St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-14
WITH THE TRAVELLERS.

Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer.
of North Dakota, was at the Merchants
hotel yesterday. Speaking of farming
in North Dakota, Mr.. Dairympie said:
1--WE have had the best wheat, the low.
est yield per acre and the lowest prices
this year we have ever had. The gov
eminent estimates give our state nine
bushels per acre. Mine will not exceed
that. crop $4,000 acres annually. l
have never had so much ground plowed
for the next crop as had thas fall, and
never got through with my blowing so
early. / have not raised cattle or sheep.
have only raised horses for my own
use; but keep several hundred hogs
on the place, which l have fattened on
the low-grade wheat. When wheat
is below so cents a bushel the
best thing to do with it is to feed
it. Icleared $1,000 on each of two car
loads of pork / shipped this year from
my farm. | got better than six cents
per pound, 1--WE weight, for my hogs"
Mr.. Dalrymple says the enormous
crop of wheat produced in Rus
STA affected our markets seriously.
Russia had two successive failures, aud
after two years of rest her lands are
more productive than ever. He raised
thirteen successive crops of wheat on
some parts of his land. but commenced
summer following, and will continue
that plan, as he gets better results.
He looks for large crop next year,
because the ground has generally been
better fitted than usual, the precipita-
ton of moisture promises to be abund-
ant, and the land, having rested, will
yield better results.
George Erksine, vice president of the
First National bank, Fargo. was at the
Merchants yesterday. Mr.. Erksine
says the Fargo fire will prove an adj
vantage to the city, which is building
up far better than before. Notwith-
standing the hard times, over hundred
substantial brick buildings have been
erected. and scores of buildings of less
note. All traces of the fire on Broad
way have been removed: street grades
established, and several blocks of
cement sidewalks put down. The in
surance companies paid upward of
S1,50O.000 fire losses, and this al
most Invariably went back into
bulldings,a and some new loans were ne
gotiated for permanent Improvements.
There is no trouble in securing 8 per
cent loans on productive property. The
are over. Commercial loans are now
made at to 10 per cent. The bank has
about 100000 deposits, against $780,
600 before the fire came and the hard
times set in. The loans and discounts
have been reduced in about the same
proportion. Times are close and people
are economiZing. but good will follow
People Will learn to live and establish
themselves in comfortable houses,
which shall be free from debt,
rather than to reach out for
broad acres. trusting to fortune to en-
able them to meet the deferred pay
ments. Merchants will DO closer aud
safer business. Prosperity and happi-
ness will surely return to the people.
He had visited the Southwest and the
Pacific coast during the past year. and
had noted particularly the conditions
prevailing there, and HAD also visited
other points of the Union. but knew of
no locality where the farmers were in
better shape than those of North Da-
kota. They have learned to raise less
wheat. and more sheep. cattle, horses,
hogs, poultry, corn. fax, potatoes. etc.,
There was time when many farmers
did not raise feed for their stock, or
produce butter and vegetables fer the
table. s'On waves of silver drifting on
to harvest rolled the grain" every
where. But now they diversity and are
learning to live for themselves and
their families, rather than for the per
cent per month men or the holders of
heavy mortgages against their farms.
E. M. Prouty. of Grand Forks, at the
Merchants hotel yesterday, said: "My
sheep are all right. | have 1000 head
and 10000 pounds of wool on hand.
Can't sell anything at any price as long
as the present unsettled conditions
prevail. am believer in a
protective tariff, but absolute free
trade would be an improvement on
present conditions. North Dakota is a
splendid sheep country. My band of
11,0U0 yield about seven pounds of wool
per head on the prairies, while five
pounds in Michigan and Ohio was a
good yield when L was a boy. Some
bands run as high as nine pounds. The
sheep are wintering nicely. Those on
the range feed on the prairies most of
IlO HihLOi. We iHohO lOl
hay, but sometimes do not feed any,"
j. M. Patch, North Dakota senator,
at the Merchants yesterday. said: ~
went to Indianapolis last summer for
the benefit of my little girl. who re-
quireG medical treatment, and pur-
chased property and will stay. 1 have
been up to North Dakota two months.
and won my suit against the Northern
Pacific for damages for burning my
hotel, the fire having originated from
their engines. Am on my way to In
dianapolis."
LIQUID GOLD.