St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
SAVE YOUR MONEY.
For the People Of Dakota will
Need Help During the
Coming Winter.
Capt. C. w. Hall Says the
Crops Are no Better Than
Last Year.
All the Prosecutions Evil
dence in the Census Case
Now Presented.
Several Interesting Cases
Come Up at the Special
Term of Court.

The people of Minneapolis, ana, III
fact, the whole Northwest, have been
led to believe that the Dakotas are GER
tain of being free from all distress dur
ing the coming winter; that good crops
are assured. This opinion has been
fostered by the reports which have
been sent out from those states at inter-
walls during the present summer. These
reports of excellent prospects for bountl-
full harvests have not, if the words oil a
gentleman recently returned from that
country are to be believed. been en-
tirely ION the square," Capt. c. W.
Hall, who spent many years IN
Dakota, and who has just returned from
attending court at Glendale, brings the
information that throughout large
in almost as poor a condition as they
were last year. In some counties, in
deed. thev are absolutely failure. He
predicts that many of the residents OF
Dakota will need help fully as much as
they did last year. Large numbers OF
settlers, he says, are leaving that coun.
try, while others do not go because they
do not possess the means. Force OF cir
cumstances compels them to remain
and endure whatever privatIons fate
may have in store for them. 10 tell the
story in Capt. Halls words:
II left Minneapolis on the 10th OF
June. When / started it was raining
quite heavily, as 1t had been for several
DAYS, and the water continued to fall
even after reached Dakota. l must
say that | never saw crops looking bet
ter than they did then. Had the rains
continued at intervals through the sum-
mer. so that the crops could have been
supplied with moisture, it is proba-
BILE that the harvest would be greater
than was ever known there. But Such
| is not the case In some counties the
crop is almost total failure. The poor
| prospect for rich harvest is not due to
| Sterility of the soil. 1t is altogether be-
| cause the rains have not been sufficient.
During July the fields never looked
| better, but as | came back / could see
along the whole line of the Milwaukee
road that there will be but short crop.
| The grain is burned, blistered, withered
| to the very root. In Brown, Dickey. Sar-
gent and Ransom counties the grain is
| almost ruined, particularly in Ransom
and Sergeant. The condition is nearly
| as bad in Day, Thurston, Mcintosh and
Mcpherson counties. Of La Moure
county | am not so certain. Crops are
| fair in part of that county, but am in
| formed that the hot weather has done
its work in other portions of it. In fact,
through the whole Jim river valley the
harvest will amount to but little.
l know that the people down
this way are not aware OF this
condition of things. Reports have been
sent out from that country that the
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pie are lying for is something which l
cannot explain. In the sections which
have named the crops are very little
better than they were last year.
t'As / said before, the lack Of rain,
aided by the hot weather, is responsible
for this state of affairs. The weather
has been intolerably hot up there, and
we have had those blisterIng winds
which burn and wither heritage as If a
| fire had passed over it. While [ was at
| Glendale the temperature was 90 deg.
in the shade, too, mind YOU That de-
gree of heat, with no rain to re-
lieve it, is death to crops. About
the condition of North Dakota
l cannot say much from personal OBJ
servation, but | have heard that the
crops are nearly as poor there. Why,
the farmers are now blowing up theil
| WD6aG n6lQS. KNOW OHo ldrIutI VIII
has turned under 400 acres of wheat tC
summer fallow it. You know, there is
no money in that country and the people
up there are going to have an aWfully
hard time this winter"
Dakota seems to be in hard luck,
the reporter ventured to remark.
''Well, it cannot be called luck eX
actly. It's due in great measure tt
the situation in that section," Capt
Hall replied. "l'll tell you how it is
As | explain it, Dakota lies on the edge
of three rain systems, and is covered D!
none, as a rule. When we have heav.
fall of snow and then plenty of rail
after it in the spring. so that the river
and lakes are all filled, and many TEN
porary lakes are created about, so tina
there is large water surface,we are al
right during the summer. Then w
have rains and dews, the dew poin
being very low out there. to assist il
keeping growing plants supplied witt
moisture. Otherwise, we suffer as w
did last year, and as we are dc
ing this year. In my opinion
Dakota will never amount to much unit
irrigation is adopted. That is the onl
relief for that country, unless it l
turned into stock raising country
The supply of moisture is too preca
rious for it to prove success as a whea
country. AS it stands, the countr
must be irrigated, or the sooner it
given over to the Indians the better,