The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-03-08
Letters from Journal Readers In the Far West.

Letters from Journal Readers In the Far West.
| Mr.. Geo. NJ. Cole writes from Monango, Dakota,
under date of Feb. 18th: presume Maine people
| will form rather poor opinion of Dakota from
| the recent storm. But if any one is well housed
andhas plenty Of fuel and provisions he is It's com
| Portable here any where. couple of tons of
| coal, costing from 81 to 80 per ton, will keep
| good room warm all winter, while it requires
cwt. per day in poor room. We had little over
Il month of pretty rough weather, commencing
about the middle of December, but the two weeks
| previous to the first Monday in February were as
| fine weather could ask. Maine people
would be liable to suffer in storms if it prairie
country without roads, fences or inhabitants for
ten miles together. There are 50 many familiar
objects in the East that has no fear of getting
lost in the worst storm, white if solitary house is
located the pr;rie it is not safe to venture far
from the door when the air is full of snow. Dur
I ing the late blizzard preferred melting snow to
| going siN rods for water There We're times when
you could not see rod, and many people got lost
| in going short distances.
| have been out on the prairie several miles from
any house when i. came dark, with plenty of snow
| flying, but prefer to travel in tie day time and
only in pleasant weather The prairie is covered
|
| eight to ten feet deep. The snow would have all
| blown AWAY had it not been for grass and other
| obstacles. 1t is rather colder here than i'll Milne
and we have more wind, but have no trouble in
| keeping comfortable. There are good roads for
| few miles out from towns in pleasant weather but
there is no public effort to keep the roads open.
The man who gets out OF tobacco first has the
privilege of making the first track. They drive
around the drifts, seldom eho cling any snow. All
the early settlers say they had fine crops here
until the last two years. Ihe average farmer
raises about 100 acres of wheat and the past year
| the yield was about eight bushels per acre, worth
| 50 cts per bushel This woult give the farmer Il
| good living income if it was a land Of fuei and
| lumber, but it costs more to live here where the
cheapest lumber fora stable costs SIS per thousand
and the gra'les mostly use, cost 90 to .24. Many
Il man of limited circumstances has been ruined
| by his crop falling below the average stock and
| machinery are about the same price here rs in
| Maine but there is wider difference i'll prices
! 1t often occurs that the REIMBURSEMENT of Il claim
can be bought for one or two hundred dollars in a
| neghhorhood where few farms can be bought ior
| less than Sidoo per quarter section Of 100 acres
| Jf we have Il good crop another year will paint
| the country for you
| "a Subscriber writes from Ibct, Montana
un,;el late Feb. 10th Judging from " hat Sc in
| the columns of the Journal New England is haN-
| lhg some winter weather, well aS tile North
| western states and Territories Bat Montana has
escaped, for aside from about twenty days in
January or from Dec. 23lh to Jan. lj,h, tho wealth
| CT has been very mild to date. There ha, been uo
loss of stock of any Kind but from the papers we
| see that our sister Territories having a very
| cold spell and that Il great many lives lave been
| lost
| The tariff question Is the only trouble tina, the
stock men NOW have to contend with, The Boston
Globe say that it is shame for 80 0tlooo people
| to pay such high price for clothing u,tto please
| the small numhtr of sheep men IT the nI"Gc
| knows anythn@ it would admit that there l. not Il
man ON the continent that would AK fer ciotInug
| {" be any cheaper than at the present TIME But
presume this Administration organ think its ideas
on the question are As Nloa,I rs Clrye eAI,.'- aud
| that is enough EUt Would the 7hctp.lucn uc the
| only ones that free ti.ulr Woul'. affect: WulId
| factory hands srt ~ good pay It's ROW "r Vuttld
1 they have TO work iUr tiir Wa2t, a. foreign
| hands: How mach cheaper would 'lrtAjn- ice:
| The President ~ay~ enough cheaper t. lu"rr than
make ur the dnerencc in tho t,liil. tut we ,.uu,
| believe him.
| We had quite thaW here IN January aili one uf
| the Grangcrs started in IL plough, getting ready
| to sow spring wheat .nenI;c Davis Wa~ in town
few days since having u branding iron made.
He has invested quite heavily in horses the past
| seas0n....ln prize drawing not long since in
| in Helena T.. Il. Fitzgerald hcII The ticket that
dreN the horSc....t harIts Severance and family
are spending the winter in llrcr;t Ralph Btrrv
| returned to his sheep ranch at Wnnccook not Ion :
| since. one Of our cAttr-meu ,lr"yc in a beef
Steer last week from the range that tlrc~-,, 915 lbs
| Who can beat it:......Wc are in fopg- to- hear
| through the columns of the journal the result If
tile shipment If woul from Colorado tu the state Of
| Maine
Mr.. o. v. Pitcher, >quarr-toed RcpuIliranand
an ardent Blaine man, now resident of Brrckcn
| ridge, Colorado, sends lis copy of the Denver Re
puhiican of Feb. 18TH, in which appears the follow
! lMg editorial:
TIL >tFH on ELAINE.
The opinion is cntcraintd in the East that hat
eyer the enemies of Mr.. Blaine may do. there Is
| strong demand for his nomination all opposition
| Will give way.
This shows how important it j, that Mr. isIanc'-
friends ahoal't show thch 10y lalty to him all
| raSloHS. Colorado Republicans, can ar him and
| through him the Republican party grca; service
! " never >MerNinG one hairs hlcalth from tNc
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| Colorado will listen
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| tial 10 me no,ty's sur,r.. lie i ti',, ,., n,
could rally not only the MASSES uf ne party. tIi
| also thousauds of ',rmucr,ti. ,nrrr. f., ~. -,.,
| port of the Republican ticket.
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