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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-12-27
WORTHINGTON.

Worthnson county, Mnn situated on two
beautiful and West Okbena and the heart OF what
is known of the West The Chicago st. Paul. Mime
apois Omaha Burlington Cedar Rapids Northern and the
Worlncton Sioux daily trains to Worhngton
The B. c. north to join the Fargo Southern and
will he built Spring to Bismarck partly surveyed
and several hndr miles will be built during 1884,
The Worhington to Bismarck is projected
The Spencer Milwaukee St Paul road now built
to Spirit sbeann Wohngton ana branch Of the Chicago
Northwestern projected branch OF the B C.
g. to Deadwood, Oak. is in contemplatiOn
The Worhington the prairie renders it easily
accessible railroads situation the path the
railroads seeking Chicago to the Northern
Pacific fixes Wortngn interior railroad
The four great will touch at Worgt The Chi
caro Northwestern Pacific here and the
Wabash Chicago. Milwaukee 4 st. Paul the
the southwest % miles
southwest and about midway between Cedar
1t is therefore the heart hub and centre OF nani
Wortington population of inhabitants Has five
hotels five churches large building
barrels Of -four day.
egg dgoodS drug
other Establishments 1t
hg-icense saloons which license EACH
Worthngon sidewalks in all directions
business blocks and ne residences and its
Ciy Blue Lodge the Masonic order the former
fOurhng lodge OF the Ancient
Order United of Trade the y s. Land Office and
High pupils are fitted for college and for teaching
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chased, as mentioned in last weeks
ADVANCE, Il section of land in Elk
and three quarter sections in Worth
ington township, in all 1l4O acres. Mr..
G. will build a residence in Worthing-
ton for his family, and will develop his
lands.
Mr.. Beers, as already published, has
purchased the Mrs. Clippenger farm on
the west Lake, and will open 4 stock
farm. He is already collecting the ma
terials for extensive buildings and will
make one of the finest improvements in
this vicinity.
VIM. Titterington. a capitalist from
Illinois and a member Of the Chicago
Board of Trade, has purchased lands
abutting on the west Lake. He pro-
poses putting $50, 600 worth Of buildings
on his lands and opening q stock farm.
w. A. Disbrow, of Mineral Point,
Wis, has arrived and in company with
A. S. Mitchell has purchased 44O acres
Of land Oh section Is, cornering on the
village section and abutting partly on
the Luverne road. Their object is. td
open Il stock and dairy farm. Their
barn is already built, 2OxlS. with pres
ent capacity for 80 COWS. The house is
now going up, 18x24, two stories and il
situated near the junction of the dag
Onal and Luverne roads. Expect tt
start with 80 to so COWS. Ultimately
they expect to go into cattle raising t
quite III extent. They contemplate
also starting Il creamery next yea
which will be located on the farm
probably with capacity of sou to l ,O0
pounds Il day.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
ON TO BISMARCK.

ON TO BISMARCK.
A recent special to the Pioneer Press
from Chicago says Of the b. &. r. Il N.
extension:
A special meeting of the directors of
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids 4 Nor
thern railroad was held here to day.
The object was the consideration of ex-
tensions and various improvements
which are contemplated. 1t is propos.
ed to build about $50 miles during the
coming season in Iowa, Minnesota, and
Dakota, and the following extensions
and new lines were decided on:
From Clinton to Iowa City, about so
miles; an extension to DEBORAH, Iowa,
and aEOther, 125 miles long, to run from
Worthington, Minn., westward into
Dakota, with Ordway as the probable
objective point. 1t will connect there
with another projected line, running
thence to Bismarck.
The fact that the meeting was held
ut the Burlington offices was thought
by some to indicate that the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy had secured con-
troll of the B. G. r. s. n. 1t was said
that such control had been obtained as
a retaliatOry measure against the Rock
Island, which has been suspected of be.
behind the proposed extension from
Worthington into Dakota. President
Tracy is reported rs saying yesterday
that the status of joint ownership has
not been affected by the threatened
rupture between the Rock Island and
Burlington, and each still retained an
equal interest in the road. 1t was de.
cided yesterday to at once purchase the
steel to he used in the proposed exten-
sions.
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THE uEAD OF 4 DIVISION.


