The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-08-08
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hills. Why I've heard that in some
parts of the State the people wear
shingles over their ears to keep the
clods from rolling down in them"
If any of the 100000 wish to emf
CRATE there is room and to spare out
here along. the N. p. r. r. That
corporation has for sale in Minnesota
Montana and North Dakota, the
enormous amount of 2S,000,000 acres
of land.
Agricultural lands east of the Mis-
souri, liver in Minnesota and North
Dakota are sold at 81 to Sc per acre.
Grazing lands at from SO to "a.
When lands are purchased on five
years time one sixth cash is requir-
ed at time of purchase and the bal
ance in five equal annual payments
with interest at Z per cent.
In Montana the price ranges from
SO to So per acre for agricultural
lands and from $1.25 to $3.50 for
grazing lands, all on same terms as
in Dakota.
Probably the most desirable place
of settlement is in the valley of the
Red River of the North beautiful,
healthy and very productive region
in Minnesota.
North Dakota contains $4,000
square miles as much as Pennsylva-
mia and Ohio combined. 1t has a
population of only 100000 souls.
Montana has an area of 100000
acres and lies on both sides of the
Rocky Mountains.
The prairies of Dakota and the
valleys of Montana are exceptionally
productive, where water can be OBJ
tanned for irrigation in times of
drought
The soil of Dakota is a deep clay
ey loan containing shelly caleareous
mari, that of Montana is mostly a
rich alluvial deposit, containing
phosphate and alkali in abundance.
Wheat yields from % to 40 bushels
per acre, sometimes as high even as
55. Oats 60 to 80 bushels, weighing
from Al to As lbs to the bushel Po-
tatoes attain an enormous size and
when cooked in their coats are so
mealy they look like torn sacks of
flour, when put-on the table. They
yield from 200 to 400 bushels per
acre. Onions are raised from the
seed and attain the circumference of
a large saucer and turn out from 400
to 800 bushels per acre. They are
sown by drilling in. like wheat.
Alllarge and small fruits that grow
in the East can be raised abundant
ly here, and all kinds of grain and
vegetables except corn. The climate
seems too forcing for that-at least
it always gets in too big hurry, to
do much good for itself here. l was
inspecting garden few days ago
and the proprietor remarked, "I'll
have sugar corn fit to eat in week
or so, 20 how can you? this is only
six inches high" demurred, well,
it never gets much higher than that"
l examined it more closely and found
it in full blossom and tiny little ears
had formed just where it was push
ing up out of the ground.
Rust-that enemy Of wheat and
oats in the Eastern States is unknown
here owing as some think to the al
kali in the soil-others attribute it to
the lack of dew.
Dew does not get time to form,
there is SO little real night. Owing
to the great altitude (nearly one mile
higher up than Morgantown) land
the Northerly location, lovely twi-
light continues till long past 8 Of clock
and in June, the birds begin their
matin songs and the arrows of the
dawn begin to culver up from the
East about 2:30 A. NJ.
We eat supper frequently at g.
O'Clock and it is still broad, bright,
unblinking daylight then. People
seldom start out for an evening drive
till after that hour.
The cleaning is the loveliest part
of the day. The sun has hidden his
fiery eye behind some distant peak.
The air has become deliciously cool
and bracing and lies pulsating like
a translucent lake of palest purple
and pink clarifying every object in
the valley and making the mountains
seem to swim and float on SAPPHIRE
the tender opalescent hues
of the latter glow gather round the
horizon and long quivering shafts of
golden light come darting up from
'the amethyst and amber at the
doorway of the day" far into the
night. No one need be dull, even in
a desert, who has that within which
enables them to get their ear close
to the great throbbing heart of Ma.
tare and 'hold communion with her
various FORMS" The mountains with
their grotesque shapes and ever
changeful lights, the vivid colorings
of earth and sky, the birds and the
blossoms all feast the soul with a /
perpetual pleasure Then such deli
cious refreshing sleep seals down the
weary lids here as have never known |
else. Surely Morpheus has
his throne somewhere on those noun
tain heights, for the brain seems
stepped in the very elixir of slumber
and one awakes with vigor in his
veins instead of the tropical languor
that Expresses and enervates in July
at the lower levels near tidewater.
lie sometimes in a Mexican ham
mock swung beneath the shade of
some cottonwood trees, revealing in
The delicious consciousness of life.
A life that here sends the blood to
heart and brain with a quickening
shrob. The trees are not indigenous
nut have been planted and carefully
satercd for 10 these MANY years. II
I'm southed and lulled BY, the tender
,inkle Of running water hut it is no
'uAbling brook meandering along at
,sown sweet will. The sound comes
v sln ths irrieatipg canal which car.
% ~ sooiness 30 tha roots Of the
ieee then GOA m A lIbur ont liba-
i0ns III liduid tibou t64 harden and Il