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Title: Beginner's civics for North Dakota
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Boyle, James E. (James Ernest), 1873-1938
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Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Russel Miller Milling Co., Grand Forks, N. D. tion of admission on November 2, 1889. This dateis, therefore, the birthday of North Dakota. Growth of the State.—North Dakota is fortunatein its climate and natural resources, and the growthof the State in population and industry has been veryrapid. No other State in the Union has such a mix-ture of sturdy races. The ancient and mighty Teu-tonic stock is represented by the Anglo-Saxons, the 164 WORKINGS OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT Scandinavians, the Germans, and the German Rus-sians. The Irish, French, Poles, and Bohemians arealso very numerous, with their poetic imaginations,their love of music and fine art, and their great industry,perseverance, and courage as pioneers. This mixtureof races produces the highest type of American citizen-ship, combining intelligence, honesty, and patriotism.For a great many years North Dakota has had the high-est per cent of foreign-borncitizens of any State in theUnion; indeed her legisla
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Ploughing and Thrashing in North Dakota tive assemblyusually hashalf its mem-bership for-eign born.Resources and Climate.—North Dakota lies in the same lati-tude as Paris and Vienna, but a little farther souththan Berlin and London. The cities of Christianiaand Petrograd are over six hundred miles north ofNorth Dakota. This-State is a prairie State, contain-ing but few lakes and forests, and the air is thereforewonderfully dry, even in the river valleys. This phe-nomenon of dry air largely explains the interesting HISTORICAL 165 fact that the wide ranges of temperature (from 30degrees below zero in the winter to 100 degrees abovein the summer) cause no inconvenience or discomfortto the inhabitants. The resources of the State arechiefly her wheat lands, her coal fields, and her claydeposits. Several hundred thousand tons of lignitecoal are mined annually. The rich clays of the Stateare now used to produce brick, tile, pottery, and dishes.With less than half its land under cultivation

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