The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1907-03-29
WEALTH and RESOURCES
Ut North Dakota as Truth!aIy Portrayed in Recent
Article Written by R. N. Stevens and Ap-
pearing in the Commercial West.

OF average OF nearly
600 to the farm The total value Of all farm products
the state rata to the population of the state gives
every man. and child $3.50, average in
OF any other state in the Union The dairy products
the state in 1906 aggregated about $ 000 and
Of chickens and eggs that sold 1905 nearly $780,
600 WORTH There is deposit in the banks of state
between and $780, OOO and our per capita
OF wealth is the greatest of any state in the Union
one Which no bigger than of counties and is
practically a borough of the city of New York.
THE UNDEvELoPED RESOURCES.
And now, of our undeveloped resources There is in
the state than twenty-five thousand square miles of
coal BEDS furnishings of fuel which, when science and
discovery shall have found binder which will permit
briquetting, successful from commercial basis will
nish fuel equal in efficiency to the anthracite beds
Pennsylvania and sufficient in volume to supply not only
our state but the whole of the northwest for centuries
come and furnish light heat and power to millions yet
| unborn.
CLAY BEDS FOR MAKING BUILDING MATERIAL
We have five thousand square miles of clay beds, suit
able for making building material and also pottery
cepbe of partakng of the highest of the decorators
art The exhibit made of pottery made from our clays
in st. Louis and Portland part of which is
hbition in the capitol building is justly entitled to the
high award of merit given it by the competent judges
who passed upon it at these two worlds fairs and the
day will when the manufacturers of the United
States will seek clays and will establish in this
try factories for the manufacture of all classes and kinds
of pottery, and look forward to the day in my
hereafter short life when there shall be established in the
western part of this state factories for the manufacture
Of pottery costing hundreds of thousands of dollars One
of the best evidences of the efficiency of the material
made from the cays of which speak, is that the Grand
Forks public building built of it, and befor the mater
ial for the building accepted, it put to the
verest test by inspection which it wthstood
and pronounced in excess of the required tensile
strength, density and general efficiency by than
thirty per cent the of the material used in
such buildings.
ROCK PORTLAND CEMENT.
We have aso in the northern part of the state shale
rock from which the best of Portland manufac-
tured and cement made which is fast coming into prom
nence in this, the beginning of what may be termed the
cement age There is also cement rock in the western
part of the state which destined in the future
be promident factor in the upbuildng of the state
The artesian beds underlying great portion of our
state capable of development and will be developed
necessity requires far beyond the dreams of those
who experimenting with artesian flows.
The state has unlimited supply of beautiful and
durable stone for building purposes.
THE GRAZING INDUSTRY.
Heretofore, we have raised grazed large number
of range CATTLE but fast growing into state
ted for the fine bred CATTLE sheep and hogs contains
and while this industry is practically only just begun and
will develop in extensive proportions at almost the
outset Of career North Dakota bred animal has
taken first premium at the great fine stock show held
Gently in the city of Chicago Our people alive to the
ing of their horses and CATTLE and it requires the wisdom
of sage predict truhfuly that before the state
begins to get hoary with age, it will be noted the
breeding ground of the sire used for the higher grades of
stock raising throughout the whole country.
EDUCATION AS A GREAT RESOURCE.
One of the greatest growing of this unde
veoped country, that is ncalculabe and ines
mabe in the future of state the large percentage
of school children proportonate to population Of the
nearly five hundred thousand inhabitants of the state
hundred forty thousand of them between the ages of
six and twenty Of these hundred thirteen thousand
in actual attendance at school, giving of the
largest percentages of school children proportonate to
population, of any of the states We have already in
vested in what may be termed the country school, which
is outside of any Of the state educational institutions,
than 81 000 000 The moneys which will be derived
from the sale of lands belonging the public schools and
public institutions of the state will when all is sold
ate fund of than $780, 0O0 heritage perpetual
to the of education Let live that by word
and deed may show to the children of the state by
example, and teach them by practices love of
try and that just pride in the state Of our choice which
shall glorfy her and spread broadcast the advan
tages she possesses
1t is said there is magic in Yes. there is. The
of North Dakota has travelled westward along the
two transconnenta lines that pass through state
til it has reached the Pacific 1t has travelled eastward
the great chain of lakes until has reached the At
lantc It has been waited by natures breezes
the broad until it has reached the eastern cot
nent. and today, and for years past sail has whit
ened either ocean, but has borne pilgrims seeking homes
in this wonderland, and say truthfuy and with
PRIDE that the broad domain still waiting be ked by
the hand of husbandry when it shall blossom forth and
bear fruit, sufficient to accommodate not only the
tural increase in population but also the hoe
seeker in foreign lands for decades to The unde
veoped Of this great state and
red and must in time they developed result in
changes radical that words describe the gran
deur, the wealth. and the population that shall ultimately
be ours.
North Dakota has been material factor in the
development Of the and muscle and brain power of
our present president Theodore Roosevelt and have
material for many more
IL at present state without millionaire, but
resources are vast in extent great in
that when the final day shall and Gabriel shall blow
awaken the quckened and the dead the scientist, the
artlcer and the h1ahandunan will