Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-27
Fifty MILLION IS
CASH TO Northwest
TIDE OF IMMIGRATION TO CAN.
ADA HAS BEEN CHECKED
SAY ROADS
Large Number Of Families and I'M
rnense Amount OF Money Pouring
Into Three Great Northwest States,

Figures from the three transconti-
mental lines, the Great Northern, the
Northern Pacific, and the 500, show
that the tide of immigration to Can
ada has been checked, and that Min
nesota, North Dakota and Montana
are benefitting.
Startling as the figures seem, rail-
road officials insist that since March
/, 6,75O families have come from
eastern states into the northwest,
bringing with them no less than $780,
625, 900 in cash. The population that
has come to the three states is esti-
mated at $3.50.
All seIf-supporting
The striking feature of this imml-
grafton is that it is self-supporting,
that it is bringing capital and paying
cash for the farms, stocks, imple-
ments and supplies. The railroad Of
ficials say the immigrants are from
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
the New England states and the GEN.
trail west states of Nebraska, Missouri,
and Iowa, and that each family comes
supplied on the average of conser-
vative estimate, with $500 cash.
For the most part the immigrants
are farmers who have sold their farms
in the east for comparatively high
prices and are seeking elbow room in
the northwest, where land Is cheaper
and more productive. In Illinois, In
diana and Ohio land is held at from
slOO to $3.50 an acre. so that a farmer
with from 100 to 100 acres has a
working capital of from $4,000 tc
$4,000 on which to start anew in the
northwest. Farmers from Missouri
Iowa and Nebraska get from $50 to
$75 an acre, so they are bringing into
the three northwestern states from
$4,000 to $4,000 each. Those who
come from Pennsylvania and the New
England states are for the most part
men at the prime of life who have
grown sons and who have managed to
save in their years of labor in the
mill, factory or ONCE, tidy little for
tunes which enable them to acquire
quarter sections and be Independent,
Conservative Estimate.
It is by such casting up of accounts
that the railroad men come to the fig
ure $500 as a conservative estimate
vi Iu0 WEALTH. VI SoCA IAAe1I AAoo
entered the northwest this year.
Ninety per cent of the families who
have come in this year have already
paid cash for their farms and the i'm.
plements, stock and supplies they have
been obliged to buy. Most of the
immigration to Minnesota has been in
to the Red River valley and the cut
over timber lands in the northern
part of the state. Those who have
settled in the Red River valley are
scattered all the way from Brecken-
ridge to St. Vincent. In all, the Great
Northern, Northern Pacific and 500
lines have brought 900 cars Of immi-
grants into Minnesota since March l.
A like number of cars have come to
North Dakota and 700 have been
sent into Montana. Each of these cars
carries about two and one-half fami-
lies of five persons each. That means
that $500 people have settled in Min
nesota, a like number in North Da
kota and $3.50 in Montana since the
first of March. Averaging the capital
of each family at $500, means that
S18, 100000 has been brought into
Minnesota, a like amount into North
Dakota, and $13,125, 900 into Montana.