The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-13
HOME MANUFACTURE
DEVELOPMENT Seen
BY FORKS PUBLISHER
0ppegard Predicts Business En-
enlargement for State
in Next Decade
.
SUGGESTS OFFICIAL SURVEY
North Dakota industries, How.
ever, Must Be Kindred to
Agriculture, He Says

All OUtSC6I1Q1I1S VI Tue
next decade In North Dakota will be
the more extensive home manufac-
ture or processing Of the stat,'s,agri-
cultural products, M. M. Oppegard,
Grand Forks, told q radio audience
here Monday night.
Oppegard, a director Of the Great
er North Dakota association, out
lined outstanding parts Of the organ
ization's industrial committees pro-
gram.
This development will result In .
higher return to the producers Of the
state through savings In freight and
the higher price tn, finished product
will bring, Oppegard said.
Thus it is all u approach to
this problem" he continued, there
runs through it the thought that out
of the soil Of North Dakota shall
come the opportunities for the In
dustrial development we seek.
Processing Plants Many
1.-THE last decade has been marked
by certain agricultural trends which
have paved the way for numbers OF
processing plants. It is in the x
pansion and development Of these
plants that we must look for this
states industrial development.
North Dakota will never become q
rival of Michigan in the manufacture
of automobiles; nor can we rival
Pittsburgh in the steel Industry. But
industries Lindred to our agricultural
development are due to come to all
Of our larger trading ,enters. There
fore q comprehensive analysis Of our
agriculture trends Is basic and vital.
Z. There are many phases In all this
picture that appeal.
lone that we can appreciate read
lily, I am sure. is that with the de-
velopmer Of q series Of industries,
both large and small, we shall pro-
vide additional units to join with x
listing business concerns and our
farms in sharing the cost Of govern
ment, both state and local, and thus
lessen the individual tax burden.
Existing state institutions and de-
partments unquestionably could serve
q population Of q million people and
hundreds of industrial plants as
readily as they now perform this
function for q lesser population and
fewer industries.
1.-THE sponsoring Of an official sur
vey by the state itself would have an
other far-reaching effect. It would
bring home to every citizen just what
the state has today by way OF Indus
tries whose aggregate production even
now exceeds $50, GOT, 900. It would be
the fundamentally for awakening q
proper appreciation Of home indus
tries and q realization that through
normal and ordinary agricultural
production trends promise Of indus
trial development exists. It should
include an analysis Of our traffic
problems and freight rates, q COM
plete listing Of services available to
industry from u state departments
and state institutions. and all other
factors which may be involved IN any
way In furthering industrial develop
ment' in the state of North Dakota.
Much Information Available
TN addition to the authority at
tached to a survey conducted under
official, state sanction through Its
own departments, this line Of proce-
dure also would permit the parceling
out of the studies among the several
state departments and institutions.
where much Of the information de-
sired already. is at hand, needing only
a c~orrelating effort to make 1t q val
liable and complete part Of the pro
posed survey.
1T is appropriate that this first an.
nouncement Of q definite industrial
policy of the associations industrial
committee should be made here IN
the western part Of the state, where
are located the vast Ignite mines.
themselves perhaps the outstanding
single factor in the states industrial
development. In addition to the lig-
mite coal, western North Dakota pro-
duces natural gas. and perhaps this
yery survey would be the means OF
applying North Dakota produced gas
to North Dakota industries on . large