Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-02-12
Wilton, the Town Of Enterprise.
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Wilton, the Town Of Enterprise.
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tain amount OF dislike for the knock
er, the man VIII refuses to work for
the interest of his town because ht
thinks that if the town becomes bet
ter 1t will be partly through his ef-
forts, and of course there will be 9th
er men to reap advantages as we'll as
himself, and thus he would be as
sist1ng one of his enemies perhaps
Such reasoning is the Knockers phil
osUphy, and he invariably MARBLES
it In your ear whenever the opportun'
tty is afforded him. Twill do nc
good to endeav0r to argue with them
on the subject, for to present to them
sound sense is merely casting pearls
before swine. with this distinction,
ND matter how fat this breed may get
You can never market them, for the
market is already drugged with them.
But Mr.. Schmid is not man Of
the last named stamp; he Ia wide
awake and ever ready to grasp the
opportunity as it comes along, and
not content with waiting for the op.
portunity to come along he ehsses
down opportunities and makes them.
He is a nan who has succeeded
through his own efforts, and 10 yet
but q young man.
North Dakota Farm Lands Valuable
Another man whose place Of bust
ness Is not far from that Of Mr..
Schmid is B. E. Tuition, an attorney
and dealer In lands. Mr.. Tuition came
to this state from tho state Of Iowa In
the year 1902, and since that time
has made good in every sense Of the
word. He has been in the law and
land business in the city Of Wilton
for the past four years and during
that time has had no occasion for
complaint concerning the business
that has come his way. He reports
that business during the past year
has been better than It was two years
ago. He deals almost exclusively in
North Dakota lands and does all with.
In his power to promote the growth
Of value Of lands in rhis state, and
more especially In his immediate W.
cinity. He owns and controls much
land in and about the town of Wilton.
Every year sees in the west awak-
ening to fresh facts regarding the
methods of farming, and among these
facts is one that has long been i'm.
pressing itself upon the mind Of the
westerner-the large farm with it's
few hands is not practical. IT'S bet
ter by far to work a small plat of
ground and work it right than to
scratch over and not attend to
large body. If this Is true, and It is,
more help is. needed in the west to
attend the crops. And that help il
not coming to remain from year to
year just to work in the wheat fields
OF North Dakota. In New York twenty
acres makes farm; in Illinois thirty
or forty acres Of corn is all that a
man can attend with riding culti1
1Ietors; in the cotton fields Of the
nth twenty acres is the limit al.
Id . darby, his wench and mule,
fulhvate. then what are you 60
TO do with all your big fields and
little help This is a great ques-
- and 1t is a question the land
nal Is helping to solve; his adver-
Using yearly brings large numbers
from the crowded east to settle the
broad prairies Of the Northwest. and
through his. cooperation with the
various firms througout the country
he puts before the investigating pub
nc facts and figures that are convinc.
Ing, and these delivered with 4 strong
personality and by a personal repre-
tentative are bringing annually in
cfeasing settlements into this grand
and fertile state Of North Dakota.
The land mans advertising and the
land mans talk and the land mans
efforts have developed the west most
wonderfully, The east is crowded
with people and Europe overflowing,
There is a great country open to these
people in the western United States;
where shall they go is the question.
Shall they go southwest, shall they
30 northwest, or straight for the west.
ern coast They are going where
they can make the most money. and
the land man has the power to turn
them whittier he will. He can sell
hem marsh lands in Louisiana, or he
an sell them cotton lands in the
Arkansas regions, or he can sell them