Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-03-14
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The Milwaukee Yards a Scene Of Bust
ling Activity all Day Tuesday.
The North English. Iowa, Rec
ord has the following write-up Of
people who we're leaving that town
for parts in the Devils Lake land
district. This migration is the
result Of the good work done this
winter by NJ. r Neff, Of Devils
Lake, who spent several weeks in
North English. Mr.. Nef visited
other Iowa sections and arranged
for immigration trains which will
arrive here within q, few weeks:
The rush for North Dakota was
begun from this district last Tues
day, when one team after another
passed through the town bound
for the depot loaded down with
settlers effects. The Record re-
porter went where he saw tho
crowd going and brought up at the
car on the east end. Here was Ed
Seckington and Ora Lown working
industriously with hammer and
saw getting al Simmons goods
safely slowed away for the long
journey. AL owns a half sectih
near York, and it fconfdence in the
new country counts for anything,
he will glut the wheat market this
fall. He says he has paid most Of
his attention to stock but will now
look more closely to grain raising.
He goes we'll stocked with horses,
having ten head, that being a suf-
hcient number to handle a good
sized crop in North Dakota.
| Going to the next car we found
the big, good-natured George
Mullin, with the sweat breaking
out in large drops as he worked
away packing goods into the cdr
ners Of the car. He stopped lo1g
enough to tell us that he had 4 a
quarter section rented and would
go right into farming. He takes
six head Of horses.
Then came Glen Standards car.
Glen was not there himself but
his brother was doing the work
while his father did the oversee
act. He has 800 acres that he
purchased last fall about seventeen
miles from Devils Lake, the, near
est market town being Crary.
Glen takes seven horses and goes
| in every way well prepared to
make things hum in that new
country.
j. r. Simmons and Roy Wal
lace were loading the next car,
and it was keeping them guessing
to know how they were going to
get it all in. Jim and Roy bought
two quarters adjoining, about
three miles from York, and SO will
have to be real neighborly to keep
from getting homesick@ The
former will take four horses and
the later five.
The fifth car down the line was
loaded with goods Of a. u. Camp:
bell and Andy Richardson. "Hec"
and Line are taking their teams
and wagons along and will work
out for while until they see how
the land lies, with the end in view
that they go into farming in the
future.
Gran O'Brien, w. w. Hardness
and AL Simmons all had an inter-
est in the last car. Gran will
work at the carpenter trade, which
by the way, is a good business
that country, and Billy, will work
the Alonzo Manner farm.
This makes eleven families to
leave the community in one bunch,
and they all 20 to York but one
Glen Standard, who goes to Devils
Lake. Ofcourse its hardly right
to call Glen whole family yet,
but then he is pretty good fel-
low and we'll let it 20 at that. We
venture to predict that the North
Dakota community where they will
cast their lot will never see the
time they will not be proud of the
day that brought this quota Of set
tiers from North English. They
are Of the best among us, not one
of them who does not love old
i Iowa, but go,to the new country
because they see better prospects