Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — The Rich Northwest. [ARTICLE]

The Rich Northwest.

The tremendous growth of the Northwest is probably not appreciated in the far South. East ar.d West, and even the people themselves who have been concerned in this rush of development are probably not broadly cognizant of what has taken place. That from 1900 to 1915 Minnesota's bank deposits jumped from $76,000,000 to $551,000,000 reads like a tale of Aladdin's lamp. The dry plains of South Dakota also have evidently blossomed like the rose, for in this period bank depjsits have grown from $14,000,000 to slll,000,000. This means that South Dakota bank deposits have risen 800 per cent in 15 years, a wonderful record. Montana’s bank deposits in the same period have leaped from In the aggregate here 1 are four contiguous Northwestern states, the Dakotas, Montana and Minnesota, whose bank deposits have risen in 15 years from $118,000,000 to SBOO,060,000, and whose cron values have risen from a negligible amount in 1900 to $600,000,000 in 19i 5. The 1900 figures ’-how these states almost in the pioneering stages The 1915 figures speak of the development of a vast farm empire with millions, of contented families. And all accomplished in 114 decades, just a fraction of one lifetime. Perhaps the only man who is not surprised at this showing is a visionary like Janies J. Hill, who, even when his locomotives shrieked the first call of civilization over the Western plains, spoke of the Northwest in eleven-figured terms. He has seen his wildest dreams come time.—Milwaukee Journal.