Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-06

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are and will always be higher than in any
other rural part of the Northwest. 1t is no
dlsparagement of the rich prairie lands of
Minnesota and Dakota to say that these tim
Der and meadow lands are as we'll adapted as
they to profitable farming and stock raising.
But, while many immigrants will prefer the
prairies because they are all ready for the
pillow and allow of large farms being quickly
made productive; yet these timber lands
offer peculiar and greater advantages to
healthy poor men who are not afraid of work.
A good living for wife and children can be
earned from the start. comfortable house,
barns, stables, granaries, fences, etc., may
be built with little outlay beyond
the mans own labor. The woods,
though an obstacle to rapidly bringing the
farm under cultivation, furnish the means
of living and protect the inhabitants and
their stock against extremes of temperature.
The company guarantees to purchase at fair
prices, from new settlers, the ties, timber
and fire wood they cut in clearing their
lands. Large crops of hay, grain and vege-
tables are grown and the selling values of
these all along the line approximate closely
to those of st. Paul, while for beef, pork.
| butter, eggs and poultry the values at st.
Paul d Dullth stations approximate closely
to those out. Paul.
TIMBER LAND FARMERS.
The pamphlet gives the history of numer-
GUS settlers on the St. Paul & Duluth lands.
Two of these will suffice to illustrate the
whole and are as follows:
Seward P. Woodman purchased and began
| Improvements on 100 acres in section o. town
| So, range ~, in 1876. At the time of his pur-
chase he was worth about 300, which he
| earned in the pineries. He paid a small
| amount on the land and commenced clearing.
walton, and in 1879 the product of his farm
was 1900 bushels of wheat, $50 bushels of
oats and ], 300 bushels of corn. He has seven
horses, one of which is valued at 5000; twenty
| head of cattle and ten sheep. Has twenty live
! apple trees in bearing and various kinds of
small fruits. Has a good two-story frame
house 20x30, good granery 1880, and other
outbuildings. Has thresher, reaper, and all
necessary farming implements. Mr.. Wood
man is out of debt and has money out at
| interest.
Oscar Malmquist purchased from the railroad
company, in 1872, eighty acres in section thir-
| ty-three, town thirty-seven, range twenty-five,
payable in eight annual installments. He had
| no capital The land was heavily timbered
with maple, oak, elm, ash and pine. He now
has sixty acres cleared and under cultivation.
from which he has cut and sold 1000 cords of
| wood and $500 ties. In 1879 he raised 600
bushels of wheat, 200 bushels of potatoes,
twenty tons of timothy, and from eight acres
of meadow, two tons of red top and blue joint
hay per acre. He also made sixty gallons of
maple syrup and raised vegetables enough for
| the use of his family. He now owns 800 acres,
all paid for except two small payments on the
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he has acquired from the product of the first
eighty acres purchased. He has two teams,
two wagons, six COWS and two pair of steers.
SWALLOWED OR NOT SWALLOWED.
At Sioux City it is reported that the cash
receipts there of the st. Paul & Sioux City
railroad are RENTED to the Northwestern
railroad company at Chicago, and that the
car reports of the st. Paul & Sioux City and
the reports of the machine shops of the st.
Paul & Sioux City are also sent to the North
western at Chicago. The Journal also sees
pointer in the same direction in the fact
that Mr.. f. M. Luce, Car accountant of the
Chicago & Northwestern railway, is also Car
accountant of the st. Paul & Sioux City.
This latter fact has no particular significance,
and there have been no late instructions at
st. Paul to confirm the other Sioux City dis
coveries. The existing orders here are that
reports are to be made as formerly until
further orders. But if the Chicago, St..
Paul & Omaha consolidation is not indie
pendent, it naturally belongs to the Chicago
& Northwestern company /; and we are in
clined to believe the Sioux City people are
not much out of the way. However, the
ownership of the st. Paul roads is not mat
ter of Importance, provided st. Paul can in
any way make it the interest of the owners
of the roads not to discriminate against her
in tariffs. AS to that, time and st. Paul en-.
terprise and pluck will have to be taken into
account.