Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-06-19

, invested and the revenue derived
tneretrom, and especially in Ramsey
county and the country tributary to
! Devils Lake there is a goodly amount
OF stock raised. The immense Weld
or the grain crops of the state have
Deen heralded far and wide and deserv-
edly too. Yet one must not loose sight
or the TACT that the live stock inter-
ests have contributed largely to the
wealth and building up of the state
and country generally.
1t is with feeling of great salts
faction that one observes the rapid
enlargement of the live stock industry.
There is no disputing the fact that
there is no state in the union better
adapted for stock raising than North
Dakota. Nowhere in the world do
the native grasses grow with more
luxuriance and richness than in North
Dakota and the crop is a never fail
ing one. The prairie is covered every
where with luxuriant growth of grass
equal for grazing and for hay to the
tame hay of the eastern states. These
native grasses cure to hay upon the
! ground and stock will fatten on the
prairie almost as rapidly as they do
in the east, feeding on grain.
With an abundance of good hay
! that can be stacked at a small cost
! the farmer can fatten a number of cat
tie in a season, and the farmers Of
! the county are also raising a number
of sheep each year and they take es-
pecial pride in having the finest breeds
of stock available.
Three years ago the population Of
Devils Lake was only 1900 and what
is it today. Few people in the city
will believe that it has reached the
mark that it has. During the past
three years the city has increased over
100 per cent and the outlook for the
continual growth is very bright, in
fact it is very easy to estimate that
within the next five years the city will
have a population of over Ten thous-
and Today it is little over 5,00t
and to believe that the city has grow
so rapidly seems like miracle, bu
! nevertheless it is so.
| City Assessor Rutten who has beel
! engaged in the assessing of the prop
erty of the city for some time past has
also been taking the census of the city
and from his records it shows that
there are 5,013 people in Devils Lake
and it would be no more than fair to
estimate that there are at least 200
more in the city that the assessor has
not got on his list.
| A few weeks ago we were like a
great many other towns in North Da-
kota only a small village on the prairie
and today what are we? Why we are
living in one of the best, most up-to-
date towns in the state and the pros
poets are, that within a few years we
will have reached a population that
will entitle us to be called the met
ropolis Of North Dakota Devils Lake
politan cities of it's size in the United
States. Its business firms are awake
to the fact that they have a great fu-
ture before them and are doing every
; thing to promote the best interests of
the city, real estate has advanced SO
! rapidly in price that it is almost impos-
price, the erection of so great a num-
; ber of buildings the past few years
has been the cause of giving a great
many men employment and the vast
amount of material used in the erec-
ton of these buildings has increased
the railroads business in this city to
decided extent and they have apprec-
lated the efforts of the people of the
city to build up the town and have
lent their assistance to decided eX-
tent and have done much to advertise
and further the progressiveness of
Devils Lake.
There is a wealth of capital in this
city that is always at the command of
the progressive man and the men own-
ing the largest interests in the city ar
always the first to invest and furths
any movement that will tend to bull
I'D the town. The true progressi
spirit is shown at every hand in Devil
Lake, the business men take pride i
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