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i 51 .f" ,V *j sif IT S 8 If N^' W J. fe 4A4n**c*A. eaJtiCaJL tb North Dakota has gained in popu lation over 400,000, or approximately 1,200 per cent in the past wenty-four years and nearly 200 per cent since it was admitted Dakotto a has 3,500 of rail roads in operation. The assessed valuation of real and personal property in North Dakota about 20 per cent of the actual value is $146,537.44. Its actual wealth is rapidly noaring the billion dollar mark, without including its immensely valua ble but undeveloped beds of lignite coal. Thf farm products of North Dakota for 1003 aggregated $125,000,000. The dairy products of North Dakota for 1903 aggregated $3,000,000. North Dakota has 3,850 public schools. North Dakota has 2,000 students in its institutions of higher learning. North Dakota has 115,830 pupils in its public schools. North Dakota employs 5,200 public school teachers. North Dakota expended for the sup port of its public schools in 1903, $1,- 638.694. The public schools of North Dakota have an dowment of land worth fully $50,000,000. North Dakota has 48,868 farms under cultivation and 6,150 stock ranches. North Dakota has eighty-four flour mills in operation. Sixty creameries and eight cheese fac tories are in operation in North Dakota. Native lignite coal is being mined at eighty coal mines in the state. The manufactured products of North Dakota aggregate $20,000,000 annually. North Dakota ranks as the healthiest Btate in the union according to the sta tistics of the marine hospital service, trith an average mortality of 6.95 a thousand. The figures include records for towns and cities of 1,000 or more in population. The average for the en tire country is 16.87. ATorth statehoodmiles Agricultural Wealth. In th value of ita agricultural pro fluctg per capita North Dakota ranks as the first state in the union$20 for ach man, woman and child. North Dakota's university ranks with the best eastern educational in stitutions. North Dakota's staite agricultural col lege is the largest in the United States. North Dakota raises one-half of the flax crop of the United States. North Dakota corn won second prize at the Pan-American exposition in com petition with the great corn-producing States. North Dakota butter won third place at the Pan-American exposition, with a score of 95.63 points. 131 La Salle St., Chicago, HI. Jam, j*&tocL r*y Mst'i' Mrpv-asu- 4M(A/4al4*4*Uh Jlfit JciApU* tfit. LaL0i+rl*js%A~ Ok^pL i9 &f/ **t+.ctlL^ ^f**- UA* JL Brief History of the West It has been easy to convert smooth prairie Into beautiful'and productive farms. The grassy sod was ready for the plow and seeder, and harvest followed soon. The First Crop Often Paid for the Land Schools and churches were built during the first year of settlement. Towns and cities grrew quickly to meet the country's needs. Independence and wealth rewarded the farmer's labors. Mortonand HettingerConnties,NorthDakota Comprise a large area of rich, easily-tilled and lasting loam soil, are supplied with an abundance of the purest water, have an inexhaustible supply of native coal, and afford the last opportunity in the United States to buy prairie lands, and take free homesteads alongside, WHERE CROPS GROW. The settlement and development of twenty years have placed these counties far beyond the experimental stage in every branch of agricultural and pastoral farming and the newcomer here can And among his neighbors men who have become rich either as graingrowers, stockraisers or dairymen. We have mills and elevators that furnish a competitive market -for our wheat. Our creameries receive for their butter, from the mines of Montana and"T[daho, about the same prices that Illinois dairymen ordinarily get for their product. Our sheep and cattle have sold for the highest prices paid for grass-fed stock in the world's markets. Land-buyers' weekly excursions to our new settlements. $8.00 to $12.50 an Acre. 1004 crop on adjoining lands bringing over $20 an acre. CaW.#/ Ctorrespondence solicited by Wells & Dickey Co., Real Estate Dealers, Jamestown, N. D. NORTH DAKOTA, A YOUNG GIANT WHA IT HAS AND IS Its Actual Wealth, Without Including Its Beds of Lignite Coal, Is Rapidly Approaching the Billion Dollar MarkOpportunities Alike for Rich and Poor. The best cement, the best fire brick and the best vitrified brick in the world are made in North Dakota. North Dakota has an inexhaustible store of the finest pottery clays await ing development. All of North Dakota's state institu tions have land grants, the incomes from which will in time make them self supporting. North Dakota's average annual rain fall ranges from seventeen to twenty five inches in different sections of the state. North Dakota has, according to the last United States census, the largest income per capita of any state in the union. Vacant Lands. The vacant lands which may be