Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-24
DETROIT AND VICINITY.
Especial Correspondence Of the Globe.

Special Correspondence OF the GIoDe.I
DETROIT, MINI, April 21-Seeding in
this vicinity has for some time been pro-
crossing finely, and many OF the smaller
farmers have completed spring work.
There is a large increase of acreage in all
cereals over that of last year, but at pres
ent we can not make any accurate esti-
mate of that increase. As we were max
ing roundabout trip through the country
surrounding Detroit the other day, we
could not avoid observing the positive
proof laid before US Of the fact that the
farmers in the Northwest are by far the
most independent and successful class Of
men we have We may note one of the
| proofs. Five years ago Norwegian ar
rived at this place with d family OF six
children, and wife, few household goods,
and no money. He took homestead and
! presumption claim four miles southwest of
Detroit. To-day he has nearly 200 acres in
| crop, has about 800 acres of land, several
| teams of horses and yoizes of oxen, num-
bers of COWS, young cattle, sheep and hogs
and good dwelling house, barns, gran
| aries, etc. His farm, chattel5 and all, is
worth fully $4,000 cash. Now, where is
| the business man who will start without
one cent of capital, support his family and
in five years accumulate $4,000? Is this
not the farmers paradise? This is but
one of the many instances Of like success
which we could cite. This part of the
country is just having its boom. For the
past several years the tide of emigration
has flowed on past as into Dakota, but now
as the Dakota fever is subsiding, emigrants
use more Judgment in choosing their To-
calities and rightly are preferring the
country that offers them the best of prairie
where A No. l hard wheat is raised,
an abundance of timber, and the best of
water is to be had, aud also where they are
hundreds of miles nearer the wheat mar
ket.
The country all about Detroit is develop
ing rapidly. Fine farm houses are being
built and large fields are being opened up,
which next year will bear the owner one
hundred fold. On every hand we see but
continual and rapid improvement, and
cannot doubt, that in from five to ten
years this section of country will be the
richest and the most prosperous part of
the Northwest. Detroit is also participant
g, ing in the banner county boom, or the ban
n ner county is participating in De-
troit, her county seats boom, we
cannot tell which. However, Detroit is
booming. 1t has received its
impetus from some solid source, for it is
! rapidly, healthily and steadily going ahead.
Many buildings are now under way of con
struction, and others will be built this
summer that will fully double the size OF
5 the town, which has now population Of
| $500 inhabitants. There are now gooC
| prospects of the building this summer OF
a railroad from this place to Red Lake
y Falls, which if it materializes will open Ut
a large tract of the most fertile prairie anC
large forests of timber lying north Of here
!, the product of which will be tributary to
Detroit. During last winter Messrs. TusA
'' bull 6 Mcdonald built and now have il
operation the Detroit roller mills, doine
9 principally custom work, and during IN
/, same period Col. Geo. H. Johnston III
S enlarged and added the latest roller ma
T. chinery to the Detroit Lake roller mills
l. and now does an exclusive merchant bust
" ness. Prices of lots in Detroit now rang
a from $500 to $4,000. N. QUAD.