The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-09-20
NORTH DAKOIA'S
STORY WELL TOLD
FORT WAYNE, IND, PAPERS GIVE
STATE CREDIT FOR SPLENDID
DISPLAY or AGRICULTURAL,
MINERAL AND OTHER PROD.
ucTs, SHOWN AT FAIR THERE.


The Fort Wayne, Ind, Gazette con-
tains the following regarding the ex-
iIibit from this state at the big fair
In that city:
In displaying her products, agricul-
tural, mineral and manufactured,
North Dakota is showing the world at
large, by special visual demonstration.
that she has the climate, soil and
other resources which are always
found back of any permanent and en-
ligntened population.
In the exhibits which are being
shown at the state and county fairs
of other states can be found samples
or her small grains corn, tame and
wild grasses, which should forever set
at rest any last lingering doubt con-
corning the desirability of the wild
rose state as a permanent and suitable
home for the man who wishes to Sc
cure the best land at the lowest pos
sible cost Here are found samples OF
wheat rye oats and barley, which, for
length and strength OF straw and
quality and quantity OF grain con-
tanned in their heads, nave no superior
on earth and very far equals, and
when 1t is remembered that these
splendid results have been secured by
purely natural processes and without
any artificial moisture or the aid OF
expensive chemical fertilizers then, if
seeing 10 believing, further comment is
unnecessary. Thirty bushels of blue
stem wheat, thirty 1--WE to forty
bushels of rye, forty to ffty bushels
of barley. seventy-hve to ninety
bushels Of oats, etc. can NOT be raised
on any but the very best of land, and
these are the stories which the hum
ming machines are now telling in
North Dakota.
The state has, however other re-
sources besides those of agriculture
and its allied Industries and many Of
them are already being commercially
developed. Her Ignite coal mines are
now recognized as an actual and i'm
portant factor in the fuel supply Of
the state, besides possessing a pros
pective value which is well nigh in
calcuable when the briquetting pro-
cess, which has now been perfected,
becomes more extensively applied.
Cement deposits OF surprising rich-
ness end quality exists in the northern
part Of the state and are being sue
cessfully worked. Pottery and brick
clay Of superlative quality is also
found In large quantities in the west
ern counties, and the pressed brick
Industry is coming to the front with
rapid strides, the product competing
strongly with the very best eastern
| makes.
| Taken all in all the display, which
North Dakota is making in this and
other states, Is an Illuminating, con-
vlncing and unanswerable preseRta-
ton of actual conditions which can
not fail to impress even the most
causal observer. 1t shows beyond the
possibility Of dispute what can be ac-
complished by the man who is able
and willing TO work. 1t is the chal-
lenge of lusty young giant who has
already done things and proposes to
do more, 1t Is the call of the west to
the mortgage harried renter of the
east to come and do likewise. It is the
latest word in the back to the farm
movement and offers the only practi-
cal solution to the social problem OF
overcrowded urban centers, and the
wise man lie he who listens, investi-
gates and acts.