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ollices in North Dakota for the past fiscal year 

 was $314,661.91. 



Products. The coal mining industry is at- 

 tracting much attention, and promises important 

 results to the State. Wilton, a new town to which 

 a railroad was built from Bismarck this year, is 

 the new center of activity. Tests have been made 

 of the lignite coal mined there, and it is found to 

 be economical and otherwise satisfactory. A test 

 conducted at a woolen mill showed a saving of 

 about 20 per cent, over the cost of wood. It is 

 found to be agreeable for household use also, 

 burning without clinkers and giving out smoke 

 more like that from wood than like ordinary coal 

 smoke. A test showed the lignite to have a value 

 of 63 per cent, of bituminous coal. Taking into 

 account the cost of the two when delivered, a 

 saving of 81 cents a ton was figured for the lig- 

 nite. New electric machinery has been put in, 

 which is expected to raise the output to about 

 350 tons a day. The coal product of the State 

 in 1899 was 98,809 tons, valued at $117,500. Some 

 of the reservation Indians are finding employment 

 in the lignite fields. 



Prof. Babcock, of the State University, who is 

 making a geological survey of the State, says the 

 clays are valuable, and are being developed. In 

 the northern part of the State a good quality of 

 Portland cement is being made, and in the western 

 part excellent clay for pottery, fire brick, and 

 building brick is worked. 



The acreage of wheat, as shown by the assess- 

 ors' returns in September, was 3,846,406, and that 

 of flax 1,203,767. The yield was, however, small 

 in proportion. The wheat crop was estimated to 

 be from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 bushels. 



The creamery industry is growing in the western 

 part of the State. 



The Commissioner of Forestry recommends the 

 experiment of raising fish in artesian waters, 

 which he has found successful. There are nearly 

 700 flowing artesian wells in the State. 



Many filings have been made for land under the 

 provisions of the reservoir law, under which law 

 any one can reserve and have the use of 160 acres 

 of land in one section for fifty years, providing he 

 builds a reservoir that will contain 1,500,000 gal- 

 lons of water; such reservoir must be on the same 

 section with the land reserved. It is not probable 

 that all or many of those so filing will build 

 reservoirs. But filing upon the land keeps other 

 settlers off, and stockmen, by the payment of the 

 filing fees, may have the use of the land until the 

 entries are canceled, and in the meantime secure 

 the use of the land. 



Political. State officers were elected in No- 

 vember. The Republicans held conventions May 

 16 and July 11; the Democrats, June 6 and July 

 20; the People's party, April 6, June 26, and July 

 20. A part of the People's party united with the 

 Democrats; the " middle of the road " section put 

 out a ticket. There were also a Prohibitionist 

 ticket and a Social-Democratic. 



The Republicans urged Congress to take steps 

 to suppress the evil of trusts, and favored the re- 

 tention by the United States of every foot of ter- 

 ritory now under the flag. They approved the en- 

 actment into law of the currency bill and the en- 

 tiro policy of the Administration. The party was 

 pledged to sustain the prohibitory law. 



Gov. F. B. Fancher was renominated, and Frank 

 White was made the candidate for Lieutenant 

 Governor. Gov. Fancher withdrew from the ticket 

 on account of failing health, Sept. 25, and the 

 State Committee named Frank White for the first 

 place and David Bartlett for the second, so that 

 the ticket finally stood : For Judge of the Supreme 



FRANK WHITE, 

 GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA. 



Court, D. E. Morgan; Governor, Frank White; 

 Lieutenant Governor, David Bartlett; Treasurer, 

 D. H. M'Millan; Attorney-General, O. D. Corn- 

 stock; Auditor, A. N. Carlblom; Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, J. M. Devine; Secretary of 

 State, E. F. Porter; Commissioner of Insurance, 

 Ferd. Leutz; Commissioner of Agriculture and 

 Labor, R. J. Turner; Railroad Commissioners, J. 

 F. Shea, C. J. Lord, J. J. Youngblood. 



The Democrats declared allegiance to the plat- 

 form of 1896, advocated the election of United 

 States Senators by popular vote, denounced im- 

 perialism, and 

 instructed del- 

 egates to Kan 

 sas City for 

 William J. 

 Bryan. They 

 favored aboli- 

 tion of cus- J 

 toms duties be- || 

 tween the Uni- 

 ted States and 

 Porto Rico, ]; 

 and declared 1 

 for an income | 

 tax. The fu- 

 sion ticket 

 was: For 

 Governor, Max 

 A. Wipper- 

 man; Lieuten- 

 ant Governor, 

 F.W. McLean; 

 Secretary of 

 State, J. F. 

 Williams; Au- 

 ditor, Samuel 



K. McGinnis; Treasurer, J. P. Birder; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Mrs. Laura J. Eis- 

 enhuth; Insurance Commissioner, W. W. Camp- 

 bell; Attorney-General, John Carmody; Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, Samuel Torgeson; Railroad 

 Commissioners, James Morrison, L. L. Lewis, L. 

 Stavnheim. Mr. Williams and Mr. Stavnheim 

 withdrew, and their places were filled by J. J. 

 Stampen and Julius Wirkus. 



The nominations of the People's party were: 

 For Governor, O. G. Major; Lieutenant Governor, 

 James T. Westlake; Secretary of State, Frank 

 Wrightson; Auditor, Robert Grant; Treasurer, 

 W. W. Cummings; Attorney-General, H. F. Jones; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor, James 

 Glassford; Commissioners of Railroads, James 

 Mclntosh, John Miller, W. J. Forest. 



The Prohibition candidates were : For Governor, 

 Delevan Carlton; Lieutenant Governor, W. C. 

 Greene; Treasurer, B. H. Tibbits; Auditor, D. F. 

 Humphreys; Secretary of State, George M. Nay- 

 lor; Commissioner of Agriculture, M. F. Vande- 

 bogart. 



The Social-Democratic ticket, which was filed 

 by petition in August, was as follows: For Gov- 

 ernor. George W. Poague; Lieutenant Governor, 

 Royal F. King; Secretary of State, A. Bassett; 

 State Auditor, R. C. Massey; State Treasurer, L. 

 F. Dow; Attorney-General, A. Le Sueur; Superin- 

 tendent, G. W. Attlebury ; Commissioner of Insur- 

 ance, R. W. Simpkins: Railroad Commissioners, 

 William Lamb, F. J. F. Tucker, James Nelson; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, S. E. Haight. 



The Republican ticket was successful at the 

 polls. For presidential electors the vote stood: 

 McKinley, 35,891; Bryan, 20.519; Woolley. 731; 

 Debs, 518; Barker. 110. For Governor: 'White, 

 34,052; Wipperman, 22,275; Carlton, 560; Poague, 

 42:> : Major, 213. 