taken under the homestead laws are mainly in the western part of the statealtho there are still scattered tracts near the central portion of the state. The state school lands, comprising one-eighteenth of the entire area of the state, were granted to the state by the national government for the benefit of the public schools. They occupy sec tions of one square mile each, numbered 16 and 36 of each township of thirty six square miles. Each of these sec tions embraces 640 acres. The enabling act and the constitution fix the mini mum price at which these lands may be sold at $10 an acre. They cannot thus be sold at a less price but they may be sold on any terms the state may fix. The money arising from their sale must be invested in a permanent school fund and only the interest can be used. The terms fixed by the state provide for the sale of these lands on twenty years' time, one-fifth down and one-fifth at the end of the first five years, and one-fifth at the end of the second, third and fourth five-year terms, with annual in terest paid in advance. About three hundred thousand acres have been sold up to the present time by the board of university and school lands. Development Extraordinary. North Dakota's opportunities are present opportunities. I will have other opportunities later, but the fact must not be lost sight of that this state is developing rapidly along many lines. Especially is this true in the set tlement of its low-priced lands and in building up. of new towns and business centers to care for the rapidly develop ing country. Westhope, now a town of nearly one thousand population, at the end of the Great Northern's Turtle Mountain branch, had not a single resident in November last. The emen who are doing business there now are the men who took advantage of present oppor- Richard ton, or Man dan, N. Dak. HAst*%t&*U?*%, i/PD i*j* 42. /$04, a /3(^u **dy fo^L- *uJ.~~ KAAH^-.) tunities. Mohall is another example of the rapid development of North Da kota. It is about one year old and is a town of about seven hundred per sons and growing very fast. It is one of the best shipping points in the west and has six large elevators, with a combined capacity of 250,000 bushels of grain. Corn a Coming Staple. Corn is coming to be an important crop in this state, and, notwithstand-, mg the general opinion to the contra ry, North Dakota is fully establishing the fact that it is within the corn belt. The yield for 1903 in the state is esti mated at 1,000,000 bushels. A large portion of this is raised in the south ern part of the state, but it is raised in nearly every county. The Indians were raising corn when the Lewis and Olark expedition ex plored North Dakota one hundred years ago this present year. James Hole's has been raising corn on his farm in Cass county for thirty-two years. Three times during this period' his corn has been damaged by frost before it ma tured. He considers it an ordinarily safe crop. The yield is all the way from thirty to eighty bushels an acre.' On the Dalrymple farm, in Cass coun ty, about one thousand acres are plant ed to corn annually. Mr. Dalrymple believes in rotation of crops and uses corn, oats, millet, barley, etc., in rota tion with wheat so far as practicable. Ho finds corn a profitable crop. Barley and Macaroni. North Dakota produced over ten mil lion bushels of barley in 1902, accord ing to the returns to the county and state auditor. The growing macaroni wheat closely resembles barley, in its rank growth and its beards, but the straw has, on closer inspection, a more bluish cast than ordinary barley. It grows from four to nearly five feet high in some cases. Among the favorable features of this wheat is the fact that it ma tures a week earlier than other varie ties of wheat, making it safer. It is very hardy and is less liable to be af fected by frost. The yield is also uni formly larger than the other varieties of Avheat in adjoining fields, produced under like conditions. North Dakota Grasses. Professor C. B. "Waldron of the United States experiment station at the state agricultural college says that North Dakota has a grass area of 40,- 000,000 acres, capable of producing each year as much beef as is repre sented by half a million 3-year-old steers, allowing twenty-five acres to each animal. These yoked together would make an ox team 500 miles long, thus giving an idea of the immense pro ductiveness of our pastures. Professor Waldron also makes the statement that of the 3,000 or more species of grass known to botanists about 80 are natives of this state. States having more varied vegetable conditions, like that of New York, have a much greater number of species, but no state contains a larger number or quantity of valuable species. Stock Raising. Stock raising in the western part of the state has been from the first the important industry. The first-to engage in breeding cattle in tnis