The Dickinson press., 1913-05-31
trade TOUR PARTY SAW
PROSPERITY OUT THIS WAY

PROSPERITY OUT THIS way
The daily papers had this to say about
the Minneapolis Trade Tour party in this
locality:
Medors, May 23.-ln this heart Of bad
lands, SO ugly they are beautiful, and
getting their letters from the post
office where a former president used t
ask as there anything for Theodore
Roosevelt" are immured five twin city
girls. They are here, not to try to refine
the worthless bad lands, but to trans
scribe the records Of Billings county for
the use of the new Golden Valley county
which was carved out of Billings and
which the train crossed today. The work
has taken three months and will take two
more, said J. D. Bryant, the transcriber.
The young women say they do not care,
for they are happy and healthy and are
storing experiences in this country
strange to them that will fill several
diaries. They appreciate the playing of
the band and the greetings of Mime
apolis acquaintance on the train. The
Minneapolis girls are Misses Mae Tenny-
son and Helen Weide. The St. Paul
| girls are Misses Gertrude Thurman, Edna
Glaze and Fac Goodrich. The other
two are Miss Ruby Collins, Des Moines;
Miss Lucy B. Funk. Rolla, N. D.
Dickinson, May 23.-The Dickinson
people were automobile hosts to the
Minneapolis trade tourists after a dinner
and with evident pride displayed the fine
level prairie country, broken beautifully
on the horizon with bench lands all the
way from the queer Davis buttes to the
brick yards and from the Lehigh: coal
mine to the west limits. The tour in
cluded views of the new Catholic hospi-
taxi the Elks' building, the Masonic
temple, the seventy-acre golf links, the
twenty-acre park with ston cairns and
the state experimental farm Of 100 acres.
A big brick producing town and a great
cattle shipping point, the city is known
also for the fine Touring mill of the
Russell-Miller Milling Co.. Cattle ship.
ped from Dickinson last fall brought the
highest price paid on the Chicago mar
ket, s1o.75 per hundred. Wheat is sowed
here and the ground is ready for oats and
flax. Rain for ten days has made the
broad prairies approximating the town
one great greensward. The town has a
new white way also.
The night conference was at the ar
mory. 1t was the first mixed meeting
and the largest to date. The band played
a preliminary half hour concert. The
armory, which houses the probate court
and the m club, is the largest in
the state and was filled.
Luther H. Harrington, treasurer Of the
Winston-Harper-Fisher COL was chair
man, A. White, president Of the club,
alternate chairman, T. H. Pugh, vice
president of the club, made the address
of welcome. He said the Minneapolis
men would find resources which are Just
beginning to be developed, land for
growing crops to feed the people and
underneath fuel to warm them. He
said the city has excellent schools and is
aiming to get a state normal school. "We
do business with the world not alone at
home, but across the seas" he said.
1--WE have pure spring water and fine
atmosphere"
Tobias Casey Of Dickinson followed,
81 feel a great pride in the growth,
wealth and artistic development of
MINNEAPOLIS" he said. "Provincialism
is a bad thing for any nation or CON-
munity and the fact you came here is
good tor you and it is good for US to 20
to Minneapolis. 1t is good to mix. The
resources of North Dakota are hardly
realized and yet you come here and en-.
courage us and you furnish US money
and we are good for you"
Taylor: A. b. .Doran at this station
furnished a sample today of the native
directness of oratorY that is characteristic
OF the replies to the Minneapolis mems
platform addresses at the stops on the
Minneapolis trade tour "We have the
most beautiful country you ever saw, he
said, without a trace Of buncombe. 81
wish you had brought all your credi,
men," he continued, "for they are the
boys that talk to US. The crop prospect:
are the best we Lave had in this part Of
Stark county and this fall we will have
some business for you"