St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-14
Grand Forks County.

INKsTER, OAK, Jan. 12-On Oct. 30.
a. ID. 1879. eight years ago this fall,
came to Grand Forks. l had to walk
from Fishers Landing, as the railroad
was not in operation. / had $40 in money
and wife and four small children to
support and was in debt about 5000. [
got work at my trade, carpenter. at
20 cents per hour, when the
weather would permit us to
work I fled Oh a section of
land, and did not live upon it. as they
allowed me to prove up without liY-
ing on it. | had sickness in family
good part of the time, but managed to
earn enough to live and send back and
pay my debts in Ontario in one
year after l came here. In the
$500 and bought squatter'S right to
quarter section, with twenty acres tim
Der and Forest river on one corner of it
and moved on in the beginning of
winter, after my wife had improved SO
that | could get away to work at my
trade, which | did for one year, making
81, 200. Since that time L have been
able to have team, and spent most Of
my time farming. | own one-half sec
ton of land, have three good mules,
two horses, for which paid $3.50. have
two wagons, double buggy. two binders
and three plOwS, besides. the necessary
machinery to run a farm of $40 acres.
Have five cows, four head of Young
stock. and no debt. This, year raised
$3.50 bushels of wheat, and as | have
not threshed my oats and barley, cannot
tell how much, but expect to have about
2,Goo bushels, fifty tons of hay be-
sides. roots sufficient for use.
L bought a quarter section of
land about two years ago for 81, 400.
Did not raise any crop on it one year
ago; this year 1 raised On it 5000
bushels of No. hard wheat, which at
56 cents per bushel, will pay for the
farm; 10 per cent interest on the money
and good wages for every days work
done on the land, SO that the land cost
try when l came here and now; when
l came the land to the north
and south was vacant, just few set
tiers along the river. Our nearest mar
llet was Grand Forks. about forty miles.
Now we have four railroad stations, all
under eight miles from us. Good roads,
Sf1oolS and churches whichever way YOU
turn, and, in my opinion, we have all
the advantages of an Eastern state that
has been settled fifty years.
In conclusion will say that there are
a great many in this neighborhOod who
have done better than | have, while
some have not done so well, perhaps.
ORANGE WRIGHT.
MCCANNA, Oak, Dec. Ell came to
Dakota, Trail county. in the year
1873, landed on the Goose river. ten
miles west of Caledonia. All The wealth
| had was a span OF young horses; have
seen hardshipS, but now am all right.
| have done well in this country. |
sold out in Trail county and moved to
Grand Forks county. have bought
section in the town of Agnes on the
Turtle river, two miles from MeCanna.
and paid S., 600 for it. The firm is now
worth $1,000, and over $1,000 worth of
stock and $1,000 on interest. That is
what have made in the country and
would have made more if l had wife.
This Elk valley is famous wheat-rais-
ing country. 1t is about the incest lay
of country ever saw; it is a nice roll
ing prairie, divided with the finest
hay meadows and running streams
that nature ever brought forth.
We raise the finest No. l hard
wheat in this Elk valley that
land ever produced. 1t has been a re-
markable year for yields. Wheat yielded
from twenty-five to forty bushels to the
acre, and oats from fifty to 100 bushels
to the acre. Wheat is cheap now, but
everything else has a good average
price in the market. For a poor man to
get start, l would advise him to go
West and get some of Uncle Sans land
for nothing and go to work. That is the
way did, and don't regret the day
started West. There is land to be
bought-that is, wild prairie-for S. per
acre. Kenyon. GOodhue county, Mimi,
was my former home.
HENRY KUHN.