The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1915-07-08
NORTH DAKOTA NOW HAS
(From Statistics Compiled by State
Commissioner Of Agriculture and
Labor.)
An assessed valuation Of $3ls,2s6,-

v
An assessed railway valuation Of
$45,7O2, ,sO9.
A per capita wealth of $2,O05,
based upon 4 population of 625,OOO
and the actual value Of property. Fig
ured on the same basis the per capita
wealth Of the United States for 1904
1.-THE last date given in the statistical
abstract of the United States for
1879 was only $1,318.11.
Per capita agricultural production
Of the value Of $2S9.52, based upon
production during crop year of 1914,
and values Of December /, 1914.
Six thousand one hundred and
Ieighty-four miles of fully equipped
railways in operation.
More than 1000 miles of railway in
course Of construction or surveyed.
An arabic land surface of more
than 40,00O,0OO acres; 69,765 farms in
1914, with an average acreage per
farm of 334 acres; 15,112,596 acres ac-
tually under cultivation.
Six hundred thirty-seven state and
one hundred forty-nine national banks
with surplus and undivided profits of
more than $6,OO0,OOO and deposits of
$89, ,O78,424.
One bank for every 795 inhabitants
A school and institutional land
grant worth $64,OO0,0OO, and consti-
tuting perpetual endowment for the
schools and institutions; 6,685 school
departments; 177,316 pupils; 1891
teachers.
Over s5,OO0,OOO expended on its
common schools during 1914.
Fifty-two organized counties. No
unorganized counties.
A population of $4,000 in 1914, be-
ling an increase of 95.8 per cent since
,n0O.
Thirty-two thousand square miles
of land underlaid with 100000, 900 900
tons Of the highest grade Ignite coal.
This coal is now being sold CONNER
cially in briquetted form and compet-
ing with the highest grade eastern
TN u,,l
Manufactured products worth SI9,-
10000 in 1909. This is the most
purely agricultural state in the Union.
Natural gas in northern counties
for Illuminating and industrial pur-
poses. Cement deposits.
I Highest grade clay in the United
States for pressed brick, fire brick
and pottery. Pressed brick products
of the state being shipped west to Sc
attle and other coast cities and
throughout all parts of the Canadian
Northwest.
1t raised in 1914, S3,52S, ,O65 bushe $
of wheat, 59,946,S $50 bushels of oats,
31797,S44 bushels of barley and 5,S44,-
71O bushels of flax. 1t has 10000
acres of artificial groves in addition
to natural timber along the rivers.
During 1913 more than $1,000 900
were paid in wages for farm help
Farmers are raising at a handsome
profit wheat, oats, barley, rye, alfalfa,
speltz, flax, corn, potatoes, vegetables
of all kinds and of the best quality,
currants, gooseberries, p,ums and
other small fruits, also apples of
many varieties. timothy, clover, Hun
garian millet and other tame grasses.
and every other kind of agricultural
product raised in similar latitudes
elsewhere.
North Dakota is now definitely in
the corn belt, the dent varieties hav-
ing been ripened successfully in every
county of the state for some years;
the average yield per acre approx
mates that of the best corn states in
the Union and the acreage is doubling
each year.
About 1000 elevators are needed to
handle the grain crops of the state
each year.
North Dakota farmers received in
1914 for milk, cream and butterfat
sold to creameries the sum of $780,.
653.5s.
Cream stations received cream and
butterfat to the value of $S73,l77.93
during the same period.
Direct shipments of cream outside
the state realized $2ls,266.38.
Butter was made in families to the
value Of $2,l90,8l4.25.