Telegram-herald., 1890-09-02
GREAT NORTHERN
= Trip Over This Aagnineently
kgapped Read.
Ahe VALLEY "a tae Hsis as >ieak se asaaf-
e1a@-- = hiis still Ksisiag Aarse croys
hst tasg Are Deezsss aE-8lhsr
Products kseeaa nasa.lsss.


Fso2ac1s Kseeaaz.salss-
ai'eeia- Correspond @ase KElseals- Hssan.
Tue toar OF the great Rsd river val,
ley Of the North ever the Greas Sor.h-
err railway lna-fgom the ts.a ciEes
OF Grand For1s. a5ou. ga al..es. thea
. Devils Lake. 80 nlles, Fort Ba-
ford, cs5 us.Iess Grsat Falls, 1913
miles he.eaa. ll7l miles. and Butte.
1850 m.lss. The above are the most
important pou.s male OF the soate,
a0d ihe distances from 81. Paul. The
ffst $50 miles embraces the great H.
iimIsble, oeeaa-l.Ee nelas u whsatof
the North est. A potion o. THIS
Norta pakoga district, otxithstanding
al taat has been sald ana written, Will
make 3 handsome showing OF the
hssst 80. wheat yield ta.s year.
Ar. Dalymple, tie great wheat pro-
ducer, ialOgmed us that he had raised
twenty-five bushels 70 the acre, and
that the average this year would run
about eighteen bushels TO the acre,
some woald 30 rs low as fifteen,
and son.e twenty ov more other farm
eFs further up the valley claim As high
as twenty-five bushels TO the acre, and
claim to have raised as high a. forty
hve IN previous years. The upper
portion 81 the Bed river valley IS con-
sdeged the greatest wheat producing
c0untgy known. Ba. the earlier
theory, that nearly ii not the entire
country is adapted 10 wheat produc-
ton. Is being revived by painful expert
ence wsth many OF the Dakotas' wheat
raising people.
1ne Red river valley proper IS dis
tncuvely the wheat region, but how
long this will continue IS . problem yet
TO he solved.
The country along the river had a
considerable area OF grain Just rpeii-
ing, ready fer the harvester, at the
time We passed westward. The fields
were q marvel OF luXur.ance, 3 great
sight TO look UPON, so strong, uniform
~ even, and some of the owners
claimed that II would yield as high as
thlrty-five bushels TO the acre, but
looks are often deCelylng even III fine
wheat fields. While this claim seems
high, we can look back 10 our DAYS of
wheat raising IN the great State OF
Ohio, which produced from twenty-five
TO nifty bushels to the acre, thrty-hve
10 forty-iive being an average crop,
but tins average has of late years been
greatly reduced, and fifteen to twenty
bushels per acre is the more common.
ar. Dalrymple said to US: 81 have
raised twenty-five bushels to the acre,
but not III the past two years" He
thought IT might run from fifteen TO
twenty this year, and perhaps average
eighteen bushels.
The entire valley from Bois de Sioux
10 Manitoba Is q vast wheat field; no
wheat district has been more reliable in
past years, but even here the quantity
has been less during the past two years
than 1t has been IN years previous. A
very serious shortage has been ex-
tremely rare until now.
1t Is now claimed doubtful that anv
very great areas in the state, away
from the rich, moist lowlands IN the
uyer valleys, can longer be depended
on as sale and permanent wheat re-
glon, and any farmer who will base his
future success entirely on the produc-
ton Of wheat viii make very serious
mistake. There are other products that
may be grown, and stock raising may
| be one or the coming enterprises. Some
are already turning their attention IN
| that direction, especially sheep raising.
Various new enterprises are being IN
| trOduced, but even these cannot be sue
| cessfuly handled IN the greater portion
/ OF this State and country, on account
| OF It's drynCss and insufficient pasture.
| IL there were artificial means of intro
! ducmg moisture, so that i could be had
| az critical times, there would be almost
| indefinite multiplication of the wheat
product, but this artificial rrigatng
! process seems to Us impossible, at least
/ in great portion OF this country,
/ where there are no streams TO take wa
/ ter from. and 10 earthly chance of
1 getting It, only as It naturally comes
/ down from the heavens above. In
} the arid regions there are people VINO
have exhausted all their little means in
/ futile Efforts to grow wheat. and without
capital % introduce stock they are
/ forced % leave their home, their little
tlts " NttEteh AAAttA AAG tttA sStat
anxiously looked tor water shall come
/ either in rain, by change IN the seasons
or artesQn processes. The continued
/ subSdauce OF the surface waters and
the streams during the past few year.
ls curious, and thus far, unexplained
/ fact. Even portions of once great
[ Red RIVER of the North. that allowed
I steamers TO float or It's boosom as fal
hack as we can remember. aud up to
four or five years ago, now scarcely
7 affords easy sailing tor the little row
( boats and Indian canoes. Although
there have bean some heavy ram fall.
/ IN the northern aaf of Dakota, west
OF the valley of the Red. there are he'd:
I 0f what were at one time quite large
lakes snd inland streams. some 0f them
{ Wta from lve tO fifteen feet of waite.
and tais w.lain the settlement Of ths
{ closing decade. Which are now entirely
+ dry and e enc would ever think @.
+ lakes. Crel As and rivers having once
I been there. Rivers. brooks. and lake.
I are ne mo .aIis dry land. not even 4
+ suearCf Z ass % ~ seen on the grounds
{ which wer once the bottoms of waters
i The whole country Is rarched. burned
Z ND for tle want % water IL IS claimed
hv tie oid Indians that thlsis r0s the
f first time tne rivers and lakes have dr.cd
un. but tGa.even no further back thar
T 62. all were az dry as tuey are now
s Tt-s seems to De- srlosi att.atea uV luErs