Morris tribune., 1903-11-21
BOOM FOR MORRIS
GOOD WORDS In THE AMERI-
CAN LUMBERMAN.
The Lumber Dealers and Incidentally
the City, Get Fine Write-up
by their Special Correspondent.

have visited between Minneapolis
and Fargo. 1t is rough and ready
looking town, built in S marsh, the
saloon interest bigger than an elep-
liant and the lumber sheds occupying
thu center of the city. One of the
dealers tells me that while ago ne
was an advocate of locating the yards
elsewhere but evidently for some rea-
son the city fathers did not take TO
the idea.
Long before reaching Morris the
fences begin to disappear, the rail
roads not even being fenced to keep
the trains on the track. La the even
ing there may he seen dozen lights
around the horizon caused from the
burning of straw stacks. All this
bespeaks new country. The buffalo
has gone, there is occasionally wolf
seen frisking over the prairie, and on
the high lands just above the town
there are 100 Indians and squaws-
but they are inmates of government
school. Prof. Brown, in charge
kindly showed me over the premises
and proved to me that these Indian
children are being worked over into
pretty good material. The girls are
taught to keep house, cook, wash,
mend. make their own clothes, and in
addition are taken IN school to point
that corresponds to the eighth grade
of our public schools, Then if they
desire to go farther they are sent to
Carlisle college, in Pennsylvania.
Today button came off my over
coat and man like, I put it in my
pocket, not knowing how to sew it Oh.
Now one of these Indian girls, would
have sewed that button on as we'll as
any tailor, which goes to show that
when it comes to knowing how to do
some of those things which are nee
ossary to be done in order to live
decently the Indian girl stands away
above me- The boys are taught prin-
cipally to farm. Saturday after
noon | saw team from this school
play a game Of football aid although
they were beaten by small majority
at every stage of the game they
showed grit and fire. One big Indian
was laid out, as cold as a wedge, but
they pumped the breath of life back
into him and that evening he was out
sernading. Anything short Of the
destruction of life itself is considered
no disaster in football, you know.
To look over this country one can
imagine the immense amount of lum
Der that will be sold hereafter The
great majority of the buildings
belong to what is called the first crop
namely, those first erected which
would answer the purpose of the
pioneers who generally came with
more grit than money. AS the coun,
try acquires age and the farmers be-
come we'll to do these small houses
and barns will give place to larger
and more expensive cnes, for where
ever we go, on the prairie, in the will
age, or in the city, there is shown
disposition by the people to live ac-
cording to their means. The soil is
deep and black, the kind that makes
the farmer rich. The first settlers
we're not farmers of the best kind,
but since the land craze started up,
men from Illinois and Iowa have
come in here and are showing them
how to do it. 1t is said the hog cho-
lera is unknown here, and | don't
kLow why don't borrow money, buy
a farm and go to raising hogs. l be-
lieve it would beat the scrlbblihg
business SO far out of sight that in a
few years | would love the hog for
what he had done for me. If my
mission on earth was to run farm [
would come out here, dip into cattle
and hogs all over and make or break
The E. j. Jones Lumber Company, |
with line of dozen yards, has head
quarters in Morris and in the center
Of town is building shed that will
cost, should say, about $1,000 A
local paper put it ia $1,000, but hat
was too steep. The foundation for
ID office is also going in, the office up
TO date having been in hard ware
store owned by Mr. Jones. The pro-
prietor of this line of yards is man
IF affairs in this vicinity, and man
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