section wei men who were connected with the va rious military, posts along the Missouri river at Fort Buford, at Fort Lincoln and other points, in the seventies1. character of the land and the sight of countless buffalo which roamed over the prairie doubtless convinced them of the superiority of that section as a stock-growing country. Some of the cattle sent out to the Indians on the reservations eventually found their way to ranges controlled by white men. Others had small herds shipped up the Missouri river from Iowa and other points, and for years large herds were driven from points farther south to fatten on the ranges of the Missouri river country and then shipped from there to market. In this way some of the non-resident stock men found that cattle did much better here than farther south, and during the next few years numerous permanent stock ranches were established in the western part of North Dakota, some of them representing large capital, and consisting of large bands of horses, cattle and sheep- Th Pi^ wedne^Even^^THE 4lINNEAP0LI S JOURNAL.it. i**W ^:7 ortunities tor All Glasses in Nolrtf Dalm Ward county, North Dakota, is gen erally called the "empire" county, be cause it occupies one-twelfth the area of the state. Excellent water can be iound any place in the county at a depth of from twelve to fifteen feet, and fuel abounds in every section in the county. Lignite coal, of which there is an abundance, is tributary to Mmot and is shipped extensively thru the state, and there are few farmers or ranchers who are not located close a coal vein and can get their winter supply very cheap at the mines, and many of the farmers dig it out of the ground and haul it to their homes. The eastern half of the county is generally level, while the western half is much more rugged and more suitable tor diversified or mixed farming and ranching, altho there are many fine farms and an abundance of farming lands in the western part. Ward county is the largest county in North Dakota, and is larger in area than Ehode Island, Delaware and the District of Columbia combined, and con tains 5,500 square miles. The Fort Berthold Indian reservation lies in the southeast corner and is not counted in the area of the county. The soil is a dark, rich loam, about eighteen inches or two feet, with a clay subsoil easily worked. Creameries are to be built in every WARD COUNTY AND IIS GROWING CAPITAL CITY Trend of Immigration and Enterprise Is Toward This Northern Empire in North Dakota. part of the county and more attention is being given to" diversified and dairy farming. Cattle and horses feed out of doors the whole winter. The county has good roads the year thru, the sur face of the soil drying quickly after a rain. But the northern and eastern part of tho county is the farmer's ideal coun try. This land varies from the perfect ly level plains to the gently sloping valleys and hills. There are but few farm's on which one cannot cultivate the entire 160 acres in a quarter sec tion. Here the average farmer devotes practically all his energies to pure farming, raising only about as much stock as is ordinarily raised by farm ers in the central states, like Indiana and Illinois. Here crops are raised year after year that are worth more than the land on which they are grown. "This is indeed the Mecca for the farm er of small means who desires a suitable place to build a home and make his fortune. .Thousands of acres of land, recently belonging %o the government, are now covered with small, comfortable homes, and rich, large yields of the best wheat, oats, flax, potatoes, cabbage and other vegetables. These are regions of cheap lands, the last to be had North Dakota. Home seekers from the middle west and some from localities farther east, are pouring in, and either buying tracts outright or making settlement under the terms of the homestead law. And this land is adapted to farming in most of its phases and is well watered and can be made profitable in a year's cultivation. Eailway lines are oeing extended and new towns started. From the first the settlers will have good For Full Information as to soil, crops, climate, social and educational advan- tages of the and he will send you pamphlets, maps and descriptive price lists, from^ which you may make selections. MR. FO*LSOM has had 23 years of actual experi- ence in practical farming in the counties of Cass, Barnes, Traill, Ransom, Sargent and La Moure, and will be pleased to give you the benefit of his experience in choos- ing a location. markets and the facilities and advan tages which they left behind in the east. The opportunities for all classes and pursuits were never surpassed. Com- I peteneies can easily be made in these favored localities. Minot, seat of Ward county, is one of the most prosperous cities in the west. The past two years have witnessed a re markable growth in Minot and this year has been a