Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1909-09-23
STORY IS WELL
TOLD BY EXHIBIT
NORTH DAKOTA'S AGRICULTURAL DIS.
PLAY At EASTERN FAIRS Gre,
IL ATES COMMENT.

agricultural exhibit at the fair in
that city headed the article As
follows: North Dakota's Story.
Well Told" The article, which is
a good boost for our state is given
below:
I'm displaying her products
agricultural, mineral and manu-
factured, North Dakota is show
ing the world at large, by special
visual demonstration, that she has
the climate, soil and other sources
which are always found back of
any permanent and enlightened
population.
In the exhibits which are be-
ing shown at the state and county
fairs of other states can be found
samples of her small grains, corn,
tame and wild grasses, which
should forever set ut rest any last.
lingering doubt concerning the
desirability of the wild rose state
as a permanent and suitable home
for the man who wishes to secure
the best land at the lowest possi-
bic cost. Here are found samples
of wheat, rye, oats and barley,
which, for length and strength of
straw and quality and quantity of:
grain contained in their heads,
have no superior on earth and
very few equals, and when it is.
remembered that these splendid
results have been secured by
purely natural processes and with
out any artificial moisture or the
aid of expensive chemical fertil-
izers then, if seeing is believing,
further comment is unnecessary.
Thirty bushels of blue stem
wheat, thirty-ive to forty bushels
of rye, forty to fifty bushels of
barley, seventy-fve 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 humming machines are
now telling in North Datota.
''The state has, however, other
recources besides those of agri-
culture 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
prospective value which is we'll
nigh incalculable when the bri-
quetting process, which has now
been perfected, becomes more ex-
tensively applied. Cement depos-
it's of surprising richness and
quality exist in the northern part
of the state and are being success
fully worked. Pottery and brick
clay of superlative quality is also
found in large quantities in the
western countries, and the press
ed brick industry is coming to
the front with rapid strides, the
product competing strongly with
the finest eastern makes.
Taken all in all the display,
which North Dskota is making in
this and other states, is an albumin
ating, convincing and unanswer-
able presentation of actual con-
ditions which cannot fail to i'm
press even the most casual OBJ
server. 1t shows beyond the pos
sibility of dispute what can be ac-
complished by the man who IS.
able and willing to work. It is
the challenge of a lusty young
giant who has already done things.
and proposes to do more. It,
is the call of the west to the
mortgaged-harried renter of the
east to come and do likewise. It
is the latest word from the back
of the movement giving the only
practical solution to the social
problem of overcrowded business
centers, and the wise man is he