St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
A VOICE FROM ABROAD.
What an OhiS Correspondent Found
i'm 81. Paul.

Special Correspondence Cleveland Leader.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. 12.-Since writ
ing my last letter from Lake MinnetOnka
10 the Leader | have been STAYING a lew
days in the city OF St. Paul and through
the courtesy of Mr.. Lee Davis. prominent
and popular citizen. for twelve Years auditor
and largely identified with the growth of
ST. Paul, L was introduced to many OF the
prominent citizens, shown all over the city,
and quite Hospitality entertained. Mr. Davis
married niece of Judge Tilden of Cleve-
land, and is engaged in the real estate bust
ness. Real estate in all the cities and towns
OF the West is one of the best OF businesses
To these men all settlers apply who want
to make purchases or see the city or country
ST. Paul Is city of over 100, 900 people.
1t Is about the same size as Minneapolis,
but is older. and being the point from
which all the railroads in the North
west center, or start, being the capital
OF the state, and being handsomely situated
on the north side Of the Mississippi river at
the head OF navigation. il is the most i'm
pOrtant and wealthy city in the Northwest.
The jobbing and wholesale business OF St.
Paul is very large. There are several firms
here who sell as much as $4,000. 600 per
year each of dry goods, notions. and ready
made clothing suitable for frontier life.
Here are located the general offices of the
Northern Pacific railroad, the Manitoba
railroad, the Duluth railroad, the ST. Paul
* Omaha railroad. and other roads and
connecting lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee
* st. Paul and the Chicago IL Northwest
ern railroads. These two last-named roads
are great lines running in every direction
all over the West and Northwest, and still
pushing forward in the van of civilization
nd 49,
the Missouri river in Dakota. one at
Chamberlain and the other at Pierre.
1 am surprised to find that Duluth.
at the head of navigation on Lake
Superior, is attracting so much expectation.
Many here think that Duluth will still re-
aliZe the grandeur and importance predicted
by Proctor Knott in his humorous and iron
ical speech in congress, made many years
ago, and which attracted so much attention
at the time. At this season of the year the
railroads are doing large business carrying
tourists and persons prospecting for homes
IN this new land. The depOtS are full be-
fore each departing train. The numerous
lakes in this section have become, many of
them, places or resort for the hunter and
sportsman There is a popular fallacy
among the people of the United States that
this section is very cool. and they come
here expecting to escape the heated season
at home. liz is with 4 good deal of sur
prise that they find the climate here during
the months of July and August quite as
warm as at home. and all kinds of vegeta-
ton even more advanced than in Northern
Ohio.
st. Paul is a very substantially-built city,
making much better appearance SO far as
business blocks are concerned than Cleve
land. Here find not only beautiful and
comnodious dwellings, but a good many
which would challenge the admiration of
even Cleveland Euclid avenue resident.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES ABOUND
and instead of being frontier people and
a frontier city, with everywhere apparent
newnesS. we find n city with every con-
venience and every appendage and neceS-
Sary Improvement found in the old cities of
the East, and with what many OF them
want, that is great business energy and
push. st. Paul is not located quite 50 well
to attract the attention OF i stranger as Min
neapOliS, which laSt-named city constantly
reminds you Of Cleveland, with its broad
avenues and streets, and structures. | was
introduced to the governor, ex-Secretary
Ramsey and other prominent citizens, all
OF whom are much alive to the growing in
tereSts of st. Paul and the future great
state of Minnesota. i am. however, spend
ing too much time in describing st. Paul
and L will drop it after saying that they
have splendid new hotel named the Hotel
Ryan"
At the Hotel Ryan / was introduced by
Mr.. Davis TO Oliver Dalrymple, the great
Dakota farmer. who was born and educated
at Warren, Pa, as lawyer, but who about
thirty years ago came to Minnesota and
began farming on a grand scale within
thirty miles Of st. Paul, but who, upon the
opening of the Red River valley in Northern
Dakota for settlement, was attracted
tnltheT by the rich productive wheat lands
of that heretofore much unknown region
Speaking of his farm in Dakota, he said:
Il have considerably more than 100, 900
acres OF the best wheat land in the world.
l have in crop this year $4,000 acres of
wheat OH the line of the Northern Pacific
railroad, and / expect TO harvest crop of
from 500, 900 to 600, 600 bushels of wheat.
The ground is plOwed in the fall before
freezing, in September and October. 1t is
narrowed in April and May, and the wheat
Sowed just rs soon rs the surface of the
ground thawS. We do not wait for the
frost TO get out of the ground. As soon as
a few inches is thawed we put the harrow
on it, rs it is dry. We sow all our wheat
IN the spring. the winter being too severe
for winter wheat, and it is harvested in
August. and almost ali the work is done by
machinery. l do my blowing with horses,
NOT BECAUSE IT Is CHEAPER
than steam plows. but because l have to
keep the horses for harvesting. and find it
cheaper To work them. plOw with a gang
pillow Of two plowS on wheels drawn by
four hOrseS-the steam plOws have a gang
of eight plows. and with an engine at each
end Of the piece being plOwed. They are
drawn by a cable across the field. ] plOw
about five acres day with four horses A
steam plow. costing with It's whole OUTFIT
from $4,000 to so. 600, will pillow
from forty to fifty acres a day. l
use the broadcast sewers. and en-
plOy about eight hundred horses and
mules and 1000 men. L have divided my
farm into parts OF 5000 acres, each of
which is in charge of one man. lie divides
il in tracts of 1000 each and puts man
on horseback who goes with the men and
supeTintends the work. 1 have 200 self
binding Teapers and thirty steam threshers.
IL takes twelve days to cut and twenty DAYS
to thresh my crop. ] begin threshing as
soon as the cutting is done. i do not stack.
but thresh from the shock. The fuel for the
engines we thTeSh with is straw. 1t only re-
Quires a small quantity of the straw to keep
up steam. We burn the straw after harvest.
During the threShing period We send off
from two to three trains of cars day to
Duluth, where the wheat is put into eleva-
tors 10 await shipment TO Buffalo by water
1t only costs me mill per buShel 10 shin
from Duluth 10 Buffalo, whereas, if / sent
it to Chicago II would cost me l cent per
bushel. The wheat we raise is called No. 1
hard. 1t is very rich in glutinOus properties,
and ground by rollers it makes the best flour
in the world and sells for 81 barrel more