Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-12-02

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September and October L think fif-
teen teams passed our house daily
on one road going to mill. i am in-
formed there is water power at
Medary, on the Sioux river, twenty
miles north Flandreau. Now here
is chance for miller to get right
into business and have more grind.
ing than he can do during the twen-
ty-four hours of day-in fac5 do
not know of any business that would
net as handsome profit and be as
certain of success as a Touring mill
with either water or steam poWe.'
at any point north of Flandreau for
it is 81 good farming country and
is we'll settled. Raising grain here
is worked down to a fine thing. Ri.
ding plows, eight feet seeders and
snventy.two teeth drags are used,
and one man drives two teams dur
ing seeding time, aed [ think the
business pays better than in Wis
consin, for one man can do double !
work, the land produces better and
the market value OF grain is
equal to Grant county prices.
will take it either way, q man with
or without means. There ia yet
some government land ip the sec
0nd tier of counties north of the
Minnesota Iine and man with
team and one or two hundred dol
lara can take quarter section at
land office fees-two or fourteen
dollars. He can exchange his hors-
es here for yoke Of oxen and with
them can break, during the break.
irg season one hundred acres Of
land, which sown TO wheat the fol-
lowing ye r, will at very moder.
ate estimate yield him fourteen or
fifteea hundred bushels, and after
buying self-bnder and paying out
little fer binding and stacking,
will leave him 6 fair balance. If he
will 60 to work the merchants will
give him credit. With fifteen hui
dred or two thousand dollars man
can-use his rights and if no wants
more~iand can buy decided claim
or Two and still have something TO
invest in stock, which is considered
safer than wheat raising and come
thing oil arc Doing here that have
funds to do with.
write this with no thought of
ltading any one who is satisfied and
doing we'll IN Wisconsin to Dakota.
But 10 any that have no land and
to those that want more land, more
room aud longer burrows to pillow,
and have made up their minds to
go west, can be certain of home
here, and if they will work, be sure
of good substantial living with
reasonable chance of success. l have
written now much more than | in
tended, but must ask for little
| more of the column to tone down to
facts the extravagant account that
Mr.. s. n. Jones of Fe, nitnore had
published in the HERALD of Novem-
Der 4th concerning our billiards,
which he reports as commencing
on the night OF October 14h and
continuing until the 18th, and dur
ing this limo Of three days and
nights he reports the storm as being
impossible for person to face it for
a single minute. Paying due respect
co Mr.. jones' veracity | Conclude
That be has been misinformed as to
hesduratiou and severity of the
storm, TOR there was but one day
between The iates that could be
called q blizzard
Sow fell on the 18th thick aud
fast, but therc was little wind and
not half an hour during the day
that q person could not see . house
halfa mile. People travelled the
roads that day when it was neces-
sary and many of US never thought
of a blizzard. Snow continued to
fall ana some time during the night
of the fifteenth the wind raised and
blew 6 fierce gale from the west.
On the morning of the 10th we got
up, locked out of the door and saw
we were having blizzard My hired
man and myself however, went out
to the barn, a distance Of 20 yards,
fed the stock. and being cut of
wood, We twisted some hay and
carried it to the house. In the af.
ternoon we made several trips TO
the barn. As it was not cold aud
we could see the top OF the barn
from the house we old not coneider
it at ell dangerous. During all this
time and up till tour O'Clock my cat,
tie with tbs exception of yoke of
oxeu) were around straw stack
fenced in by ysrd-at about the
hour named we drove tbs csttle in
TO q sod stable whore they remain
ed during the night, and on the
morning of the 18th were turned al
large and were all right. Such was
my experience and many of my
neighbors W re out more than
was. One of my neighbors being
away from home his wife and 9
small! boy went to the barn, dis
tsuce OF enc hundred yards, and
tied up the stock aud returned fac
ing the storm safely to the house.