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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-02
A Little Optimism
Would Be Beneficial.

A little optimism would be very
beneficial to Pensacola at this time,
not that the city is in bad way
financially or that business is any
worse here than at any other place
In the South, but merely to restore
confidence. Pensacola today is in a
better financial condition than many
cities Of the South, despite the BUSH
hess rcverses of the past two years.
The city has come back" to use q
street expression, and today there is
as much money in Pensacola as there
was during any of the past dozen
years. Statements of the financial
institutions demonstrate this fact and
ali that is necessary to put it in cir
culation is for confidence to be re-
stored.
Visitors coming to the city in
search of investments, generally make
those investments before they leave,
not that they do not hear the talk
of fessimists, but because the ap-
pearance of the city bellies their
words. Recently the president of q
national bank in large Kentucky
city visited Pensacola for the pur-
pose of making an investment, and
upon returning to his home he talked
with q friend. The latter writing to
The journal said:
Mr.. -, president of the
---, or our city, visited PEN
sacola last week and he was very
much impressed with the city,
but he said that if the city was
not there to show for itself he
never would have made the in
vestments which he did, for many
were CRYING hard times and say
ing that perhaps the city would
recover. when it looked to him as
though it already was the most
promising city in the South.
Ferc is an instance of where q
STRANGER refused to believe the pes.
simistic talk which he heard. Per,
haps there are others who would like
wise decline to give credence to tn,
statements, tut there is no excuse
for any citizen saying anything de
rogatory 10 Pensacola when he ha!
ample opportunity to assume a NOR,
optimistic attitude.
We all know that Pensacola hal
passed through financial crisis, bu
she passed through it in name,
which demonstrated her wonderful
resources and recuperative powers
The CRISIS passed over year ago
Why not realize this fact and becom,
q little more optimistic?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-02
THE NATIONAL BANK OF COM
MERGE OF PENSACOLA.
Pensacola. Fla. June %. 1s1

Pensacola, Fla, June %, 1915.
The Board of Directors have de-
clared a quarterly dividend of two
90 per cent, payable on and after
July 1st, 1915, to stockholders Of
record at the close of business June
30th, 1915.
E. R. MALONE, Cashier.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-02

The German troops are now at
tacking with 'liquid fire." according
to head line, which viii no doubt
be relished by the Russians who have
been without vodka for twelve
months.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-02
Published by special with through Mcclure
Newspaper
The Restoration

Copyright, 1901, 1902 by Harper Brothers)
Copyright 1915, by The Nc Cure Newspaper Syndicate)
Special NoceThese articles flu lily
laws which impose atty for infringement by
entire in
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-02

Thaw's sanity is having a severe
test. He is on trial now for the
seventh time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-02

Ask your grocer for ice
cold water melons. NPensa-
cola Provision & Produce
Co.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-02

The Journals want ad
Way will get you results.
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Tomorrow: New Jersey and Caro-
lima.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

The VI 8 with with this soil is cult
waited is q large factor to be consider
ed, requiring as it does, a compare
lively small amount Of horse or other
power to get the soil in a proper stage
of cultivation; this is due to the com
position Of the soil, it being rich in
humus well mixed with sand and
loan, dark in color and not inclined to
bake or lump. .
The people m progressive, socia-
BILE and hospitable to the new conner,
all recognizing the fact that the great
est need of this locality it more people,
farmers especially from the older and
more exhausted area of the country to
make this one Of the richest and most
desirable portions of the United
States for agricultural endeavor.
A. p. HENDERSON,
Agricultural Agent, U. S. Department
Of Agriculture.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
Progressive Farmers Relate
Their Personal Experiences

my own experience l have
come to the conclusion that by
proper methods of farming we
have the world beat for making
easy money.
The only reason why our
land is cheap is because a great
many of us don't know the va
lue of it. While | would have
considered $40 an acre for my
land seriously six months ago,
| would consider a sum consid.
erably larger than that now as
a joke.
While the average farmer in
this county is prosperous, con-
tented and comfortable, there
are a few disgruntled ones who
are decidedly dissatisfied, but
generally when you get next to
those fellows you will find a
reason for it.
AS a rule you will find a pile
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
editor Bottineau Courant:

