The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-10
OUT ON THE FRONTIER.
David Robinson Tells About Planting
New Heme in the Northwest.
Web Satisfied.
HE MOVED FROM NEAR BURNT CABINS.

While this county is one of the
garden spots of Pennsylvania.
many of our people in the years
that have gone by, have gone out
TO try their luck III other parts of
Uncle Sans domain, and there
are others who sometimes think
of doing so. Not unfrequentlv a
farmer with a family sells off his
land and farming implements,
takes his family and removes to a
PLACE hundreds Of miles distant
His venture is always watched
with interest by his old neigh
bors.
Last October, Mr. David Rob-
Inson, near Burnt Cabins, while
not young man, thought it not
too late in life to try his luck in
the far west, and accordingly
made sale and left with his fam.
lily for North Dakota.
Before leaving, Mr.. Robinson
promised to tell his old friends
ard nelghbors about his trip and
his impressions of the country he
was going to, after he had reach
ed it and had a chance to form an
opinion. Hence, under date of
Decem Der Both, he writes as fol.
lows:
"After my sale, | started West
October 23d, and landed at Willis
ton, North Dakota, Oh the Goth.
Finding a lodging place at which
l left my wife, | started with a
Locator by the name of John Pen
sion, my son William, another
: man, and lady over sixty years
of age to search for a home on the
prairie. We found beautiful
places about thirty miles from
Williston, and at once '1ocated. !"
The next day we returned to VIII
llston, made out a bill for house
1924, had 1T hauled out to our
farm" the following week, and
proceeded to "build.
81 built it OF frame, lined 1t up,
outside with rough boards, put
on tar paper, and then drop sid
ing, lined 1t inside with flooring
boards four inches IN width. In
less than four weeks we were liv
ing in 1T. have a cook stove and
coal stove, and live snug and hap
py. Ignite coal is plenty-can
have all you want for the digging
1t burns much like wood or char.
cosl and does not make any cln-
der.
'Thls Is beautiful country
good land and good water. fven-
ture the assertion that 1t is the
finest grazing country under the
sun. Abc ut the time / moved
here, the cattle-men began to
drive their cattle out to send them
TO market. Drove after drove of
about $50 each-and the fattest
cattle | have ever seen-and not
one of them ever got a feed of
grain. heard one man ask an
other, "What did your cattle net
you ahead ?" "rhey netted me
sixty dollars head In Chicago. "
was the reply.
"Hay is not made here as in the
East. 1t is allowed to stand un-
I'll it natures. then cut dry, haul
ed in and stacked the same day.
You would think it would ali blow
away, and so 1t would in the East.
"This is the finest climate
have ever seen. About SIX inch,
es of snow fell here on Thanks.
giving. Since that time the tenn
perature has been soeven through
The day that it neither freezes nor
thaws. 1t freezes at night--the
mercury running down to about
l6 to 20 above zero. Through the
day the sun shines beautifully
and the air is bracing and health
full.
Game is plentiful. Along tn,
river near Wllllston, forty deel
were killed. There are buck rab
bits IN the brush along the rlvel
in great numbers and easy to kill
\ No trick to go out and shoot al
one can carry. This beng nev
country, and not much farmins
1one, the rabbits do not stay il
be prairies; but they will. ofte,