Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-12-01
HILL SEES v|S|0N0F
GREATER DAKOTA
BOUNDS KEYNOTE OF NORTH.
WRoT DEVELOPMENT At Dew
jLS LAKE BANQUET.
MAKES COMPARISON WITH JAPAN
eNtlets Farming Country viii d
VerItabIs Paradise In Future
Dselareo Price Of Land 10
i = Advancing.


Devils Lake, Nov. 9e.-A lake 70
zion II North Dakota beautiful q
Ninneeota. rich 1n farms as New Yorl
aud busy al AiasBachusetts was thu
Development foresAen by 200 enthus
last.c business men and farmers II
Devils Lake.
.aAt o banquet by the Devils Lakl
Commercial Club this vision was out
lined by James J. Hill, several repre-
sentatiyes OF Minneapolis, st. Pau
and Duluth. and many spokesman FOL
the seven couuties which glory II
The abundant water Of seven splen
lid basins.
NJ Hill tho Central Figure.
Mr.. I'm was. Of course, the centra'
asure Of tho conference. With hin
1t the speakers table sat cabinet
Of other developers of the North
west. ". H. Horton, president Of tn
Devils Lake Commercial club; J. II
Worst, president Of the North pa
kote Agricultural college. Col. J. H
Davidson. representing the st. Paul
Association OF Commerce; Louis W.
Betz. president Of that organizations
W.: g. Nye, representing the Mime
apolis Commercial club; w. A
Campbell. secretary of the North
western Development league; F. K
Gravel president Of the Duluth Com
msrciai club; Joseph M. Kelly, presi'
asnt Of the Lake Region association.
and de following representatives Of
the yevSn counties-George B. Den
uison. 5owner county, w. d. McClin'
took, pierce county; W. N. Steele.
Rolette county: A. E. Hutchinson.
Benson county; T. J. Baird, Nelson
couutyJ W. B. Groom. Cavalier coun'
~, Henry Hale, Ramsey county.
The responses were generally to
the text, More Settlers, Smaller
Farms, Diversified Crops"
eImlIar TO Bismarck Talk.
Mr.. Hin followed the lines Of his
earlier talk ct Bismarck.
President Worst dealt especially
With tho value Of diversified crops.
Colonol Davidson. Mr.. Betz. Mr..
Nye and Mr.. Gravel outlined the mu'
tuality of interest between the three
LARGEST Minnesota cities and North
Dakota. The others talked mainly OF
the future Of the lake region and
spoke Of . larger cooperation BE-
tween tho people Of the Red River
valley, those most active in the re-
cent exhibition at Bismarck, and
those Of tho North.
Nh. Hill said: I'm glad to see
Nsseh Dakota taking steps that will
bring her into her own. Ono hun
dred dollars an acre 10 not too much
Tor good farm land, and most of the
sou Of North Dakota is good farm
iand.' I used to think we had about
80 miles of desert between the Red
river and the Pacific. Now I've
changed my mind; it is apple land to-
day. They've robbed Of US our des'
ert. People used to laugh at me
when ] said Red river land would sell
for $50; now it is selling for SIS. $s5
and in some instances for 500. Your
land 10 capable of the same high de-
velopment; you can do 1t If you will
till it and not neglect It,"
Compared with Japan.
japan was tho subject of an i'm.
p1essive contrast with America as to
agricultural methods. On $4,000
square miles. he said, the japanese
were supporting very largely their
100000 population. North Dakota
alone has sO.o00.O00 square miles
Englsud's yield Of wheat last year"
he continued, was 35 bushels an
acre. North Dakota's was IA. And
North Dakota land" he stated with
all force. sis better agricultural land
on the avsRage than any in England
that the sun shines on.
by q calculation set forth in de-
tail today's yield in North Dakota on
a farm of 100 acres at IA bushels was
$50 an acre. With so acres yielding
rs bushels the profit would be $14.70
an acre, with 81 an acre more allowed
for cultivation.
I'D like to see a good farm house
on every 100 acres" In his argu.
ment for more live stock Mr.. Hill OBJ
served tersely, Il dare say there are
children in North Dakota who have
been brought up on bottle with con.
densed milk. 1t isn't the natural
way"