Editor Bottineau Courant:
At your request / shall en-
deavor to write an article for
your Appreciation issue.
Among other things | shall
endeavor to tell you why l APP
preciate North Dakota, Botti-
neau county and my own To-
cality in particular.
About six months ago | got
a little disconnected and deCid-
ed to look for a new Eldorado.
l started out and travelled near
ly eight thousand miles and
didn't locate the spot until |
reached my destination which
was my starting point.
In my travels east and south
east | found hills and gulches,
rocks and gravel and also some
very beautiful scenery. About
the only level spots in some
localities were occupied by the
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

east of Lansford, besides some
bank investments.
My farm is equipped with a
good dwelling, an excellent
barn 3Ox1OO and other farm
buildings, 45 head of stock, 80
horses and machinery with
which to run the farm.
My wheat crop this year aver
aged 20 bushels per acre for the
entire farm, some running as
high as thirty bushels, and
some less. l have always found
the people of Bottineau county
most accommodating in extend
ing credit, wherever it is
merited. and that without ex-
tortionate conditions. This is
a matter of considerable i'm
portance to the man of limited
means, starting out in a new
community.
| know of a number of cases
right in my immediate neigh
borhood where one years crop
has paid for the land. While
this is not common, it is by no
means rare. A renter with a
six-horse outfit will find no
difficulty, during a period of
ten year, to clear $1,000 a year,
over and above his expenses.
Taken all in all, l deem
North Dakota, and particularly
Bottineau county, an ideal
country for the man who is
willing to work, and work in
diligently. The opportunities
are here to earn a competence
in a very few years, and on a
very small investment.
GEO. SIDENER.
Lansford, Nov. Is, 1915.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

which have been a little hard to finish
as the corr was killed by the spring
frost.
To shelter my stock I have straw
sheds each of which has been threshed
on several times-these answer the
purpose fine and cost but little money.
In the winter time all machinery is
carefully repaired so that when spring
opens all that is necessary is to hitch
up and go. With a binder run seven
years I cut this fall 600 acres and
never had a break that spoiled a days
work.
With all the work done and snow
on the ground what a fine time before
us until spring.
We live close to town with R. F. D.
and school hack past the door. We
also have the telephone, and a num-
Der Of the, neighbors have autos.
Bottineau County, N. D., is really
the proper place to live.
J. CHARLES MARTIN
Maxbass, N. D., Nov. 10, 1915.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

June, and put up some hay in July.
When our money was all gone, we had
to hunt a job, and as nobody had
much crops here we decided to try the
Red River Valley. AS we had no
money and no horses to drive, we
went to one Of the local money sharks
who used to inhabit this place, and
borrowed $1,000 with the three oxen
as security, agreeing to pay $1,000 in
on month.
With this money my brother landed
in St. Thomas. He lost no time in
getting out of town as boes then as
now, weren't given a very cordial
welcome if no money could be squeez-
ed out of them.
He got a job the same night about
ten miles out, at $500 per day, at
shocking, and wrote me to come on,
as there was plenty of work. BY the
time, l got his letter three weeks had
passed, and our loan would be due in
another week, so I renewed it for an
other month agreeing to pay $14.00,
or at the rate of 24O per cent. I
found a settler who was driving down
and went with him, and worked all
fall. l came back to the homestead in
November.
The next spring we traded the oxen
for a team of bronchos with which I
put in the fifty acres while my brother
hired out to get money to keep me and
get horse feed, etc.
The year 1890 was on of the dryest
as we'll as hottest summers we ever
had, and u crop was SO poor, that
we only cut part of it for feed, and
the gophers cut the rest.
July 4th we went to a picnic in the
mountains, and as it was a hot day,
we drank considerable lake water, and
soon we were both down with the
fever. Part of the time both of US
were unable to 60 around.
W. had no neighbor nearer than
three miles. Most of our neighbors
were bachelors and poor, like our
selves. In spite of the fact that they
were as busy haying and harvesting
as they could we'll be, they took turns
staying with us nights, and continu-
ed their harvesting operations in
the daytime. Quite a number of days
we were alone all day, with neither
Of us able to wait on the other. It
was about eight weeks before we were
both able to be around again. My
brother got we'll enough to work in
October, and as we were "busted'
again, he went to work and I stayed
with n of our neighbors until I re-
gained a little strength.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
ed land went "a bushels per acre each

