The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-08
Items of Interest.

A Cass County farmer and stock
raiser said tous yesterday: I sold in the
market to-day two twq-year- old-steers,
for which / received AlO4.sd. Tho gross
weight of the animals was 2,5a5 pounds.
These steers stood ut the straw stack
last winter, and altogether have been
stabbed and fed only about one month.
The actual cost of raising the animals
did not exceed twenty dollars. Fargo
Republican.
Some of the counties in Dakota pay
five cents a tail for gophers An ex-
change relates that in La NIourc they
pass as currency. A man goes into
saloon and for his drink throws. on the
counter gopher tails. When the draw
err Is full they arc taken to the county
office and deemed or paid ont 1t
looksa little novel in church to sec
the gopher narratives going into the
contribution boxes.
An exchange whose name we have
not at hand says: In Dakota the at
mosphere is so clear that on a bright
daya woman's voice can be heard at the
distance Of mile. This may account
for the fact that the woman's suffrage
bill recently passed the legislature 6v
u large majority. If this explanation
be adopted, however, it must follow
that Gov. Pierce is. hard OF hea,ibg hmr
he vetoed the bill
some months ago the Minneapolis
Miller made the following comment:
II the estimates which give the world a
surplus of but 10000, OOG bushels over
actual consumptive requirements for
the current crop year, are correct, the
bulls will have things all their cmn
way next year. Whea, ia now SO low
that the USUAL ccenon,v in its use is not
Icing practicea anywhere. This being
the fact, it is plain that witt. English
and Western farMc rs feeding it to stock,
and otllp people careless about hand
ling and using 1t, the 10000. 0no sur-
plus will fail to matevialize when the
year is gone.
A prominent flour expert from New
York City, president of the Millers' En-
change Board, was in Casselton last
week and inspected some of the superb
brands of flour manufactured ,.Y Vie
Casselton Roller Mills. as.,in. il was
the hest tlel,r he had ever examined and
that samples of the same he
to him ut New York City by
express and lie would have them made .
into bread and exhibited on tho .,os.,d,
which was accordingly ;ionc, 4his is q /
tiattering eonphmGlit ta wheat grown |
liz tins section and manufactured in,o
flour at this p4int.-Oasselton tnakatu)
Reporter:
The Western fever is once more rag
ing In Green Mountain State, and many
Vermonters contemplate following the
"star of empire" westward the coming
spring. The indications are that ut
least 900 citizens of the State will cf-
feet a settlement beyond the Mississippi
ihis year. Most of the colonists will 90
to Dakota. Among those proposing to
settle in the West is 4 company ail,G,,t.
ly one hundred oil sdldieia ftsm Win
s9E G,aaGss and Washington counties,
who will colonize in Dakota, The CO,
ony will include spore OF me- of tho
he ',, elel:eas Of Cont- -. Vermont, who
w. m'' W u" =, mustered in by the veterans
Ut service IN the wheat fields of the
Northwest. journal.
The Dakota plains viii soon he
cleared of buffalo bones. The bleachcd
heads strewn along the Northern Pa
cific have given the tourist a special
sense of getting his moneys worth of
romance as he sped on toward the Atis.
souri, and the mountains. Now the
stretches of prairie show rarely the
cleaning white spots, and at nearly ev-
cry station can be seen piled up for
shipment the chaotic anatomy of count
less thousands of buffalo. Farmers are
paid two dollars and tlsreo dollars a
wagon lead fer them. For months car
load after carload, to the number of
hundreds, has passed st. Paul on the
way to Eastern cities, where they are
turned to. account as fertilizers The
horns are used for knife handles. but
tons and similar things. Even the bones
that surveyors have stood up as sight.
ing points have been picked up and car,
ried OIL, such is the demand for them. -
st. Paul Pioneer Press,