St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-06
A Great Crop But Small Harvest of
Cash-A Letter Written i'll
a Gloomy Mood.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe

GRAND FORKS, Oct. 4.-Harvest over, thresh-
ing in full blast, and we can now begin to see
the result of the past years work and its results.
Thousands of acres have been added TO the cul-
tivated land of Dakota and thousands of settlers
to its population. The wheat yield in the Red
River valley has been simply enormous, saving
in some restricted localities where local storms
injured the grain, and everybody is happy On.
No neither man or woman can or does say so; on
the contrary every man is dissatisfied. The
wheat in the manner it is being handled does not
average fifty cents q bushel. 'Down grade"
seems to be the order of things, and our univer-
sal complaint goes up from every quarter. With
full OVERLOOKING granaries it seemed as if the far
mer was about to free himself from debt, his
homestead from the shark, but 1t turns out but
Dead Sea fruit. Those who can, hoard their
grain; those who cannot will sell in driblets and
buy for cash only actual necessaries, and old debts
unless secured by triple clad in first mortgages
must be ''stood off. This will prove disastrous
to the merchant and trader The result in the
end may prove beneficial to Dakota as 1t will
drive the attention Of the farmer to stock. Here
in the railroad companies will not be the gamers,
they are but killing the goose that lays the
golden egg. Upon Q recent trip through parts
of northern Dakota and Minnesota on every hand
was the expressed determination to quit the al
together wheat raising and give more attention
to stock. A ride between Leip and Pembina a
couple of weeks since would have given an east
ern man the widest ideas Of the productive
capacity OF Dakota, where travelling for miles
between an unbroken extent of grain fields yield
ing from twenty to thirty-five bushels of bright,
clean wheat to the acre, but go to-day to the
elevator and watch the countenances of the
farmer when informed his splendid grain is
smutty, dirty, and is grade No. 3, 4S cents.
believe in letter l wrote
the GLoAE last year 1 predicted then
would be no "frosted wheat this year, but it
lUoHtd be smut. My prediction is verified, for
such is the answer, and perhaps in a thousand
bushels of wheat there may be four or five
grains of smut; it is sufficient, and down goes
the grade. Is there no remedy for this? Bahl
Yes, but such as neither the farmer OF Minnesota
nor Dakota cares to avail himself of-an anti
monopoly legislature and anti-discrimination
Legislature, the abolition of rebates and fair
and equal rate OF transportation to all, millers'
associations or individuals but the same rail-
road men Of two years ago are all on hand and
have or will pack every convention or caucus to
carry out the same old schemes TO the gain Of
the corporation, the detriment of the producer.
Until the farmers take greater interest in these
matters and relegate these men, Republican or
Democrat, to private life, the production OF
wheat crops, great or small. will prove abortve
so far as gain is concerned to the ordinary
farmer.
The weather has not been very propitious for
those who thresh from the shock as it rains
quite too persistently. night q cold drizzling
rain with high wind prevails, and il now looks
as If winter may be at the door.
The political caldron bois and fixes at great
rate. Walsh's council convention comes oil on
on the 23d OF October, but he feels serene having
cooked his goose ready to eat, and he will jus
eat il. % niaL
The Democratic legislative convention ad-
iourned itself with all counties represented save
Nelson, on the 29th Of September to October Q.
Mccormack is said TO be the man. Walsh and
Mccormack, food for reflection.
Business is quite dull, although our people
are by no means ''gone broke" At roller rink
fair and dance for lhe church last night, $3.50
was CLEANED on the sale OF tickets alone.
The steamboats, bring in large quantities oil
wheat to the new elevator Of Messrs. Griggs &
Co., recently elected on the banks of the river
| Our big mill from York, Mimi, is on the ground
aud large force OF workmeR are engaged. il
viii have a capacity OF $4,000 feet per day
| Planning mill, sash and door accompaniments.
The Cook house has had an addition doubling
its present size, and making II quite TN imposing
structure. The university, the most hideons
building ever erected, is now receiving students
and some thirty are TO De run through.
s'YAN6ToS."