The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-08-19
NORTH DAKOTA FORTUNATE.

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The Forum has called attention be-
fore to the fact that next year will be
an especially appropriate time to in
agurate well organized, systematic
campaign, advertising the advantages
Of North Dakota, it's soil, it's climate,
it's cheap land, and its varied OPP
portunities. Compared with other
sections Of North America, this land
ia a veritable paradise.
In former years there have been dry
seasons when part Of the crop has
been damaged, but nothing has ever
occurred within the borders Of, the
state to even approach the calamity
that has befallen Missouri, Kansas
and other states to the south this
year. where the crops over large areas
have literally been burned up and
absolutely ruined.
North Dakota needs more farmers.
Undoubtedly many who have become
discouraged with the conditions in
Kansas. Missouri and Oklahoma could
be induced to come here. if the ad-
Vantages Of this state were properly
set forth. The Minneapolis Tribune
has the following comment on this
situation with reference, to advertising
Minnesota, every word of which is
just as applicable to North Dakota as
to the gopher state:
To the north Of the international
boundary are thousands of farmers
who harvest their, crops within a
single calendar week Or lose them. To
the southwest of the Missouri river
are millions of acres of fertile land
where the crops are being burned to
cinder by a blazing sun. Between
these two territories stands the Am
erican northwest secure in abundant
moisture. a temperate summer heat
and an ample harvest season. q
Yet the farmers now sWeltering in
Kansas. Oklahoma and Missouri do
not think Of Minnesota. the Dakotas
and Montana as a territory protected
by nature, They think Of the north
west as territory scourged by an un-
endurable winter. While across the
international boundary many Of the
very farmers who have staked their all
upon the chance of single frost crossed
the line and changed their flag to find
L.
One whose, chief occupation it is to
study movements Of settlers advises
us of Minnesota to be ready this year
for an unprecedented immigration.
The farmer to the south would rather
endure even the winter he thinks we
suffer than to see his years product
wither and die in the summer with
which he has himself contended q.
British Columbia. Alberta and Sas-
10 fol fI1lITy
they are in immigration literature, do
not bear the test of day-after day COM
parison with the United States. Can
ada is growing and will continue to
grow wonderfully. But the day of her
strongest appeal to prospective set
tiers from the United States passed
with this years general report from
those who have gone thither from the
United States.
most efficient sense waits upon a cam
paign Of intelligent, conservative,
wholly truthful and trustworthy ad-
vertising Of the conditions in the state.
No other section Of the globe offers
land so fertile, so near to market, so
we'll provided with neighbors, in which
the crops are so we'll secure, at so low
q price. These statements once tested
and heralded widely would multiply the
population of Minnesota.
Even without such advertisement,
these conditions may be expected to
make themselves known, quietly but
persuasiVely. This is now occurring
And the special incentive to investi-
gate produced by the drought which
this summer afflicts Oklahoma, Kan
sas and Missouri and by the present
Encouragement of our neighbors in
Canada, is a light in which the advan-
tages Of Minnesota are particularly
clear.