Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-17
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
company is having an artesian well sunk ut
Red Wing. 1t is 10 be sunk considerably
deeper TO obtain a stronger flow of water. but
already apouts out stream three or four feet
high. The water is softer than that of the
river. The people of the place are much in
terested, and are talking of putting down
artesians in all parts of the city.
The Sir Knights who went to Chicago on the
c., st. p, Il o. special train, which left here
Sunday evening, were sent through at an aver
age speed of about thirty-seven
and track and place. A
conductor who waited on the Elmo side track
while the special went by, says it passed him
like shot. He saw the engineer and fireman,
Hemp and Hunsaker, all on watch, but didn't
have time to say even halo to them. He was
in hurry himself and pulled out from the
side track quickly; but wasn't fairly in mo-
ton before he heard the specials whistle for
Saltwater Junction.
Land Commissioner Drake yesterday issued
deeds, each for one section, for eleven sections
of land for members of the Liverpool board
of trade party which visited here the latter
part of June. All these lands ara to be put
under cultivation as early as possible and will
be occupied by English farmers, who will
ing their farms.
Eleven sleeping cars carrying knights Tenn
par to Chicago were sent out from the Chlca-
go division of the st. Paul & Omaha line Sun
day evening-eight in the special train carrying
the St. Paul and Saltwater communicates and
three on the regular evening train carrying
West Wisconsin communicates.
Agricu.tmral Capacity of Northern Dakota.
Something of the future need and profitable
operation of railways in Northern Dakota
may be judged from consideration of its agri-
cultural capacity in connection with the cheap
ness of construction over its surface. This
part of the Territory-lying north of the forty
sixth parallel-has an area of about 10000
square miles, or "A, 100000 acres. From what is
we'll known as to the larger part of this area,
and what is reliably reported IS to the rest, the
proportion of waste lands and wild pasturage
lands, unfit for cultivation, is very small, GER
tainly not exceeding twenty per cent. Al
lowing ten per cent more for water
surfaces, will leave an area of tillable
lands equal to $4,000 square miles or $780,,
600 acres. All of this tillable area may be
taken for cultivation as fast as it can be opened
to settlement by railways providing lines of
export and import 1t can be made productive
from the first settlement, and the ease with
which the land is subdued, added to the exam
Piles of the bonanza farmers, is an assurance
that no large proportion will be held unculti-
waited by land spectators. Within twenty
years from now, if railway facilities are ex-
tended as now projected, not less than 16, 000,
600 acres will be under cultivation, and making
liberal allowances for non-exportabie crops,
for home consumption and for seed
reserves, there will be the grain product of TO-
600 600 acres, equal to an annual averaged of
$50 600, 900 bushels of wheat, to be brought out
by railroads-besides cattle and sheep from the
pasture lands and the variety of other export
able products of every northern farming region.
If all the tillable acres of Northern Dakota
should be brought under cultivation and the
Minnesota proportion should be in wheat the
result would be, at fifteen bushels to the acre.
3l5 100000 bushels or $4,000 carloads of
wheat.