| Summary: | made it on the farm and all that we have to do is to set forth our resources and advertise and we will have no trouble in getting people from the east who are seeking investments to come to our state. Wo have our churches and schools and if they come hero we will treat them well. We will do as the preacher said • in his church announcement. Ho said: "Next Monday evening there will be services in the East end, next Sunday evening there will be services in the West end, babies will be baptized at both ends." That is what we will do with the new settlers. We will show them that we want to do the best possible thing for them, and if we do this and show them the advantages we will proceed with greater progress than wo have in the past. And I want to say to you men that you are the fellows who are doing this. My friend Stroeter who represents the press as well as you real estate men, you are the class of men that we can depend upon to set before the people of the United States the advantages we have here. And I want to say in favor of the chairman of this meeting that ho has done a great deal toward showing the people of the United States what we have in this state. And if we continue we will prosper and grow stronger as the years go by. In conclusion I want to say we have more sunshine in this state than in any place in the union. We have more bettor looking people. Of course there are a few of you fellows getting a little bald-headed like my friend from Wahpeton, and this will be an additional inducement to the people of the east, ladies and gentlemen both, to come here and make their homes among us. I thank you. THE LOWER RED RIVER COUNTRY By Hon. J. L. Cashel. Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: The subject of my consideration this evening is tho lower Red River valley in North Dakota. I regret exceedingly the limited time I had to devote to this important district of the state, the modern paradise comprising the counties of Grand Forks, Walsh and Pembina. The soil is a deep, rich loam with clay subsoil that has proven for over twenty- five years of continuous cultivation to be inexhaustible under a good system of cultivation. It exceeds the valley of the Nile in that it does not receive, nor require, alluvial deposits to retain its . fertility to produce good crops annually under a proper system of rotation. x\ll grasses congenial to tho central and northern latitudes thrive in the soil and climate. Corn is becoming a favorite crop, especially for fodder and renovating the- soil, which produces two or three good crops of wheat following. The surface is almost level yet undulating and sloping gradually toward tho Red river. Small streams cross the valley at intervals varying in distance apart from ten to twenty miles, their banks lined with a good growth of hard and soft timber, thus adding wealth to the district and beauty to the landscape. Early settlements were made at Grand Forks and in Pembina county, at St. Joseph and Walhalla by the Hudson Bay company's zealous missionaries and adventurous fur traders. Time forbids and retrospect prior to 1881, when I became a settler in tho valley at Grafton, Walsh county. Grand Forks was then a village, the terminus of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & 20 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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