Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-07-04
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Special Correspondence of the INT ER-OcEAS.l
Town 1874, June 26.--In pursuance
to official order Of our worthy county
clerk, an election will be held here next
Tuesday for the purpose of electing the
several town officers.
Mr.. Geo. w. II. Davis is busily n
gagged in building a root cellar to store
the large crop of beets, carrots, cab
bages, etc., which he anticipates next
fall. While Mr.. Davis has sown quite
a crop of wheat, oats and barley, he has
gwen considerable time and labor to his
garden, and he feels assured that he
will be richly compensated by its full
returns.
Your correspondent had the pleasure
of examining a sample of corn raised oh
the farm Of Mr.. II. Baker. of town
1868. Mr.. B. informs us that he
raised $50 bushels of this corn on just
two acres of ground, which he very
poorly prepared, owing to the fact that
it was his first attempt to raise corr
in this "region of lce," as our eastern
rivals term it, and hat he had no idea
it would amount to anything. But now
he ignores that idea, and is fully con.
WINGED that he can raise as good a quail
ity and as large a quantity per acre,
with little labor, as a be produced in
any region east or west of the Missis.
sippi. The sample shown us was of the
white variety, the ears we'll filed, and
from 8 to 10 inches in length. 1t is
somewhat similar in appearance to the
flint corn so characteristic to Wisconsin
and Minnesota. He planted five acres
this year, all of which is doing we'll and
will be knee-high about the Fourth.
Maj. John j. BurlShardt and Col. f.
s. Caster, both Of Manitoba, are spend.
ing the summer months in u midst.
They speak very highly of this favored
region where nature has bestowed her
sweetest smiles. With prophetic gaze
they exclaim that "Westward the star of
empire takes..its way" They assert that
the great Northwest, which once COM
prised the territory north of the Ohio
and west Of Pennsylvania, has been
borne westward by the rapidly rolling
tide of emigration, and that people will
soon begin to talk of going east to Bis
marck or to Helena, and the Northwest
will then be located-where? Dakota
will say, cit is not with u.s." The anx.
ious inquirer will find on the summit of
the Rocky mountains a guide board
pointing to the Pacific, bearing the in
scription, "To the Northwest" The
colonel was SO favorably impressed with
this region that he secured a quarter
section of its rich soil. Owing to the
fact that it was nearly all taken he was
obliged to take his forty rods by two
miles in length. The major relates some
very interesting stories about the utility
of dynamite in blasting the large beul-
ders in the mountains through which
the G. P. railroad is being built.
Il II uvoc n koo,,%:H,1 C,-l. .r---
and u worthy professor, who takes adj
vantage Of every opportunity to add to
his literary productions, ventured out
upon II boundless plains to view the
beautiful grasses that carpet the earth
with a lovely green. He had not gone
far when, to his hearts delight, his
keen eye caught sight of a lonely cot
tage wherein dwelleth one of Dakota's
beautiful fair maidens. As he ap-
preached he accosted her and in rapid
succession said: slow do you do!
How are you! Fine day." Just at this
Juncture we came away and are there
fore unable to give in detail the re-
ma:nder Of the colloquy. However we
have it from q reliable source that the
learned gentleman dismissed all
eAoOSiAto VI literature Nllu continued his
conversation so long that the modest
young lady knelt down, and with up
lifted hands prayed and besought the
g%ranter of all good things that her new
visitor might find shelter under some
other root. Presently the heavenly
protector of the innocent dispatched a
tremendous army of mosquitoes to her
rescue, and with lingering steps he babe
her adieu. And this is not all. In N
deavoring to retrace his steps back to
his frame cottage he missed his way
and wandered in the moonlight on un-
til finally he was glad to lie down to rest
with his right hand for a pillow in an
old sod shanty that was probably built
sometime during the 18th century.
When the gray dawn of morning broke
the black seal of night he arose and
found himself twelve miles from home.
He has the sympathy of the entire com.
munity.
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