Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-10

total $50. There are four trains daily
two morning and two evening. With same
number of passengers makes LAO passen-
gers per day, thirty days to month, makes,
let me see, 43,201. Suppose the trains aver
aged only half as many, makes 21,600 per
month and twelve months in the year makes
oh, never mind, guess don't want any
Manitoba stock at 500 anyhow. Rather
have farm like Ramsay & Furlong in the
Red river valley, the destination of nearly
| all these people.
Seven o'clock in the morning we reach
GAINESVILLE, and the train which left st.
Paul at z o'clock last evening via Brecken-
| ridge division, also pulls up to the station.
This train counted seven coaches and
sleepers, and proceeds to Moorehead,
Fargo, Grand Forks, and through to Graf
ton, and connects at Grand Forks with
train for Devils Lake on the Dakota side
of the Red River, while we continue on the
Minnesota side for Ada, Crookston,
Warren, st. Vincent. and Winnipeg.
Eight O'Clock, and breakfast at Glynaon,
crossing of the Northern Pacific. Good
Observation-Disclosures steak, stewed chicken,
pure coffee with cream, and hot cakes. Up
to this point there had been little or no
snow visible, but after leaving Glyndon,
and crossing the Buffalo river, there is
still considerable snow on the ground,
but a few warm days
will cause its Disappearance.
and so far the melting and absorption
pro cess has been so gradual as to leave
comparatively small volumes of water in
drains and coolies. I noticed among the
farmers talk on the train that they predict
favorable season and look for seeding
about the Goth. Now we get into the Red
river valley proper, and from GIyndon
north,the country appears to. be. well settled
In about an hours run we cross the
Wild Rice river, and in a few minutes
reach Ada, county seat Of Norman coun-
ty, place only five years old, but counts
thousand people, and is surrounded by
fertile, rich country, which in turn is peo-
pied by desirable class of farmers,
mostly from Iowa, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan, sprinkling from Fillmore and
Houston counties, Minnesota. Ada,claims
TO have marketed 100000 bushels wheat
last year, and promises to make it over
half million this year, and I think she
can make good her promise. We are now
running directly north and through we'll
settled country with good farm buildings
On either side, giving evidence of thrift
and prosperity. By midday we reach
Crookston, the county seat of Polk county,
on the Red Lake river.
The train stopped here a quarter of an
hour to unload big piles of baggage and
fully $50 passengers left the train at
Crookston. part of these take the through
train for DEVILS lake, via Grand Forks and
Larimore, some are destined for st. Hi
laire and Red Lake Falls, about twenty five
miles northeast and east of Crookston, and
liberal share had Crookston for their des-
tination.
As Crookston seemed to be railroad
center and distributing point for emigra-
ton IN this part of the Red river valley,
the reporter stopped here, and had several
hours before the train leaving Winnipeg
/ this morning would reach here. Crooks
ton has between 4,000and 5000 inhabitants
and lies in belt of heavy
timber on the Red Lake river,
which winds and circles around
the city on more than three sides. The
city lies very high, from thirty to sixty
feet above the river-is built compact.
with large number of very fine brick
buildings, built from brick made on the
ground, equally as good as the Milwaukee
| article. Here is splendid water power,
which even now, with a minimum devel-
opment has 1,200 to 1000 horsepower. A
new addition, just across the river from
the depot, only two blocks from depot,
and three from the postofice.
| is named woodland" and Riverside"
Very appropriate, as the river bounds it
on three sides, and this, with the proposed
bridge across the river, will afford cheap
! and desirable residences. 4 large Touring
mill, straw paper mill factory, sash, door
and blind factory and foundry and ma
chine shops are among the i'm
mediate Improvements contemplated
on the Woodland and Riverside addition.
When the immense pine forests in the
Red Lake Indian reservation, east of
Crookston, are available, and which has
direct connection by the Red Lake river
with Crookston, this point will no doubt
be the manufacturing center, as it now is
the agricultural center of the Red river
valley, and all building material will then
be cheaper here than at st. Paul and Min
neapolis.
So far as I could Judge Crookston is no
boom town, and no one button-holed the
reporter offering to sell either city or coun-
try property, but all were busy in their
legitimate business, and there appeared to
be plenty to do. I noticed no great crowd
lOafiDg around hotels and deDotz