The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-05-24

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carriage ride around the CITY Was
|a anosher courtesy much enjoyed BY The
yisitors.
Fargo y getting TO be great point fori
such delegate assemblages and knou,.
how to treat her visitors, and in this ss
vel al.. as in many other things, deserves
earth 10y Oh
from 81. Vincent to Hallock crops are
ABOUT Ike our own, and thirty miles
SCUM .'l OF Crookston to Fargo are also
a a'i as tar advanced as we are, but
rom a little beyond Hallock to Crooks.
ton and beyond. very little of the ground
was even plowed. The excessive down
pours OF last fall prevented blowing and
N many cases harvesting, and enough
ram mas come this spring to prevent
nucn work being done. A large amount
o. land will be summer fallowed because
= tue inability of the farmers to get or
Duy barley at the present high prices
Avery heavy shower at Fargo on
wednesday :. evening came thirty or FORTY
miles down the river, in some places as
much as two inches was measured
quite a number of people got on the
. ira. at Crookston on Saturday, return
ing from big excursion to Bemidii the
day before, it being the '17th of old
Norway" 1t was SO in the shade FRIDAY
and about 5000 people with three bands
and unlimited beer had ruralized at that
town. They had had big time-and
most OF them looked like it. Thew had
not heard then of the sad accident that
occurred after they left. The steamer
Shadow was loaded with passengers
ana fireworks. The latter were somehow
exploded all at once, killing or drowning
three and injuring several more. A
sweltering crowd, SO hot, tired, dusty
many drunk, tragedy as finale, and vet
some people-otherwise sensibIe-wilI
at times get insane enough to 90 and
enjoy excursions:
The towns on the other side of the
river all show signs of thrift and growth
New houses, new paint, lots of Young
shade trees and a general air of hustle
and business, and Hallock seems little
the best OF them from railroad travel.
ler's point of view.
To judge by conversation overheard in
the cars. land speculation is rife all along
the valley and particularly on the Mime
sofa side from Crookston north. The
spectators are looking, however, for the
cheaper grades rather than the improved
farms in the Red River valley proper. 1t
begins to look like Il land boom all
through the valley, and lands will, in
few years, be bought and sold at their
actual value; which is to deduct the cost
OF raising from the product of an acre
of wheat for series of years and the
difference is six per cent of the value of
the acre.
1t is well known that the Burlington
Route is selected by the government,
and has been for many years, as the
route for its through mail service be-
tween Chicago and Council Bluffs. The
overland mail and the through mails
from Europe across the continent to
Asia, are sent by the government over
the Burlington. This service is per-
formed in special trains, but there is no
written contract for the service with the
government. 1t simply has selected and
retains what it considers the best, quick
est and safest route for its transcontin-
entail mails; nor is any subsidy paid.
The Burlington receives only the same
rates in force by general law for the car
rage of all mails in the country."-Rail-
way Age, March %, 1901.