Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-07
NORTHEASTERN DAKOTA


Wheat Crop-Large Amount of New
Breaking-F. r. Delano's New Railroad
Project-Sixty Miles Surveyed, and Forty
Miles to be Built at Once.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
FARGO, D. T., July 6.-The absorbing
topic here is the wheat crop and the uni
versal opinion is, that there never was such
splendid yield anticipated. Hon. Henry s.
Back, who has had a twenty three years. ex-
perlence in this Western country, sixteen in
Minnesota and seven in Dakota, declares he
has never seen such growth of wheat, such
long heads, and such heavy straw. It is now
in bloom, and few cool nights will do the
work and put it out of danger. Mr.. Back
returned to-day from wheat land twenty
seven miles distant, and says he knows a
great many fields will produce an average of
thirty-five bushels to the acre. Some late
sowing on late breaking will go less than
twenty. He is authority here on wheat, and
says no idea of the
IMMENSE ACREAGE OF WHEAT
in this region can be had from passing
through on the railroad. Outside of the
well-known big farms TIE following are
few instances showing what has been done
in this line j. B. Chaffce, seven miles north
of Casselton, has fifteen hundred acres of
splendid wheat; r. Vogan, a leading member
of the Canadian colony in the same settle
ment, has two hundred and twenty acres of
wheat and four hundred and fifty acres
broken this season. He says he never saw
wheat looking better even in Canada; j. II.
Fuller, formerly of Prescott, has four hun
dred and eighty acres in
b. Haggeman, Wheatland farm, has four
hundred acres in grain and has broken eight
hundred more. Mr.. Back, himself, has five
hundred and forty acres in wheat, and 1890
broken this season. These are only q few
cases, and are only samples of what can be
seen for twenty miles each side of the road.
partial enumeration would fill entire COL
umns of the GLOBE. There is no doubt the
development of this region is truly marvel
GUS, and it is time St. Paul business men
awoke to fuller and better realization
of the present importance of the
RED RIVER REGION.
Your reporter dropped to-day on matter
of considerable interest. For some time
past the newspaper men of st. Paul have
marked the frequent absence of Hon. F. r.
Delano and speculated thereon. When ques-
toned the sly old fox merely declared he'd
turned granger and was farming up here,
but when he reads this issue of the GLOBE
he will doubtless recognize the impossibility
of concealing it. Crockett's coon came
down without coaxing. The fects are the
old fellow is
BUILDING RAILROAD
up there, and for some reason wanted to
keep the matter secret, SO some five weeks
ago he quietly engaged and sent to Cassel-
ton 2 surveying party and has now complet-
ed survey for over fifty miles,
this season. The road rms
from Casselton forty miles due north, thence
follows northwesteriy until it comes to the
boundary line, whence it is contemplated to
ultimately build it to the valley of the ASSN
iboine. The line is being staked out now for
thirty miles, and grading will commence
next week. The necessary iron for this dis
lance is now ready at Duluth, and awaiting
shipment to the spot. The proposed road is
said to run through one of the
MOST FERTILE REGIONS
ever gazed upon, and as the St. Paul Man
itoba road intends constructing line from
Breckenridge to Casselton, some sixty miles
distant, the new road will have both an east
ern and southern outlet. The name of the
company is unknown, but it is understood
the road will be built on the same plan and
principle as that from Sank Rapids to
Brainerd,