ed land went "a bushels per acre each
year. ....
This year we had 5000 acres and
$4,000 bushels Of grain Of all kinds.
A considerable part Of it went 80
bushels and the more poorly farmed
part, as low as Is bushels.
This land is selling at around $40
per acre and it is still quite posi-
BILE to grow enough in one year to
pay for the land.
Last year w planted a few acres
of Swedish Select oats for seed, and
they gave os $40. per acre. We also
had Western Ryegrass that gave us
over $4,000 per acre.
We have several quarters rented
and last year one of them Melted the
owner $3.50, and another quarter net
ted the owner $1O4O. ........
This year several of them will do
about as we'll. We have a half Sec
ton rented from an owner in Illinois.
He was here some time ago, and we
paid him $1280, and he said he had
land in Illinois worth 1925 per acre,
that didn't give him any more than
that annually on an average.
The great trouble here is that we
have had, and too many of us still
have the idea, that there is no money
in anything but wheat. Some of the
best paying fields we have had, were
sown in oats, and fax. No land in
any country under the sun will con-
tinually raise wheat every year and
make a profitable crop.
W. have $40 acres sown down to
grass, and both last year, and this
were about as dry as we ever had,
yet we cut three tons per acre of
Western Ryegrass, for a first crop.
I believe that the farmer who can
not make a living, and a fairly good
interest on his investment in this
county, has missed his calling. He
should be gathering ashes on bucking
wood. Like everywhere else, we have
too many of this kind. If you don't
know a muely cow from a donkey, or
quack grass from alfalfa, you had
better keep right on bucking wood.
Finally, if you don't know, and want
to buy and live on the best land to be
found out of doors, don't come to
Bottineau county. Chances are, you
would get an idea into your head that
wasn't built to hold any, and the shock
of it would bust something, and we
would have you bughouse and a public
charge on our hands.
We have no land to sell, but are
buying more, with our surplus cash.
most every year. Would we do that il
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

lord always gives me ten acres on
each Of the quarters ! run for him to
have for my own.
The hired help in the spring cost
me $1,000 for seven days work the
remainder I did alone until after all
the seeding was done. I had ten head
of average horses, mostly mares, sew
eral of which were laid off at foaling
time.
The acreage of rye-grass and rye
required no attention in the spring.
One hundred and twenty-five acres
were spring plowed and the remain
der was fall plowed.
This year was a fine crop year, but
last year I threshed 5000 bushels
though it was counted a poor year.
When I began in Dakota I had most
ly all geldings, as they told me it did
not pay to raise colts and be bothered
but l saw that was a mistake and
have slowly changed and now of 16
head all sizes have 13 mares.
/ planned to put up a little fence at
first, but the neighbors said it was in
the way for blowing and was a bad
idea. This summer I fenced the Sec
ton l live on and the fence doesn't
bother me at all. e.
To help make the mare go I bought
a few calves and now have 16 head of
cattle, all sizes, and milk three cows.
Last summer I dug a pit silo and
put my first cutting Of alfalfa in it
and any other green forage I could
find which I expect to feed to the cat
tie this winter. 7 raised sixty pigs
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

