Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1889-09-25


John Dwight, a heavy owner of the stock
of The company. A correspondent, treat
ing CT its work for the present year, says:
l he Dwight farm is a big concern. The
area of this farm is nearly sixty thousand
acres, but it is not all contiguous, or all
IN one county. The farm proper Is eight
miles northwest from Wahpeton on the
Manitoba. 1t lies between the Manitoba
and Milnor branches of the Northern Pa
elf. There are, however, two more farms
south and east. They are called ranches.
This Is the home place and here the prin-
cipal plant is found aud the features that
surprise the clodhopper from New York
aud New England. he pay roll of the
hands Of this farm for the month of Au-
gust amounted to $4,000. The largest
number of hands in harvest was 175.
There have been cut ana threshed 1000
acres of wheat, and the yield in round
numbers is 140, ,009 bushels. BESIDES this
there were over 1,G00 acres of oats and
barley. Although this is not stock farm,
there are several hundred head Of horned
stock, over two hundred head of horses,
several hundred head of sheep, and pigs by
the acre. Personal property and buildings
are probably worth $l50,O00. There is
one item of S37. 900 in horses. 1t requires
SO plows to do the fall blowing. This
year the plowlng will be done two weeks
earlier than usual. The crop is large, the
season is and has been favorable for the
entire work, and the result in a single
phrase is: Farming does pay on large
SCALE" The best days threshing was
2,235 bushels of wheat. There are seven
steam threshers on the farm. The whole
country around this farm is one vast wheat
field, and throughout that part of Richland
county aud south to the state line the
wheat crop is the best in North Dakota.
here are fiequ. lat yields of iaiyty and
forty bushels to the acre, and whole Sec
tions that turn out twenty five. This por-
tion of North Dakota is a surprise to the
visitor. 1t comes nearer his preconceived
notions of what wheat land should look
like than any other part of the state. 1t
meets his great expectations" j. j.
Power, Of north western Richland, however,
reports the largest yield on two acres =
fifty and sixty bushels. 1t is reliably
stated that the Dwight farm has never lost
money. John Miller, manager, is one of
of the owners and consequently one of
the heaviest taxpayers IN Richland county.
n COON unu A-a.iy suggestion.
Next year will be the first year of state
hood, and the Dakotas should do some-
thing to advertise themselves. The most
effective advertising ever done for North
Dakota was done by j. b. Power when he
was land commissioner of the Northern
Pacific rail road. 1t was the fair on wheels
that he took all over the east and into
CANADA. The tour of that car was simply
triumphant. Everybody went to see the
Northern Pacific exhibit and the favorable
results were manifest for years afterward.
The same idea could be adopted by the
states Of North and South Dakota, and
next fall several cars fitted up and sent
east during the fair season. 1t will not be
very expensive, and the whole country
would see and read about the train from
the Dakotas. The first state legislatures
might make q hit in taking up this sug-
gestion.
I've Land Districts for the Reservation.
BY an act Of congress approved March
3, 1888, there were made two land districts
of the Sioux reservation recently ceded by
the Indians. 1t may not be generally
known that this act will 60 into effect as
soon as the president pro laims the ceded
lands open for settlement, but such is the
case. There will then be two land Offices
established and officers appointed. The
act which provides for the districts in the
Sioux reservation created the Devils lake
land district In North Dakota. The divid.
ing line between the two reservation dis
tricts IL the second standard parallel,
which 10 the moth line of Buffalo, Jerauld,
Sanb0Tn, Miner, Lake and Moody coun-
ties in south Dakota. The south district
is described - follows:
CommencinG at point where the Missouri
river crossos the second standard parallel
westerly point where the river crosses the same
parallel; thAnce west on the parallel to the