Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-02-14
FROM GE0RG,IR1.
Knotl1er Letter from "a,
Mahan Hbout the Old Sol \
M dierS' Colony. Il

we publisl, today another enter
esting let ter from Ed, Mahnn. Who t
III going over the colony with MS
ewes open, and tells us about II N =
characteristic.w way: s3,is ~. 5:3
II FiTZGERA1.D. Feb. ], 1886.
Got up at 5 q. M. on account count ]! 81 y
Bryan snoring; sat around q W 1ll'l'e
then took Il walk down to zee the
Old turpentine still. alst, went .t down VI
to see tile, sewer ditch that drains
the town. Saw quite q number 'f'l',' 81 y
fisn In It. Met q yonng cracker with
q string Of fish and asked him how
he! caught them; said &c rluDbe e
them out. Hound that he actually
did get them in that way came mp
and had breakfast then started
To hook up my allotment.
Net AL. Wood and he went with
ua. Took q 5 due; west, course from
the city limits, ca me to where WASH il
ingtons Wheelhorse was splitting
rails with an axe fourteen Inches
long; gets one. halfcent a piecefo hts
work. Said he could split from 75
TOLLS ina day. Asked him how, old
he was; he said he was 81 years.
Asked him, where he was when Sher-
man passed through this state.
Having learned. that he passed with
in q miles of here; asked why he did
not go out and see him. He said.
BOSS, dat would been sho death to
disnigger.'',. We had to tear our
selves away from Washington. Will
try and see him again. OF course
you know that charcoal would
make a white mark on Washington.
Went on about SO rods to the farm
Of Joe Young. Joe is cOlOred, but
not so ct,lOred as WnsningtOn. He
was slave, hut by temperance and
Industry he has accumulated several
thousand acres Of land. He just
sold alarm for 81, 700; il now living
on his old homestead, which ,is three
fourths of a mile from MY allotment.
Joe has apples. pears piums,
peaches, cherries. grapes and nul-
berry trees or his farm. measured
AN old corn stalk; it was IL feet, 8
inches high and inches at the base.
Joe il quite a character; y ~ years
old, and was a servant, OF the rebel,
General Lorton, and got shot in the
shoulder Mt Yicksburg. 7 asked him
how, lie came to get shot. He said
he was peeping from behind log
and raised up ITO "see II de Yanks was
gwine to sweep Mars LortOn off de
earth and got struck with, Il pieceOf
a shell. 1t is needless to. say that
Joe is a Republican and q radical. as
they call them here. We had to
leave Joe; made an agreement. to go
out with him Monday to see little
waterpowtrn few miles from here.
The next settlers we came to were
a family from Kansas, whose allot-
lncnts came on al old farm that nad
quite Il number of fine, trees on it.
The woman was out planting gar
den. She said the climate was so
mild and the water was soft and
there was no mud. ImOst forgot to
say that you meet people from all
parts of the county. I,have it from
good authority that there arepeople
from every state in the Union. There
are two families from Mexico; one
from Alaska and one direct from
Ireland. Next place was our allOt-
ment, No. III; part OF it was an old
orchard; measured an old peach
tree, it was exactly twenty-six
inches around the base. The man
next to me had two mulberry trees
on his land. I am sorry they were
not on mine. My neighbours on both
sides are colored; people; the nearest
is Israel FaIlhoss; did not learn the
name Of the other. Z. =.s9 r,
We have Seen five saw mills this
morning and they say there sixteen
on the colong grounds and more
coming. The saw mill whistles blew
for noon and we started to 60 to
dinner and passed one Ofmy neigh
bors, an old vet who was q Pennsyl-
vanian Bucktail: ne had just felled
long leaf yellow pine, which was 1lS
feet high, "a inches in diameter at
the base and 50 feet to the first limb.
We did not stop TO talk with him
for we were getting hungry. We
ate dinner with a family from Da-
gkota. 1t is real warm here; we got
up: a good sweat getting to dinner.
The mercury was TOO in the shade
yesterday and the day before and 72o
today.
81 We are watching to see how it will
be to have 6, 900 people from ;,llparts
OF the United States brought to-
gether without the saloon and no
police, no city council, no drunken