Devils Lake Inter Ocean

A St. Paul man who recently returned from the Pacific coast tells the papers of that city that Seattle, Tacoma and Portland are crowded with moneyless men, and that there is no work for many who seek it. Many of these unfortunates are stranded gold seekers who have managed to make their way back from Alaska, but have no means by which to secure transportation to their former homes. There is a significant lesson in all this. The moral is that the get rich quick policy seldom pays. The slow but sure motto is the only safe one upon which to act. The idea of digging gold may seem attractive, but the truth is that it doesn't pay. Better by far is it to be a farmer in North Dakota where industry never fails to bring its reward, than it is to go prospecting for gold in cold and barren Alaska, or any other country for that matter.
Wheat and flax lands beat gold mines ten to one on the average.