recordbreaker. More ele gant residences have been constructed in Minot this year than in any three years preceding. Thus far in the sea son over eighty residences have been built, and enough others are building or are planned to make the number over 100. The business development Has been even more remarkable. This hustling young giant is already the third city in the state. Most of its growth has come since 1900. When the i empire about it is settled and developed, it will become one of the foremost cities of the great plains of the west. WORSE THAN THE DOG. Chicago Journal. SheYou'd better sit by this open window, dearest, in cage papa should come into the room suddenly. HeBut there's a fierce bulldog out side, darling. I know it. But of two evils al ways choose the lesser." and of the First BencTi Lands immediately adjacent thereto, drop a line to F^rgo, N. D., Write tot Him Today as prices are .sure to advance as soon as this season's work is finished. Will obtain reduced rates for all land- seekers during October and November. NOTICE. Land interests wishing repre sentation on Journal's weekly page devoted to North Dakota, write Ward D. Williams, man ager Northwest advertising. TESLA'S COMING WONDERS Brooklyn Eagle. "We haven't heard from Tesla for a long time," said Grubbles. "It must be that he is getting his great system of wireless telegraphy perfected." "How's that? I thought Marconi was the wireless man," said Smith. "Thru the air only," answered the well-informed Grubbles. "Tesla is to send his waves thru the earth, as I un derstand it, and it will be mighty handy when we are traveling. For example, I am at Topeka, Kan., and I want to talk to my wife in Brooklyn. I take out a key built on the order of a key for a Yale lock my wife has one just like, it plugged' in the back yard awaiting my call. I shove mine down into some loose dirt at Topeka and start my Morse thru it from a pocket bat tery. That starts the gong ringing at home and then we telegraph back and forth. Our electric waves will not be carried by the luminiferous ether,- as the Marconi system has a. complete monopoly of that, but we shall shoot vibrations thru the intervening earth quite as easily. Besides, no one can cut in, as our keys are not duplicated. Commercial travelers will do well not to get their keys mixed.'' During the year 1902-3 there were 4,402 beekeepers, with 32,126 hives, in the state of Victoria, Australian. They produced 1,199,331 pounds of honey and 23,061 pounds of wax. FOB SALE320 ACHES, $8 FEB AOBE $2 FEB acre down five miles from Medina, Stutsman county, N. D. rich, black loam, clay sul soil perfect stock and grain farm. More land agents wanted. Frank P. Root, Lakota, N. D, L. W. TORQESON, Rem! Bstate and Investments, MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA. Net Bushels Tour half, 437 bu. at 98c. Note and interest for hay Total 30 Waldorf Block. 300 Net Lisbon, N. D., Oct. 26.Your corre spondent has been reading the daily papers of late and noting with interest the indications all over the country of renewed or returned prosperity, espe cially along the line of conservative business, and this renewed interest in matters of business has been much ex perienced by him the past week in his travels thru Eansom county, North Da kota, in seeing the great number of in telligent farmers from Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin who are there buying lands, and, conversing with them, I find that they all have about the same idea concerning the fu ture. They seem to say that the acre age of arable lands is ,ius How a North Dakota School Teacher Realized the Above Returns on His Investment. The Following Letter Tells the Story: Mr. John Melssner, Rugby. North Dakota. My Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of the 3rd Inst. In re threshing, etc., beg to advise you further. Threshing was finished and your share of the orop sold yesterday and I remitted total proceeds to our Fargo office where It will be promptly paid out as per your instructions. We beg to report as follows: Gross bushels of wheat. No. 2 Northern 979 Dockage Thresh bill on gross bushels $48.95 Hauling your Bhare to Heaton 9.78 Sykeston, N. D., Oct. 6, 1904. Tour net proceeds of the orop 8401.60 The crop did not turn out as well as we expected however, it Is very close to your estimate, and is a very good showing, considering that it was so badly struck by rust. Don't you think so? $6.70 per acre net is not so poor. As to your flax, it is late, but will still make a crop. Believe us, yrrs very truly WHBELOCfc & WHEIELOOK. By Bert T. Legg. NOTEAbove letter was written from our Sykeston offioe. Mr. Melaener had only 80 acres Into wheat and on a valuation of $15.00 per aore, it netted him 30 per cent on his investment. This speaks pretty well for wells county, North Dakota. It also shows how a non-resident can make money on our