The Worthington ADVANCE claims
(l) that the four great systems of the
west, the Northwestern, the Milwau-
kee, the Rock Island and the Wabash,
will all touch at Worthington; (2) that
all these systems are seeking short cuts
from Chicago and St. Louis to the Nor
thern Pacific, and (3) that Worthirgton
lies right in the path of these short
lines. There is certainly one of these
great syst ems, the Rock Island, which
will touch at Werthiugton. and will
probably make that city the head Of /.
division.-Cedar Rapids Republican.
Certainly. but the Rock Island is al
ready here and next season will pass on
north toward Fargo and northwest to-
ward Bismarck. The Northwestern is
already here by its control OF our st.
Paul & Omaha and our Worthington &
Sioux Falls roads. The Milwaukee is
built from Spencer to Spirit Lake and
is only taking a rest so that it may
draw bead on Worthington and strike
it in the bulls eye. The Wabash has
long been projected up the divide be-
tween the Mississippi and the Missouri
IlVeIS CulOuSu NOfIIlIllStDn ANA IS HOW
preparing to extend north Of Fonda
next year.
Then Worthington will be another
Cedar Rapids as a railroad point. Both
will have two Rock Island roads COM
ing down, one from the north and one
from the northwest, and going out
southeast. Both have the Northwest
ern now. And Worthlngton will have
the Milwaukee which the Rapids ROW
has.
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MOBILES COUNTY, MINNESOTA, lands!
WORTHNGTON,

flax l6, and rye 80 bushels to tho acre.
The Ulveling Bros, Peter and Frank,
have finished threshing and the follow
ing is the result of their summers
labor: On their 60-acre farm four
miles west of town, their wheat went
% bushels to the acre. flax II, oats 5O4,
barley 80, and ten acres OF Timothy
that yielded 81 bushels. The total
amount raised on that farm was 1882
bushels; and on their SO-acre farm,
southwest of town, they got 1,3913
bushels of grain-making Il grand total
of 5,123f bushels. How is that for
farming?
J. P. Campbell threshed 10 bushels
of wheat to the acre.
Tom Burke thresbed 20 bushels Of
wheat and Al of oats to the acre.
d. McEvoy threshed 81 bushels Of
oats, 19} of wheat, and 16 of flax to tho
acre.
TO the above extracts from the local
paper, We add the following obtained
from reliable parties in The west end of
the county:
Murphy & Timmons, Of Leota town
ship, raised 80 bushels OF Blue Stem
wheat to the acre. Their total yield
was 400 bushels.
r.. w. Moberly, of Westside town
ship, threshed Is bushels of wheat te
the acre.
VIM. Lands, of Lismore township
had one S0-acre piece of flax whicl
threshed out II bushels to the acre.
, John Mock, of Willmont township
raised 10 bushels of flax to the acre ant
sold it at $1.25 Il bushel.
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STOCK EARNS.

Mobiles County is known as the
"Paradise Of the Dairyman and Stock.
grower" Abundance Of water and
rich, nutritious grass are the predomi
nant features in nearly every township.
The farmers are gradually turning thei:
attention to dairying and stock raising
and a number Of capitalists are opening
large stock farms. The local paper, in
a recent issue, says:
Mr. Roche, a millionaire member nf
the Chicago Board of Trade, has his
fine stock farm already far along. lie
has thousands of dollars worth of build
ings on his place now, and some Of the
finest blooded cattle and horses in the
country. Next year he will open all
other large farm across the lake from
his present one, and put on $4,000
worth Of buildings.
Messrs. Dayton & Go. have over 200
acres of land in Lorain township. about
four miles east Of town, which they are
getting in shape for an extensive stock
farm. Next year they will build pre-
paratory to developing one Of the finest
improvements in the county.
VIM. Gallagher, a capitalist from
Santa Barbara, CAL, has recently pur-
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W0rti,inQtcA as a Business Point,

Worthington, the county seat, is for.
tunately located, being the centre Of I,
! large area Of country. A circle of i'm
port*nt cities surrounds it at distances
of from G5 to 100 miles, thus leaving it
the centre for Il number of counties
The railroads centering here are max
ing it an important distributing point
and will soon make it also fine in
terior manufacturing city. AS show
ing how rapidly 4 business can I've built
up here we quote a recent item from
the ADVANCES:
The butter and egg business ut this
point is quite an item. r. L. Mitchell
Il Co., since they opened up last spring,
have done a business of over $50, 600.
and they inform us that they could have
doubled It il they had had the facilities
for handling the business. Next wear
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Dairvinu,

It is a common remark that Mobiles
county was ''made OH purpose for
dairylng" Numbers of farmers are
working gradually into the business
We give only one or two items con-
cerning this important industry:
n. A. Call, near Worthington, milks
25 COWS, and estimates Il profit on each
COW of $50, besides the calves, which
sell readily at $40 u head. He feeds
grass in summer and hay in winter ex
clusively. Also keeps four brood mares
and sells his three year-old colts readily
at $125 head. He very much prefers
this climate and country to the East
for stockgrowing of any kind.
r. l.. Erskine, of Indian Lake, milks
twenty-one COWS which net him about
$50 4 year besides the calves which sell
1T $40 and $12 a head. lie has had ex-
perience in stock-raising in the South.
ern and Middle States. and declares
this tine best country he has found for
dairying.
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] Mobiles County Fruit.

