The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-16
REV SAM "a. JONES Oh /
Writes Of a'Tour Of the Northwest.
Atlanta Journal.

saAAy If, home week ego to-day shers
A was dry and hoe. ! ann now ii
|;onesota, where it is WET and cold
@ mend most of my time in my room
s the Ere with my overoost on. Ir
linz through the fields ! see where
frost Of last Sunday bit the corn
81 Ill it is brown in the lower bottoms.
A bey have had rain, rain, for nearly
@ I@Etv days in the west and northwest.
W {om Louisville, KY, nearly to Sioux,
- ss,v. Ia., thence 70 Minnsepolia, I
,e never seen finer crops on the
3 The wheat is immense. In
Adisua, Illinois, Nebraska, where
Z ey have cut the wheat, it looks like
In can step from shock to shook over
E vast area. They have not been
ss5le to woik their corn so well as
anal. but their corn is much farther
ysnced than Georgia corn in size
S. ID looks. In North Georgia, in seq
& ons, we have not had Q good rain in
% Ter two months. Cotton is very
hall and corn is smaller. But after
@ we have Jared better with our
south so far than many sections of
= e west and northwest with immense
s,bods that have not only damaged the
43nds in many places more than the
81 5orth of the crop, but along the
}eeks and rivers great fields Of wheat
aye been washed away by the tide,
Did thousands Of acres Of whest is
pw floating down the Mississippi and
%tissouri Rivers. A drouth beats a
'Apod. l only wish we could get some
y the rain that is falling in supera-
sundance here.
. On this tour I am attending ohsu-
sauquas and Woodmen's picnics. The
3estern people are given to Wood.
pens picnics along in the summer
3me. They have an ''old settlers
Jay in each county that brings thou
ands Of people together, and they
3ave the woodmen's picnics. I at.
ended their gathering at Spencer, Ia,
hst week. In spite Of the weather
,here we're ten thousand people gath
)3red there. The vast chatauquas and
5oodmens picnics and old settlers
|ays and camp meeting etc., bring
|he people together in great masses
|our or FIVE or six times year. I
hink we'll of these great gatherings.
They bring their basket dinners and
ninglc and talk with each other in So
ial life and listen to the speakers,
md sometimes they have balloon as
ensions, street parades: flying gen.
lies, brass bands, and there were Just
welve brass bands In the procession
t Spencer last week. '
| have never seen a heavier wheat
rop grow than 1 have seen this year. |
1t can be harvested and threshed in |
ood shape we shall have bread for |
be eater and bread to spare. In the |
orn belt the corn was never more |
romisiag than to-day. Of course |
here ais vicissitudes which make IL |
roblematical whether it shall yet ma |
IRE and be gathered into the crib. /
| was surprisedto learn Of the in.
'easlng values Of farming lands avay
In the northwest. The tide of |
migration sets that way for the farm
and lands which three years ago |
'u'd have been bought for ten dollars |
acre are now selling like hot cakes !
iorty and eizty OF seventy-five dol
rs an acre. It is a great cour try !
rough Minnesota, lowe, Nebraska. |
stern Kansas and northwestern Mis-
url' as fine lands as ever ''crow |
w over,' and with seasons they can |
axe all they can gather in q year.
one hundred and sixty acres is the |
erage farm in the northwest. 1t
'sa grove which has been set put
ywhere from i've to ten acres, e
0a farm house and a large barn. On
one hundred and sixty acres you
rhaps aiii see forty acres of wheat,
enty OF oats, forty Of et-n and the |
lance they use as pastures. On
cry farm you will see nice bunch
well bred cattle,, great. big fine hogs
q brood mares with more or less lit
herds of cattle and coveys Of colts.
Ia" that meat aud horses won't stay
In price very long if corn is made
iatten them this fall. The farmer
the northwest has struck. ne high
ter mark Of prosperity. wish we
ald get the tide Of emigration Of the
St class Of farmers turned towards
e south. With the same frugality |
d industry. the farmers in southland