Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-24
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ring article in the issue of the 18th,
headed Emigration" has been read with
much interest and has elected very favor
able comments in this section. The State
Emigration bureau and the more enter
prising railroad companies who are en-
deavoring to promote emigration to this
state or section could 90 much worse than
to republish your article in hundred
thousand lots and scatter broadcast
through the East.
1t is the GLOBES manifest interest on
this subject which makes me bold to
write to metropolitan paper,
and hope, through your columns,
to reach many thousands who are in doubt
as to what particular spot or district in the
great Northwest to choose their new homes.
can speak from personal experience
when say that it is a very difficult and all
important task, a movement on which de-
ponds ones future life, liberty and pursuit
of happiness, to choose the right locality,
at the right time, and engage in the right
line of business, or, if a farmer, to secure
the most advantageous locality, the
best and most lasting soil, and in section
that will naturally improve and to which
good class of people are coming. Any
one who can give reliable and trustworthy
information on these subjects is a public
benefactor, and the greater the publicity
the greater the good accomplished.
do not deem it necessary in this letter
to introduce the Red river valley to the
thousands of readers of the great GLOBE,
and will only write about our own immedi
ate locality, and Marshall county.
Our county was one of the newest in
the state and consequently only organized
about four years ago, hence its history is
necessarily brief, however very interesting.
Four years ago when the st. Paul, Mime
apolis & Manitoba railway was in course
of construction through the Red river val
ley, and when completed through to the
Canadian line at st. Vincent, Marshall
county was not known on the state map.
There was not at that time single post
Office in the limits now comprising Mar
shall county. 1t was only in the spring of
1879 that the pioneers began to
come, and formed the first set
Element on the Snake river, at
place where Warren, the county seat,
now stands. The first adventurous mer-
chant who brought stock of goods here
had barely got the goods from the car Tin
fact he sold considerable out of the box
cars on the side track before unloading)
and into the store, utilizing the carpenters
benches for counters, before he did -four
ishing business, which continued during
the entire season.
From this nucleus has grown
the present village of Warren,
about thousand inhabitants, and an
agricultural community that from the
second harvest has marketed from War
rem alone over 100000 bushels of wheat
leaving plenty for seed wheat and con-
sumption and probably $4,000 to $4,000
more to sell.
From the present crop we hope to mar
ket half million bushels, and from the
crop of 1885 an even million, and in 1890
100000 bushels, with about as much
from the other two stations together
Argyle and Stephens-and We
have surplus in Marshall
county in 1890 of just 100000 bushels
of No. hard wheat. Our local wheat
buyers pay about ten cents per bushel
more for No. hard, than No. 1, and our
past seasons crop graded so per cent. No.
l hard, record which 1t would be difficult
to match anywhere, even il the Red river
valley itself.
So far very little attention has been paid
to stock-raising, but that will no
doubt develop into being an important
and profitable branch of farming, as
grasses grow in such superabundance as to
enable farmers to put hay in stack at a
cost of 81 per ton.
The average yield per acre last season
throughout our county is placed by com
petent judges at eighteen bushels per acre,
which is considered low average for this
section, but which at a price of 81 bushel
pays the farmer about IS to $40 per acre
met profit. OF course many of
our farmers do not as yet
fully understand the peculiarities OF the
rich black Red river soil, and hence the
manner of farming here will necessarily
undergo many changes and Improvements
before the best possible results are obtain
ed. This is proven in many cases where
two or more farmers have lands that join,
of exactly the same character of soil and
all conditions are precisely alike and yet
the net results from a seasons work may
vary all the way from five to ten bushels
per acre in yield.
Marshall county has superficial area of
over one million acres and a very large
percentage Of this is tillable land, except
in the extreme eastern end of the county,
toward Red lake, where there are several
entire townships of heavy pine timber.
This timber will at no distant day be made
available and with the immense pine
forests about Red lake furnish building
material in abundance and at low prices.
I understand there is considerable gov
eminent land in the eastern and north
eastern part of the county, subject to
homestead or presumption entry, and the
railway company has several hundred
thousand acres in immediate proximity to
Warren and'other stations in The county. 1t
has proved very satisfactory Investment
to procure land in this section, as the first
crop generally pays for the land and cost
of farming, and should the lands subse-
quently be sold they would bring twice
what was originally paid for them.
There are several streams, tributaries to
the Red river, running through Marshall
county, and on the banks and bottom lands
of these streams is timber in great abun-
dance, and wood at the stations cost So to
Sc per cord.
Shall I speak of the climate? Why not
This winter has been abominably cold,
with no recess or intermission Plenty of