The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-09-14
State Publicity Brings Settlers

Every state in the northwes,
should have a liberal appropria
ton for state publicity and immi.
grafton work." said John Brueg.
ger, vice president of the North,
west Development League for
North Dakota, who spent yester.
day in the Twin city. Mr.. Brueg,
ger is a general merchant at Will
iston and interested in lands and
irrigation projects which are max
ing his section of the state attrac-
tive to settlers. In St. Paul he
was in conference with President
l.. W. Hill of the Great Northern
and Will A. Campbell, secretary
of the development league. He
said:
MY reason for saying every
state should have an appropriation
is that North Dakota is one of the
pioneers in state publicity and
immigration work and we know
the results of such work. When
w. G. Gilbreath was employed as
commissioner of agriculture, he
started out to advertise North Da-
kota. One of his first moves was
to issue the North Dakota Maga-
zine as bulletin to tell what was
going on in North Dakota.
"Gilbreath took an exhibit to
the St. Louis exposition and it
was one of the finest in the whole
show. He obtained the names and
addresses of hundreds, even thous-
ands of people. He followed this
up with exhibits of our products
at numerous state and county fairs,
land shows and similar expositions.
The North Dakota Magazine
was sent to every visitor to the
North Dakota exhibit at these ex-
positions. At the end of four
years Gilbreath had received 5000
notices from postmasters to dis
continue sending the magazine to
postoffices in Iowa, Illinois, Wis
consin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio
and other Central and Middle west
states and to send the magazines
in the future to some point in
North Dakota where the reader
had gone.
There is an absolute record of
Gilbreath's work. Six thousand
people to whom he sent his maga-
zine, after getting their attention
at such expositions as the Twin
City land show, moved into North
Dakota in four years."
Mr.. Bruegger is enthusiastic
over the Northwest Development
league and it's work,
I'VE are fortunate in being able
to join in the work." he said. II
am going back to raise IL, 900, not
to buy space in the land show,
but to place in the general treas
ury of the Northwest Develop
ment league. Mr.. Campbell has
outlined the work the league in
tends to do and have no hesitan-
cy in saying it is the most business
like plan ever proposed.
business men of the Twin City
have made a great hit by agreeing
to pay for an equal amount of
space for the seven states in the
Northwest Development league. !
guess North Dakota was the only
state in the seven that could have
purchased this space from state
funds. Funny that other states
do not get their legislatures to
pass appropriations which will
enable them to increase the value
of every piece of real estate in the
state by bringing in other settlers. >
The North Dakota exhibit will
be exceptionally fine, according tc
Mr.. Bruegger, as Governor Burke
former Governor Sarles and him.
self have turned the entire matter
over to w. G.. Gilbrcath, commits
sioner of agriculture, who ha.
been making exhibits for the state
for several years.