Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-07

North Dakota lying to the west Of
the Missouri river has come to such
a condition of prosperity as makes 1t
a phenomenal country for the immi'
grant. Within few years that por.
ton of the state west of the great
river and abutting on South Dakota
and Montana has made such strides
in development as to astonish every
man who has taken occasion to in.
form himself. Two of the counties
have increased in population to the
extent of a thousand per cent-a1d
as yet there has been no material
impression made on the magnificent
domain. 1t is relatively populous
and it is tremendously prosperous by
reason of the fact that it's virgin soil
has yielded the most astounding re-
suits to the farmer. But the begin
ming has scarcely been made. 1t has
finely built towns, schools, markets
all the advantages of the most ad-
vanced community-andi it has room
for thousands of settlers who have
the intelligence and the enterprise
to take part in it's farther develop
ment.
There is no section of the United
States that has had the growth in
percentage of population, in increas-
ed acreage under cultivation and in
the amount of produced wealth con-
tributed to the riches of the country
that Adams, Bowman, Stark and Bill
ings counties have enjoyed. Billings
county-a few years ago given over
wholly to the uses of the ranchman
ALREADY counts among it's features
the biggest primary grain market in
the world-Beach. Hettinger and
Bowman are notable as being among
the best built and most enterprising
communities in the west. And they
are all backed by country of such
varied agricultural and mineral
wealth as to ensure their develop
ment into the richest productive re-
gions in the United States.
And, as was said, the present de-
velopment has been brought about
largely by the enterprise of pioneer
settlers. They found and exploited
a veritable paradise for the farmer
and husbandman and what they told
of their country induced other settle
ment. If the advantages of this sec.
ton of North Dakota had been ex-
plotted by the forced methods that
have applied in procuring settlement
for the country thousand miles to
the north-and that much farther
from the markets of the world
there would no longer be room for
original settlement here. If the rail-
roads had exercised the same intelli-
gent enthusiasm in exploiting the
possibilities of this section of North
Dakota as has been brought into play
for the peopling of the semi-arid re-
gions to the west and the unbroken
wilderness to the north we might
now be spared the sight of thousands
of prosperous settlers going through
North Dakota to remote regions to
pay higher prices for untried land.
No intelligent man who has the ad-
vantages of the tra1s-Missouri coun-
try of North Dakota put before him
would think of going farther
in looking for home.
1t is the plain duty of the people
of North Dakota to take up the ex-
ploitation of this and other favored
sections of the state to the end that
the attention of the people now en-
gagged in the great migration which
is going on from the older to the new
err sections of this continent. If the
truth, unvarnished and simple, can
be put before the people of the older
states, who have the migratory in
there will be little danger
that any considerable number will
go beyond this fertile and prosper
Gus country to look for a new home.
And to neglect this golden opportun-
ity to bring settlers to the state
would be simply criminal.
The people of the trans-Missouri
know their country and it's possibili-
ties. AS pioneers they owe it to
themselves to take the proper steps
to bring in population, to open up
the soil, and thereby add to the mar
ket value of the agricultural land not
yet occupied.
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