St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-25

terminal points, and we look for a still larger
movement right along. Our weather reports
are very favorable, and we have been able to
secure very nearly enough threshers to sup
ply the points where they were most needed.
In the next three or four days we expect TO
have all the points fully supplied. There is
some scarcity of men, more particularly at
Lisbon. Edgely. Forest River, Drayton and
Valley City. y. D, but we have arranged
so that any point desiring to supply
themselves can do so by depositing S25 or 80
with their station agent and five to ten men
will be sent, according to the amount of the
deposit. A telegram received yesterday said
that 500 had been deposited at Valley City,
n. D.. to which point twenty men are being
sent promptly. We understand that the re
ported damage to wheat from the continued
rains of the first part of the month has been
greatly overestimated and will be small as
compared with the first reports. The farm
ers accomplished great deal OF plowlng
while awaiting the time when their wheat
would be dry enough 10 resume threshing.
and their wheat is dried in much better con-
dltlon than was generally expected. Large
crops have been raised this year in localities
that were not cropped previously. The re-
ceipts from such points are large. When
this crop is all threshed and marketed the
people of the Northwest will be great deal
better off tinancially than they ever have
been before, and if this past season is the
forerunner of a succession of seasons of
plenty of rain, an ERA of great prosperity has
dawned upon this section.
Credit to st. Paul Jobbers.
The traffic department of the Great
Northern railway reported:
One hundred and ten threshing outfits have
been sent to North Dakota and Northern Min
nesota by the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific railways These machines should add
threshing power of 100000 to 100000
bushels per month. We will probably send
up thirty or forty outfits (machines) The
weather has been bright and pleasant in the
Red river country for over week, and with
nice moonlight nights relief crews have been
at work so that the machines have in numer-
Gus cases run twenty-four hours per day
Much credit is due to Claiming Seabury for
his earnes work among the business men in
agitating the threshing machine question.
Our road had begun on it, but he helped
greatly in making the wants known. The
wheat has not grown i'll the shock and has
dried out in such shape that there will be
comparatively little damage. About 10 per
cent would cover it. The movement OF grain
by rail to market has been heavier this
month in this section than ever before dur
ing similar period, and the greatest market
ing is looked for in December. Many of the
farmers are putting the threshed grain in
temporary bins, right in the fields, and are
going on with their other work before I'M
dertaking to market the crop. Much of the
Cnthreshed grain is in stacks. We have ed-
vices of yields as high rs fifty TO fifty four
bushels of wheat per acre. Machines and
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Kennedy and other points, and farmers are
offering men from four to six weeks work
at $3.50 to S3 per day and board. We are
taking threshlng gangs of five or more men
at 81 per man. The ground is in good condi-
ton for tall blowing and our reports indi-
cate that the farmers are making every effort
to be ready for another great season next
year.
Merchants Views
George W. Griggs. of Griggs Bros,
grain, said:
This weather is helping out considerable
During the wet weather farmers couldn't do
threshing, couldn't keep satisfactory fires i'll
their machines and they were short of ma
chimes. Most of the available engines from
this locality have been sent West. and farm
hands are finding plenty TO do there at good
wages. l have had reports from many points
and am convinced that the damage is not as
great as has been expected.
In mercantile circles the merchants
naturally refer to the Importance of the
grain crop in giving their views on bus
mess affairs. At the Office of p. RI.
Hardenbergh d Co.. leather and sad
dlery hardware, Col. Fitzgerald said:
AS compared with last week, the prospects
ale a great deal better. The sales and coliec-
tons have shown great improvement over
the previous week. In North DAKOTA and
Northern Minnesota the farmers have about
all the threshers they want now. Our travel
ing man has just arrived from there and tells
us that if we have another week or ten days
of good weather the great bulk of the wheat
will be threshed.
C.. S. Rogers, Rogers & Ordway,
machinery:
In the territory we cover, Minnesota and
Dakota, on the line of the Northern Pacific,
we find that in the eastern portion of those
states business shows a marked improve
ment. but we don't think the improvement
has reached the coast or the country beyond
the Missouri yet. Wherever the crops have
been abundant we have the promise of good
deal better business fer this season. In
Northern Minnesota and Dakota the crops
have not been turned into money yet. At the