The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-27
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EXPECTS O|FLAWS
BIG SAVINGS, TO PEOPLE AND
NEW STANDARD OF PROS
PERITY PROBABLE.

NEW STANDARD OF PROS
PERITY PROBABLE.
(The third of series Of three arti-
cles dealing with the work of the
North Dakota legislative session Just
efded.)
What will be the practical results
Of the work of the North Dakota leg
islature? What will be the actual
benefit to the state?
These questions are being asked in
other states today. North Dakota
farmers are not asking, because they
know. .
North Dakota raised last year $780,
100000 bushels Of farm produce, prin-
eipally grain. At present farmers are
! compelled to sell the bunk Of their
grain Immediately after it is harvest
ed, when the price is always low. IF
the terminal elevator and flour mill
system, by preventing all grain from
being dumped upon the market at
once, results in raising the average
price only five cents bushel, that will
mean an annual saving Of $12,500, 900
to the farmer.
Interest Savings
North Dakota farmers now have
borrowed, on first mortgages, at an
average interest rate Of 81 per cent,
some $3O9, 100000. If the Bank Of
North Dakota, loaning direct to farm
ers money gained from the sale of
state bonds, succeeds in reducing the
average interest rate only i per cent,
that will mean an annual saving Of
$3,O90, 900 to the farmer.
The railroad rate bill, patterned
after Minnesota's, on the basis Of
present freight movements in North
Dakota, will save shippers $8,000,000
q year, according to Attorney James
Manahan. But with lower rates
greater shipments are to be expected
and this fact, Attorney Manahan is
confident, will bring the total savings
to $4,000, 600 a year.
The grain grading and inspection
law passed by the 1917 legislature, by
giving the farmer q better grade and
consequently a better price on his
grain, saved $12, SOC, ,000 TO the farmer,
according to DR.. e. F. -Ladd, presi-
dent Of the North Dakota Agricultural
college. Amendments to the law,
passed this year, provide that grain
dealers must pay for valuable dock
age that they take. This will bring
to the North Dakota farmers an addi-
tional amount that may range all the
way from $4,000, 900 year to $6,O00,-
600 year, according to different esti-
/ mates.
y These direct savings, in dollars and
cents, are comparatively easy to fig
ure out. It is also easy to figure that
. saving Of $1,000, 900 or more will
result from state hail insurance, and
similar savings from state insurance
Of public buildings and state bonding
Of public officials.
Increase In Prosperity
But the biggest savings under the
North Dakota progrem can not be
figured out in dollars and cents SO
easily. The home building law is q
case in point. It will encourage farm
owning, instead Of tenant farming.
Authorities have variously estimated
at.from $1,000 to $50, 900, the financial
value to the state Of homecoming
family. Based on the capitalized
I value Of what a farmer can produce
annually, the financial value would be
much higher. But there is q value
aside from the financial value that can
. not be calculated. . Il.
The establishment Of the terminal
elevator and flour mill system will
give the state of North Dakota Na
first large industry. It promises TO
bring prosperity TO some Of the very
cities that have been fighting the
4 League from the start. s
Fair freight rates and development
Of Ignite coal fields viii encourage
other industries to be built up n the
\ state. The value Of this to the state
can not be calculated.
. Industries, however, are not going
Is be built up in North Dakota ct the
expense of It's citizenship. The long
list 81 laws for the protection Of labor,
as passed BY the legislature, guards
against this. Labor will be looked
\ after as it is in no other state. The
result will be that North Dakota will
have the best class Of city workers m
! Ameriea. North Dakota viii have as
\ high class citizenship in the cities as
it now has On the farms.
More Taxes On Privilege
The effect Of the new tax laws g
/ North Dakota is q matter that can
not be- disposed of by stating the total
savings II dollars and cents. IA the
I case of taxes, II Is problem tor each
Individual farmer. The general effect
of TIE North Dakota tax law passed
by the 1912 Legislature is to place
lslIfe ,of the burden "a corporations,
esessors II large incomes and hold
4 ca 81 idls land. talEing this buxlen
y, ~ ~ ia a4sna1YiJn0n