Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-07-31


created North Dakota He made her
with all the conditions for the bene-
fit of mankind. He foresaw and laid
the foundations for one of the most
brilliant futures of any state in the
Union.
Her geographical situation is well
known to everyone. It fits her pc
culiarly for an insurance of life,
strength and health for the chill
dren of her soil. With an abund-
ance of pure air sweeping daily over
the hills, putting the stamina of en-
durance into our bodies, cleansing
the blood and sending it tingling
through our veins, comes a desire
to labor, to produce an abundance,
to beautify our surroundings and our
minds.
We know no malaria, typhoid, or
other germs.
have known people so impreg-
mated with germs from the hot, bac-
teria-laden air of southern states
that they did not care whether they
moved or not. They were not lazy,
but their mother state had failed to
provide the proper elements OF
health.
Health for our people before
everything-then soil.
We have the soil-rich, sandy
loan that will produce an abundant
crop year in and year out, other
conditions being favorable. Food in
abundance for plant life IS stored be-
meath the prairie grass, waiting for
the farmers plow-share to expose it
to air and sunlight.
Not all our land, however, is farm
land. Some of it fit only for pas
ture but that we need. One of the
mainstays of farming is stockraising
and here again We see the Divine
wisdom in the creation of our state.
But" say you, What are you 60
ing to do with those white hills
over there, destitute Of vegetation ?"
One has but to go to the Hebron
Brick Factory where millions of
bricks are turned out to find So
luton, to find an industry worthy
of this kind of formation.
friends is stored sunlight; of centur-
And here in these lodges, my
les ago.
Preposterous? Fact! Huge trees
drained their measure of sunlight,
air and moisture till at last through
some influence of nature they fell
in their glory never to rise again
but to be changed organically by
the pressure of the earth till the
sidney black substance of today
little resembles the original, in form,
color or shape. Coal! Ignite caol
by the millions of tons. Fuel for
her children for generations and
generations has North Dakota pro-
vided. All they need do is to go
out and dig along nearly any ledge
to obtain it.
The scenery is very beautiful.
Hills and valleys go together. Now
1--WE see a beautiful valley surround
ed by hills, pleasing to the eye, rich
in productiveness. Some times the
hills are covered with. immense
rocks piled around promiscuously
and all that is needed to complete
the scene is trees. ,
| Great prairie fires have swept over
the plains causing destruction to the
timber but these must fade away
from civilizations approach.
Relics of immense trees Of former
times are found in the petrifed
trunks and stumps we often see. I
have seen petrified stumps two feet
in diameter many times.
In olden times our hills furnished
a hiding place for Indians and also
for great herds Of bisons, whose
horns and remains are found quite
frequently. The indiscriminate
slaughter of the creatures has been
the greatest b1under of the west.
With the diversity of conditions
comes diversity of crops as much
as those of occupation. Wheat is
great, perhaps the most extensively