Morris tribune., 1883-03-07


through, and branch line of the
same extends from Morris to Browns
Valley. Then a branch of the North
ern Pacific, called the Little Falls d
Dakota, runs to Morris, thus connect
ing two main roads. The l.. +. Il ID.
has benefited Morris by greatly re-
ducing the price of fuel. There is now
great competition among the wood
dealers, and the people reap the bene-
fit.
The manufacturing facilities are not
very good-brick and flour being the
only things manufactured. Owing to
the perseverance of a few of our lead
ing men, there has been brick yard
established a few miles from town.
A good quality of brick is there made,
both for home use and for expectation.
Morris contains many handsome
private, as we'll as public, buildings.
OF the public buildings the elevators
deserve particularly to be mentioned.
There are three very fine ones, having
in all n storage capacity of one hun
dred and seventy-tive thousand bush
els. The banks already referred to,
are among the incest of the public
buildings. Messrs. Good 4 Brisbine,
who were so unfortunate as to lose
their store at the recent November fire,
are at present erecting fine frame
building on the site where the old one
stood. When completed it will, | un-
derstand, be used as general store,
and will be the finest of its kind in
Morris.
The society OF Morris is very good,
much better than that of many villages
of its size. Many of the people are
refined and intelligent. They support
four churches, namely: Congregation
al, Methodist, Episcopal and Catholic.
She yillage also contains an excel
Tent Graded echoYi. + consists of
four departments, haxing total al
tendance of about one hundefedAand
sixty scholars. 1t is now classed
among the State High Schools.
Many predict for Morris bright
future, wh,ci, i will undoubtedly
have provided no unlocked fp4 cassee l
ity overtakes it. 1t has improved
very rapidly for the past few years,
and present prospects indicate that it
will continue to do SO for years to enme.
For its future development, the first
thing required is an influx Of popula-
ton to settle up and occupy the vacant
portions of land in the vicinity, OF
which we have 40 much. Second:
This country being almost exclusively
agricultural, a radical change from
the the present system Of farming is
required, and instead of raising wheat
almost exclusively, stock raising
should be largely engaged in. An
! otier thing that the country greatly
suffers from is scarcity of timber, and
more attention should III t%i4 e e tree
planting.
There Is no good reason why the de-
sired changes may not be brought
about, and Morris take her place
among Western Minnesota's best
towns.
The following letter was written to
a gentleman in Murdoch, by Judge
Faville, prominent dairyman and
stock-raiser of Mitchell county, Iowa.
People who are doubling in regard to
the benefits to be derived from a
creamery, should resuse it:
The first essential in starting =
creamery is pure water and plenty of
it. We use 40 to so barrels a day. A
Joint stock company is best. Plenty
of land for buildings and hog-yards
and pens, Is to 20 acres if possible.
Our teams gather cream Is to 20 miles
a day. We use the Cherry can, and
also the common 81 inch can. An
inch of the former, and two inches of
the latter makes pound of butter. A
good practical butter maker will know
what washing is needed, We give p
cents an inch now; during ReDen2ber
we paid Is cents. The farmers Of
Mitchell county are all satisfied, are
getting rich. We calculate our cows
will average 4S to SO dollars clear each
year. I know cows in the county that
have made all inch of cream every day
for 365 days, and the average price for
the year, 49,, cents-that is over $67 to
the COW for cream sold, to say nothing
of the calf and skim milk. l believe
the true way is to feed the buttermilk
on the ground to hogs, and have corn
cribs and pasture lots, and be prepared
to buy shoats and ship a car load every
two months. Tbs bQtter-milk from
800 cows, with corn, etc, ,Fill be
great item. The old farmers that you
know. Stokes, Tibbits, Cady, Grow
and others, raise no wheat now; all
grass and corn. Cows are all the rage.
1t will be difficult to make the farmers
in a new country understand this
dairy business. They all seem to
want to wear out their rich farms by
wheat raising, and spend all their
money on machinery. Cattle do not
impoverish the soil, and when you
have sold cream for one season, you
have them for another, and SO on, and
when old make her into boot. l have
a COW that will be IS years old next
June and there are nearly 80 head an
the farm that are her descendants,
and she is good cow yet. Whoever
starts 8 creamery in your neighbor-
hood win 10 o public benefactor,
whether he makes anything himself
or not.
The last issue of the LeSueur Senti- !
mel contained the intelligence of the
sudden death of Miss Ella Richardson,
which occurred in Minneapolis, on
Sunday, Feb. 25th. The deceased, an
intelligent and estimable young lady. |
had charge of the public schools Of
this place during the summer of 1879,
and during the time made many
friends and acquaintences who now
receive the anpq4ncemento of her. death