Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Land Planning and Classification Report as Relates to the Public Domain Lands in the Cannonball River Area, North Dakota and South Dakota
The area is sparsely populated having a total population of or less than 3 persons per square mile. The largest town is Mott with a population of 1220. About 5000 people live in towns and Villages and the remainder, or live on farms and ranches. The area is well served With railroads, highways and schools and by tele phone and electric power facilities. Agriculture is the only important industry in the basin. 'wheat 13 the principal farm crop With over one-half of the cultivated land devoted to its production. About 65 per cent of the land in the area is tillable, but due to the small amount of rainfall and the wide variation in its distribution crop yields are uncertain. Climatic conditions have been favorable for dry land orop production in recent years and grain prices have been high, thus the area is at present in a prosperous state of affairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
