The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-07-06
WEST OF THE BIG WOODS.
Editorial Cnrres1 ondence.l

not DelleVe that a better c.aSS or SettlefS
ever wen: into the country than those
who have taken up land in Stevens
county.
They are all western men, mostly
Minnesotians, ofintelligence, experience
and capital. Such an immigration
would make any locality prosperous,
but when one looks upon the rich soil,
the breaking plows are now turning up,
and the luxuriant crops growing on the
farms already brought into cultivation,
the prosperity Of Stevens county and the
large amount of wealth it is going to
add to the State, becomes settled con-
viction in ones mind. If you want to
see business men in the best of humor,
go to Morris, place where two years
ago, an odd passenger would alight from
the train and then wish himself off
again, is now so over crowded that a
man thinks himself very fortunate if he
can get part OF a bed to sleep in. Mr..
Perkins, of Red Wing, who has put up a
hotel building here, the third hotel in
the village intended to open it when he
had everything prepared to his satistac-
ton, but the crowd came a!Ong and
opened it for him with rush, and ex-
pect that the same uncercmonlOus entry
will be made when John Nj. Folsom is
seen putting up a'cracking" store in the
fine, new hotel he is building. For MIR.
Folsom is one of the most popular hosts
one can find.
When | was at Morris, few months
ago, there was only two houses on the
south side OF the track, now there are
fourteen or fifteen. And indeed. there
must be considerable building going, on
to consume all the lumber daily arriving
at Morris.
new one opened by Mr.. j. Christensen
late oil ST. Paul, and Hon. |. ID Goods
ward, open since the first settlement OF the
place, MIR. Good receives car load OF
lumber every day, i'll ten days he sold
100, 900 feet of lumber. and his sales in
shingles was equally large. He has
since spring sold 600 900 feet of lumber
and fifty plows.
. Since spring Larsen Il Nelson, gem
eral store house, sold from $4,000, to
$1,000 worth OF goods monthly, and
! Wolf a. Wells Sales average about
$4,000 month. The above are all good
business men who believed in Morris,
and waited tor the good time" to come
to them aud it has come. When | got
off the train ut Morris, in the evening, |
met some of my Dakota county friends.
VINO gave me hearty, rough. frontier
greeting.
Staid, quiet men were they in Dakota,
but here they assume the rough and
ready swagger OF the frontier. The
truth is, these honest fellows are delighted
with the country with the good soil they
are turning up. with the bright prospects
before them. with the big stories they
will have to tell their stay>at-home
neighbors in old Dakota. and conse-
quently appear little wild.
asked two or three OF them to come
to the hotel and we would have chat.
Pooh, couldn't do it, must be of.
Wouldn't be in town at all but come in
to get our plows sharpened.
"What about the soil?" asked. "Oh
bully. bully. Good bye"
1t is calculated by some, whether the
calculation is too little or two much.
can't say, that there will be twenty
thousand acres OF land broken up III
Stevens county this season. Geo. l.
Becker has 500 acres in cultivation. n
{. Hines and Wilcox are opening !
farm OF 1000 acres. three miles East o
the town Of Morris. and had 800 acres
already broken on the 18th of June. l
Archibald. OF Dundas. whose brands o
flour are SO we'll and favorably known il
the eastern markets. is opening an i'm
mense farm two miles from Morris. OF
the East side of the Pomme de Terri
river. He has six breaking plows q
work. Judge Robert Deakon OF Re-
Wing. who has been success both as
farmer aud politician. has also opene'
large farm one III lie, n. f. OF the vii
lage. The Judge has this year $50 acre
in tillage. just commencement; he has
large quantity OF new land broken thi
yesr aud his son John is breaking up
section 1--WE miles west OF the village. Tn
Delano and Davidson elevator u
Morris. (Which like all the other eleval
tor along this road is being enlarged an
will have steam power.) received duriu
the month Of May. Of NJ. l wheat 1855
bushels No. ?, 5S45, price OF No. Jun
18th 90 centS M 4 So 1.9 eenfe ~hn~