On This Day | How to Attract Settlers

He was one of the earliest settlers in the Mouse river valley and his friends back at Melrose, Minn., wanted him to write a description of the country. This he did, as follows: “No snow in winter and in the spring, you seed the grain on top of the ground. Streams mostly alki” (meaning alkali, and making an error in spelling). Those Melrose farmers thought he meant “alcohol” and they came flocking to North Dakota by the dozens.

1912-12-19 | Ward County Independent

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