Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-12-21
QUESTION OF
BETTER SEED
COMMERCIAL CLUB WILL EN-.
DEAVOR TO HELP SOLVE
THIS PROBLEM
Important Matters Considered for
r Helping Better Farming
Projects

Projects
There was a we'll attended meeting
Of the Commercial Club last evening
held at the City Hall. It was called
primarily to consider proposition
of paying $500 for a page of adver-
tisements of Stutsman county and
jamestown in a North Dakota edi-
tion of the Chicago Record-Herald.
A representative of that paper was
present and addressed the club. The
proposition was not favorably con-
sidered. Mr.. Nierling believed that
the money to be raised for such pur-
poses could be better spent in dem
onstration work first, to show visit
ors and farmers from the eastern
states what can be done at home;
and that when we show what pro-
ducts can be raised on the fertile
lands of this county the question of
price of the lands and their sale to
new corners, will be an easy matter.
Mr.. Trimble stated he believed in
advertising but did not think the one
time issue of the kind referred to,
would be profitable. eve need
more people in the county," he said,
and we could afford to spend from
$4,000 to $4,000 in advertising our
resources in the next ten years." He
suggested that we get out literature
and have the secretary of the club
supply inquiries with information a.
bout the county, and endeavor to get
a settler on every section, IL not half
section of land. Such result would
be beneficial in the highest degree
not only to farmers themselves but
business men.
Farmers Welcome New Settlers
A. B. Default coincided in the
views of Mr.. Trimble and Mr.. Nier-
ling regarding the subject under dis
cussion. Mr.. Pendray said that
farmers themselves would be the
first ito welcome new settlers and
spoke of the need of additional farm
ers in his locality. He referred to
three pieces of land which had been
farmed temporarily for speculative
purposes, by being put into flax and
then abandoned. Farmers, howev-
er, were doing their share in getting
people into the county by raising
large families.
DR.. Kroeze took a little different
view and believed that 1t was ad-
visable to reach outside people in
regard to our conditions first. He
was acquainted with people from ILL
nois who had been attracted to
North Dakota thru systematic adver-
tising from land men, and others in
the eastern part Of the state. He
believed in judicious advertising of
all kinds. We are apt to forget he
said, that the people who live away
from North Dakota know little of us.
There is one thing they do remem-
Der, however, which was the bliz-
zard of 1888. This should be ef-
faced from their memory by publish
ed statements of present conditions
in the state. ''Our climate" he
said, sis our greatest asset, it is q
better climate than the state Of
washington, which boasts that Its
greatest asset is its climate"
W.. b. Default spoke at length
on the need of more residents of the
county and thought the land shows
and the western governors trip were
good things and would help adver-
tise North Dakota in the right way
before people of the east.
Judge Hemmi said that people
who want to change their location
and move to a new state must &C
tually see something tangible, from
that state in the way Of crops and
productions. He referred to the gov
ernor's eastern trip and the large
attendance at the special cars of ex-
hibits. People were amazed and con-
vinced that North Dakota was pro-
ducing fine crops and no other argu-
ment could have made them believe
It.
Mayor Blewett announced that the
Commercial Club had contributed
& its quota to the expenses Of the
governors special train.
Mr.. Trimble stated that he had
been informed there was poor mar
ket here for the by-products Of 2
farm, and that there war little or
no sale for poultry, dressed meat.
butter, eggs and potatoes. OF the