lands. Mr. Melssner came here from Oskaloosa, Iowa. For particulars in regard to North Dakota lands write to so much and cannot be increased, while the popu lation of our country is growing at a very conservative estimate at least a million a year. These people have got to be fed. Certain portions of th'em are farmers and they have got to have lands. There is no possible reason for gain saying the prediction that when lands in the middle west are selling at $100 and more an acre, lands in Ransom county. North Dakota, which produce the same crops and as good yields and grades, have just as good value, the supply and demand, the railroad facilities and all other conditions take care of dis tance, and while Eansom county lands are only selling for $25 and $30 an acre, there certainly is an excellent and good margin for further increased prices, and that this increase in price is sure to come is not a matter of sentiment or local conditions, but of general condi tions all over the country The return of prosperity is bound to in the spring, SO IE WOMEN ARE CRANKY AND HARD TO PLEASE But you cannot find one too cranky to be pleased by a fMGPHERSON & LANGFORD Ask your dealer to show them to you. If he cannot, come to us and we will. Be cranky enough to see that our name is on the hanger of your skirt and you will be happy. MAGPHERSON & LANGFORD 336 SIBLEY STREET, ST. PAUL, MINN. W.L.DOUGLAJS 50 W Ii. Douglas uses Corona Coltskin in his $3.50 shoes. Corona Colt is conceded everywhere to be the finest Patent Leather yet produced. Brockton Leads the Men's Shoe Fashions of the World. W. Lm Douglas Makes and Sells More Men's $3^0 Shoes than Any Other Manufacturer In the World. The reason W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are the greatest sel- lers in the world, is, because of their excellent style, easy fitting and superior wearing qualities. They are just as good as those that cost $5.00 to $7.00, the only difference is the price. If I could take you into my factory at Brockton, Mass., the largest in the world under one roof making men's fine shoes, and show you the infinite care with which every pair oiW.L. Douglas shoes is tnadcyou would realize whyW.L.Douglas $3.50 shoesare thebest shoes produced anywhere, and why the sales for the year ending July 1, 1904, were $6,263,040.00. If I could show you the difference between the shoes made in my factory and those of other makes and the high grade leathers used, you would understand why W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes cost more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe on the market to.day. W. L, Douglas guarantees their value by stamping his name and price on the bottom. Look for it take no substitute. Sold by shoe dealers everywhere. A Wm Lm Douglas $2.00 and $1.75 Shoes for Boys* 33 946 $464.08 6.15 $460.23 $68.73 88.73 WHBELOC & WHEB3L.OCIC.us THE VALUE OF RANSOM COUNTY LANDS SUCCESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE PRESENT OWNERS Fargo, North Dakota. make an accelerated movement from tha high-priced lands in the middle west to the low-priced lands of Eansom county. There is a good deal of talk about in dustrial business being overcapitalized, but here is the mother earth, the foun dation of all wealth, the ideal security for investment undercapitalized. As I travel thru the different coun tries of Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa and Wisconsin, I hear of this man and that man, or this farmer and that farmer, who is reputed to be wealthy, and nine times out of ten their wealth is in lands and these lands have made them wealthy in increased valuations, because they have held on to the lands for twen ty, thirty and forty years. The winter and spring of 1905 indi cates that there will be a very large im migration of the intelligent, prosperous farmer from the older states to the northwest, and Eansom county certainlv will obtain its share of this immigra tion. The railroad companies are mak ing every arrangement to take care of this land and homeseekers' movement, believing that the movement will as sume proportions equal to the movement of 1902, and land values will proportion ately increase. It is astonishing to drive over Eansom county, and talk with the Illinois and Indiana farmers who have been there from two to five years, and have them relate to you the success obtained and the profitable farming that they have experienced. My advice and suggestion to the farmer of the middle west is that they go to see Eansom county this fall and make their purchases so as to be prepared to get on the ground early Fast Color Eyelets will not turn brassy. Write for New Illustrated Catalog. Shoe* by mail, 25 cents extra. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. G. C. Jh E. Eli Calf always gives satisfaction. 8 W. Douglas $3.50 Shoe Store In Minneapolis: 405 Nicollet Ave.: Sfij^^tfiMs^J,^#JS'i #S 1 *sS' mmmm