The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-12
Press Comment

Bismarck Tribune: That North Da-
kota promises to be the best agricultur-
al state in the union within the next
few years is being clearly demonstrated
by the number of communications be-
ing received by Hon. w. C. Gilbreath,
commissioner of agriculture, requesting
him to try and locate tracts Of land
which can be purchased for colonization
purposes. Thousands of acres are
wanted for these purposes but il is
doubtful If the companies wanting the
tracts will be able to secure the large
number of acres they are after.
thursdays mail brought two letters
TO Mr.. Gilbreath where the writer's re-
quested him to locate tracts of land
containing from 10000 to 100000 acres.
one OF the letters was received from a
land agency of Grand Forks stating
they had a party who wished to pur-
chase at least so, 900 acres in western
North Dakota and would consider 100,-
O0O acres II the land was right The
other communication was received from
a real estate firm in Montana wanting
10000 or more acres.
These are only a few of the many re-
quests received by Mr.. G~ilbreath, but
demonstrate the fact that the farmers
in other states are fast realizing the
value of the North Dakota soil.
A large number of Iowa farmers are
locating in North Dakota and their sue
cess in farming North Dakota soil has
caused many farmers from other states
to locate here. When 1T is known that
a farmer would sell his farm in Iowa
TO purchase in North Dakota, thai
is all that is necessary to prove that
the soil of North Dakota is as fertile as
in any other state in the union.
The Dubois, Pa, Courier: Many peo-
pie around here, n all over this Sec
ton, know Jack Sykes Of Sykesyille,
personally, and will appreciate the
philosophy n political acumen shown
in the following interview with him,
which appeared last week in The
Brookville Republican, Pittsburgh Dis
patch and several other papers:
Last Monday a commercial traveller
asked him for his views on the contest
for the republican nomination for pres
tdent; after some elaboration Jake re-
piled:
"'Wa-al. now I dunno, but I kind of
like this ma-an, Mr.. Roos-e-velt; he
knows what to do when he gets into a
book; you see they got into an awful
snarl out there in the Philippine I-land,
but MI. Roosevelt knew what to do
and he sent a fellow by the name of
nice. Then these here fellows down in
Cuba go to kickin' up a kind Of a
ruction n Mr.. Roosevelt sent this
here ma-an, Ta-aft, down there and he
smoothed things out purity we-lL. And
then, you know, Mr.. Roosevelt he
stole a piece of ground down there
new about Panama, and he
wanted folks to think he got 1t hon
est so he called in this here Ta-aft
and got him to fix 1t up on paper so
that 1t looked about na-alf decent.
And you know Mr.. Roosevelt he
was president about seven years and
a ha-alf and he got the republican
party, and business and the whole
country in a hell of a mullix and he
put his lar Ta-aft in to see II he
couldn't fix this up too, and it's a dew
II OF a big understanding, and no fell
low could get through with II inside of
about eight years; SC l think we ought
to stick to Mr.. Roosevelt and give
his ma-an, Ta-aft, about four years
| more In which to finish his in-nh,