Mobiles County Fruit.
Minnesota is developing into a fine
fruit state. Minnesota apples took the
first premium at the National Horti.
cultural Fair held at Philadelphia in
lSsa. Samples of Mobiles county apples
were exhibited at county fairs in New
York State, last fall, and special premi-
ums were awarded at the Rushville fair.
H.J. Ludlow, the principal fruit
gr0wer::near WorthiRgton, last sum-
mer ,aised 23} bushels of fine currants
on less than one-fourth of an acre.
They s;old readily at 12} to 15c pei
quart. On one-third of an acre he had
one ton Of Concord and Delaware
grapes, part sold at 121 to 15c pe,
pound. From seven rows of strawber.
ries, 80 feet long, lie sold 234 quarts \,
25c per qnarC. From blackberries sci
out last spring he picked 100 quarts
From his young apple trees, none ot
which are over two inches in diameter
lie got 25 bushels of rs fine apples a:
Can he grown in any state.
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The Western Fever.

A gentleman from Geneva, n. Y,
recently visited Worthington, and on
his return the Geneva Advertiser said !:
Chas. S. Witter returned from Min
nesota last Friday. lie has the western
fever bad. 1t breaks him I'LL up to see
good farm lands. partly improved, sell:
Ing 1T eight dollars an acre.
Good lands partly improved can be
had us low as S5 all acre, and from that
up to $50, depending upon location and
extent Of improvements.
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Land Sales.

Close Bros, large operators in land,
have recently purchased over 1OO,OOC
acres in Mobiles county. Their system
is to divide the lands into farms of Sc
and 100 acres. put on the necessary
amount of breaking to start the farms
build comfortable houses and sell to
settlers.
The Scottish American Land Com.
pany is negotiating for 10000 acres of
railroad lands lying in Elk, Summit
Lake. Bloom and Seward townships
They will develop the lands and sell
them to settlers at comparatively low
prices.
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CROPS IN MOBILES COUNTY.

The year 1883 has been bountiful
one for the farmers of Mobiles County.
Below are some reports culled from
home papers upon the yield. The
Worthington ADVANCE of September
9Th said:
The ADVANCE has kept its readers
posted from week to week as to the
crops in Mobiles county, announcing
the prospect as excellent for full crop
The thresher is now at work making
good all promises and predictions
This time we have full crop of nearly
vote" The great majority Of farmers
are rejoicing in full crops.
No better advertising document can
be sent abroad than the simple state
ment of the record made by the thresh-
er. Glowing descriptions of beautiful
country are we'll enough, but the land
and home seeker wants to hear from
the half bushel 1--@
G. Elias, on Sec. II, Westside, thresh-
ed 1900 bushels of oats from Il acres,
or 100 bushels to the acre.
Simon Olson, on Sec. 6, Olney, has
threshed his wheat and the yield is %
bushels to the acre.
We learn that nearly everywhere oats
goes 81 to 40 pounds to the bushel
machine measure.
Following are further thresher re-
ports taken from several issues of the
ADVANCE
Our Westside correspondent reports
that the UlVeling Bros. in WeStside
fhroS1,oA hpVc chn1o Of ~
the acre.
Andrew Titenburg, of Willmont, has
threshed. His oats went over so bushels
and his flax l3 bushels to the acre.
&. G.. Whitney has threshed his fla1
and rye. The flax averaged III bushels
to the acre. The rye was winter rye
and averaged 81 bushels to the acre
Part of his oats is threshed and yields
about 65 bushels to the acre.
u. Cramer has been out among the
threshers and informs us that Joe Muir
ply. with his thresher, panned out nc
bushels of barley in a half day on the
Howard & Kelley place in Leota. the
yield being 50 bushels to the acre.
Some wheat up that way is reported as
yielding 80 bushels to the acre.
G. G. Whitney recently threshed Csc
bushels of oats, by weight, for u. Shell
on his farm in DeWald, in three hours
and a half. The oats went about &C
bushels to the acre.
Messrs. Fogo & Tuttle, threshers, re-
port yields-as follows:
For e. Leistiko, flax went Isl bushels
to the acre.
j. Ebert, 2s4 bushels of flax, yield
about Is bushels to the acre. Barley
231 bushels, about 80 bushels to the acre
NJ. Toball, flax yield IS bushels to
| the acre.
J. II. Cunningham, Timothy, 197
bushels. yield S bushels to the acre.
Barley 35 bushels to the acre.
E. ". Hesselroth, Timothy, 8 bushels
| to the acre.
J. Ii. Denton, wheat 20 bushels to
the acre. SS2 bushels of oats, G5 bush
els to the acre.
J. Tharpe, $50 bushels of oats. yield
about 40 bushels to the acre. Barley
yield 40 bushels to the acre.
The following items are clipped from
the Adrian, Mobiles County, Guardian :
A. Campbell is threshing his wheat,
and from 32 acres Of land and 4S BUSH
els of seed. he got 7SS bushels (struck
measurement Of hard, dry, No. l
wheaton a little under 25 bushels to
the acre.
J.. S. Olson has threshed his crops
in the west end. Oats went So bushels,
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FINE FARMS AND HOMES For ALL
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OPINIONS.


