Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

tie active business men here are heavy
borrowers, many OF the older citizens live in
EASY competency and the rates OF interest,
which are rapidly falling to the Eastern
standard, point TO the fact II heavy accu-
mutation of capital by residents. Tue
sh piping hour, here as elsewhere, calls OUT
the butterflies of fashion, and, for beauty
and style, the Minneapolis girl can hold up
her head with ''her sisters and her cousins
and her uunts" in the East. In fact having
travelled nOrth-westward in this country
'to the outermost rim and beyond, we have
never reached II region so remote as to be out
of sight of some reminder of high civliza-
ton, such as crushed strawberry" or the
electric light. The prairie is dotted in the
suburbs of Minneapolis with innumeraole
cottages approaching completion and many
OF them are yet implanted. They give one
the most vivid idea of the growth
of the town. After shutdown, and
until midnight when the moon is up. the
sound of the saw and the hammer is heard.
as the mechanics work after hours upon
their own dwellings. Real estate and rents
are high. The wife of u house carpenter
told me that her husband earned $500 day
and paid $50 month house rent. The
winters coal bill amounted to 500. She said
it was impossible for them to save cent oil
their wages, which would seem to indicate
that the wage Garner here as everywhere
else in the world is kept uncomiortably close
to the hunger line.
The appearance of st. Paul to stranger
is more metropolitan and less home-likc than
that of Minneapolis. st. Paul's ample hotel
accommodations, It's many storied and
capacious business blocks, the Capitalization
OF the railroad offices, and the ciowd'
upon its narrow business streets combine
to give the older city the effect OF grca'
business activity. 1t seems to be the favor
lite of the commercial traveller anu the
average man without family whom one meets
by the way in travel. The Southern Gle
ment is very conspicuously represented il
ST. Paul, and / am informed that good
municipal government is matter of greater
difficulty in st. Paul than in the sister
City.
We travorsed the famous Red Rivcl
Valley, the land of the wheat known II
market as "No. Red" Its general features
are wcll-known to every reader. For some
nine hundred miles VIC travcrscd lcvc
prairie, nearly every foot of it OF the highest
fertility To the eye it seems tlattcr than
wv huttCot Vi NNiIiout Phh-S"hNS, Wv WV
surveyors instrument notes degree OF un-
evcuncss, the lower levels being as fertile rs
the rest but less desirable for farming pur.
poses since they hold the surface water
longer in spring. Travel through the un-
broken prairie suggests the pleasing
monotony OF voyage upon quiet sea.
When the traveller from the more pic
turesque Atlantic slope wearies at gazing al
the immensely of space broken only by few
cabins dotted here and there in the distance
he may draw the curtain, close his eyes and
dream of the hills and the valleys, woods and
waters, and dear associations of home.
In Dakota we stopped at Fergus Falls,
Fargo, Grand Forks and Crookston. They
are all promising business centres. To some
degree their local trade is depressed, chiefly
on account of immigration having beer
tapped by the Milwaukee and st. Pau
railroad and diverted to southern Dakota
where the boom has been liveliest this
summer But the Red River country mus,
necessarily develop magniicently in spite oil
intermittent relapses which ailllct all new
settlements. About Fergus Falls the country
is rolling, dotted with lakes and very pleasing
to the eye. From there north and northeast
it is au unbrokcn flat to the Devils Lake
region.
~ I"IS@ NvlHliu VI o"Iitai nun 'uo e"9'
aud from abroad has poured into Dakot,
within two or three years, and the compe
iton between MONEY lenders is quite brisk
investments may be as safely male here rs
anywhere. Their success depends who'll,
upon the judgment and character of the agent
WHO makes them.
AS TO climate, it is too cold for corn but
is Just cold enough for wheat. The rcsu
is that northern Dakota is at present sub
stantially one crop country.
1t has been demonstrated that human
beings can live aud thrive anywhere that tn
wheat can, and such farmers as saw in tn,
Red River had the appearance of men t,
whom the variations Of climate would be o
very slight concern.
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