The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-07-27
A SUMMERS DAY IN THE CEN
 TER OF WHEATLAND.

Travelling through the park region of the Red river valley, by way of the St. Paul. MinneAp polis A Manitoba railway. VIC were Arouse5 from our slum bers shortly after six e. m. At Grand Forks, North Dakota, and bowl. lng along through sea of waving grain, we arrived At our destination an hour and hal f later. and Alightcd At the nourishing town of Minto. in the very heart of our famous north ern whestlAnds.
 takes it's name from an extensive belt of oak and elm timber Of massive size. which ct that point lntersects the prairie for many miles. furnishing an Abu ndAnce of fuel to tho inhAb itants on it's borders. Forest rtver IS . tribu. tAFy of Red river. from which Minto is distant twelve miles.
 Ately surrounding Ainto is truly phenomenal. considering the fact that the county lwAlsh) was only organized in lssl, and that although there are i've other shipping stations within a radius Of eight miles. nearly one million bushels Of No. l hard wheat are annually 1s.S:pSraed p wh rTon anso, !ns so,a, ye.siy snIp- mous aggregate of six million bushels of our staple cereal. a quantity which we may safely atale has not been hitherto approached by any other settlemont of simiiAr extent in Ihe world within an equal period of time.
 Mlnto is rare exception to most northwest enced . bloom" of any kind. IL has worked quietly along under its village charter ob. Iained in isss, while other places of less i'm . Portanoe have undertaken the expenses of
 The influence of Minto in county aGAirs. however, has been frequently shown. notably at the election of delegates to tho constitu. tional convention. when two of her citizens were elected to represent the twenty fourth
 The county of walsh extends lon gitudinally nine tow nships or fifty four miles, and four townships or twenty four miles north and so Of sem. of ,se lead to greatly iseresssd % number 70 of insaSi, ton of the county, and the increased sSresge under tillAge and improved cultivation win, year by year, contribute to greater prosper.
 Driving out into the country we halted on an eminence . few miles northwest from Minto, when the beautiful lines of Scott were graphically recalled to mind
 "Far to the south and east where lay.
 Extended In succession gay,
 Deep waving fields and pastures green,
 With gentle slopes and groves between"
 The farmers about Minto are largely of the pioneer class, ready to sell out and move on. ward. Dwelling houses and farm buildings are in the main of . tenn porAry character; but stsntiaI baildin gs {; which invariably mark the abode of the permanent settler, and we saw quite . number of farm houses which exhib
 Among the many successful farmers around Mnto. whose homestcads we visited on . sin gle summer'. day VIC mention few
 rived Ia the district about ten years ago with only few hundred dollArs. He and hls fam. fly own several sections of rich farm lAnds. He has beautiful home and is in independent circumstances.
 The Hon. George P. Harvey. . native of New Hampshire. has been here for like period. He villa residence on his farm. and most exten. sive farm buildings. He possesses . herd of seventy head of short horn aud high grade cattles ct the head of which stands one of the most exponsive and superb specimens of short-horn sire Co oe found in the northwest. stitutional conv ention, arrived at klnto about the same time without means. He is now an extensive fArmer and grain merchant, and from incumbrAnce.
 John Bsii, brother of fast named. worked his way up the Red rtver from Canada eoous the