The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1884-07-04

into hay as they stand. Cattle will Craze and
keep fat until snow, which rarely comes to any
depth until Christmas or after; then they craze
again as soon as the snow melts in the spring.
Cattle turned out In March this year would not
afterwards eat hay. This town has been sup
Piled this spring with beef from the Immediate
neighborhood which never had other feed than
the native grasses and hay cut therefrom, and
1t Is TAT and good, and would by no means dis
grace an Iowa City market.
Cattle first turned out to Craze in the spring
do not weaken and loose flesh as have seen
them do at home, but seem to retain their
strength and flesh, and later on get trolling
fat" Mr.. Thomas Ward, from La Sale, Illi-
nois, said to me: II never saw anything like
it. the grass all sticks to their ribs" Mr.,
Ward is an old stockman of much experience.
Where sheep have been introduced they have
done remarkably well.
There is no rain or mud in the winter, but
the weather is dry and cold, and the pasture
and climate is all that is desired at other sea-
sons, and 80 everything is favorable to the
health Of the sheep and the growth Of long
and fine staple. OF course shelter must be pro-
vided for sheep as well as for other stock, to
shield them from the severe storms of winter:
and this brings me to the subject Of billiards.
Of Dakota, which are such a terror to people
thousand miles away. Iasked Mr.. Frick-
who came here year ago with his family
from Philadelphia, and spent the winter here
how he enjoyed the winter here compared
with that of Philadelphia? He replied that be
never spent pleasanter winter in his life
that as far as the climate was concerned he
much preferred it to that of Philadelphia-that
while 1t was steady cold weather the atmos-
phere was dry, the sky generally cloudless and
that neither he nor any member of his family
had cold during the entire winter, when they
had been subjected to continued colds in Penn
sylvania.
but how about the billiards, Mr.. Frickr'
swell, we had two during the winter that
would not have been very healthy for people
to get lost in on the prairie, and in which some
people did perish.
It just then occurred to me that years ago
hardly winter passed that the same thing
did not happen in Iowa, and was afraid he
would ask me about 1t, and then about the cy-
clones OF Iowa, one of which has killed more
people than all the blizzards that ever blew.
Mr.. Frick is gentleman, is no "boomer," and
would not tell anything about Dakota that he
did not consider the exact truth. His testi-
mony is by no means exceptional, but that Of
ia n inv soI, ,l,
AS to the question Of markets, the center of
the Red River Vally is 25O miles from Duluth
and Minneapolis the great wheat market of the
northwest, the former being as near the mar
kets by water as Chicago is, Minneapolis mills
have capacity Of $4,000 barrels of flour per
day, which would require, when running at
full capacity, S5,000;0O0 bushels of wheat.
That Duluth, situated as it is, at the head of
Lake Superior, will one day be great city,
must be evident when her position Is under
stood. Draw line from the northeast corner
or Iowa to Omaha, take your tape line and
learn that all the territory to the right Of this
line, including the latter named city, is nearer
to Duluth than to Chicago, and you will get an
idea of the vast territory which is naturally
tributary to Lake Superior, and will probably
conclude that the day may not be far distant
when the language Of Proctor Knott spoken in
congress years ago Of Duluth, in vein of sar-
castle humor, may be hailed as prophetic, and
Duluth may become the veritable ''city of the
unsalted seas'
must say for the people who are settling
this country, that the foreign elements are
from Noway and Sweden principally, and are
a rugged, honest, Industrious and thrifty peo
pie; that the native population is from almost
all the northern states, with sprinkling from
the south, that they all possess energy, enter
prise and spirit, integrity intelligence and
morality, that they are the very flower Of
Americas young manhood and womanhood,
and came here-a large proportion Of them
with the high purpose Of building homes and
securing competence for themselves and their
children, and to lay broad and deep in honor,
justice and virtue the foundations of future
great state.
AS to prospective wealth OF the owners Of
the soip' which you speak Of, have only to
say that think sure and ample competence,
which is better than wealth, awaits all those
who have already secured lands, and all those
yet to come, who possess the high purposes
and qualities of those already here who shall
be fortunate enough to make their homes on
these beautiful and bright flower decked and
sun Kissed prairies. M. CAvANAGH.
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