Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-09-09

to be caught taking the bundle he could
easily clear himself by making some plaus-
ible excuse.
COUNTY FAIR.-We this week publish
the Premium List of the Stevens County
Agricultural Society, and would respect
fully call the attention of every resident OF
the county to the fact that they should CO.
operate with the society and endeavor to
make the fair substantial success. An
enthusiastic support on the part of the ag-
ricultural classes is necessary to secure
creditable display of products, stock, ETC.,
and every one should manifest a personal
interest in contributing toward making the
exhibition credit to our people and our
county. We trust that such interest will
be manifested, as will ensure the success
of the enterprise and as our reputation is
at stake, it is certainly duty we owe our
selves to make an effort to have the CON-
ing fair all that it should be-as an exhibit
of the growth, productiveness and devel-
opement of rich and prosperous commu
nifty
The Ortonville Star makes savage and
very improper attack Oh the members of
j the District Representative Committee, and
charges them with doing an intentional
wrong toward Big Stone county. We may
state, as we have elsewhere, that the Com
mittee had no alternative but to do exactly
is they have done, owing to the resolution
adopted 81 he last Rep sentative Conven
tioa. If, Instead of making slanderous
charges which cannot he substantiated, the
Star would publish facts and figures of the
vote of 1879, and show wherein they were
" 'onged, there would, we are positive, be
no opposition on the part of the Conven-
ION to correct an error, if such has been
made. Representation in a party conven-
ton c. lloi possibly be based on the popu-
lation of a county, but must necessarily be,
in justice to other portions of the district,
based uDon the strength of the party as
shown bv some previous vote.
EaANC / No?Es.-It seems, after all, that
there are doubts as to whether the branch
line will be completed beyond G:aceville
this year. and from what can be learned,
it is very probable that wo will be sus-
pended in couple of weeks. We have
been unable 20 ascertain positively what
the company intend do hg, but at al events
they ha@ not apparently fully decided to
complete the graded portion of the line
this season =,
Mr.. DeLaplain, the bridge contractor,
informs us that he has about fo:ty bridges
and t.estles to build Oh the Inc This
number includes those already completed,
and work was resumed Monday, at the
front
The construction crews are busy at work
laying iron, and the first sidetrack has been
put in about eight miles west, on Fl. d.
Wheeler's farm. A large force is en-
/ ployed and the rails are going down at a
rapid rate, considering that much delay is
caused by the iron being old and of differ
ent lengths.
READY FOR BUSINESS, During the past
month"; the proprietols of the Union ele
vator, Messrs. Cogel & DeKay, have had Il
force of wo"kmen engaged in making ex-
teDsive improvements in their elevator, and
now that they are al! ready to receive
grain, II glance at what has been done to
facilitate the cleaning and handbag, may
! prove interesting to the patrons of The es
Establishment and to the public. In the first
place steam has been substituted for the
old horse power. This required many ex-
teaslve alterations, and a neat brick engine
house, with iron roof, was built detached
from the main building. The engine, a
fifteen horse power Of the celebrated Skin,
neE 81 Wood manufacture, which drives
the machinery, is placed on II solid stone
fouldIt 81, and IL tubular boiler set in
brick, supplies the steam. The engine
room is neat, roomy and everything is con
veniently arranged, the water supply being
obtained from well in the centre of the
room, operated by pump driven by ma
chinery. In the main building there are
two receiving hoppers. ir which the grain
IS emptled from wagons, weighed, graded
and tested. An additional elevator or leg
has been added, which doubles the hand
ling capacity, as the grain is carried into
the bins with twice the former speed. A
new Moline separator for cleaning the
grain will probably he added, and every
facility needed to ensure rapidly in receiv.
ing, handling and cleaning gain has al.
ready Or soon will be procured. The house
is DOW opel and ready for business, and
judging from the Improvements made, il
is, in point of completeness, equal to any
Oil THIS line. The business men of Morris
and the public in general, will appreciate
the commendable enterprise of Mess:s
Cogel d. Dekav, as the extensive improve
meats made, while it facilitates the hand
ing, also increases the storage capacity
as The &c can be prepared for shipment
viii almost TIL ice the former despatch
Snol!d t be found necessary the storage
room will also be increased, by the erection
, eff a large permanent warehouse.
The following article from the Agricult
ural Department of the Pioneer Press,
gives an account of experiments in grow
ing crops on prairie sod; IAN experiment
in raising grain on raw sod has been tried
, in the vicinity of Big Stone lake for the
, past two years, with such marked success
that it is worthy of extensive trial We
are not informed who the first experiment
er was, but at any rate, III the vicinity oil
: Big Stone City there are farmers so conf
dent of success that they have put in con
siderable quantities of small grain on The
raw sod the past season, and in every case
so far as we could learn, with the mos
! tlattcring results. The novelty of the ope
ration is that the grain is first sown on tn,
;, prairie grass and then the breaking done
A not very heavy sod is turned, and TIN
buried grain quickly finds its way through
: In few weeks the sod is as rotten as needs