Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06
Communications

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Editor Tribune:
The writer was showing new
conner around town one evening
The newcomer remarked upon the
fine appearing city we have but said
he understood that We had a very
poor country around here, that some
Bismarck people had told him so;
and so it goes.
, Burleigh county is good county:
our soil Is good and It raises good
crops; it is true the past two years
have been short crops but then, crops
have been short all over the country,
especially in 1911. Managers OF imple
ment houses here say that BuraGgh
county showed up better last year
, than any county on the slope and
they know. This county has always
led every county In the state when 1t
has come to taxing prizes at various
fairs and expositions at which North
Dakota grains have been exhibited,
this Is especially true of the st. Louis
fair where this county received q
special award on account OF it's splen-
did showing and at the Portland fair
exhibitors from this county took more
prizes than from any other county In
the state; at the Industrial Exposition
last fall thias county <ourteously sur
rendered the INST prize to another
county but We had more points to our
credit than any other county.
There have been big improvements
in our farming mothods the past few
years: there Is more plowing done
now than ever before; more corn is
being raised every year; more hogs
are being fattened and more COWS are
being milked. Our soil is peculiarly
adapted to corn raising and Burleigh
county will be the banner corn county
of the state. Through this change
in our farming methods there Is going
to be tremendous improvement in the
county during the next five years:
there win be bigger and better
change than. there has been in the
past thirty vars. Learn what your
home county has to offer; learn Of its
soil; the lay of the land; the trans
portation facilities its future pros
poets, learn every thing you can about
it and we know thst instead OF knock
ing you will become booster and
good one, for you can't help yourself.
Visitors from outside often wonder
why the country around Bismarck
does not settle up faster and the ex-
cuse is always made that the land is
owned by SPECTATORS who will not
sell and this excuse is, in great meas
ure, true one.
But there is another reason and it
is very important There are too
many Knockers of our land in Bis
marck and Burleigh county. Some
of our farmers knock because they
don't want new settlers in to take
away from them their pasture and
range for their cate: others of our
farmers knock because they have not
grown wealthy OF the land, almost
always because they have not farmed
the land As they should;still Others
are good boosters because they have
made a success of farming; the boost
ers are in the majority but the knock
ers talk the most Among the people
living in Bismarck those who do the
knocking do So through ignorance of
our cauntry. We know Of one case
where man had just decided to buy
half section from our local real
estate dealers: he left this mans
Office for little while to walk around
town; he went into a place Of business
to make some small purchase and
told the proprietor of his proposed
purchase The proprietor took the
man to one side and gave him good,
fasherly saaS.sold him that he had
lived in this country for thirty years
and the land was no good, nothing
could be raised on it. etc As re-
suit the man did not buy and Burieigh
county lost a good settler. Goodness
knows why this man Knocked. He
came here in the early days without
cent: he has had a good business
| right along for years and has made
great deal Of money. all out At
Burseigh county: Why did he knocke
God knows. We don't.
One Of our prominent county af0cs-
ais took an automobile ride last sum
mer up around Baldwin; he came
back and told the writer that he w1s
surprised st the fine country he saw,
1t vas the trss time he had ever been
| that far out Of town and he said lie
had always supposed the country vas
| no good: he is q GOOD booster nov.