Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-09
A North Dakota Elevator to be
Built at West Superior
This Fall.
It Will Have a Capacity of 1000,
600, Says Commissioner
Walsh,
Governor Burke Talks Crops-Un-
collected State Tax-Peniten-
tiary Board.
Governor Burke and the Crops.

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Burke, of North Dakota, is in the city
to-day. He talked e~ntertainipgly to the
Evening Tribune man this morning upon
various subjects connected with the well
fare of the north state.
In regard to politics, the governor re-
fused absolutely to talk. He was glad,
however, to enlighten the public in re-
gard to the great wheat crop just har-
vested in the Dakotas and forthwith
proceeded to dc the same. Il calculate"
said he, "that we will get about 6O,000.-
600 bushels of wheat in North Dakota.
There we're sown, approximately, 3,000,-
600 acres of wheat lands. A month ago
it was thought that the yield would aver
age seventeen bushels, and a report was
sent to the department of agriculture to
that effect. Prospects have frightened
since, and to-day IN average of twenty
bushels is expected. This increase of
three bushels average yield will make a
difference of 100000 or 100000 bush
els upon the entire crop.
The governor was Of opinion that little
damage had been done the crop by the
frosts in early September. "Of course"
continued he, "some damage has been
done in spots, but taking the whole crop
into consideration, it will amount to but
little. There is another thing, however,
that is exercising our people much more
than the question of frosted wheat. 1t is
the impossibility of getting sufficient
machinery and labor to thresh the crop.
After three weeks of constant labor the
threshers have made hardly any impress
sion upon the great amount of wheat that
must be threshed. I should say that
only n third or a quarter Of the crop
has been threshed up to date, and it
looks as though much of it will not pass
through the machines till January. Be-
sides damage liable to be done the wheat
by cold weather, farmers are not liable
to do their fall plowlng and next years
acreage may decrease" Governor
Burke says that farmers have
only sold sufficient wheat to enable
them to settle current debts, and that the
money sent from the east to move the
crops had not yet gotten into the hands
Of either merchants or farmers. Speak
ing of the effects of the present crop, he
said that farm lands had advanced 25
per cent. in value all over North Dakota
and that this meant a great increase in i'm
migration next year. The governor
leaves for Bismarck tonight.
Several other prominent residents of
North Dakota were also in the city to-
day. They we're John P. Bray, state au-
ditor; M. H. Jewell, state printer, and
Alex. Capehart, private secretary to Gov
ernor Burke.
MI. Capehart was formerly a resident
of this city and was the inventor of the
electro .matriX apparatus which Melted
him a snug fortune. He now resides in
Bismarck and is brim full of enthusiasm
about North Dakota. He agrees with a
host of other we'll informed Dakotans,
that it will be close upon the beginning
of '92 before the present wheat crop is
threshed out.
"About twenty-five per cent is threshed
out now," said he and it is almost i'm
possible to get machinery and labor to
handle the balance. Only a little of the
wheat has been stacked and the majority
is still in the shock. The stacked wheat
will be left till the last and farmers are
now trying to handle the grain directly
in the shock. The big farmers who have
ample storage capacity are loaning their
machines to the smaller farmers who
have no place to keep their wheat, but
must send it directly to the elevator
The Board Pleased.
Yesterday was the day for the meeting
of the penitentiary board, and when they
attempted to drive up to the front door
of that well-managed institution they
were repulsed by the officers armed with
100 feet of fire hose attached to the n.y.
drants OF the new water system which
has been put in this summer. They sur
rendered and when behind the bars
found that since their last meeting the
work of putting down two and one
eighth miles of six-lnch iron pipe had
been completed, all connections had
been made and everything was in shape
to resist any fire which is liable to occur.
There are three hydrants, from any Of
which, with hose attached, a stream can
be thrown entirely over the flagstaff.
The board has reason to feel proud of
their summers work and much credit is
due to the warden and officers. Over two
miles of ditch has been dug eight feet
deep through quicksand and in some
places water. All work has been done
by convicts under the warden's direc-
tions. No accident has happened, and
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