The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-13
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
Stories About and Chats With
Noted Men.
DEMAGOGUERY IN CONGRESS
and How John Mccullough Treated Sem
ator Voorhees, Stage-struck Son.

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-lSpecial CORE
tpondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD. i
The new Senators from the northwest are
bringing in wonderful reports of the i'm
mense crops of wheat and other cereals
which have been raised this year in the
Dakotas and Minnesota A large part of
the wheat of North Dakota is yet I'M
threshed and in those counties where the
greatest distress was last year the crop is
the largest Hundreds of thousands of
bushels of grain are lying under the snow
from the lack of hands to do the harvest
ing. The local banks are full of money
and the Minneapolis business men who
were here at the time of the meeting of
the Republican national committee told me
that cords Of money were coming from the
northwest to them for investment and that
the probability was that great amount of
money would be sent east to be loaned.
Mr.. Bracket one of the biggest operators
of Minneapolis, says that about four hun
dred million dollars have been gotten out
Of the ground OF the two Dakotas and
Minnesota this year and the farmers of
these states are paying off their mortg ages
and are looking about for good loans.
One of the biggest farmers of the United
States and the man who controls perhaps
as large an amount of cultivated land as
any man in the United States Senate is
Senator Casey, of North Dakota. The
Darlington and Casey Land company has a
large number OF squarelmiles of Dakota
land and it has 5000 acres under cultiva-
ton. Senator Casey is the business man
ager of this tract and he is one Of the
broadcast minded farmers in the country
he looks, however, more like scientific
hterateur than farmer, and he is one of
the best business men and one of the most
cultivated gentlemen in the Senate He is
man OF broad ideas, high culture, and he
has made considerable study of all ques-
lions relsting to the agricultural interests
OF the country. He comes from the region
OF large farms, and when l asked him to-
day to tell me something Of the biggest
farms in the United States, he replied
II suppose the biggest farm in the
United States is the Dalrymple farm, which
is located in the Red river valley, sand
which belongs TO Oliver Dalrymple. This
farm contains 30, 600 acres of the richest of
Dakota lands. 1t is well farmed and It's
output is very large. The finest farm in
the United States is the Grandin farm
which belongs to &. B. and j. L. Grandin,
who came from Tidiout, Penn, some wears
ago and bought a large tract of Dakota
land. This farm is in the Red river valley
about twenty-five miles north of Fargo. it
has from ten thousand to fifteen thousand
acres under cultivation, and it has made a
profit Of $3.50, 900 during the past ten wears.
The lands composing it are now worth
from thlrty-hve TO fifty dollars per acre
and Mr.. Grandin has other farms near
this. He is one of the best farmers in the
country, and has as superintendent Mr. A.
w. Dalrymple, nephew of Oliver Dal-
rymple, who owns the big farm In addi-
ton TO the farms there are in North Da-
kota great number of farms ranging from
one thousand to six thousand acres. We
have 5,OOO acres IN one place, and we keep
1000 acres of this under cultivation
How can you manage such large farm,
Senatorln said l.
1.-The big Dakota farms are run on bust
ness principles" replied Senator Casey.
Everything is systematically arranged
and we know just exactly what everything
costs and what everything is worth to US.
A farm like ours, for instance, has its day
bOok-keeper, its overseer and its employees.
We have reports from the farm every dsy
showing Just what has been done during
the day and what each man, each horse and
each machine has done. We estimate the
wear and tear Of each machine in proportion
10 the amount of work it does and we credit
value. We know just what each acre of
wheat costs US and the profits arising from
1t and we can tell to q cent just how much
of an interest we are getting on the capital
we have invested. All farming of this kind
is done on large scale We have, for in
stance, twenty harvesters and we can
harvest 800 acres of wheat a day. In put
ting in the wheat we drill in about $50 acres
day and our machines are all worked
Of b,&
neither time nor labor is lost. In thresh-
ing we can t1resh from 200 to {. 600 bushels
of wheat day with one machine and the
grain runs from the threshing machines in
to wagons and these are dumped into the
pit OF our grain elevator and aIe carried by
an endless chain Of buckets to the rooms in
which we wish it to be stored.n
THE FARMS OF THE FUTURE.
''Do you think, Senator, that the ten
dency of the times is toward small farms
rather than large ones?'
No" replied Senator Casey, AZ do not
l think everything points to expansive
farming. The farms of the future in this
country will be large ones rather than
small ones. Farming becomes more of a
business every year, and the outlook is
that from now on farming will be one of
the best paying Industries of the Udited
States. The Jay of cheap lands is passing
away. There is very little unoccupied
government lands left which are worth
anything, and the dsy has come when the
prices Of cereals must rise, and the people
must pay the farmers what their pf oducts
are worth. The increased consumption of
wheat the world over averages 40 900, 600
bushels OF wheat every year, and this in
crease will go on. The time will come
when there is less wheat than the world
wants, and prices will have to rise to in
Il = far~
ii does not pay to raise wheat in most
parts of the United States. The state
board Of agriculture of Ohio lately inyesti-
gated the matter and found that 1t costs $50
an acre to raise wheat in that state. and
the secretary of the board of trade of To-
ledo made similar investigation and found
II costs $50 an acre to raise wheat in south
ern Michigan. We ind that it costs US
about 50 per acre for ala the wheat we raise
In North Dakota, and you cannot get the
farmers to raise wheat in OHIO until YOU
pay them price that will net them q
good percentage over the 800 that it costs
20 raise it. look for the time when wheat
will be Sl.50 bushei and even at that rate
II viii hardly pay to raise it in some parts
Of the union"
DEMAGoGUEs AND THE ALLIANCE.
These big crops Of which Senator Casey
speaks have practically ruined the Farmers
Alliance as party and the United States
Senators here are breathing easier and are
talking with more independence than they
have shown for year. Those who are re-
elected pay no attention to the Alliance
and their feeling is well expressed by a re-
mark of Senator Pugh in tn e Senate cloak
room just before the last session closed.
Vest and Pugh were sitting together in the
room and Pugh was looking over his mail.
he would take up letter, open it, glance
~ it, and then give it yindictive sling.
throwing it down upon the floor without
reading it. He did this with letter after
letter and Vest at last noticed him and