, and Minnesota, people coming
3 as we came twenty or twenty -fiv.
years ago, but these people comm,
now are nearly all practical farmers
They come here with the determine
ton to make homes. remember las
q winter at hotel. lady with two o
three bright children, stopped Will
q her husband went out on claim t
get a house built, and she told of tn,
q struggles they had in Iowa as poo
|, renters. She said that whenever the.
: got hold Of a good farm and had
9 two or three years immigrants com
4 ing in from other states as here, had
! little capital and could pay a littl,
more rent. ssWe have come with th.
: determination to stay With a few
chickens, some hogs and a littl,
ground, know we can make living
That county, with 3s people in 1880
raised in addition to the usual crops
raised in North Dakota about $50 90,
bushels Of corn last year. We rails,
stock and wheat as well as barley
with all due respect to my FRIEND Scr
ley, we raise what makes Milwaukee,
: famous, and we raise what has mad,
e Minneapolis famous, but we don't tel
y you, ladies and gentlemen, that yol
!. must come in the back door to pur
e chase Hour. Nc
t Well, don't know, think hav,
t used up most of my time, but in clos
d ing 4 wish to say that the workin,
t man, be he farmer, mechanic, clerk
t bricklayer or mason, If he is willin.
to work and to act honestly by tn,
! men he works for. there is no bette
4 \ - - il
!. place under Gods heaven than tn,
state Of North Dakota, and hope tina
the press and the real estate men her,
! tonight will not be backward in Civ
! ing these ideas to the people of th,
rest Of the country. #
( I hope that you real estate fellow
] will have no unkindly feelings toward
us fellow sufferers when you gaze a
l a. ISa,y ~