Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-07-29
o. n. Thompson Writes lntese stlngly
Of tho Canadian Town and her
New Settlers.


our home for this place the 9Th Of
April to take up farming and also tc
start up the brick yard and coal mine,
which is owned by a company organ.
lied and incorporated by twelve Kan.
dlyohi county people. I have put in
my full time at this point and we have
prospered finely. It takes more CAPT
tai and work establishing such an en-
terprise than most people imagine.
We have now got over the worst of it,
and within week or ten days will
have our plant in complete operation
turning out brick for customers.
We have already manufactured and
burnt two small kilns for our own use
tn brick IN boiler and smoke stack etc.
which turned out quite satisfactory.
Our clay has been tested in several
states, and nothing but fattering re.
ports, and samples are eecured-all
claiming our clay has no superior.
The demand for brick will be enorm-
Gus rs orders are being booked daily
to be filed when plant gets into oper.
stion. We have also had q new coal
mine started in addition to the old
one. Have already dug into the side
hill over two hundred feet, and are
now working in side rooms. This
mine is located up to the railroad side
track which is now being put in. The
coal industry Is big thing in this
country.
The village of Estevan is making a
big boom this season, and by all in.
dications will make large city. Mr..
John Olson, former merchant from
Willmar, and later from Kerkhoven,
came up here with his family a few
weeks ago and started into store bust.
ness and is working up a good trade.
He told me today that his present
quarters are too small to accommo-
Gate his trade and he must build an
addition a. once. This place has now
three lumber yards, about twice that
many machine dealers, two large no.
tells, another one soon completed,
several restaurants and bakeries, two
barber shops, and several stores and
shops. A newspaper has just started
aud a bank, mill and elevator are to
be built this summer.
Mrs. S E. M agnuson from Willmar
has been one of the Mikkelson family
visitors for about two weeks. She de-
parted for rome this morning, highly
Impressed with this country. She has
large holdings OF land in this vicinity,
which she invested in some time ago
without seei' g it and was much
pleased with her deal.
l ohanced to meet Mr.. Thomas Care
less today just arriving back from a
hasty trip to New London. He sur
pr1 ed me by stating, it was reported
all over that vicinity that we have had
extremely bad luck and sickness out
here this summer, that we have lost a
span OF horses, that 1 was sick, also
sick OF The country and my invest
ments ona h re and wanted to get back
10 old New London as soon as DOS.
sible. cannot account for how such
= misleading rumor ever got started.
Well, Can with much pleasure say
that my health has not been so good
f'r many years as enjoyed this sum-
mer ano am continually growing bet
Ter. As esarding our horses. we
hs' Q not lost any. We still have the
San Q tw" gray teams we brought out
here W b liz year ago last spring,
5at ano " II ". On our farm here
We have n Il a crop growing as I
ev'r saw IN my life. We have in 100
acres IS IL lows: 20 acres of fax.
- -e".: each Of wheat and oats. As
+ be ny lex Of the country, that is
eontr~,y 10 my views. So far, have
never regretted came, or made the
snveslnfs MIS- have. AS soon as this
plant j. in peration so I can spare
he slime, intend to have q house
hnilt ard my family moved here. I
bike old kandiyohi county and it's
peopl.. q expect to visit it OCCASION
~, It ! We. But as to making it
my future home, think this countr,
NJ lar nhead OF it. My letter is al
ready TO- lengthy, and must draw to
:" chose. With best greetings to all
nay irlt lds, l remain,
Yours truly,
0. 81. THOMPSON.
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