Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-16
NUMBER 245.
HAYES ON THE NORTHWEST.
What His E1celtency DE Facto) Thinks of
the Lay of the Land in Minnesota.

What His Erce1,ency DE Facto) Thinks Of
the Lay of the Land in Minnesota
[Chicago Times Interview
For the purpose of putting the jealous OBJ
servers off their guard, the Times man made
a casual remark about the difference in tenn
perature between that particular day and
another day about week back, when the
tourists were sweltering in st. Paul. The
exaggerated blonde of the White House
smiled thankfully, took the hint, and began:
"The change is indeed gratefully received"
he remarked; shut must say that the e1-
treme heat at st. Paul was not as oppressive
to me as to most others. Heat or cold
makes little impression on me. The morn
ing after we left st. Paul there was rain.
and the weather became cooler. Thence on.
we suffered no inconvenience from the
weather"
nita to you?'
SPY no means. l went over a portion of
the road
ON THE FIRST PASSENGER TRAIN.
1t was in March, and for miles and miles our
path lay through trench, as it were, cut in
the deep snow. On either side the snow was
piled up as nigh as the tops of the cars. OF
course freight cars had been run through
this cut ahead of ours but ours was the first
passenger train to run the gauntlet"
'sThen you could see but little of the
country at that time-scarcely enough to
enable you to compare past with present
condition 2"
''No; only saw the general lay of the
land"
'.You find there now a good farming
country p
Yes and I was somewhat surprised to
learn of its extent. certain writer, sup
posed to be good authority, has estimated
the amount of fertile government lands,
not yet pre- empted, at some forty thousand
square miles, or aggregating a territory
heard gentleman lecture upon the subject
who, from presumably carefully -collected
statistics, stated that
THE GOOD LANDS
would not exceed half that area. During my
recent trip over the Northern Pacific, was
assured by Mr. Dalrymple, the great farmer,
that the valley of the Red River of the North,
all of which is fertile, is 100 miles in width
and 400 miles long, within our own borders.
This valley alone gives us 10000 miles of
productive land, most of which belongs to
the government. Furthermore. am salts
fed that in the great region beyond, and
toward the Pacific, there's probably twice as
much more good lands, valuable for agricul-
| tural purposes. Knowing that
THE ANNUAL RAINFALL
| in this northern region did not usually e1-
coed twenty inches, had supposed that the
country was necessarily unproductive. But
l learned from Mr. Dalrympe that, while the
rainfall does not usually exceed that amount,
nevertheless it all falls during
| the growing season, or between
| April and September, or Just at
the time when it can do the most good
| Neither does it come at cnce or in great
| storms, as is the case in the region contigu-
| GUS to the mountains, but it is scattered
through the short season in gentle showers,
| so that none of it is lost, the crops getting
the full benefit of every drop"
''This would seem to be at the dispense
ton of Providence?" suggested the reporter.
This acknowledgment of divine interposi-
ton in favor of an extension of the time for
building the Northern Pacific evidently re-
inspired Mr.. Hayes and he proceeded with
| greater energy:
''Ihe last three or four years, during
which the land has been cultivated, may, of
course, have been exceptionally favorable,
but certain it is they have raised splendid
crops there this year. Mr.. Dalrymple's
wheat field of thirteen thousand acres yielded
twenty four bushels to the acre, and he sold
every bushel of it in Buffalo for ninety-four
cents per bushel net. Why, have
LITTLE FARM IN OHIO,
and all l could got for my wheat this year
was ninety cents. And here is Dalrymple,
away off in the Northwest, who not only
raises more bushels to the acre, but sells
every bushel of it at a higher figure than |
can get, although l am thousand miles
nearer the seaboard. And yet he is prac-
tically almost as near to market as l am, as
he ships by water direct from Duluth
Mr.. Hayes was apparently about to tell
why he gave LIE Duo orders to leave him al
Madison and proceed to Washington direct
and how LIE Duo repented of his former pig
headedness and begged in his clumsy way tc
be allowed to complete the circuit, wher
Gen. Sheridan evidently anticipating wha
was coming, presented arms and stepped In
between them.