The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-05-03
Our Northwest Letter.
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 81, 1884

Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE
MINNEAPOLIS, April o. 1884.
Now is the very summer Of the tide Of
immigration TO the northwest and the dies
are cast for fortunes to be made and to be .
broken. The immigration trains present a
very singular appearance with their tops
covered with chicken. eoops, pig pens, old |
country beds and household furniture OF
various descriptions. Then there are the
cars containing the emigrants' effects which |
are taken in transit at very low rates by |
The railroad companies in consideration
of having their country populated and
built up. BY the scheme Of shipping un-
der what is known as "emgrant movables,"
many of the large farmers Of Minnesota
and Dakota, find it cheaper to take out a
complete supply of stock and household
furniture every Spring which they sell at
auction in the Fall after harvest to the
small farmers in surrounding counties.
Your correspondent has recently been in
position to learn what a great advantage
over the small farmer, those who own from
one to FIVE thousand acres can operate. By
reason Of his having to use a lot of ma.
chiuery Tor which he generally pays cash,
he can get quoted to him the same prices
dealer will get, which means a saving ofl
about forty per cent on the cost Of the ma
chinery alone. AS be ships in car load lots
he gets the lowest rates from the railroads, |
and on these two items saves enough to
stock and run farm of ordinary size.
When the harvest comes, he either puts
the wheat into bis own elevator or makes
his own terms with the Elevator companies
for storage until he is ready to sell, After
this he goes to his home in PENNSYLVANIA,
Massachusetts, or wherever he may live,
and takes life easy until the next Spring
1t is astonishing how many eastern men
run the large farms out here, and as they
spend very little money with lis and can
afford to sell at lower figures than our
small farmers it is easy to see that their
presence is anything but an advantage to
the country.
The annual report of the Secretary of
State shows that the receipts of wheat at
Minneapolis during the year 1882 we're
2 900, 900, bushels more than the receipt
at Chicago. This statement seems almost
incredible, but the figures show it, The
receipts at Chicago were 20,32l ,45l bushels,
and al Minneapolis 22,275,000 This will
give some idea OF what Minneapolis is
| likely to become as a great grain market
The business on Change is increasing with
wonderful rapdity. In another year it
will be greater than that oil the Milwaukee
board Of trade, aud crowding upon the
heels of Chicago in three years.
1t may interest fruit dealers to know that
experiments are constantly being made to
grow fruit in the Northwest. Mpst o, these
have been very discouraging because OF the
extreme degrees of heat and cold. Most
of the standard varieties of APPLES came
originally from the mild climate of Western
| Europe, and were not adapted by nature tn
endure the rignr OF q Northwestern winter.
A professor oi horticulture has been exam
inlng the fruits of central Russia. He
found large, hardy and productive apple
orchards at Kazan, 43O miles east oi Mos
COW, and in latitude $50 north nearly 700
miles farther north than Minneapolis,
where the thermometer often registers 5S
degrees below zero. The trees, which have
been growing lor generations, are about fl
teen feet high. Speaking OF an orchard, he
said he had never seen so much fruit
grown on thirty acres Of land as he saw
there, and he came to the conclusion that
the fruits of Kazen will live and bear in
any part of Minnesota or Dakota. In an.
other part OF the same district he saw ap
pie, pear. plum and cherry trees, loaded
with fruit. In summer the air o! that
country ia as dry rs that of Iowa, and the
! winters colder than in any part of Mime
sofa. The city Of Saratov, in 81 degrees
north latitude, is literally surrounded with
) immense orchards One of 10000 trees
produced on an average oyer five bushels
per tree The cherry trees in that district
are of dwarf species, planted close tog"th-
? er, and grown like bushes. Nevertheless
) cherries are shipped from there by the car
load to the markets at Moscow aud St
: Petersburg These trees produce pears a nj
, cherries IN a climate as severe as that o
G Quebec.
The Bell OF Estelline, Dakota, advise
the "tender foot" to beware. This is tn,
v season of the year when the paper town
t spring up, on paper, OF course. Beware o
them. They are generally represented OF
the map as spreading over two or thre
counties, and as having six or seven pro
posed railroads running through them. In
vest with caution. They have on the plo
IS Of the town locations for proposed schon
h houses, proposed churches, proposed captn
II buildings and proposed gold mines. Stea
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u town, select one that has a local habitatio
d as well as a name.
4 John Chinaman bobs up serenelv at al
points IN the Northwest, and every prairi
d town has this indispensable adjunct to tn
J. liundry world. AS cleanliness is next t
, goodness. Johns work is not far removed
. in point OF moral influence from the field
d of the paison albeit the ChiuamAn is calle
II "hpathen."
, Smuggling of Ceestisls from Britis
j. Columbia into Washington Ter erritory
y now a regular business. which the Custom
Y House officers are powerless to prevent
Canoes containing about five Coolies ar
'e brought across Puget Sound, a distance q
e thirty-6ve miles to certain points, iron
Il whence they soon get into the logging an
mining district, and mixed with those wh
l. have been here several years it is iflicul
to distinguish them from the old -esid lent
1t is SAID there is a juggling company il
this section which pays from fifteen
twenty dollars head Tor every coo,ie pu