Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-17
ENTHUSIASTIC ENGLlSHMEN.
THE TRIP TO MINNESOTA OF THE
English Commissioners to Examine Into
American Agriculture.
Visit to the Big Farms,
and Astonshment
Thereat
Special Correspondence of the Inter Ocean,

/
ST. Paul MINI, Oct. l2-Thc condl-
ton ofthings in England, brought about
by the uneasy feeling OF renters and the
/ biyb price of the land, has caused that
/ government to send representatives, to
| this country 10 inquire into the manner
/ i'm which farming is done, and examine
| cheap lands. resources, and climate, and
to Obtain a general knowledge OF Amerl-
can agriculture The question oil pro-
yiline means whereby English subjects
may emigrate to this country and hnd
CHEAP and productive lands, Is one oil
such great importance as to warrant TINS
/ Investigation.
THURSDAY the special train with the
distinguished party lett WINDOW Tor
Avoca, on the Black Hills branch OF the
It. Peter and Sioux City Road. a ride
in the country and general prospecting
tour was made. At 1. z. NJ. the guests
were returned TO Hebron Lake and
thence 10 Sioux Falls, where several
hundred, headed by a brass band, es-
eorted the party to the hotel and alter
ward around about their beautiful little
city. Friday morning Land Com
missioner Drake got his party together
and proceeded to Lu Verne and thence
south on q branch, Just being built, 70
the south line OF Lyon County, Iowa.
On this line 1.-THE road the Commissions
| ers expressed themselves a. more than
pleased with the magniiicence OF the
country. One of the English gentlemen
purchased two sections OF land near
Rock Rapids, in Lyon County, Iowa.
Returning TO La Verne the party were
taken 10 the Warner Il Thompson farm,
three miles east, and sat down to an ele-
CANT repast, prcpare,l$bv the owner OF
/ this GRAND farm. Here we find 26,OOO
| acres of land in one body, 5000 of whlcl,
/ il under cultivation. Ii takes about 100
men and sixty teams To- work the place.
We were driven out to where twenty
/ six sulkv plows, propelled by three
horses each, were blowing up the rlch,
/ black, alluvial loan, preparatory 10
/ seeding il down. At , o'clock the COM
panv embarked for WOrthiugton, where
| supper and Il ball refreshed and enter
/ tanned the tourists. Friday morning the
/ guests were taken 20 Sioux City, where,
/ 3P. NJ, they left for Omaha. 1t Is the
| intention of these English gentlemen To
return 10 England about the LIST OF No
vember. They employed every facility
| for Gaining information, and VIII 90
| back with knowledge OF this and other
portions of the United States that will
assist very materially in solving the great
question of labor and capital now engas-
ing the attention of the British Parlia-
ment. Before the final separation they,
each of them, showered upon Land Com
missioner Drake compliments OF the
highest order, and promised him that
England, through their representatives,
would thank him and the liberal, wide
awake company he represented for their
generous hospitality and the facilities
| afforded them for gaining the intorma-
| ton desired. They also eXpresSedt them
selves in a manner that speaks volumes
/ Tor the country through which the line
Of the st. Paul and Sioux City Railroad
runs. They had never before seen any
thing like it, and thought that when
| they had made their report to the Eng
| fish Government it would solve the
rent" question in that country. They
also thought that there would be a large
/ emigration from England 10 this country
next spring, aud that, so far rs their
/ knowledge went, the southwestern por-
ton Of this State would he the place
most sought for.