The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-08-29
GREAT CROP iii SIGHT.
The H6-vc.t n Now i'm Full Blast In
the Northern Part of the State.

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the Northern Part of the state.
There has been a very radical change
taking place In the minds Of those who
spend their time travelling about the
state in connection with the crop stu
alton in The northern part of the state,
and especially in connection withet
part of the acreage that was hit the
hardest by the July storms, says the
Grand Forks Herald. In conversation
with one of the well known travelling
men who make that city. recently, it
was learned that, on account of the re-
ports of storms and the damage done,
he had been instructed by his house to
cover the territory carefully, and, If
the conditions Were as bad as reported,
to make no further effort during the
balance of the year to secure business
in those sections. He has just complet-
ed the tour, and he states that not
single account of his firm would be
closed anywhere, and the merchants
could have all the goods they desired,
and on the same terms. He said that
the damage by rain, wind and hail COW
cred so small a portion of the acreage
that not a single town, with the eXcep-
ton of one or two. would feel the re-
suit at all. Small patches, here and
there, We're wiped out, but, with the
lountiful crops surrounding the hailed
out districts business would not be af-
| fected to any appreciate degree.
Supt. e. w. Kneeland came in from a
trip north. He drove from st. Thomas
to Hoople, and the crops through which
he passed were as fine as he ever laid
in OF 70 To ic IN,
blast, and thousands of acres of as fine
wheat as ever grew is being cut every
day. Nearly all the grain in that Sec
ton is ready for the sickle, or will be in
few days, and the danger from frost
is practically over. He says there are
| a few green fields, but they are very
few.
w. S. Casselman, with J. H. Bell &
Co., also came in from the north. He
| drove from st. Thomas to Drayton, and
his report Of the conditions there were
of the most glowing kind maginable.
He is one of the old-timers of the state,
and has spent the past week in the
| ne rthern ana western portions. He re-
| ports that the damage by hail, while 1t
| is hard on the farmers who were hit,
amounts to nothing when the entire
crop of the state is considered. He
says he never saw such crops as he has
seen up north; that the flax in the en-
| tire northern part of the state, with
very few exceptions, is immense. He
has been all over the state, and esti-
| mates the wheat crop of the state at
| 100000 900 bushels, and the flax crop at
IS, 00C, 00O bushels, placing the former at
| 100000 bushels end the latter at TO-
100000 bushels over last year.
| County Commissioner Hans Ander-
son also returned from trip out west.
| He has spent several days looking over
Ward and Bottineau counties, and says
he is greatly pleased with the result of
his trip. The crops out there are far
better than he expected to see them,
this being the case particularly in Bot
tineau county, where he says all the
crops are looking fine, and he believes
| that part of the state has a great flu
ture. He regards the general outlook
AS much better than he anticipated be-
fore making the trip.
The same stories We're repeated by
everyone questioned. 1t is the same old
story, apparently-after bad storm
the reports received are greatly exag-
gerated. The same storm will be re-
ported by half dozen people, and no
two reports will be similar. This is the
result, one travelling man stated, of peo-
pie getting scared, and more than half
of the damage was in their own imag-
nations. One party stated that by the
| time the present crop was threshed the
fact that thare had been a severe
storm or two would have been forgot
ten.
The general feeling among business
men, as well as travelling men, is ex-
| cellent.