Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-06-07
greatest country in the world for wheat,
but what's the matter with corn?

but what's the matter with corn?
j. p. Manhart: I've got in an assortment
Of small stuff this year, and I'll tell you
what it is: fifteen acres of millet; thirty
of wheat; twenty Of oats; nine of rye, and
ten and one-half Of potatoes. must tell
You something about the gophers. II is a
singular fact that the pesky little brutes
do not touch rye, but they manage, to get
their work in ON about everything else. 1
do not anticipate that wewill have much
trouble with them this year. This rye is a
very hardy grain and droughts have no
effect upon it. 1t stands a great deal more
hardships than any other grain. There is
but little idle: ground this year. Nearly
every foot of ground in my township is
seeded this year.
Joe Katz: have quit the Sheridan
house and gone to farming this year on q
pretty large scale, because am confident
there is more money in it, and what's more,
l am thinking seriously of getting married
and settling down for keeps. have
forty-fve acres of wheat and oats all in
very good condition, and l also have about
thirty head of stock.
Charles Ferris: live on the Fort Rice
reservation, have in fifty acres of wheat
ana oats, and if this kind of weather con-
tinues we will have boss crop.
| H. II. Wells: You don't see me much in
town now, for / am farming. Of flax and
potatoes I've got forty acres, all in nice
shape.
John MCGOWAN: have in about dozen
acres Of a general mixture this year on the
reservation, and may put in some corn yet,
but don't know positively. I am an old
timer in the northwest. ! came out here
from Kansas with an old soldier named
Harvey in 1856. when Bismarck was never
thought of. Harvey died about two months
ago at New Orleans, aged 80 years. I will
take trip to some of the eastern cities in
few years just to see the change since. I
left. When was in Sioux City last there
were but two or three log houses, and look
at her to-day-a city of over 10000 inhab-
itants. Then there is Leavenworth, Kan,
where you could put dozen such cities as
Leavenworth was then into Bismarck
now. Bismarck will come out all right.
Sam Lawrence: I have 800 acres of
wheat, oats and rye; forty of corn, ten of
mlllet and five OF potatoes. Very flatter-
ing. Never saw better layout for an
enormous harvest since 1872.
Louis Westhauser: Ny man came in
town to-day, and says I've got the finest
piece of wheat in the county. am going
out there tomorrow and see for myself.
Farmer Campbell: Grain is all coming
on nicely. Late sown, top grain is the
best; that which was plowed in is not so
good, but it will come on all right. have
forty-five acres of self-sown oats-good
stand-they'll be as good as any.
+. II. Wilson Loses Relatives and Friends.
"Yes that was all awful calamity in
Pennsylvania last week'' sadly said E. H.
Wilson Of the Missouri Valley Land Mort
gage company to TRIBUNE reporter yes
day. Il am livery ANXIOUS to hear some
thing of my nephew Wesley Wilson, who
lives at JohnstOwn, and is connected
with the shipping department of the Cam
bria Iron company. have many intimate
acquaintances down there, among whom
are 2John Dibert, the wealthy banker,
who has been in the banking business
twenty years; James Mcmillan, general
manager of the Cambria Iron cOmpany's
stores. There were dry goods, grocery and
feed stores, employing each over 200 clerks
and he had charge of them all. Then there
is Cyrus Elder, the general superintendent
OF the Cambria Iron works. His wife and
four children are among those reported in
the loss OF lives. do not see his name
mentioned, and 1t is possible that he might
have escaped the flood, as he was away
from Cambria mnch of the time on busi-
ness. know every foot of ground in that
vicinity just as well as do Bismarck, and
perhaps better as lived there for many
years. Only small list of those lost has
yet been published and know over half of
them personally. 1t is all familiar to me.
Conemaugh borough, adjoirg lJohns-
town, is made ground.' cut out by the
state of Pennsylvania. When l was. there
1t was vast hollow, and since then it has
been filled in with earth, railroad acinders,
etc. There were abought 5000 people in
this borrough-that's what, we call small
towns in Pennsylvsnia-andI do not see
how it is possible that any Of the houses
OF their occupants could be saved, as the
water would hayea terrific sweep down
upon them, carrying everything before it.
"The next adjacent town is Woodvale,lo-
Gated Immediately above the latter-named
borough, and the town is principally
owned and controlled by the ,Woodale
Woolen Mill company, which I think must
have covered five acres Of ground. It was
one Of the largest of its kind in the United
States. Most of the houses were brick
buildings and the company's hands lived
in them, which are also owned by the COM
pany. This was natural ground and / see
that there is nothing left to mark the spot
but the mill. .,i 5s II. I'll,
Adjoining Woodvale on the east is Cone
maugh station. Thisis the station belong
ing e the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany and situated directly at the base Of.
the Alleghany mountains. This; was
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