Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-01-23

The story of North Dakota is the
story of state new, yet wealthy both
IN developed and undeveloped re-
sources. 1t is a story of state
wrested from the unbrokep prairie
barely more than a third of a cen.
fury ago, and yet leading the world
In its production of hard wheat, flax,
beef and the products that come from
the soil. 1t is state rich in things
accomplished and yet richer in things
still to be done. 1t is state of much
individual wealth, per capita annual
production larger than that of the
majority of its sister states, and its
wealth Is so we'll distributed that
there are no millionaires and no pau
pers. Within the past few years it
has added by the hundreds of thou.
sands to its population, and yet the
resources of the state far from being
at their fullest, have scarcely been
drawn upon.
1t would require far more than the
space of single article to describe
the state, or dwell at any length upon
Its soil, its climate, its productiveness
or Its offerings to the homeseeker. It
Is state in which disease and i'll
health are reduced to the minimum.
1t has no large cities or congested
centers. Its climate is invigorating
and health giving. Its air is crisp
and celebrating. Its summers are
cool and tempered with the mild eli
mate OF Its zone. Its growing season
Is ample for the production of the
finest of grain the most succulent and
firm of vegetables and the fattening
of superior grade of cattle and
sheep. Its autumns are long, and af-
ford ample time for the gathering of
the harvest and the preparing of the
soil by fall blowing for the harvest
of another year. Its winters are char
acterized by dry, crisp atmosphere
that is far less Objectionable than the
damp, chilling climate of the Eastern
states. In the present year the au-
tumn season has been long one. In
dian summer, from September until
this writing-Nov. 25-when the
weather is warm and clear, altogether
delightful, when the wheat and grain
has been threshed and stored, the
soil prepared for the coming spring
and the peculiar haze of Indian sum.
mer hangs over the landscape and
lends every scene its own particular
charm.
North Dakota affords opportunity
for variety of occupations along the
agricultural line. There is the Red
River valley, lying along the eastern
part of tae state, where for miles and
miles the land is level as floor, and
in the SUMNER season resembles an
ocean of wheat-waves of great sea
of grain that extends from Wahpeton
on the south to Pembina on the north.
and from the Red river westward for
a distance of many miles. Board a
train at Wahpeton and travel all night
and all day and the journey is through
an almost unbroken field. In the sum
mer season the green of the fields is
a delightful, refreshing view, and, as
the grain turns to gold in the fall,
there Is material for the lines of the
poet or the pencil of the artist be-
yond the power of prose description.
Later the hum of the harvesters IN
the fields, the shocks and shocks COW
ering thousands of miles and the mu.
sic of the thresher with chaff flying
from thousand spouts and grain
flowing down and ready for the bread
of the world to eat. The Red River
valley this year produced its generally
large crop, and the prices at which
it was sold guarantee happiness and
prosperity to the farmer fortunate
enough to be possessed of heritage
of fertile acres.
The central part CT the state is
higher, a little more rolling and the
yields of grain have been gratifying.
Towns by the dozen boast their five
and six and ten elevators, with capaci-
ties. that vary from 10000 to $4,000
bushels, and the grain marketed at
some towns of only few people az
gregates million or more bushels.
At the price of wheat this year, abort
dollar bushel at the elevators, this
means another golden stream of
i. wealth pouring into the channels Of
trade and opportunity everywhere for
the business man to reap profit from
his wares. Treins half mile in
length bearing wheat to terminals to
be transported to all parts of the
world. and to be exchanged for wares
and merchandise means continuou;
hustle and industry.
After all, real wealth is in the land.
There are times of short crops and
times of long crops, but the average
IS sure, and the return certain. It is
life of independence, of sturdy en-
deavor, of ultimate competence and
euccess.
The educational advantages of the
state are numerous and varied. TIE
endowment Of the state from its
school lands is rich, and in little
while the earnings Of the permanent