New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-12-06

duced kind of tobacco that could be
found nowhere else so he set about
organizing the farmers with the result
of making it so effectual that not a
pound of tobacco was sold at the price
offered by the trust and only last week
the trust met the terms of the raisers
and gave them an advance of 33s per
cent more than the formal offer. This
| is doubtless the first time since the
organization of the trust that its die
tates have been defeated and there is
great rejoicing among the agricultur-
alists of the blue grass region of the
United States.
Passing through the territory between
Evansville, Ind. and Nashville, the
train stopped for several minutes at a
little place called Sebree. This is the
scene of wreck which took place last
summer when the late DR.. Gebhardt
and the writer were on the train.
Many of the people there remember
ed the circumstance and were inquisi-
tive regarding the death and the at
tempts to place the crime. The short
time the dentist was in the little will
age seems to have been sufficient to
have impressed many of those whom
he met with his strong personality and
they remembered even to details, his
appearance and actions.
Compared with the north the pros
perity of the south is not marked. but
compared with the old condition the
new are wonderful advance. The
splendid cotton crops and the high
price that prevails has lifted a weight
from the mind of the planters. Yes, it
has done more than that it has lifted
the mortgage from many farms and
restored the credit of former years to
those whose failure had brought them
under the ban of the merchants and
tradesmen.
You hear but little here, Of the great
"GraftingN Investigations. It may
exist, probably it does, but the finan-
cial transactions here are not so large;
the deals do not include such tremun-
dous opportunities that it is probably
thought not worth while.
The whole country is looking with
longing eyes to the opening of the
Panama Canal and the freedom that is
to be given from the controlling in
terests of the railroad. It is figured
| that when traffic is opened to the Pa
citic through the canal all industries
will be greatly benefited and a new
and greater era Of prosperity will
open for this country.
10 one who is used to the larger
dealings of the people of the west, not
only in bus mess but in farming, the
methods pursued here seem only like
playing at the same thing but the wants
of the people are simpler and easier
satisfied and they are content to deal
in ways that would be only disastrous
to other sections.
While in this city the late DR.. Geb-
hardt met a number of people who,
with their friends, watched the pro-
ceedings in the attempt to avenge his
murder with deep interest and are still
watching solicitly for some final re-
suit, remembering him, as they unhesi-
tatingly state, as a young man whom
they at once admired and liked.
Rain has fallen steadily for several
days and the state has not the slight
est right, from present indications to
the title it has been given as ''Sunny
Tennessee. It is anything but that.
One of the most rem arkable things
that has even been attempted in the
south is the proposed erection of a
dam across the Tennessee river at a
point below what is called the 'suck. :"
Where the river cuts through the
mountain, for several miles there is a
narrow gorge which confines the water
between banks not more than ninety
feet apart and the current here is re-
markedly swift for the fall is great
and steamers getting caught in this
current and losing the usual n ethod of
being let through the dangerous pass
age by tackle, are frequently hurled to
obstruction.
1t is at the end of this passage hat
the dam is to be constructed which is to
be one of the great engineering feats
of the age. 1t will be sixty feet high
and will back the water of the river
some twenty or more miles and fur
nish the city with power second only
to Niagara Falls.
The government has leased the
privilege to a corporation which is to
build the dam, put in locks, and keep
it in repair for the privilege of the
rentals, from the power for term of
ninety-nine years.
1t is expected that electric power
generated here will be used in cities