The Climate Of the Nountdi7as and
The Soil Of the River Bottoms. -W0r-
thi7agton Adrdnce.
When q man goes aDhere Indian
Corn aCO,l't grOU. he's q Tong ardy
from h0ne.-J. II. Drake.
Southeastern Minnesota produces
the best Inlinqe C0rn.-C0t Heaoitt. 4
This is the best Stock Raising
country in the 1COrtd. There Terc
nerer more Lururidnt and nutriti-
Ous Grasses grOu1e anyaChere.-Mr.
Berchard. Chairman Ddiry1nep's
Convention, Ma7ehato, april, 1882.
There is no bctter Stock -R0ising
country a3oy1Chcre in the United
States than Southern MinneS0td.-
Mr.. French, Storm Lake, I0Ud,
Creamery.
A better Dairy Country than !Sou-
thern Ohio ant Indiana. for there
they do not hare as good Whter and
as good Grass as zoe h0rc.-JOhn ~.
Hall at Ddirynen'S Convention.
Wheat IS good but Corn is better,
for it enters into the production OF
ererythi7lg from q prairie chicken
to an oI.-Secretdry Hugh McCut-
lOch at iMdnkntO.
The man achO settles in Southern
minnesota does not haze to 90 West
and settle again. 1his is the best
Grass region. ana Is pre-enoinentty
e. Stock and Dnirying country.-Gen
j. II. Baker, State Railroad C0nnneis-
siO7aer.
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they will enlarge their buildings and
facilities. This is certainly a remark.
ably large trade to be built up in SO
shortH time. Wa noticed the fact last
sum1por that Long 4 Co., of Mankato,
had reported business Of $45,OOO fol
the psevioas year. But they had been
four years in the butter aud egg trade
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CIRCULATING THE CIRCU-
LARS.

Letter from, Lullow- Iucking up the
documents-People intcrested-lllinois
Horticultural Society-Nobles County
Fruit.
H. J. Ludlow writes rs follows to
r. II. Miller, secretary of the Board of
Trade, from Normal, Illinois:
From Central Iowa tackled up about
twenty of the posters in every depot.
Mr.. Turner from north of town and
Ira Gibson from the west Of our coun.
W, who have been threshing this fall,
were both on the train and both be-
came very much interested in the
posters and asked for some to distribute
among their friends, one going to
Southwestern Iowa and one to North.
ern Illinois. Met A. A. Kimball (fOr-
merly OF wy on his way to ST. Louis
where he is now IN a -four mill. He
also took some of the posters and 1
filled him full of our hopes for the
future. found great many people
on the cars who were looking for new
homes and were very much interested
in what our posters Say of our county.
I have their names and promise to
come and see us in early spring.
Train behind at Peoria. l went to
IL H.
love with our country and kept me
there most of the afternoon asking me
questions.
/ arrived hero yesterday about 10 a.
m. l found the Illinois State Horti-
cultural Society was in session at
Bloomington. went down with MIR.
Augustine in the afternoon. lie intro
duced me as being inte ested in fruits
in Southwestern Minnesota. They I'M
mediately took me in as an honorary
member and asked me to give them a
few facts as to the success of apples
and small fruits in my section. l con-
densed all I could into about a five
miuute talk and then told them if any
there wished to know more particulars.
1 had some circulars with me that
would answer more Questions III five
minutes than could in an hour and
the way handed them out think for
the next half hour every man there got
one and by this time they are all ove''
this St0te and half Of Io,oa. had some
apples with me that were the last had
and 1 did not think them a very nice
sample. but they were nicer than any
thing there and they talked about them
as though they were something wonder
ful. Nurserymen here who have been
selling Wealthy apple stock for the
past five years never had seen a
Wealthy apple before.
It has been cloudy ever since came
here. Snow about six inches on the
level. Good sleighing.
1t is predicted that the Rock Island
will run a line from Worthington to
Big Stone Lake, passing through this
county and intersecting the extension
Of tho NJ g. St r. west from Redwood
Falls. If such an extension is ever
made we can probably lure it far
enough to reach us or build a line to it,
one or the other--Marshall Messenger.
Hope you can ''lure it," That the
road will be built to connect with the
Minneapolis & St. Louis thus giving us
another line to Minneapolis, and that
it will go on to connect with the Fargo
Southern are settled facts.
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MIN N ES0IA.

