The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-29
BUSINESS MEN
OF TERRITORY
OPTIMISTIC
Business Conditions Are Good
Throughout This Part of
North DaktOa
CORN SHOW ATTRACTS
Town and Village Merchants
Express Friendly Feeling
Towards Bismarck
CORN SHOW ATTRACTS

Better business conditions than for
several years past, a more optimist.c
feeling upon the part of both mer-
chants and farmers, a larger acreage
OF corn each year, rapid chang
from exclusive grain raising to d.
verslfled farming, and Il strong senti-
ment in favor of the st"'a ",,n !h4.E
are some Of the outsta HCi".' dis, q
cries made by the varlC.!s groups Of
Bismarck business men who last week
toured the entire section Of the state
surrounding this city to promote an
even better feeling than that which
now exists between the people of Bis
marck and those of the smaller cities
and towns and to advertise the North
Dako State corn show which will
be held in the Capital City on No
vember u, Is, 10 and 20.
"A winter of exceptionally good
business was forecast BY practically
all the business men along the route
covered by tour No. ~ said o. W..
Roberts in discussing the trip. This
tour included Baldwin, Wilton, Wash
burn, Underwood, Coleharbor, Gar
l;son. Van Hook. Parshall, Plaza, Ma
koti, Ryder, Douglas and Max. "Un-
usually good crops were harvested
III lillS SctlloH o. lHc SlaIe, tSptNidiiS
in the vicinity of ParShall and San
iSh,' said Mr.. Roberts. The number
of fine large barns seen along the
way indicates that the farmers are
fairly prosperous, and il was noticed
that they are rapidly changing to di-
versified farming. More cattle are
being raised each year, with the
Shorthorn strain predominating. A
large number OF sheep are being
raised in that territory and with the
added acreage of corn each year a
great many more hogs are being
raised
Want Train Schedule Changed
Citizens living along the route OF
the 500 line north from Bismarck,
both to Drake and to Sanish, are very
anxious to have the train schedules
reversed, the members of tour No. l
learned. Before automobiles came
into such general use the present
schedule was very satisfactory, but
now it is greatly desired that the
trains run into Bismarck in the morn
ing and out at night rather than the
opposite. Station agents all along the
line seem to be in favor of such Il
change. it is stated, believing that the
passenger business Of the railroad
would be greatly increased by such
move.
The corn crop in the northeastern
part Of the territory covered by those
on tour No. was not of the best this
wear, according to Frank Ellsworth,
who was a member Of the party. But
this has not discouraged the farmers
there and they will raise more corn
next year than before. In the Tuttie
vicinity and at Turtle Lake the corn
crop was very good Turtle Lake has
"A corn show Of its own each year and
the prize winners enter the state
show.
Business was brisk all along the
line. Mr.. Ellsworth states, and mer-
chants are in good spirits. Many
from the territory will attend the
corn show next month. The towns
visited by tour No. included Men
oxen, Mckenzie, Sterling. Driscoll,
Steele, Dawson, Tappen, Tuttle, Are
ma, Goodrich, Denhoff, McClusky, Mer-
Ger and Turtle Lake.
Urged to Raise Corn
"A great deal of dairying is being
done in the vicinity of Ashley and
Wtishek and nearby communities
said c. r. Simpson, who was MEM
ber of tour No. 3, "but very little corn
is raised there. In that neighborhood
farmers cornfield was small patch
in one corner of field and few 81.
los were in evidence. Residents Of
this district we're particularly urged
to attend the state corn show IN the
hope that they would be impressed
with the fact that corn can and IS
being raised in the state and that it
would be to their advantage to devote
: more of their efforts to that crop.
Near Strasburg, Linton and Hazelton,
however, we found good sized corn
fields and lots Of interest in the corn
show. At Napoleon there is great
amount Of fine corn raised and resi-
dents there are coming to the state
show with the expectation of winning
the grand prize cup for the best corn
grown in North Dakota. :,
Tour No. covered the towns ana
villages of Moffit, Hazelton. Temvik,
Linton, Strasburg, Hague, ventura
Ashley, Wishek, Burnstad ,and Ma
poleon.
Individual Corn Shows
"Corn shows have been or are pc
ing conducted this week at stanton
Hazen and Zap" said j. {. iayioi'
who was member OF tour NO. -
which included the toWHs VI
Stanton, Hazen, Beulah, Zap, Golden
Valley, Dodge, Halliday, Werner
Dunn Center, Killdeer, Naming ne
Dickinson, Gladstone, Taylor, kicn-
ardton, Glen Ullin, .Almont and New
Salem. "The prize winners at these
community corn shows will enter
their exhibits in the state show mere
next month. Business men all along
the line reported a very good! ian
trade and seem to be very much en-
couraged regarding the future. Corn
is rapidly coming to the front as a
CROP in this territory and greatly
Increased acreage is reported each
cinity Of Beulah the past season was
ms great as that of wheat and the
farmers there are doing more and
more dairying."
FL. Conklin was one Of those as.
signed to tour No. 5, which covered
FLASHER. Carson, Elgin,5 New Leipzig,
Mott, Regent, Havelock, New Eng.
land, Burt and Dickinson. we were
.I,.. :~,r~nccnd NV the; large num-