The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-05-23
BIG WELCOME
TO BE GIVEN
AUTO TOURISTS
Invited to Make State Their
Home in Guide Issued BY
N. d. Motor Body

Fargo, N D., May 23.-(AP)-
Seven hundred thousand HAPPY, con-
tented people" in North Dakota want
more neighbors, and with but $4,000
acres of the states 45,0O0,O0O acres
OF arcade land under cultivation, the
state "invites thrifty and ambitious
men and women to aid in developing
the wonderful resources which have
won it fame as a land Of opportun-
ity." This is the invitation issued
to tourists who will pass through
North Dakota this summer, by the
1925 North Dakota Automobile As
ISOLATION tourists guide, made public
here today by James S. Milloy, new
secretary Of the association.
These guides are being placed in
40 travel bureaus, chamber of COM
merce automobile divisions, and au-
tomobile club rooms throughout the
United States, Mr.. Milloy said. Ac-,
companying the tourist guides are
maps showing the primary highway
systems, points of interest, and road
conditions. Other strip" maps Of
specific routes are also available.
The guide lists all the various trails
and itner-city routes, with time-ta
BILE arrangements showing mileages,
populations, tourist facilities, trail
functions and distances to principal
centers from the borders of the
state.
Views of tourists parks, mountains
~ lob ~,
streets, agricultural sections, wild
life, beauty spots and highway STREET
ches are scattered through the book
let.
North Dakotans realize shat to
see their state is to appreciate its
possibilities" and they urge motor
tourists passing from east to west
and west to east across the northern
route Ito travel the we'll built and
thoroughly marked trails" through
North Dakota and "become acquaint-
ed with a great agricultural state,"|
the travel guide says.
1t continues: unsurpassed for
rugged scenery, vast stretches Of
fertile prairies and points of inter-
est linked with the history of the
winning of the west, North Dakota
extends the hospitality Of younger
and aggressive commonwealth ID her
visitors.
"There is enough good land in
North Dakota to make a farm of 16O
acres for many thousands Of home
seekers and this land is available at
a price that is not inflated. AS the
motorist drives along and sees, in +!
the sides of the road bitches, the
deep layer of dark top soil underlaid
with good clay subsol, one in
stinctively wants to own some Of it.
As one sees the prairies covered with |
abundant grasses ready for pastur-
ing, hay making or the pillow, or sees
the growing crops, the desire to
own some Of this land grows. Then
when one experiences the pleasant
invigOrating climate, the glorious !
early morning and the inspiring |
sunset, the desire to own and oper-
ate a farm in North Dakota becomes
almost irresistible. There is some
thing to the lay of North Oak ota
land, with the broad, rich acres
spreading out on a level or gently |
plain, that appeals.
"In 1924 North Dakota farms pro-
duced total Of $412,451, TAO in new
wealth, a per capita value of $63454
and an average dollar value for each !
farm of $5,892.l6. 1t leads all the
states in the production Of No. hard
wheat, producing one-seventh of the
nations production of this wheat,
the best in the world. Her fertile i
farms produce more than one-half of
the flax crop of the United States
and the decided swing to diversified
farming is revealed in the fact that
1924 corn production totalled 34,OOO,-
900 bushels as compared with 18,OOO,-
900 bushels in 1919, the value of the
creamery products increased from
$4,000, 900 to $34,O0O,OO0 in the
same period, while poultry produc-
ton jumped from $2,712,0OO in 1919
to $1O,5OO,O00 in 1924. North Dakota