Mower County transcript., 1905-10-25
ACROSS | III ROCKIES.
interesting account Of Trip ~ AUS
tin People g the Pacific Coast
Many Former Austin People Z: 4
4 Visited In California
Vineyards
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travels SO far, SO will send you q copy.
of the diary Lam keeping.
s We are enjoying our trip and every
day brings something of interest, We.
are at Mr.. 81. Hanson's now, 50 will
tell about our trip from the time we.
left Austin until we reached here
Thursday, September q. Left Aus :
tin at 4 O'Clock a. M, for Portland.
Reached Fargo, our first stopping place,
at $50 p. M, where we first visited at
our cousins, Henry Bowers; who is the
largest contracto or and builder in Fargo.
Heis in partnership with one Of his
brothers and they manufacture their
own sash and doors, screens, mouldings,s
etc. buying lumberin car lots, and every
thing at Wholesale. Fargo is. busy
prosperous city. There are many beau:
tiful residences. Apparently the pros.
perity Of Fargo will be. the death of
Moorhead, which is separated from
Fargo BY the Red river. Another
reason for the diffefenceIof prosperity
is that Fargoiis, a temperance city and
Moorhead has many saloons. One
thing that will help Moorhead is the
state Normal Schoollocated there. It
is sad to see the contrast III the appear
ance OF the two cities; however. There
are FIVE Of the Bowers boys, all located
at Fargo. We.visited each in his re-
spective home and found them com
fortably situated and all well pleased
with Fargo, having lived there for |
twenty-five years, or since its very in
fancy. s..,... -. =; y. .%z:z>.. %z& .ss.
Monday, September 25. Left. Fargo
at 1880 a. NJ, for Steele, where we ar
rived at 1:30. We passed some very
nice looking towns, among which
Valley City is worthy Of mention. We
visited only one day here, Drove out in,
to the country about four or five miles.
Seemingly the soil is not very rich or
fertile i'll many places around there. 7
Tuesday, September 26, at about
noon we continued our Journey west
ward on the ''fyer;'' passed through
much barren waste, the Bad Lands in
<cluded, beford reaching the Dakota
line on the west. We rode all night
and we're delayed from 10 O'Clock p. M,
until 2 a. NJ, by freight car being de-
rallied on the track ahead of us. Our
train being late besides this delay we
reached Columbus about $50 a. M,
where we found Mrs. Minerva Eddy
Kyle ready to convey us to their home
about two miles from town. This is a
dry, hilly looking country, but when
one has the privilege of visiting the
farms and see the products of the soil
it is marvellous what it will produce
About fifteen of the farmers in that
vicinity have constructed an irrigating
ditch costing about $4,000, among
whom is Will Kyle, a former Austin
boy. George owns a ranch las they are
called) about two miles from Willis but
is on another ditch. The source is the
same however, being the Yellowstone
river. 1t is a fact that potatoes have
been raised H. there weighing seven
pounds each, and it is no uncommon
thing to find many among them taking
only fifteen to weigh bushel. All
vegetables yield in about the same pro-
portion if cared for properly. Also
small grain is of good quality and Weld,
Onions grow to very large size. We
ate as fine melons at the home of
George Dickerson as we ever ate anv.
where. The boys are; prospecting but
not without hard work and close at
tention to business. They had had no
rain since last May or June until. the
morning we left there when it rained
steadily all the forenoon and we do not