Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-26
NORTHWESTERN EMPIRE
The InephawstibIe Resources of the Coun-
try Along the Northern Pacific.

The IneaohawstSble Resources of the Co,sn-
try Along the Northern Pacific.
Chicago Tribune.l
d. X. Pearsons has returned to the CITY
after spending nearly month in the North
west, looking over the country and seeing
how the people along the Northern Pacific
were getting along. A Tribune reporter me
him last evening, and asked him where he
had been.oN
''To st. Paul, Brainard, Duluth. Winnipeg,
Pembina, Fargo, jamestown, Bismarck, and
on the banks of the Little Missouri
] "What do you think of the countrv?'
~ call it the Northwestern Empire.''
| Sis the land good?"
Between Duluth and Perham there ia
timber, and every few miles mills to cut it
up. West of Perham there is good wheat
land"
| "Are there many settlements?"
"There are quite number of towns east
and west of Glyndon, and the inhabitants
are good class of people,-all tho nation
alities, but Swedes and Norwegians predoni-
nate on the farms"
"Is PROCTOR KNoTT's TOWN GRowINa?"
"There are two large elevators there now,
and the place is very active one. Fifteen
sawmills are in operation, and Duluth will
in few years be one of the largest lum-
Der points in the Northwest. The lumber
| comes from the st. Louis river direct to
| the place, and also comes from the north
| and south shores of Lake Superior. Duluth
| is an admirable place for booms and mills.
fra t,vry y0 tos1 IL
such, that it can do very large business.
The best water power in this country is on
the st. Louis river twenty miles from Du-
luth.''
'How is the land north of Glyndon?'
"Along the railroads little flat, but
good.''
sis that country settled?"
"The best settlement in the country is in
the northeast county of Dakota, Pembina
| being 'he county seat. Some $4,000 people
| from Ontario have gone in there during the
last year, and more are going. They leave
Ontario with the intention of locating in
Manitoba, and continuing to be British sub
jects; but they find so much red tape there,
| and so much trouble in getting farms, that
the majority go into Dakota, where land is
| free-al north of the Northern Pacific grant
is open to settlers, and they can pre-empt
100 acres for homestead and 160 more for
a tree claim; and many of the emigrauts
| have farms of 800 acres"
CTS TIE COUNTRY FERTnE?"
every. Let me give you an idea of its fer
tility. I attended an agricultural fair at
Pembina-the first one ever held, and gave
exhibitors certificate 10 the effect that their
| vegetables were the best had ever seen at
any fair, and have attended great many
"In what way where they the best?''
'In quality and size. jotted down the
weight of some of them. Citron two feet
long, 36 pounds; radishes, ~ pounds; cab
bages, 35 pounds; squashes, 80 pounds; po-
| tatoes, 21a pounds-ffty of them made a
bushel pumpkins, SO pounds; onions, 8
pounds. What do you think of that?'
"Immense. What of wheat and oats?"
"The finest ever saw
"The country ought to settle ups
81 claim that $50 miles from the Northern
Pacific, on the west side of the Red river,
and forty miles back from the river, will be
thickly settled country, and that anything
can be produced there except our corn, al
though the farmers there raise some corn"
(Which are the main towns?''
"The main ones in the Red river valley
will be Crookston and Grand Forks. At the
head of Red lake there are 5O0OOOO00 feet
of good pine, and it Will be manufactured at
one Of these towns
''How 10 Fargo progressing?"
SIT is a very lively place. The large farms
are all around it. noticed that they were
late with their threshing, and, judging from
the large stacks of wheat saw, I think it
will take the Northern Pacific at least q year
to haul it out. The railroad tracks are run
through these large farms, and the wheat
goes directly from the machines into the
cars. The Red river is navigable up to Far
60, and there are elevators to take it out of
boats and put it on cars"
SIS THERE ANYTHING WEST OF FARGo?'
eyes, indeed. Casselton is thriving
town; and another of Importance il James
town, on the James river, situated in beau
tiful valley ond surrounded by fine prairie.
1t will, iu my opinion, be the capitol OF
Northern Dakota. Fort Totteu is eighty
| miles north, and officers from there told me
i the country between and beyond was excel
lent and capable of high cultivation. The
Steele farm is west of Jamestown-one of
the best farms I saw
| "Did you ever see any evidences of set.
Element between the towns?"
eyes, homesteaders are taking up the land
along the line OF the road.''
"What about Bismarok?''
"The wheat grown about there is as fine
as that in the Red river valley"
"How far west of Bismarck does the road
extend now.''
ITO the Little Missouri-161 miles,"
care the bad lands really bad?''
''They are called so from the peculiar geo.
logical formation,-hills, knobs, rocks in
pyramid shape, etc. Ignite coal is abund-
ant, but it is claimed that it cannot be used
Twenty years ago engineers asserted that
Illinois coal was valueless-that it couldn't
be used in engines, but fire. boxes wer:
adapted to it, and they will be to the Bad
Land coal. Veins from five to ten feet
thick can be seen in the bluffs. I saw some
on fire; the coal has been burning for years
no one can tell how long. Fortified wood
of all kind is found in abundance. 1 do
not think the land is bad, from the fact
that antelope, black tailed deer and buffalo
Craze there continually. In the future sheep
will be raised there. The valleys are very
deep, the knobs and hills are high, and the
country is very picturesque and interesting
| when will the road reach the Yellow
stone?''
| about the LIST of January