l then had to borrow money to 60
back to Ontario to fully regain my
health. I thought then that 1 had
had enough of Dakota, but when l
began to make comparisons for a year
or so and heard about the bumper
crops of 1891 and the prospects Of
1892, I thought I would try my luck
again. 1 arrived in Bottineau July
18th, in time for a big celebration. My
brother had been over in Manitoba,
and had returned several months a.
head of me. Together we hired oxen
and fallowed the fifty acres and
broke sixty more. We sowed the one
hundred acres in 1893, and had a
good crop. The day after we finished
u stacking, We had n of the worst
prairie fires I ever saw. It burned
all but two stacks of grain, our hay,
stable, binder, harness, etc. We were
"busted" worse than ever now, as
we had gone into debt for oxen, bind
er, pillow, seed, a store bill, and no
money in sight to pay our debts or live
on.
We were able to stave off our cred
itors and we built a sod stable and
took in oxen for $500 a month per
head. We hauled straw five miles to
feed them. In this way we earned
enough money to keep us, but as we
had no feed, and no credit, We could
not put in u crops, so we rented it,
and went out to work, sometimes with
the OK team and sometimes without.
Eighteen ninety-four was too dry
and w did not make much out of the
land. 1895 we were able to put in
100 acre and had 5000 bushels which
was really the first crop we marketed.
In 1896 we put in 220 acres and it
went % bushels to the acre. In 1897
we got II bushels, and from 1895 to
1910 inclusive, our average was 1914
bushels on every acre sown with a
constantly increasing acreage. In
1910 we had 1900 acres. In 1912 we
had 1900 acres with an average of
80 bushels of wheat, 70 bushels of
oats, 40 bushels Of barley. and 26
bushels Of fax. The years 1918 and
1914 were very dry and hot, and our
crops were light, yet our better till
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

yield has been a little less than
eighteen bushels per acre, and
l am sure | could beat that by
nearly ten bushels per acre if l
had it to do over again.
This last year we had wheat
that yielded as high as 37H2
bushels per acre, and some that
was grown right along side it
on the same kind of land, but
farmer on the cover-lots-of-
territory plan that Welded less
than four bushels per acre.
We raised barley on corn
stubble that yielded a little less
than "a bushels per acre. The
same kind of land produced
7715 bushels oats per acre, ma
chine measure, which means
considerable over 100 bushels
per acre, if it was weighed up.
And, by the way, u locality
was a little on the dry order
this year. That is the reason
the low yield resulted on the
poorer farmed portion.
So taking in consideration
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
A PIONEERS EXPERIENCE

AS n of the pioneers Of Bottineau
county I will try to give you a short
sketch of my experience here.
In April, 1889, my brother and l
walked across from Deloraine, Mani
toba, IS miles with $4,000 between
us. We filed o. a presumption each,
and a tree claim between US as that
was all the money we could spare, af-
ter our shanty was built. W. borrow
ed $4,000 back home and bought
three head Of steers, and started in
as good United States citizens, to i'm
prove Uncle Sans domain.
We broke up fifty acres of prairie
that year and sodded up our shanty,
and built a small stable in May and
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

cities. In other localities
where land was approaChable
it was so barren that it requir-
ed a complete fertilizer to pro-
duCe a crop.
All of this land was not va
luable, but very high priced,
commanding from $50 to $500
per acre. When we get in the
far west we find conditions a
good deal the same. They have
land in Washington that they
crop only every other year tor
which they ask you from $40 to
$3.50 per acre,
While there are very valu-
able farms in the great agriCul-
tural states of Illinois,, Iowa
and Minnesota. there m a
great many acres in these states
valued from 500 to 5000 per
acre that will not produce a
dollar more per acre than our
acres right here in North
Dakota.
Just briefly | will state a few
results on my own farm. ! have
farmed here for twenty-seven
years and my average wheat
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18
'1heroux Is Convicted.

Devils Dake, Nov. 1.-The
plea of L. Theroux of Omemee,
that he spent the time away
from home at Hot Springs,
Ark, taking treatments for
rheumatism, failed to save him
from conviction at the hands
of a jury in the Ramsey county
district court yesterday on
the charge of wife d~esertion.
Theroux was in the hardware
business at Omemee and in
1913 he suddenly dropped out
of sight. For a year his wife
or partner heard nothing from
him.. When he did return
home he was placed under ar
rest.
The case, which originated
in Bottineau, was brought to
Ramsey on the ground that
Bottineau county was prejudic-
ed.
The respective sides of the
case was handled by Attorneys
Adams of Bottineau and A. E.
Coger of Rugby. The visiting
attorneys were highly compli-
mented by Judge Buttz for the
expeditions manner in which
the action was handled, in
striking contrast to methods
which are sometimes employ
ed. The action occupied less
than half a day in court.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

it didn't pay us? W. keep sheep and
hogs, cattle, and horses just as we'll
and as profitably as Illinois or Iowa.
We can and do raise splendid fields
of corn fodder, 10 and IL feet high,
very frequently with ears fully matur-
ed. We can and do raise two and three
tons of hay per acre on the high prai-
RE. We a and do raise alfalfa, and
we can raise oats and barley in large
quantities, and we always have too
much straw. Where can you beat it
GEO. R. WHITE,
Kramer, Bottineau County.
November 10, 1915.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

