The Saint Paul globe., 1902-10-30

point, and remember these because they
are on your old main line / will com
| pare them with some towns over in
North Dakota, where they are on branch
lines; Towns you do not know the names
of. l will give you the annual bust
ness. Warren's last year railroad bust
ness with our company was $S6,00O;.
Hallock, $4,000 respectable sum;
Stephen, $4,000; Ada, $4,000. Now, half
Mountain, up on little stub road, or
branch $261, 900. Langdon, you know
where Langdon is? Away up towards
where it is myself, S1o1 600. Park River,
$4,000. Rolla, $127,0 600. Willow City,
if you people do not know where it is,
branch, s120, 600 Bottineau, away at the
west end of the Turtle mountains, where
far away; could not live there and could
not raise anything if they did live there,
$3.50 Land up there that was worth
So, So and $S an acre and a few pieces
today, SIS and $50 per acre.
Attracted BY High Prices.
MANY of you farmers here, 1 under
stand, are selling your land because you
are attracted by the high price. Let
me give you a little advice. If you
have money enough to live without
farming my advice won't apply, but if
you expect to make your living farming
be very sure before you sell your farm
y,
that you can get another farm equally
as good for the same money. Do not
sell your farm for $25 an acre and find
in six months that you have got to pay
value. People are coming up here from
Iowa; they sell their lands at from $50
they were worth $40 and $50, when yours
was worth So. Take the whole of the
Red river VALLEY, from Barnesvlle to ST:
Vincent; take the valley in all, and it
mn foxy II rxyifh fJao
best portion Of Northern Iowa, where
| their lands are selling at from $50 to $75
an acre, and in portions of Illinois, s100
an acre. Why should your land in the
Red river valley in Minnesota be worth
less than theirs? There must be some
reason for it. We will compare the ques-
Northern Iowa to Chicago, and that is
their market, as your market is Lake Su-
perior: Take the district of which Sioux
cit CITY is the center very rich country,
pare with yours? Your grain rates to
the Twin Cities or to the lake are 13
or IA cents hundred: and theirs are
IL cents. Every acre of land they culti-
Vate pays higher rate to market its
product than you pay for yours. Does
the sun shine less brightly in Mime
What is the reason? We have waited
long. years to see this country do itself
justice.
Should Sell fer $50 an Acre.
1T does not do itself justice. There
is no reason why every acre of this land
should not be worth and should not sell
for 500 an acre. None whatever. The
time will come, and not far hence, when
the world will recognize that this land is
worth sou. Ii theirs is worth $75, yours
Is worth $75. 1t will raise more wheat;
1t viii raise larger crops. They can
raise corn better than you can, but in
much corn to the acre as they will There
must be a reason for this You have
mad for the last three or four years an
unusual amount of wet weather. That
has been hard on you but nothing like
as hard, however, as it has been on some
settlers who have left this country and
settled owing to these two or three
years OF unsual rain, and the grass where
II formerly grew an inch has grown
twelve or fifteen. This is hard on them,
for they will be coming out few years
hence and wanting their places back. Do
not be led off in that way. Hang ON to
your Red river farms. We have always
claimed that anything which helps you,
helps us. You have your experimental
farm with you, and know where you
got it. Where did the land come from?
helped you with your ditches-other peo-
pie here? No. Other railroads. Did
any OF them do ANYTHING for you? Not
fbip penny fbaf and dis Stll hai if want to do any
think will help the country, there is a
howl raised that l am trying to walk on
the proStrate forms OF everybody in the
valley; trying to grind them into dust.
People bowling calamity. People going
up and down and saying that I am such
a great monster and going to eat you
[ have not even much hair left / as
sure you that there is a time when we
must quit work, and | rather hope for
better things.
1T means a great deal to get your
plowing done in the fall. I may be
wrong, but l claim here, and these sci
wrong, it is worth three to five bushels
to the acre to have your plowing done in
the fall. The biggest crop I ever heard
OF raised in the Red river. valley in Min
Landing by Frank De Mers. I will tell
you. I know him very we'll He was
agent for, our steamboat line in the old
days, and took the liberty of advising
MIN, as always do. 1 think I am con-
| ceited-may be. l do not mean to be
but it does come on to me when see
right. told Frank he was not culti-
waiting his land as he should. At that
time we Were surveying the land over to
Grand Forks preparatory to building
from Fishers to Grand Forks, so you viii
| see it is good many years ago. 1 had
the engineer measure off ten acres, and
TO harrow it six times; not three, or
four, but six times, and when he was
ready to thresh it we would have the
engineer come % and see to the yield-to the
| measurement. Now the whole field
which he had in, sixty or seventy acres.
! yielded between twenty and twenty-four
bushels to the acre, but the ten acres
| that he narrowed six times measured
from the machine forty bushels and
| ten pounds. and that is the biggest crop
you ever had in the valley. And that
! too much land. What you do, do we'll
/ If you have little more land in grass.
just put up with it. If you happen to
nave ma SIX p+ or elghf good cows do not wor-.
| you much by the time YOU have settled
their account at the end of the year.
tiers will recall the time), when from
seed time until the third or fourth day of
July not drop, of rain fell. The wheat,
that is about all you raised then, did not
! In the ground and the moisture came
| up gradually through the roots and fed
1t. ana the wheat kept green, and it did
not die. Of starvation; and along after
the trst few days of July it rained and,
| Notwithstanding these extraordinary con-
dltlons, you got from two-thirds to three
on our account as well as yours because
| II this wheat crop failed and we had
nothing then to carry but wheat, we
would have had hard time
Urges Cattle and Hogs.
I started then to try and induce the
/ the valley but elsewhere. to raise cattle
and hogs. was younger and somewhat
| 1neXperienced-mayb I would know bet
ter now-but think if I had time would
! do 1t over again. went to work and
| brought 500 to 900 thoroughbred bulls
into the country. Today some counties in
the Red River valley have not 81 of public
! debt and have money in their treasury
and nave more good cattle in the coun-
try than there are on the Minnesota side.
That is true, and not greatly to your
| credit. You had as good start as they
had but you would not take advantage
| of it. You were advised by others and
you have your reward. I did what I
/ thought was best. 1 have always tried
| to do so and am always ready to go on
| trying. Let me say this: The time must
| come when thpSa Ia ndS oy7 tho