The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-09-15
STATE PUBLICITY
BRINGS SETTLERS
|Dohn Bruegger. Vice President Of
Development League, Tells
What North Dakota
Has Done
From St. Paul Dispatch,

should have liberal appropriation
Tor state publicity and immigration
work." said John Bruegger; vice
president of the Northwest Devel-
opment league for North Dakota,
who spent yesterday in the Twin
City. Mr.. Bruegger is a general
merchant at Williston and inter-
ested in lands and irrigation pro-
jects which are making his section
Of the state attractive to settlers.
In St. Paul he was in conference
with President L. w. Hill OF the
Great Northern and Will A. Camp
bell, 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 i'm
migration work and we know the
results OF such work. When w.
c. 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 maya
zine as a 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 thou
sands 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 6, 900
notices from postmasters to dis
continue sending the magazine to
postoffices in Iowa, Illinois, Wis
consin, Michigan, Indian, Ohio.
and other Central and Middle
West State and to send the maya
zines ip the future to, some point
in North Dakota where the reader
had gone.
There is an absolute record OF
7 Gilbreafh's work. Six thousand
people to whom he sent his maya
zine, after getting their attention
at such expositisns as the Twin
City land show, moved into North
Dakota in four years.
Mr.. BrueggeT is enthusiastic
over the Northwest Development
league and its work.
1--WE are fortunate in being able
to Join in the work." he said 81
am going back to raise 81, COO, no,
to buy space in the land show, blu,
to place in the general treasury oil
the Northwest Development nj
league. Mr.. Campbell has out.
lined the work the league intends
to do and ! have no hesitansy in
saying it is the most businesslike
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 Develop.
ment league. l guess North Da.
kota was the only state in the seven
that could have purchased this
space from state funds. Funny
that other states do not get then
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 to
Mr.. Bruegger. as Governor Burke.
former Governor Sarles and him.
self have turned the entire matter
over to w. c. Gilbreath, commits
sioner Of agricultural, who has
been making exhibits for the state
for several years.
Secretary Campbell yesterday
assigned North Dakota the 500