After having spent nearly two years
as Agricultural Agent in Bottineau
County and after having made a care
full and comprehensive survey of the
soils and climatic conditions, l feel
prepared to state that it would be
hard to find a locality where a more
comfortable living can be made and a
competence attained by careful and
painstaking methods oe farming than
in Bottineau county. The soil in the
various localities varies from a dark,
sandy loan in the eastern, south cen-
trail and north western sections to a
heavy dark, clay in the Mouse River
valley and a rich chocolate loan in the
Turtle Mountain region, all of which
are rich in lime deposits which is
so productive of bone and growth in
the raising of young live stock; also
is n of the principal requirements
for the successful growth of alfalfa,
which readily adapted itself to this
locality and of which more than 5000
acres r now being grown. Corn is
destined to become a leading crop and
the acreage has increased very rapid
ly, there being more than $4,000 acres
planted to corn in the spring of 1915,
and while in common with the states
of Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa,
corn in this locality suffered from the
unusually early frosts, the farmers are
not in the least discouraged at the
prospect and will plant q still larger
acreage the coming spring. Our
seedsmen are already contracting for
large quantities of seed corn for next
springs planting, All of the cereals
are especially adaptable to this locali-
ty, and nowhere does wheat, oats,
barley, speltz, or rye produce more
certain and abundant yields, wheat
in some localities making as high as
40 bushels pei: acre and yields Of IS
to 81 bushels per acre were quite COM
mon the past season. All Of the grass
es common to the central west thrive
and furnish good quality Of hay and
pasturage for live. stock, i.e., alfalfa,
red and alsike clover, timothy, slen-
der wheat grass, bronze grass, red
top, sweet clover is also becoming rec
ognized az a valuable forage crop. The
average rain fall while not as album
dant as in regions further east and
south, comes at a time when most
needed, i. e., from May to October and
is sufficient to insure under the bet
ter methods Of farming now in prac-
tice by nearly all the farmers Of this
county an. abundant and remunerative
return for labor and money expended.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

My experiences in North
Dakota have been such as to
make me a most ardent believ-
er in the state and it's opportu-
mites.
l came to Bottineau county
10 years ago with less than
$500. / have never failed to
make expenses or better during
any one of those years and have
gradually added to my hold
ings. L now own a good farm
of 1910 acres, seven miles north
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-11-18

In 1907 my brother and I came to
North Dakota in search of a location
in a good agricultural district. We
were satisfied when we saw the fields
of grain in the "Mouse River Loop"
which were then already harvested,
that this was good enough for us.
After driving around a week and
talking to a number of farmers we
each bought a quarter, which we soon
moved onto it from Indiana.
With six horses I handled my first
crop and since then I usually have run
two teams or outfits, as we speak of
them. Since the triple plow has
proved a success I now usually do my
own work in the Spring, but have to
hire help at harvest time.
My crop the past season consisted
Of $50 acres of rye grass, which
threshed 1900 bushels of seed, 100
acres of rye, which threshed 2,575
bushels; 165 Of wheat, which
which threshed $500 bushels; IS acres
of oats, which threshed 1000 bushels;
10 acres of emmer, which threshed
265 bushels, Ia acres of meadow which
cut about 20 tons Of rye-grass and
timothy hay and six acres of Grimm
alfalfa, which threshed about two
bushels Of seed, it being a new field.
Besides this we had a good garden
and potato patch.
OF the above crop about 5000 BUSH
els was my own, the balance, going to
the landlords.
On part of the land T'rented I gave
half and on part one-third. One land