New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-15
MINNESOTA AND MANITOBA.
SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

MINNESOTA AND MANIlObA'
SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
RICH CROPS AND WONDERFUL NORTHUMBERLAND
PROSPERITY OF MNNEAPoIIs-BAD REPORTS
FROM WINNIPEG.
lFRoM AN occ AsroSAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUsE
MINNEAPOLIS. July 1.-Should TO unexpected
aences interfere, this viii be glorious harvest year
for Minnesota. Small grain looks fine In about every
section Of the State and It calculated that the m
creased acrsagc Of wheat fully 10 per cent more than
was planted last year. Corn h backward as 1t Is nearly
all over the country north Of the Ohio but wheat Is Min
nesotas backbone crop, and that looks well This pars
OF the great Western brsadbasket has not suffered nom
the severe rains that have done much damage In tho
States s~uth Of here and everything In the way 81 farm
ing looks proptious and the heart Of the machine man 10
filed with great Joy.
People in the East do not fully appreciate the rapid
strides made during past few years toward perfection
in Agricultural machinery 1t IL only short time since
the harvester supplanted the reaping machine ana
quite recently the wire yself binder dismissed the har-
vester there were serious objections TO the use OK
the wire Ibnding machines.l Farmers complained thse
the wire got mixed with the straw in thrcshing and
made strawpiles dangerous for cattle to feed at whio
i-men said that the wire got into the grain ana IN
iured the milling. This last objection was parity
remeded by placing magnets In the hopper TO wnch an
metallic particles chung as the grain passed on 10 tno
the past and the acme Of harvesting has been attained
with the new cord sefbinder This wonderful machine
cuts the grain rolls 1t into neat compact sheave and
ties q hemp cord around each with dexterify ana
nimbeness far surprising anything manual Win ono
OF these cord machines farmer can draw on his no
gloves harvest time polish his boots adjust MS awn
crayat and seating himself after breakfast In luxurious
spring seat take pleasant ride over his neid and jog
home to supper complacenty rejecting that nc leaves
behind him ten acres OF cleanly cut and neatly
bound grain all Of IL the work OF his Individual se ana
without q mark Of perspiration upon his immaculate
shirt bosom. When reflects that he ploughs and
mellows ground in sukyplough seat and drisinhis
wheat IN Ike luxurious manner, one can form some
conception of kid-glDve farming in the Northwest
And Is It to be wondered that farming has become
protabei With the oldstyle reaper which was Thought
10 DO wonderful machine fifteen years ago. seven men
want into the field and bound. Their harvest wages
were from 50 to and when men could not be had
(which often occurrec) the grain wasted upon the
ground. The harvester was great improvement upon
the reaper. One drove II. while two men, riding
standing behind the knives bound the grain as II came
tumbling up them But now one man does the driv-
ing and the machine the rest OF the work In Cali
fornia they have threshers and reapers combined.
machine enters q field of standing grain end leaves
naueht behind but mown and sacks OF threshed
grain.
DARK VIEWS OF MANITOBA.
What becomes OF the that followed the old
sfta
Manitoba and are petitioning their friends for
money TO bring them back. Such would seem to be the
case the returned wnnpegers have met here are to
he believed The emigration into the far Northwest mas
been immense, but the migration out OF wou1 sso %
ON very extensive scale II the wanderers had opportu-
mites TO return The reports brought by such prodgas
as find their way back to Minneapolis are far from Hat
trins They state Manitoba to be the most overdone
country in North America Everything, nom merchan-
dising to laborng Is far In excess OF the demaho
The country essentially snal-grain raising seeuon'
and by no manner OF means paradise Iherei mucn
sood land but also a great deal of worthless SOIL Iho
majority Of the settlers are very poor ana entirely ae
rendent upon their crops and In many localities gram
raisns IA "a vet experimental. The merchants OF the
towns are nearly all newly started traders WIN snai
capital and the poorer farmers unn tnev
he had in plenty at 81 day. while the most the rail-
roads now building gs, tSe wesS and tough board
RI tha The wages paid TO mechanics are iuy Us low ~
in the East and the opportunities Tor WORK 'Hu'"
need not recapulate the stories told Of town and
Yon have heard them length Suffice II TO say tnas
rity property which short year ago commsnae,ui
isD9o Real estate in the other far Northwestern ownss
similarly depressed The eist OF the in9ra1 o, M
seom has ali turned to smoke. It passaby fais
wheat country but Is not the garden ofhe world nor
naradise for men OF moderate means, nor harpor ~
rpsse for unemployed poverty. Where gives homo
10 QUE person il breaks the hearts of half Dozen
GROWTH AND INDUSTRY OF hiNNhAro'o.
But Winnipeg has doomed ts hocm. this city OF Mn
neapos hangs to its with wonderful tenaciy IT'S now
the largest city west OF Chicago in the United STATES
north. with the exception of San Francisco Inc Gil"
directory Just completed. gives II popuiauoh :"
1000 When IL absorbs St. Paul tine city MINUS W
the two places are now only three mites apart Tmcn"
e likely to do within the next few years. WIZ make
respectable municipality of over two hundred tnousanu
Inhabitants. have been here several times curing 'uo
past decade and whenever revisit Minneapolis ia
ma ecal growth astonishes me- The city Is snc'c'eu
With broad fringe OF houses. al erected .as ss
and ornary town lots, at radius OF Eliie anu a.s
s,, the cfys centre sell from $500 70 T2Vov -,
hnra have been enormously profitable specnas ~,
real during past three years. ana ay s.ssrt
tas the growth OF Chicago VIII nesiIae a.
.na, winneauos has outrun It's boon shepp"
q ~ of New-York, about 10 start m,o cshsr
~ at Sonse here aud there runors OF se,st" WIS.,
@ huses grating Into this new ne A., TIA
~ isw "a one OF the quieest and most oaoay her
vsss Thinking places comparatively iew
,c,,s fcafires OF western towhs and 0efs
The town goes 10 bed Of an early no,i hunt
.or early in the morning: Livery poy dollar
sl,nery nicfle and chasing tne rcseis stores
ans ' rsry one meets IN INC a,d upon
ros,. and churches have cusness ,,sc Tor fooling
streets aha a,n letters No has any uhe ot rener
and tns ss sor Of thing this and q
ton win wnat ioly old duners our prosensor ssDeciM
Reject; nerInc fheir poor old lives out ios our =