The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-06-02

hay can be put up for rs TO 80 cents per
tom. All one has to do Is TO cut and
| put Into stock 1t goes from 12 to
| tors PEE acre. Sheetdo well here. This
last winter they did not have 10 feed
them much of any, Int let them run
and thcy kept fut. Tue sttek men are
beginning to see that this is great
stock country and are coming in very
fast. 1 was told that cattle would leave
the best OF tame hay for the prairie hay.
Creameries are started at several points
along this road. It's said 10 be very
paying business, fer it is 80 cheap and
near market. We pass through Win
dom; this Is the county scat of Cotton
wood County, OH the bank of the Des
moines river. This looks like an old
town. There ia one large flour mill. |
Some of the best farms III Southern
Minnesota arc near here. Tho Clark |
House is large and finely kept hotel. |
Along the river banks there ia some
little timber. The country is about
the same till we reach Heron Lake,
here wc found one of the smart west
ern towns. The town is near the lake,
and of the same name. The lake is
about ten miles long and four wide,
and is full of fish, and all kinds of wa
ter birds seem TO make this their head
quarters. Deer Rave been shot here
within the last few months. The
country around here is great grazing
and hay country, thousands of head
being driven here by stock men to be
fattened before taking to market. This
is the junction of The Black Hill Branch
of the st. Paul and Sionx City II. r.,
and near the crossing of the Southern
| Minnesota r. II.
The Chapman hotel is new house,
the finest along the road. 1t is run by
ss S eSf nd kfsese eGor fa% co @SRsa' 81
/. southern Minnesota. Sportsman are
to be found here all times in summer
and fall. From here 20 Washington
we run over very level country.
: The poorest part of the country on the
: road. Worthington is the junction of
= Sioux Falls and Worthinglon Branch
y of st. Paul and Sioux city road. 1t is
u one hundred and seventy.eight miles
! from St. Paul, situated on Lake Oak
: bend and county seat of Noblis county.
There is one -four mill called the Oak,
!; land Mill. They run by steam, for fuel
!, use straw. Flax straw is the best. 1t
u keeps one man most of the time, put.
!, ting straw In the furnace but is cheap
y err than wood or coal. Here is where
y the winter of '81. Here we change
q cars for Sioux Falls, sixty-three miles
d from Worthington. The train we took
u was the fastest train in the west. II
IS made The sixty-three miles in less then
/ two hours and stopped seven times
!. The road is good and the country
d is better, being the best country we
B. have seen ont nf c. H., ~. - -
to because we are nearing Dakota.
Is Rushmore is q small town owned
cs mostly by New York parties. There
Is is -four mill here run by steam
DC Adrian is booming western town
ne Before we hardly knew 1t, we passed
re the Rock-County farm, two hundred
q and twelve miles from st. Panl. Thi
De is a farm of twenty.three Thousand
st acres. 1t is owned by st. Paul capital
es lists. Here we saw the first fences OF
I'd the road. They have fine buildings ant
IT, a large amount of land seeded to timo
he thy. 1t takes one hundred horses, sew
o. enty-fve mules and about one hundred
lis men to work what thoy have under th,
On pillow. This farm is about two mile
to from Leverne. This is a smart town
at In the distance are the Blue Mounds
ed as they are called. They are high Hill
ed covered with rock, and can be seei
lis from all parts of the prairie. Near tn,
he mounds are the "Fair Grounds" The,
er have good schools and churches, and
Il. fine country round. There is colon,
lie coming in here of abont one hundred
In f8#k 10 fffs heo7oay" fYdfdssss Hfff eg lhs
20 So 900 cash, or stock, or both. Thi
as town was named after the frs
d. white girl born here. Sixteen mile
en- from Lucerne is Valley Springs, Daco
es ia, one half mile over the line. Thu
IL first sight we get of the town and Ter
ut ritory was as We came out of the
II. woods or timber that some man ha,
he planted. The town is in a fine valley
er the finest section of country between
ng here aud st. Paul. Tho town wa
ali named from some springs that are il
to the valleys near the town. This is s
er booming town, place of about foul
no hundred inhabitants. 1t has some fint
q stores, large two story school house
ad building church, two good hotels
two largo elevators that will hold abou
100000 bushels each, and two Others
a., not 30 large. In the fall of 81, the,
u about 40, 900 of fax, 10000 of barley
Is. oats and rye about 10 900. This is get
et ting to be point for shipping stock.
,it was told by the express agent on The
nc lEsR thet be 5roggqjhl mere are. money ,ly.. t
~o the way Dakota towns pan out | an
90 glad am in Dakota.
ut There is large amount of land be
rs, ing sold here. l was told that the MAJ
;e. that owned the timber that we passed
ne through was n Xermnnfer and nsad 4,
I'm live near Middlebury. lIe has abou
en- forty acres, which is fortune to an,
Is man in this country. After crossing
I'm the Big Sioux river we follow il int
81. Sioux Falls. The hills on both side,
re are more like ruts than hills. Thi,
ps must have been great grounds for tn,
nd Indians. They used to make Siou,
st. Falls their head quarters. The tow
&c, was ransacked by the Indians and de
Is. serted, and was nothing but an Indiar
AS trading post for many year. A,
ne soon as the railroad began to point thi:
ed way some of the bravest from
I'm tiersman went into Sioux Falls, ant
TIA opened the way for others. Thes
ny same men are some of them there to
he day. In July '7S, the first train whis
at, tied into Sioux Falls, and all of the sew
or en- hundred people at that time wer
ny out to welcome the great civilizer o
oil the west. Now they have three roads
$50 and another coming, aud four thous
To- and people to welcome it. One hal
'ad mile from the Cataract house are tn
tn Falls. They fall eighty feet in on
CO. half mile, and said to be second Il
ed none but the falls of Minneapolis
rec Near the falls is an island of ten acres
I0O covered with largo timber. There