Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-09-20
Plenty Of Them Left In the World for the Energetic,
Preserving Young Men Of Today II They viii But
Look Around, Investigate and Act
Land As Good aS7GOld and HOIlt Is a Paradise That
"o4 No selfRespectng Man Should falt0 Provide While
sSs17s
" Western Hemisphere Offers Opportunity ..sss. 4.

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! Minneapolis and, ST. Paul will be
Eaboutgas near the Pacific Underwater
/ at lTapolo obampo, as the Gulf Of Mex;
ico. as they are to Portland, Oregon:
+ gEapolobam po !, is, 800 miles east, OF
Sam Francisco, over loO. miles east
i Of Salt Lake City and lin, the same
latitude fas sKey West Florida. ;ss
/ ! The Hartman line the Southern
| Pacific .-has also built down Quay
was. on the Gulf Of California CON,
meeting, with the main line at Benson
in southern Arizona, II n r5ssi ii jsss[
+ The extension Of these. two lines
has brought heeseastern: coast Of
! the Gulf Of California into promi-
{! nence and what do we find? H .s
4 Opportunities. s,s5. st. :ss5 .,..sFf
The Kansas City and Orient line
runs through 200 miles of the finest
virgin pine forests on the western
hemisphere. h Tt opens y up great.
treasures of minerals and traverses
beautiful valleys and broad plains.
The Southern Pacific CROSSES innum-;
erable rivers, valleys of great fer
tility and miles and miles of table
lands covered with luxuriant. grasses
not unlike much Of therland in the
great northwest, in j the United
States. ~~. .E.4l 49,. s,5,..4,st-.
The International Golonizing COM
pany, Of which W. H. Martin of Santa
Barbara, CAL, iss the moving spirit,
has just acquired a tract of $75,Oo0
acres in Sinaola. The tract has five
miles frontage on the Sinaloa river
and twenty miles frontage on the
Gulf of California. Take a large!
map of Old Mexico and look at the
location. The Linaloa river is nav
igable for small steamers a consider
able distance, and s ocean steamers
drawing % feet can land #ot the
gulf frontage of this land. 1t Just
touches the Bay Of: Topolobampo,
with some of the best harbors on
i 4
, to South America. It was this har-
/ Dor that Admiral Dewey considered
: of SO much Importance it was treated
with a special report to the United
:. States government The Kansas City,
Mexico and Orient railway is only
; fourteen miles north and the South
81 ern Pacific line twelve miles east
5 from the tract of'lland which the In
ell ternational has taken for coloniza-
l ton purposes. Mr.. Martin, of the
s Colonization company was attracted
. to this particular spot away back in
1862 when he went down to that
region to look after some mining
interests in which his uncle, Mr..
!, Hawkins of Philadelphia, was inter.
) ested. Mr.. Martin at that time,
d made several trips overland from
Mazatlan to Guayinas, along the
+ gulf and across this land. It was
# through his. efforts that the Inter.
d naNional Colonization company ac,
g quired the property-before the ex
Is tensive railway Development that /.
.e now going on. a fg PIC
This region has many national ad
q yantages. It's climate is unexcelled
e winter and summer. There is goot
It water in abundance. The sinaIo;
d river, excellent water, is half mil
le wide Good water is found In well
'e Fat "a depth of from twenty to fift,
se feet, and the creeks have extensiv
le meadows of Ndeep, free loan soil
70 This region sis as good as any i
le California for. citrus fruits, decidu
tous fruits grain alfalfa, etc. Th
cs teompany has acquired this Land O
ie most favorable terms and are thu
4 enabled toso offert superior induce
lsmentss to settlers and investors. Th
is land VIII be sold In 20, SO and 10
ke Iacre: tracts and over, at S1o. per aer
ld To- the first settlers, and in the toWr
ayIsites lots Of one acre each8 acre
AT ani apb block--at the same price ,pre
heI gidsd sthe settler, If yhel has IA fanil.
residence within ,,th
townsite. Arrangements have bee
:le made TO take. prospective settler
IS -lsfffQn in The iearst railroad points b
he automobile and the fullest inyestig
ggh aiiY9lfItifsE cpaffeFi.
And ithis oppois oistunity while sor
'as Is9f lthe gsmost' attractive, Is only ser
", Of many the international Coloniz,
ICE tion company has In the holding
oc- fIt was a broad mind that looked o.
an over the western hemisphere al
i ,realized what the development
Ird this decade would bring forth saI