The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-08-10
A Run across the Mountain.
Continued from last weekly

A Run across the Mountain.
Continued from last week.)
Our route across the mountain started
in near the northeast corner of township
100, range 81. The time at our disposal
did not permit us to interview all the
residents along the way. We passed
many finely located farms, the names of
whose owners we did not learn in fact,
second rate claims are the exception
here, more so even than in most high
prairie countries. Mr.. Chas. Farrow, for
merly from Huron Co., Ont, has choice
spot. He keeps the Alma postotfice.
Mr.. John Mcbride has valuable loca-
ton little to the south of Alma. Mr..
Mcbride was formerly successful teach
er in the publicschool at Walkerton, Ont
Having Drawn as we'll as brain, he takes
hold of the rugged duties of prairie life
with all ease. He and his brother are
making good preparation for next years
harvest. Farther along to the south west
we find Mr.. w. R. Stewart, the impress
of whose enterprise and industry is seen
in broad strips of broken prairie. Near
by, is the claim of Mr.. John Swanlaw,
pleasantly situated adjacep" to deep
coulee. Hearing him talk YOU night say
he is Scotchlnan from Huron county,
ofcourse," and you would be half right,
for he comes from "the states" latterly.
Next we happened upon Mr.. James
Dickson following pair of yoked stall
warts. He was less dressy, more tanned
and fully as contented looking as when
the writer met him, q stran-
ger in the country last fall. He and his
brother have two excellent claims. Far
ther along in the northern part of town.
ship 159, range 5S, we pass the farm of
Mr.. Jacobs, from Illinois, whose prem
ises are very homelike. Mr.. Jacobs had
fine stand of grain on field not back
set, Near him is Mr.. Wohler also from
Illinois, who, as yet, has little farm we'll
titled, little house we'll filed and little
wife-apparently well qualified to make
happy home for him OIL the prairie. To
the north little we met Mr.. Joseph
Smith, who, with his sons and son-il-law
are pre-empting large block of land.
They are from Illinois, and with their
neighbors, it will be their mission to
teach Canadians around about how to be
good American citizens. Ofcourse, they
will mix well and grow up into all
intelligent, cosmopolitan community.
To the southwest Mr.. ]. T. Anderson has
Il very pleasant location. &. II. Gray of
Cavileer has opened store here, and
post office Eis sooh osbes llad-no use in
going three or four miles for your mail
here in this country. Farther south,
by great winding ravine, is the
place of Mr. Gillis, and to the east Mr.
Joseph Crowston is holding down his
second claim, having proved up on his
farm near Hamilton. Near here is E!gin
postoffice. Mr.. Watson, the postmaster,
can count over POO houses over the prai-
rie from the root Of his house. To the
east: towards Milton, we find Messrs.
Winters. Findlay Murney and Newton
Murney getting their claims in good shape
and making hay while the sun shines.
Over the rolling prairie, down wild de-
scent, to the Park river, and up another
steep, the like of which not many inllab-
itants of hilly countries ever saw,
we came to Milton postoftice,
kept by Mr.. D. Mcdonald, who
is very fortunate in his selection of
a place, the attractive features of which
we have not space to speak of. On rise.
of ground to the north are the beautiful
farms of Mr.. Albert Thomson and others.
West of here we met Mr.. Thomas Nc
Lean, who has exchanged tie
position of manager of a salt
block in Ontario for that of
a prairie farmer, and seems content.
From summit about a mile west of Mil
ton postoltice, may be had one of the
most interesting and picturesque views in
al! the country. We doubt if there is
any scene on the Hudson river or Le-
heigh valley, or along the Erie railroad
road route that possesses more of in
terest or fascination than the view spread
before the eye from this vicinity. It is
a vass and variegated panorama upon
which the eye may be feasted for hours.
10 the northwest i visible a great ex-
panse of rolling prairie, thickly dotted
with houses; to the southeast is the
beautiful neighborhood of Kcnsington;
eastward flows the timber skirted branch
es Of the Tongue and the Park rivers.
Midway, stretching towards the Red
river, is another wide sweep of country,
with its many attractive features, while
right at your feet isl deep gorge ofnearly
three hundred feet, through which the
Park river flows. From Milton may be
seen the railroad train, on the St. p. NJ.
& NJ, twenty four milesaway,'as it passes
all the way from Grafton to Bathgate.
Here we must cut short the notes of
our ramblings,
Meeting of County Commissioners.
The county commissioners met on
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