Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-11-14
OUR TIMBER
UNDER GROUND
NORTH DAKOTA WILL HAVE BIG
Ignite EXHIBIT AT MIN
NEAPOLIS LAND SHOW.


That North Dakota is primarily
an agricultural state there can be
no doubt when it is known that 49,
10000 acres of it's area is now un-
der plow and that it increased it's
acreage of improved lands by over
100000 acres in the past ten
years, more than double the increase
of any other state, says Commission
er of Agriculture Gilbreath.
With. these facts in mind, an ex-
hibit from North Dakota is expected
to consist almost wholly of agricul-
tural products, but we have other
lines.
In the North Dakota exhibit at
the Minneapolis Land Products show
this week will be seen some speci-
mems of the pottery made from North
Dakota clay. 1t is not generally
known that the Flickertail state has
clay which will make pottery good
enough to market anywhere against
imported pieces, or the famous
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, district.
Bricks From Nofth Dakota.
Showing bricks made from North
Dakota clay at a land show several
years ago, under the same manage
ment as the Minneapolis exposition;
resulted in one North Dakota man
ufacturer furnishing the brick for
nine government buildings, from
small town postoffices to barracks.
North Dakota, therefore, will show
bricks at the coming exposition, as
they are legitimate products of the
soil. Some of the finest art-crafts
pottery ever displayed anywhere
will be exhibited in connection with
our exhibit. It took prize after
prize. Eouis exposition, and
will unquestionably. bring great cred
it to the state when placed in the
Minneapolis exposition. IS
When the products of agriculture
furnish 80 per cent of the raw ma
terial for the factories of the coun-
try, and North Dakota is an agricul-
tural state, but one other problem
would seem to stand in the way of
North Dakota becoming at no dis
tant date, something of an indus
trial state. This problem is power
power produced with the use Of
fuel.
We expect to demonstrate in Min
neapolis that the Ignite deposits Of
North Dakota, amounting to $4,000
square miles, will solve the prob
lem of fuel.
In most places without timber,
North Dakota was left by formative
periods, we'll supplied with fuel
it's timber being under ground.
Wonderful Fuel Exhibit.
An exhibit Of North Dakota pro-
ducts is not complete without some
samples of this wonderful fuel.
There are seams of it varying in
thickness from a few inches to one
of 45 feet on the Little Missouri
river, near the old Roosevelt ranch.
1t is difficult to demonstrate to
the public the efficiency of this coal
as steam producer. 1t contains
more fixed carbon than the bitumin-
GUS Goals of Kansas, Missouri and
West Virginia, the maximum OF
Flickertail Ignite being SO per cent
and the minimum above 40. 1t
contains more moisture, but this on
ly makes it burn the better. Half
the industries in North Dakota are
now dependent on ignite for their
power. The great government ir-
rigation project at Williston uses
Ignite for the fuel which operates
it's great pumps; the Northern Pa
cifc has demonstrated, by firing it's
engines with this coal, that, while
it takes more of it, it is still cheaper
fuel than Pennsylvania.
With coal in such quantities that
a farmer using a steam plow can
literally :'plow up the coal to plow
with" and the possibility Of paying
for a farm with the first years crop
OF fax, North Dakota will be able to
compete with other states at any ex-
position. demonstrating that there
are opportunities In this state,
though 1t does not have many acres
Of free land left.
ELECTED JUDGE.