Green pastures and vast wheat fields : a sketch, historical, descriptive and statistical

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Homestead; Pacific
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/3084

26 FAKGO AND CASS COUNTY. in disproportion to its value, and put him upon a hundred and sixty acres of any section that we saw, and that was capable of cultivation at all, and we would start him in the direction of prosperity such as he never even dreamed of as among the posibilities. # * * * * * There is nothing to be seen anywhere to compare with the sweep of land embraced by the Red River and its affluents in fertility, reliability and staying power as a great wheat country." On the authority of the gifted and indefatigable manager of the Northern Pacific, Mr. Oakes, the valley is so rich that it will support a railroad every seven miles. The Northern Pacific branch, which runs down the valley and parallel with other lines, last year paid expenses, the interest on the investment, and passed $500,000 to surplus. There are still upwards of 23,000,000 acres of gov-- ernment land in Dakota vacant and subject to homestead and pre-emption. It may be said parenthetically, strange as it may seem to a cursory observer,—a caprice of nature—that, while the Mississippi rises north and within about twenty miles of the source of the Red River of the North, the two rivers are found passing each other, the former flowing south and finding its way to the Mexican gulf, the latter passing Fargo flowing north, and finding its way finally to the Arctic ocean. Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.