NORTH DAKOTA 



NORTH DAKOTA 



and a teachers' retirement fund was established. 

 School revenues, are derived from the state 

 fund, district taxes and large appropriations 

 from the sale of public lands. There is a large 

 annual expenditure for public education. There 

 are two county agricultural schools, and sum- 

 mer schools are held in many places. The 

 state maintains normal colleges at Valley City, 

 Mayville, Minot and Ellendale; a school of 

 sciences at Wahpeton; an industrial school at 

 Ellendale ; the state university at Grand Forks ; 

 an agricultural college near Fargo; a school of 

 forestry at Bottineau. Other important insti- 



The Land. North Dakota is part of the great 

 prairie region extending through the middle 

 west of the United States and far into Canada. 

 The state consists of three level or gently roll- 

 ing plains, rising one above the other, from east 

 to west. The lowest section is the broad, level 

 valley of the Red River, which near the Cana- 

 dian border reaches a width of nearly sixty 

 miles. This valley rises gradually to the rolling 

 gray prairies of the central plain, in which the 

 only section of high elevation is the Turtle 

 Mountain region. West of the central plain 

 tho Plateau du Coteau du Missouri (the Pla- 



OUTLINE MAP OF NORTH DAKOTA 



Showing boundaries, navigable rivers, principal cities, coal measures, natural gaa regions, and 

 the highest point of land in the state. 



us of higher education are Fargo College 

 at Fargo; Jamestown College at Jamestown; 

 Wesley College at Grand Forks. 



A board of charities, created in 1911, has 



supervision over state institutions of charity 



include a hospital for 



tiir insane at Jamestown; a home for the 

 -minded at Grafton; a -chool at 



'Ian; a school f>r the blind at Bathj:;.' 

 school for tin- draf at Devils Lake; a tuberru- 

 losis sanitarium at Dunseith; a penitentiary at 

 in k in whirh compensation is granted for 

 prison labor. There is a soldiers' home at Lis- 

 bon not under the control of the state board. 



teau of tlu> Hill of the Missouri), a bold. 

 wooded escarpment, extends from the north- 

 west corner diapnally across the state, dividing 

 it into two di>tintt. triangular sections. The 

 highest point of land is Sentinel Butte, 2.711 

 feet. 



The smaller section southwest of the plateau 

 contains rough, semiarid valleys broken by nu- 

 merous buttes. Uneven wastes known as "Bad 



Thcoc lands are 



billowy plains of clay and melted slag covering 

 fields of lignite coal, which in many places have 

 ignited, emitting smoke and sulphurous fumes 

 from seams and en ~ The region has been 



