The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-01
Why NOT EXPLOIT
NORTH DAKOTA
TIT BISMARCK TRIBUNE WANTS
MORE AGGRESSIVE METHODS
IN ADVERTISING THE STATE
AND ITS REMARKABLE ApvAN-
TAGEs TO LANosEEKERs.

Bismarck Tribune: The Tribune
believes that this year of grace pre-
sents to the people of North Dakota
a splendid opportunity to induce
others to participate in their prosper
ity and to add to their own fortunes
thereby. The preposterous state of
affairs which obtains in the progress
slvc settlement of the northwest is in
Dictated by the fact that arid lands, in
less favored parts of the country, are
being settled by persons from other
PARTS of the union, while here in
North Dakota there are millions OF
ares of fertile soil as yet untouched
BY rhe plowman which should. in the
nature % things, be occupied first.
Land in North Dakota is no higher
in price than it is in Canada, and 1t
has the tremendous advantage of be-
Ing closer to the market of the agri-
culturist. It's fertility has been dem
onstrated the prosperity of it's people
Is proven by the fact that since 1892
the actual value of the property in the
state has increased from 1858, 100000
to more than s1,10O,000,0 900.
In the midst Of this unprecedented
increase in produced wealth, the peo-
pie of North Dakota have been content
to sit supine and permit their less fav-
ored but more enterprising neighbors
attract the attention of the world to
the possibilities of agriculture in the
northwest. Canada, by an aggressive
campaign OF advertising, has taken
hundreds of thousands of people out
Of the United States. carrying them
through millions Of acres of yet UNI
developed lands in this state, which
they might secure under more adyan-
tageous conditions than would be pos
sible in a country more remote from
the markets of the world. 1t is true
that the state of North Dakota is
carrying on a campaign of official pub
licity. 1t Is effective. But it should
be supplemented by individual effort
Sufficient unto the day Is the evil
thereof" Men who have prospered in
a degree by the increase in land values
In North Dakota should assume an
aggressive attitude in setting forth the
advantages of the country they have
their stake in. The train loads of
emigrants passing through this state
to find homes in other sections of the
northwest constitute a reproach to
their business sense.
Let us devise means to compel
attention to the fact that here is a
goodly country where the simplest
arts of the husbandman are reward
ed bountifully; let us not be satisfied
with conditions as they are because
those conditions are momentarily
satisfactory. There is a great spirit
of unrest in older settled commune
ties of this country, where lands val
ues have increased largely, but where
the opportunities for profit from the
filling of the soil are not equal to
those which obtain here. If the mes
sage Of North Dakota could be effec-
tually carried TO the people of other
states who have money and the dis
position to seek new homes there
would be an immediate fruition of the
hopes of the pioneers who have taken
hold on this soil and developed 1t for
the realization of a profit. Nowhere
between the western boundary of No~@i
Dakota and the Pacific ocean is there
anything like as good a prospect for
profit from the soil as In this state:
there is nothing north of the forty
ninth parallel that could be compared
with the advantages that exist here
Let us reach out and take hold on
the opportunity that is presented in
the unrest of the older communities.
Here is room and plenty for millions.
Let us 90 forth and bring them in.