Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-02-05

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Melville ID. Landon (EIi Perkins,
having Just returned from Dakota. Ne
braska and Minnesota. was asked if
there were any new industries being
established Ia the West on account Of
the new tariff.
YES" he said, ''there are three
great Western industries being estab-
lished which will keep $50, 900. 900 in
this country every year."
What are theyr
First, the Grand Island, Nebraska,
beet sugar industry Is a wonderful
success. They are now turning out
there 800 barrels Of pure white beet
sugar day. The plant cost $500. 600,
and was purchased In Germany. The
farmers ell made money last year.
raising beets in the Platte Valley,
and next year millions of acres in that
valley and In the Jim River Valley.
OAK, will go into the beet sugar in
dustry. They are putting up other
beet sugar factories in Lincoln and
Norfolk, Neb.. Sioux City, Iowa. and
In Aberdeen, Oak. Ibelieve the Platte
and Jim River valleys will supply
all the white sugar the country will
want in less than five years. Germany
is making her own sugar, and the per.
centage of sugar in her beets is per
cent, less than in the Nebraska beetsi"
Sand the next Industry
1T is the new i'm petus given by the
Tariff to fax raisers and manufactur-
ing. We have always thrown away
our fax fibre. Now Minnesota capital
and Glasgow skill are building large
flax factory in Minneapolis. Two
small fax factories for making towels,
sheets and tables cloths are being ope-
rated in northern Iowa. Thousands of
farmers are putting wheat land into
fax, and linen making is becoming an
American industry. We have been
spending $50, 600, OG0 annually in Ire
land, France and Germany for linen,
and throwing our flax away after max
linseed oil out of the seed. Now the
Tariff on oil and linen makes the in
dustry profitable here"
"What about wool in the North.
westY"
1.-The whole country from Bismark
to Mendon is going into it. Millions of
acres of wheat land will go into sheep
this year. On the train coming down
from Fargo were 100 horses which new
er did anything but work in wheat
fields. They were going to Ohio to be
changed for sheep -Southdowns, good
for food and WOOL"
"Why, we will not have this surplus
of 20, 000,O bushels of wheat to sell
in England at n dollar bushel.
Within the next two years we will eat
up all our surplus wheat, and then it
will go to dollar bushel in Dakota,
a price that it is worth for food, and
the American farmer will be on top
again, Good times are coming for the
farmer, can see it. Land is stiffen-
ing up all over the West. The Tariff
of 20 cents a bushel will keep back ten
million bushels of Manitoba wheat
made on dollar-an-acr land, and make
it go out by Quebec."
But there is more public land9"
mo, not wheat land nor corn land.
1t is about all taken. What is left is
beyond the rain belt, The farmer has
been for fifteen years the under dog in
the fight. Now he is coming to the
front. He begins to feel rich already.
The trade has turned. Farming is
paying better and better every day. It
has been this 20, O00, 600 bushels of sur
plus wheat, which had to go to sixty
cents in Dakota before it could dis
place the cheap India wheat in Eng
land, which has kept the farmer poor.
BESIDE this continued Mr. Ian
don. thousands of new industries are
springing up 90 employ more labor
plush factories at Catasaqua and ia
others towns in Pennsylvania, plate
glass factories in Butler and all over
the natural gas regions, silk factories
at Honesdale and Scranton, and more
potteries in Trenton and East Liver
pool. These laborers will be well paid,
and they will eat more meat and -four
than idle men. say, give this abused
and misunderstood Tariff a trialp