Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-10-04
Paws This City Vsit-Talks to Hun
dreds of Citizens From Rear
End of Private Car.
nEv,ls LAKE HAS GREAT FU-
TURE AS AN INLAND CITY.
But Says That As We Depend Solely
Upon the Soil, We Must Take
Care of l&.

J. J. Hill, one OF the foremost rail-
road magnates of the world, and the
foremost Of the northwest, passed
through this city Monday morning at
$50 on a special train which came
over the lately completed Aneta branch.
With him were his son, Louis w.
Hill, president of the Great Northern
railway system, and J. M. Gruber, gen.
eral manager of the Burlington sys-
TEN. After remaining in the city but
a few minutes they went to Rugby,
where they met James N. Hill of the
Northern Pacific, who had just alight-
ed from train No. 2. The party Of
three then returned east and arrived
at this city about in the afternoon,
where they were welcomed by large
number of citizens and the Eagle
band, who had gathered at the station
since 2 o'clock in the afternoon to
meet the popular Jim"
Before pulling into the city from
the west, Mr.. Hill alighted at the round
house and workshop station and in
spected the work which has been done.
When the special stopped at the city
station, he was cordially greeted by
several OF his personal friends, and
was welcomed to the city Of Col. A. B.
Kerlin, who, by a few we'll chosen
words, assured him that the citizens
were thankful for what his road had
done for the city, and that he would
always be welcomed here.
Mr.. Hill spoke from the rear plat
form of his car. He thanked the
ladies and gentlemen for evidencing
their friendship by their presence, and
said that it was always pleasure for
him to meet the people along their
railroad and that it was due to their
failure or prosperity that made possi
BILE the success or failure of the road
1T was twenty years ago last
March," he said, when I first came
into the Devils Lake region. If I re
member correctly we walked nearly
all the way from Bartlett to this place
not really because we desired to
but the snow was so deep that it was
necessary in order to allow the horses
to pull the sleigh. We circled to {
point believe south Of this city where
we staid over night. My feet were
wet, and was cold, and assure 20,
that it was far different in this sec
ton then from what it is now.
"You have fine prospects here for
great inland city, but want to impress
upon you this fact: that your whole
success depends upon your SOIL Yo'
have no great waterway; no grea
factories
He then urged the farmers to TAX
care Of their soil, to cultivate it NOR
carefully, to return fertilizers upon tn
land, for said he, ''you can no NOR
take the fertility out of the soil yea
after year without putting any in
than you can take grain from an ele
vator forever without replenishing tn
supply. Every fourth year the Ian
should be summer fallowed, and eve
better, every fourth year SOW the sol
to clover or other nitrogious grasses
three years of labor and one of rest.
81 have spent considerable none
in buying blooded cattle, sheep an
hogs for the farmers Of the northwes
but regret to say that the improve
returns are not turning ip as fast a
thew should" He said, however, tha
he had recently attended a fair in thi
state and that he saw some of tn
incest cattle he had ever seen, an
that he had seen some pretty mic
cattle in his time.
Spealking of the railroad again. MI
Hill said that this country was FOL
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