The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-07
MANY RETURN Z.
DISAPPOINTED
FROM COAST
Two Streams Moving ThroIgh
West One Coming, One
Going, Says Writer
OUGHT TO BE WARNED
Governor Nestos, Comment
ing in Letter, Urges PeO-
pie to Investigate Be-
fore Going
OUGHT TO BE WARNED

moving through the west at tnlS
time, says North Dakota citizen
who has been spending few months
in the Rocky Mountain Region in a
letter to Governor Ncstos. One of
these is stream going west, of peo-
pie from &he northwestern, central
and northeastern states seeking
promised land in Oregon. California
and Washington, the other stream is
heading eastward and consists of
those who in the past year have
moved to California and other states,
have been disappointed and are re-
turning.
"These people have now become
disillusioned and undeceived by their
own experience and rather than Join
the bread lines that are forming on
the coast, they are hurrying back
to the communities from which they
came," wrote the Governors inform
ant. "They have discovered that
even though farming conditions are
hard in North Dakota, South Dakota
and Minnesota and other states that
they are not any better for the fruit
farmer and the cattle farmer, on the
average, than they are for the grain
farmer, and that no matter where
they go the only farmer who seems
to be sitting comfortably is the one
who raised diversity of products
so that he practically grows the
family living upon his own farm and
therefore is reasonably Independent
Of the shifting economic and finan-
cial conditions"
F : Ought To BE Warned
The North Dakotan writing the
Governor said that "our people ought
to be warned not to leave North Da-
kota until they are sure that they
are going to find work or better liv-
ing conditions where they are going"
and he declared that if the people
had known the truth about conditions
either on the codSt or in the Domin-
ion of Canada few would have left
Minnesota, South or North Dakota,
or Montana. He declared that q
careful investigation would satisfy
80 percent of those who are think
ing of moving that they would be in-
finitely better off to continue their
life and labors in North Dakota,
than to sacrifice their homes, their
friends and much OF what property
they have left, in making move
into another section where condi-
tions are not any better than the
conditions from which they are NOV
ing.
Governor Nestos indorsed the
statements of the North Dakotaa. =
"Talks with many others who have
come from Canada and from the
coast have already convinced me that
the statements Of this North Dako-
ia citizen are absolutely correct and
that 80 percent Of those who leave
the state Of North Dakota to go in
to these other states or the Domin-
ion of Canada will wish, inside of q
year, that they had never left the
state Of North Dakota and will be
anxious to borrow enough money to
get back to their old home," said
the Governor.
Should Investigate First :.
~ hope, therefore, that every per-
son who now thinks of leaving the
state will, first of all, make a care
full investigation of conditions in
the place to which they intend to
move and to find out beforehand
whether men or families with the
money they possess will really i'm
prove their conditions by leaving
their old homes in the State Of
North Dakota. I am confident that
if our people would do this, that
practically all of those who have
been thinking of leaving the state
will change their attitude and will
continue to, stay in North Dakota
and struggle with the present con-
ditions until the improvement which
is sure to come soon makes things
right for the farmers and others in
North Dakota. OF course those who
have plenty Of money can settle any
where and get along, but even these
will find it difficult to secure the
right kind Of a home in the crowd
ed centers Of California or a place
where it does not cost them more to
live than they can we'll afford to
| spend.
"North Dakota is going to come
out all right and will do so surpris-
ingly fast. Those who get panicky
now and either move from the state
or take their money out Of banks
! that are good and solvent, as the
great majority Of our banks are, are
| defeating their own purposes and
helping to make times hard for
themselves and others. Merited con-
.fidence in the state and a DISPOSE
tion to put your money into, or leave
the money already deposited in the
banks whose statements show them
to be good and dependable will do
, much toward improving conditions in
the state, will restore confidence,
and will make, itspossibles for use to
make a genuine Improvement and re-
! turn to reasonable degree Of pros
g.. AL