Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-08-09
SEEN IN THE WEST.
Interesting Notes of Travel by a
New Englander.
Written for TnE TIMES. |

ANOW AhEA&ShOcIs
Written for THh TMEs-l
We met with no mishap or detention
ON account of the strike and landed
here week ago. A former townsman
met us at the station, Rev. Ira Carter,
whose son, Hon. E. III. Carter is now
mayor Of the city. He came here in
the early days of the town and has
grown up with it. He is well known
| in Walpole, Bellows Falls and many
other towns about there and his bust
ness card has appeared for some years
in The TIMES. His popularity here
may be known from the fact of his be-
ing elected mayor in spite of Demo-
cratic majority. We have spent two
days in Fargo, some 40 miles distant,
going by rail through series of wheat
fields which often extended as far as
the eye could see. 1t was more wheat
than | had ever before seen and we
are told this is the condition for $50
miles north. This is the famous Red
river valley of the north, one of the
most noted wheat districts in the
! world.
| Fargo, a city of about 10000, was Wis
tied little more than year ago by a
very destructive fire sweeping away
three-fOurths of it's business portion
and one fourth of the dwellings, burn
ing over tract mile wide and two
miles long. 1t was estimated that
1000 people. were without shelter the
next night. Now much of the burnt
district is rebuilt with better buildings
than they had before, and the rapidity
with which this has been done is re-
markable., But few of these buildings
have more than two stories on account
of the winds. The city water is from
the river and most of the drinking
water is carried around by teams. It
comes from flowing well. North Da-
kota is prohibitory and Minnesota is a
license state, and while Wahpeton and
Fargo have no saloons unless it be what
are called "blind pigs" they have each
small town on the opposite side of the
river, where the weary, suffering pill
grim can refresh his thirsty nature I'M
trammeled by the restrictions of law,
just the same as at times some towns
on the Connecticut river have been.
Yesterday we drove out to the may
or's ranch, some 20 miles, with one of
his broncho teams. Here he is breed
ing some nice stock, having about SO
head, mostly Clydesdale and ponies,
E Ianins e .hn me sPet pee Oh each.
ooiiie " .1e rd ponies lull grown Welgh
tLa c; ao2u. ooo Poulius WINE some OF
.io oiyuee MeisH nlole lhan .nree tililes
as iilucn. Two immense STACKS OF nay,
eac ~ over 1oo leeo coliS, VIII supply part
u lhe provenuer 5or tne STOCK. On the
way we SloPpeu at falrVleW farm
oMneu ~ .. =. ADAMS, one OF tne ms
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salu 10 pe one OF the nnest II not the
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