The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-16

lists at the present time throughout
that section OF the country
Through the western part of Ne
braska the crop failure is complete
and they have not raised enough of
any kind of cereals or grass to feed
one of our spring chickens through the
winter. 1t is estimated that over fifty
families are leaving that state per day,
| in the endeavor' to secure a wintering
place where they can weather it
Through. These people of course have
! nothing except a wagon and a pair of
horses, and they have gathered togeth-
er every thing they could haul loaded
with their wares and children and
started on their march 1.-The Lord
knows where" abandoning everything
! else. Of course they are not the class
iof people Utah wants, but there is an
other class who are looking for a loca-
ton and are going to change just as
soon as they possibly can dispose of
their property, and convert all into
cash. They have property, and when
they locate they will have something
to start anew with. Hundreds of such
people are on the lookout for new loca-
tons. and they want it where they can
irrigate, and not have to depend upon
the caprices of nature to mature their
crops.
Iowa, while it is in little better
shape, SO far as crops are concerned, is
at this time a good field for Utah to do
missionary work in. The corn crop,
which is not more than one-third what
II usually is, even in the best, yes, the
very best corn belt in many places
is complete failure.
had the pleasure of talking, the 9TH
er day, with Mr.. Wheeler, who is re-
ported to be the greatest corn grower
in the United States, and who has over
$500 acres planted to corn this season.
He told me he had been making an es-
innate of the crops by counting the
ears at short intervals, thereby making
an average for the whole This esti-
mate was thus arrived at-two-fifths
of the crop, the other crops being
on a par with corn. However, Mr.
Wheeler was not feeling at all dis
heartened over this condition of things,
for on the very day l saw him
he said he had cleaned
mp snug little fortune
by the great rise in corn at the Chicago
exchange. He told me he had sold
something near 100000 bushels when it
was at "a and 9, fraction Of a cent: had
purchased it back when it had dropped
to 29 cents, and that same day had sold
it at 80 cents. SO said he. you see
farming in this section of the country
is not such bad business, after ALL"
and suggested that perhaps he had
been specializing a little against his
fellow farmers vino were not in posi-
ton to take advantage of the f1uctua-
ton in prices. and therefore might look
at it in a different light.
In Minnesota the wheat crop is al
most a complete failure and the corn
Is very quiet. You never saw SO many
people who were so anxious to change
their location as there are in and
around Pipestone. The outlook is dis
NAL in the extreme for many of them
and / could have brought fifty people
away from there if they could only
have converted their property into
cash. 1 have laid the foundation for
good representation from that section
later in the fall. Now, if Utah could
only keep some good live men. who
understand the business. in this section
Of the country for couple of months.
they would bring in a class of people
that would benefit us all. During the
short time I have been to work in this
section | have succeeded in sending
out some twelve or fifteen good, solid
representative men from different parts
Who are going out to look over the stu
alton. and will make their report.
There are four good, live business men
from Pipestone who are now engaged
in business and who want to locate in
or near Salt Lake city-one dairyman.
one large dry goods dealer, one boot
ana shoe man and one who wants to
go into the banking business. These
people, together with a Nebraska dele
cation, will reach Salt Lake at the end
OF the present week, and I will be with
them. II l can reach Denver in time.
Why not agitate the matter of striking
while the iron is hot, and Utah can get
IN a representation of quarter of
million of dollars at least in the next
three or four months?
With Kind regards, 7 am yours tru1v.
W. C YOITN,E