The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-11-25
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.
Sleepy Eye has a fire engine.

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Fairmont is to have a cigar fac.
tory.
Faribault is to have a new and
large hotel next season.
Small pox is spreading in the
northern part of the State.
Freeman d. Strait has been ap-
pointed postmaster of ShakOpee.
AS high rs 81 .38 a bushel was paid
for wheat at Dell Rapids last week.
A portion of the bay between Du.
luth and Superior City has frozen
over.
a canning factory at Winnebago
City is one of the possibilities next
spring.
The cranberry crop in LIE Sueur
county was total loss, caused by too
much water.
Mr.. E. Whitcomb of Rochester has
manufactured this season 100000
brick, so the Post says.
The Touring mill at LIE Sueur is
nearly completed, and will have a
capacity of $50 barrels day.
The Mennonites at Mountain Lake,
have raised crop of silk worms this
year. This pays better than wheat.
The Rochester Record says but
little of the wheat brought to that
market was damaged by the wet
weather.
The Winnebago City News says
that farmers in that vicinity are
burning soft coal in preference to
wood.
Mr.. Charles c. Goodnow, we'll
known in MankatO, mOurns the death
of his father which occurred the 18th
instant.
Del Holbrook, son of Mr.. Holbrook
who keeps the KasOta eating house.
will conduct the new eating house at
Bird Island.
Mr.. J. A. Leonard and his two
daughters will sail from New York
for Scotland, November 30, on the
steamer Gallia.
A son of Judge Folger, United
States Treasurer, has located at
WOrthington, and will occupy ex.
Gov. Miller's residence.
Worthington village is asked to
give $4,000 bonus to have the Bur-
lingtOn, Cedar Rapids & Northern
railway built to that place.
A petition has been circulated in
Faribault county asking the Gov
ernor to release young Measor, who
was convicted three years ago for rs.
sault.
Over hundred thousand tons of
hay are reported to have been de-
stroyed by high water, along the Min
nesota river bottoms from Chaska to
Henderson.
Governor Pillsbury, under the prov.
isions of aract of the special session
of the legislature, has appointed Hon.
VIM. Lochren, of Minneapolis, Judge
of the Fourth Judicial district and
Hon. VIM. McCluer, of Saltwater,
Judge of the First district.
The Jackson Republic very wisely
says: This is the season of the year
to look closely after your chimneys
and stove pipes, and see to it that
they are safe and that there are no
holes in the chimney or cracks in the
pipe, through which sparks may es.
cape inside of the buildings.
If there is one thing more than
another upon which the people of
"agree to disagree" it is
the causes which lead to the dimin.
ishing average product of the wheat
crop in the older settled portions of
the State year after year. And as
no less prolific subject of discussion
is the means by which the unpro.
ductive wheat fields can be restored
to their former prestige. As to the
first proposition there is unquestion.
ably large majority of farmers who
have arrived at conclusions by dearly.
bought experience, who agree that
the causes of the gradual failure OF
the wheat fields of Southern Mime
sofa are attributable to the exhaus.
ton of the chemical properties of the
soil necessary to the growth of the
wheat plant. Assuming this to DO
true, the next question of Importance
that arises is: What can be done to
restore these chemical properties to
the soil! The query must find its
in either one of the three
ways: Summer following, rotation
Df crops, or the use of fertilizers.
The Unexpectedly large yield of
wheat on what at one time was be.
lieved to be the unproductive alkali
soil of Dakota Territory has sur.
prised the whole country, and the
question very naturally presents itself
to a rejecting and progressive mind,
why cannot that soil be profitably
as fertilizer in restoring
the exhausted wheat lands of south.
ern Minnesota ?-Winona Republican.
The Faribault Democrat, in speak.
ing OF the contemplated building of
the new railroad from Red Wing via
Faribault to Mankato, says: It is
by the authority of sew.
eral directors of the proposed Cannon
Valley Railroad, from Mankato to
Red Wing. via Faribault, that the
money necessary for building and
stocking the road, will be furnished,
and work will be begun early in the
spring, providing the towns along the
line raise the sum of 100000 in
bonds as bonus to the enterprise.
1t will be remembered that $780,
900 of this amount have already been
voted by Faribault, Red Wing, Can.
non Falls and Morristown, leaving
but $50, 900 to be raised by Mankato,
Elysian, Mortified and
Dundas. and those acquainted with
the sentiment existing along the line
of the road are confident that the
whole amount will be speedily raised
and work begun early in the spring.
There is a paying business for the
road from the beginning as from
MankatO to Red Wing it passes
the garden of Minnesota.