RARE NORTH DAKOTA LAND PROMOTIONAL – MOUSE RIVER, NORTH DAKOTA

RARE NORTH DAKOTA LAND PROMOTIONAL – MOUSE RIVER, NORTH DAKOTA

Warren, Charles Howard. Mouse River North Dakota. St. Paul, MN: Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway, (c.1886). 12pp. Printed wraps, tables. The rear cover prints a map of the Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway line and area served. Devils Lake Prospectus laid in. Both in vg cond.

Rare North Dakota promotional from the Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway, offering the prospective settler information on homesteading, cattle ranching and general descriptions of the Minot, Antelope Valley, Coteaux and White Earth Country. Also offers the prospective settler information on cattle raising; how to homestead in the area (it recommends contacting the land office in Devils Lake); and closes with a 6 page description of the benefits to the settler and other facts regarding the state.

“The new home-seeker, locating almost anywhere between the Turtle mountain and the main line of the railroad, may do so in the full expectation of being able to raise large crops of “No, 1 hard’ wheat. How large, depends almost entirely upon himself. If he is not very particular about the quality of his seed, if he only just scratches the surface of the ground, and otherwise gives heed to those who will be ready to tell him that more careful and thorough methods are wholly unnecessary, he may, and probably will, get a fair crop. If, however, he goes in to cultivate the soil much as he would cultivate it down East or in the old country, while it may cost him a little more labor, he will be well rewarded. The success that has attended summer fallowing and the rotation of crops in the case of those who have had the courage and foresight to practice them, has been so great that the employment of these good old-fashioned methods of farming is rapidly extending.”

$595.00