The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
THE PEERLESS BoTT|NEAu COUNTY


Bottineau County, North Dakota, is located
in the north central portion Of the state The
altitude ranges from 1900 feet above sea level
in the eastern part to 1900 feet in the western
part of the county. The land rises gradually to-
ward the west. The county is sixty miles long,
east to west, by thirty one and one half miles
wide, north and south. It contains forty five
whole townships and ten fractional townships
1t contains total area of 1,075840 acres of
which approximately 81 per cent is tillable.
In common with the other counties of the
state, Bottineau County was settled in the early
eighties by homesteaders, many of whom knew
little about farming. AS the land was proved
up, many of these people were compelled to re-
linquish their claims to their neighbors or spec
ulators and then moved on. Following the
homesteaders came few actual farmers, but ma
ny were attracted to the further west" on ac-
count of the government lands opening for set
tement. The farmers who remained on their
homesteads here are almost without exception
rich in this worlds goods, because they knew the
land was fertile and were able to farm it INTEL
ligently.
The county is richly endowed with all the
natural resources, including lakes, streams wood
ed uplands, and rich prairie. There is ample
rainfall each year to mature the crops, and this
rainfall comes at the right time, during the grow
ing months of May, June and July.
In many western states the matter of fuel
becomes quite a serious problem, but Bottineau
County is situated in close proximity to the I'M
mense coal fields of North Dakota, and this coai,
which is rich in heating units, can be secured
in every city and town at a. fraction of the cost
of soft or hard coal from the east It is estim-
ated that there are $4,000 square miles of the
northwestern portion of North Dakota under
laid with this fuel, containing 100000 100000
tons or enough to supply the people of the Un-
tied States for 500 years. The Turtle Mount
aims also furnish an immense amount of wood
for fuel so that people living nearby are assured
of fuel of this sort for years to come at low
prices.
Generally the soil of the county is a rich
loan with clay subsoil, being of the right con-
sistency to retain moisture In portions of the
county the soil is little lighter, being especial
ly adapted for the growing of corn and other
crops In fact the prospective homeseeker can
older states, with the one exception, that it is
more fertile than in the older farming communi-
ties from the fact that it has not been farmed so
long.
In 191O (the latest available statistics) Bot
tineau County had 1904 farms. The average
farm contained nearly 42O acres. The value Of
the farm property in 1900 was $4971 1856; in 1910
it was $35 1888, ,435, making increase Of Gil and
8-1Oths per cent Of the average of 42O acres
per farm $40 acres were improved 88 per cent.
The value of all farm property per farm was
$l5,357.OO.
The Wheat Line of the 500 Railway trav-
erses the county from east to west, and the three
branches of the main line of the Great Northern
run northward to the north boundary of the
county, thus affording direct mad quick means
of reaching the grain and stock markets of the
east.
Bottineau County is particularly adapted for
diversified farming as practiced in the older
states.
The price of land in this county ranges from
$4,000 an acre upwards, according to the location
and improvements.
North Dakota has one of the best school
systems in the country. At the time the state
was admitted to the Union Q889) two sections