New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-03-18
Letter from Washington Terri
tory.

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EDITOR REvIEW.-I must let your
subscribers hear from me once more. 1
will endeavor to tell you about our
winter. The first snow fell about Dec
18th. It continued showing, little by
little, until we had two feet on the lev
Ell, which laid on about two weeks. The
thermometer stood 20 deg. below zero,
on two or three occasions, early in the
morning. On the 3rd of JAN, 1885,
there came what they call chinook
wind in this country. You would have
been surprised to see the two feet of
snow disappear in three days. Since
then we had or 3 inches of snow at
different times, but never remained long
enough to hinder stock from picking
their living. would state that cattle
can pick their living anytime of the
year if there is no snow on the ground.
[ have seen hundreds of Horses and
ponies that have never seen stable
nor tasted oats, and they are all fat too.
The farmers are busy at blowing and
breaking for the last week or So The
frost is all out of the ground
Crops were splendid last season, wheat
yielded from 30 to so bush. per acre.
All they sow is one bushel per acre.
There have been some wonderful crops
raised in this country.
am informed by Mr.. Kirby, an old
Brown Co. man, that he helped bind and
thresh sixty (6o) acres of wheat which
averaged sixty-three (63) bushels per
acre. Mr.. Jos. Uliwitz, formely living
in West Newton, helped thresh wheat
last fall that yielded A bush. an acre.
| saw plenty Of Early Rose potatoes last
fall that weighed from 8 to lbs. each.
Cabbage get very large here, it is moth
ing uncommon to see heads that
weigh forty lbs. each.
Spokane Falls promises to make a
great manufacturing center in thefuture.
They will build large distillery and a
thousand barrel Touring mill this spring,
for here is the finest water powerin this
United Kingdom. The farmers are
somewhat Disguised with the prices
they get for their produce.
Wheat is but AZ cents per BUSH; oats
20 cents per bush.; potatoes 80 cents
per BUSH; Butter 80 cents per Id. and
eggs 20 cents per doz. Never so cheap
| before
The climate is mild. Oh. how it pleas
es our party to think and realize that
we were not where the north-westwind
howled and the thermometer spoke
from 20 to 40 below zero. This is good
country for people to come to, but they
must bear in mind that mostly all
branches of business are overdone.
Only farming. and for that man must
be good worker and have some means,
so he can live out of pocket for the frs,
year and be able to buy eight or ten cows
at from $40 to $50 per head, or 8 doz.
hens at six dollars per doz. span Of
horses all the way from 500 to $3.50 pc,
span, and feed for them, wagon for one
hundred and thirty dollars.
The Government land here abou,
Spokane is all taken, but some of these
bachelors can be bought out for from
one to five hundred dollars, that is. theil
improvements on homestead or pre-.
emption claim. We have not had one
snow storm this winter.
We put up about tons of wild hay
shout Sept. LIST. We wintered ten head
of stock and still have about one ton
hay left. The weather, at present here, is
like it is in MINI. in May. Twill close TO,
this time. Iremain Yours truly,
GUST. PETERS.