St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-28

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my estimate of these gentlemen who in
struct the farmers of the country what
put on potatoes ailI when to cut
elders in the swamps. When one
OF Them asked another. "What Is the
turnnp?" as they We're passing away
the time at seven-up, and another of !
hem said Spades" l suspected their
familiarity with that vegetable. When
at sLme village the sign of taxider-
mist caught the attention of the party,
and enc of these journalists suggested
to another one that they cut corn there.
Ieoncluded that his advice as to corn
culture or curing. or ANYTHING relating
to corn. sn't worth shucks. But when
another expressed surprise that it was
only water that ran in the irrigating
bitches, gave up the last shred of awe
l ever had for them, an'l concluded that
it was not at all essential that any one
should know anything about farming to
he able to ably edit an able farm paper.
But, whatever their defects in the tech
nique of farming, they are Il jolly lor of
fellows. ana no moment flies by us on
heavy wings.
Any one who has been at the mouth
of the Mississippi AMI followed the
stream ND to its junction with the OHIO.
and has then crossed the Bad Lands of
North Dakota and seen their scanned and
rugged hills, gaShed by RAIN burrows,
and crossed the streams flowing out of
them, with their waters laden with the
oil ~
Of the economic place OF the Bad Lands
| in the economy of nature. At the
| mouth OF tine great river he can see the
narrow fringe Of land built up and
building by deposits of silt brought
down by the waters and dropped where
the waters lost their current in the still
waters of the gulf; and here, between
1000 and 5000 miles away. he can see
the beds from which the soil was taken.
As he contempiates the formation of the
right bank of the Mississippi for thou
sand miles from its source, the growth
of deposits of overlooking waters drop
ping their sediment, and then looks
over the immense area of these Bad
Lands and sees how the ranges have
been cut down, he can form some COLI
ceptiUn OF the length OF time this grea;
work of tearing down and building up
there has consumed. If he should let
his Imagination run OH as to the ulti.
mate purpose these great. quiet. persist
ent forces are working for. and should
come 10 the conclusion that nature is
removing land for which there is no use
here and carrying it down and build
ing land IN the gulf to extend the do
main of our own country into the trop-
les so that we can raise banana and
plneappleS without the need of a fOS-
tering protective tariff, who can say
that he has not offered reasonable So
luton OF this problem of the Bad Lands?
At Medora the deserted houses and
the silent abatstoir of the Marquis de
MOreS stand at another of the many mis-
mt theories of our modern enterprise.
What could be more plausible than the
slaughter CT cattle where they were
1attened on these nutritious grasses and
sending the dressed beef To market ill
stead or transporting the live. animals
to distant Strengthening houses? No
! wonder the scheme was ailuring, and
that here and at several other places dol
lars by the hundred thousand were in
vested to give effect 10 the theory
But many factors were omitted; the
disposal of the by products: The eX-
| penSe OF transporting to distant mar
kets the horns and hoofs ana bones. and
the utilization as fertilizers of the offal
were the forgotten factors that turned
| prospective profit into actual loss and
| have shut down ali these promising in
vestmentS, leaving the empty buildings
10 furnish another proof that the 'best
laid plans u man an mice gang aft
agiey."
1t gives one something the impression
or waking from bad dream to enter
the Gailatin valley at BoZeman after
leaving the fertile lands of Minnesota
and Eastern Dakota and crossing the
sterile Bad Lands. The latter are the
expression OF a nightmare of Nature.
There was pleasant suggestion of
home III The elevators and griSt mills
we saw as we Whirled down the grade
out OF the Belt range Of the rocky can
ynn into Bozeman. The party made its
hrSt Inspection Of irrigated farming at
Manhattan. some ten miles below BUZe-
man. where company OF wealthy New
York brewers have bought 5000
acres which they crop with bar
ley, sowing half the farm each
year and following the other half al
ternately. A malt house, with the latest
machinery, converts their crop and
what they buy from other farmers into
malt. which is sent East. The company
constructed ditch ifty-seyen miles in
length. leading the water from the
Madison river to the land, where minor
bitches and lateralS carry it TO suitable
points OF distribution over the land.
Without water the land is worth 81. so to
81 an acre for grazing; with water it is
selling for SIS an acre. The water Is an
annual charge amounting to about 81
an acre. The yield is an average of
fifty bushels an acre. and the price of
last years crop was so cents a hundred,
or 81 cents bushel. The company
opened the farm eXperimentaily, to de-
termine if barley could be grown profit.
ably, and is now Offering its land for
| sale.
Politics in Helena centers around
Marcus Daly's audacious attempt 10 get
the capital removed to his mining camp,
up III gulch in the mining camp of
Anaconda. DAILY holds what is called
out here bobtail flush, and is biuffiny
the whole crowd hard. He sees them
and goes them several points better. and
the game will be called next November.
This phraseology is the local one, not
mine, and is used because, suppose,
the terms are somehow indigenous to
the rocks, DAILY and tile men be-
hind him, 1t is said, have big deal in
dirt behind them. and hope to clean I'd
a million or so if they can get the capt.
tOl. Previous deals in other states
based on the same expectations hardly
Seem to warrant any large preliminary
investment such as Daily is said to he
making. There is lots of cheap dirt in
Bismarck and Pierre; St Paul dirt gets
lis value from trade. not politics, and
Madison dirt is not very costly.
Outside OF the capital question the
conditions are very NJ UGH mixed. and M
party feels cock-sure of winning.
though the Republicans, with their
usual assurance. are hoping to reap