: Minnesota is called the North Star
State" but it may well be called the
Empire State of the West. Equal to
Kansas and Iowa in agricultural ad-
vantages, it is also great manufacture
ing and commercial State. There are
fifty rivers furnishing water power for
mills in Minnesota and hence it has
been called the New ''England of the
West" Minneapolis, the greatest flour
centre in the world, with it's tremen-
dous water power and its massive and
magnificent mills, IS called the Lowell
of the West" No State in the west
has equal commercial advantages with
minnesota. The two great water ways
of the continent, the Mississippi river
and the great lakes, head III this State.
st. Paul is at the head of navigation on
the Mississippi and Duluth on the lakes.
to be an interior New York and Pilla-
delpllla while Duluth will be another
Buffalo. Northern Minnesota is rich
in minerals and timber also. Mime.
sofa has millions of acres of fertile
prairie, like other Western States. but
has also unequalled commercial advan-
tages, vast deposits of mineral, i'm
mcnse tracts Of timber, and water
power for manufacturing beyond any
Western State.
The climate is one of the greatest
attractions of Minnesota. A cold eli
mate in winter. yet st. Paul and Phila-
delphia have the same average temper
ature. The notion that Minnesota is
''far north" IS All erroneous one and
easily corrected. The State joins Iowa
on the north. St. Paul is south of
London and is 1000 miles south of
Edinburgh. Scotland, and $500 miles
south Of st. Peters5urgh. Russia. A
line drawn across the continent through.
Mobiles county. Minnesota. would pass
4 little north Of Milwaukee aud through
Central New York.
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Thanks to Hon. J. B. Wakefield for
the Report Of the Secretary of the
Treasury.
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Nearly $4,000, 900 acres have been sur
veyed in Minnesota since 1852. About
10000, 600 acres remain to be surveyed.
The acreage in wheat in Minnesota
III 1888 was 2,5O7.l7 The yield is over
$4,000. 900 bushels, an average of Ii
bushels to the acre.
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STATE
NORMAL SCHOOL
AT NGANEkATo

& &o461..GO O&.<A4o.
The entrance examination for the Fall Term
VIII De ne!d Friday, august 81, 1888. RcctAtions
The advantages offered by this school are now
better than ever before. With the NEW AND AD.
TING the building, just placed therein, the hvgi.
enic conditions will be unsurpassed NUMrH.
OCS OTHER IMPROVEMENTS have also been made
attendance. ''o''''"s
For full particulars respecting conditions Of
entrance. courses OF study extremely low expen
mailed to any applicant f''"p'''
EDWARD SEAEING, President
MankatO, MINI, Aug. l. 1873; ~. iw
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MOBILES COUNTY. the Paradise of
the Stock-GroWcr and Dairyman.
WoRTHISGroS: the Elsin of Mill
neSOt;l.
IHREE RAILROADS now cOnplct-
ed to WorthingtOn and FIVE more
on the way.
EIGHT PASSENGER TRAINS every
day into WorthingtOn.
TIE CLIMATE of Worthington
has the average temperature Of Phil
adclphia.
BRICK CLAY Of the best quality is
found near Worthington.
PURE WATER is found all through
Mobiles county 1T Il depth Of from ~
to ID feet.
Twcnty-fonr miles of lake front
within Il radius of eight milesOf WOr-
thinSton, which is being lined with
Stock Farms.
As Il SUMMER RESORT. WOrthing-
ton is one Of the finest minor resorts
i'll the State. A SiX-lNile drive or
boulevard around the West lake Is
being opened.
OKAKENA LAKE, on the shores of
which WOrtlingtOn is situated, Is on
the famous 'Diyitlc," and has two
outlets. one east int" the Mississippi
and one west into the Missouri. 1t is
800 feet above st Paul and LOO feet
above tide water.