New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-19
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY MAY s lss9TwENrY

have poor oron fail, get disguised, ami light
out" leaving the banking or loan company from
wheh they have received financial assistance
to gather In the property in payment OF their
DEBT Dakota could give half million farmers
200 acres each, upon which population Of
100000 could happily subsist, leaving plenty
Of room for cities. As a matter Of fact the
G2,000,00o bushels OF wheat raised in 1887 came
from less than 10000 farms, and less than half
Of these were In crop. In other words, less than
100000 acres out Of 10000, 900, did the work
These figures are eloquent il you will regard
them for but a minute. They show how vast
the room is out here and how slightly it is
occupied even yet. In South Dakota, where all
the land is taken and in private ownership, not
90 per cent Of 10 is in actual use. 1t is often
cheaper to take one Of these farms where the
ground has been broken % some extent than
IL is to settle on wild Land and spend years
time rendering IL receptive. Farms such as
l have described, upon which some work has
been done, and from which or two crops
have been taken, but whose tenants were for
one reason or another, a reason however, peculiar
TO themselves, incompetent and shiftless' are TO
be had in every county in both Dakotas at from
81 TO $40 an acre.
Back from the Red River mile or so the
prairie slopes downward forming valley perhaps
twenty miles wide and 200 long, which
is nearly foot lower than the river bank
The years 1Ssl and 1882 are known out here
MS boom times immigration during those years
being particularly heavy Settlers poured into
this valley, but before they had done more than
break the ground, trouble came The winter
Of 'S3 was long and cold. md the river made
three feet Of ice. | nm talking now Of the
northern half OF the world where the water
Hon and
Bay the Northern Pacific and the Arctic. The
Red River flows into Lake Winnipeg. The ice
down here began 10 melt while il was still solid
in the lake, and presently the river rose, over
flowed md submerged this valley. At that time
there was no drainage whatever, and the newly
arrived settlers were subjected 10 great
losses. SO soon spring came, they
packed up their goods and moved further
west, leaving many Of their farms in the posses
sion OF bankers and loan agents Since then the
land has been drained, and were another such
food to come, which is very unlikely, as the
river banks from six 10 ten feet high II
could do particular harm But hundreds Of
these farms with their improvements arc still
vacant and at least g, 600 acres in Grand Forks
County can be had at g. acre. As many
900 acres can he had at from So 70 $40 an
acre. II there is a more fertile spot than this
on top Of the world, II Inns yet 10 be found
Grand Forks is interested in another industry
which is peculiarly IT'S own, and which, as yet
scarcely touched, must soon become almost the
greatest factor in the city's prosperity The Red
Lake River flows into the Red River at Grand
Forks n circumstance which gave the city its
namc, the early voyagcrs being, at first, at a
loss TO know which was the main stream. About
hundred miles due east in Minnesota IL the Red
Lake and for miles and miles around 1t are dense
rino thickets. Quick 20 perceive the advantage
that these timber lands might be 20 them, with
a river In which TO float the logs down and
vast market 10 the west clamOring for lumber, the
people OF Grand Forks recently sent survey
party to look the groves over and to estimate
the quantity OF the timber II is all contnned
within the Chippewa Reservation, so that nobody
can get at 1t just Such sections Of 1t rs arc
outside the reservation boundaries have already
been gobblcd up by lumber dealer who Is now
opCuilng an immense mill At Grand Forks, anu
Whose sales last year 70 the territory west OF MN
amounted 10 ten million feet. AZ present he Is
enjoying o delightful monopoly, but commission
is treating with The Indians Tor une opLnms , Us
lands win undoubtedly he aNallahle ~ y t>,l,
mated that there arc about ten Dilion ieet o.
Uinp oak ash and elm, from 80 20 $50 feet hlgh'
within The timber belt and the topography OF the
country is such that there can ne no possible
outlet for the trees except down the lted laSe
will inevitably become a great lumber manu-
featuring and distributing centre
Nor ia there any reason, with us eNc'iIeht raj
road facilities and It's situation why II should not
become q ent whoeSaIing centre, too sup
posing n triangle OF which Duluth shatt " Tue
nuex and n line drawn from Grand Forks 10 NJ.
Paul shall he The hypothcnuse, one can sec nov
fortunate is the position OF Grand Forks Tor wnoc.
snle OBJ ratinns. II is but 220 miles nortnweSt !
from Eumth II IS 800 miles nearer the FAclnc
Cast whence II would draw Its sugars ana
canned goods, than is 81. Paul II make ITS own
Hour now. Retail houses in the country always
h,r tisir goods wherever they get their sugars.
In buying from St Ral S"&oy they paS 6fT'sn,
an Eastern Goods from Duluth 80 miles 10 81.
PAUL and then mp 70 Grand Forks SEQ miles winnie yr
they might snve y clcr $50 Mules by shipping from
,Ic Fast sirnight through Duluth. Upon th'Sr
conditions built III" horeT OF ms interesting
i, nlentIfnl and rtain. It, people pl'h an shove
viii Mi tho energy character,tic OF n" West II
Inns schools and colleges in ample SuIhciehTy, ana
all IL needs Is population. L. L. u
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