Warren sheaf., 1903-05-07
Our
Correspondence.
. Spruce Valley.

Ingalls,, May 4.-lG mas De0n some
time since we contributed our mite
to your valuable paper. So we will
try to do what we can in that line
today. AS one excuse we will say
that we have been laid up for the
pastfour weeks with lagrippe and
are just getting out. Went to the
post Office last Saturday. The post
Office and store both keep Mr.. Ledin
busy, and Mr.. Edlund seems to be
getting quite a good run OF custom
in his store.
Last week was rather cold and
the ground froze too much for seed
ing,
Christian Larmoe was down from
Como last Saturday, buying seed
oats. They are worth 40c here and
sell for those figures quick.
We expecta big boom here in land
as soon as work begins on the eX-
tension OF the railroad from Thief
River Falls north. Expect to have
town here in a few years that will
rival Warren in population.
Eugene Webster and family stayed
with us over night, week before last,
on their way to Canada. He left his
farm in Thief Lake town, as it was
so bad getting there and so cold, to
go a hundred or more miles north
where it was warmer. My, my,
when will miracles cease? To think
Of a man going a hundred miles
north of here and about as far west,
to get into a country where it is
warmer than it is here! Our expe-
rience has been so far that the far
ther north one goesithe colder it is,
and we think those who 60 north
into Canada will find their expert
ence about the same.
Bolton & Minkle haul their goods
by here now. They claim the roads
are SO bad by Ringbo that it is i'm
possible for them to 4gosthat way.
Their store is at Breese.
David Anderson is building a
house on the eighty he bought of
his father; he sold his old farm last
summer and has to give possession
soon.
There were two men here about a
month ago trying to buy land on the
railroad survey line, offering $l5 per
acre, but could get none at those
figures. We hear they bought 72O
acres in this town from M. V. Even
son, of Thief River Falls, for $18per
acre. It is the George Elliott, John
Rookie, Ben Walker and Ben Hatch
quarters, on the river, and two odd
forties. 1t is supposed the land was
bought for the railroad company, as
these same men bought quarter at
Sandridge, where it is expected
there will be a depot.
We see by some Of our papers that
the 500 line will build north from
Glenwood to Emerson by the way of
Detroit and Thief River Falls. If
so, that line will not be far from US,
if it goes on a straight line from the
Falls to Emerson, Canada. In that
case, we will be we'll supplied with
railroads. Well, let 'em come My,
what lots of improvements there
have been since we were a boy :?
When we we're ten years old our
folks came from New Hampshire to
Illinois. We took the cars at Bos-
ton, Mass, and came to Albany, N.
Y. That was as far as there was
any railroads then. We took the
Erie Canal to Buffalo, N. Y, then
by rail to Chicago. My, what
change since then! Chicago was a
small town at that time. Iowa and
Minnesota were not known at all
hardly in those days. In 1850 we
had two brothers older than we e.were
who went to California from near
Chicago. They started the I'd day
of April and arrived in California
the 18th of October. What a trip
that was? Now the journey can be
made in three or four days. My,
what a change? One Of those
brothers crossed the plains three
times with team, two times going
and once coming. He is now in the
gold mines of Idaho.
There will be about the usual
amount of wheat sown here this
season. an increase in oats and bar