Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-31

A fertile soil is not1aade in day.
ouch mas been the story of the Red
| River wheat fields. When the waters
OF the immense lake, which once
covered this region receded, they left
heavy. black alluvial deposit from
one to i've feet deep, a soil uneaualed
in productiveness.
The first settlement in the
keo River Valley was made
on the present site of Winnipeg, by
colonises brought over by the Earl of
oeiklrk In 1913, tho trading posts of
the Hudson Bay Company had existed
prior to that time. About 1920. some
Swiss were induced to leave their
native home by agents of Earl of Sell
klrk and come to his colony, From
this place some moved south to Penn
blna to spend the winter. After en-
during hardships and suffering,
hunger and cold, many of these peo-
pie abandoned the Red River settle
ment and moved to Fort Smelling.
Here they opened up land and having
brought their cattle with them soon
became prosperous farmers. Thus it
happened that the first agricultural
immigrants into Minnesota, the van
guard Of the vast army that in later
years poured over it, came from the
north by way of the Red River Valley.
Near the close OF the Civil War,'Gov.
Ramsey made a treaty with the Chip
pewas. BY it a tract of land in the
Red River Valley, $50 miles in length,
embracing n.oO, 600 acres, was ceded
to the United States. This treaty
was confirmed. by proclamation of
President Lincoln. After the rail
roads had been built thru the valley,
people from nearly every state in the
Union and from northern Europe
poured in to settle on the free COVER
ment lands They were pleased to
find that:
Here no stony ground provokes the
wrath of the farmer.
Smoothly the plowshare runs thruthe
soil, as a keel thru the water,
Here, too, numberless herds run wild
and unclaimed on the prairies,
Here, too, lands may be had for the
asking and forests of timbers
With a few blows of the axe. are
hewn and framed into houses. -
Think, what a transformation has
takenp place since the time, when here
unmolested, ,themajesicbuffalo roamed
In herds that shook the earth with
laundering steps. Now railroads
span the valley in all directions and
cities and towns have sprung up as if
by magic, and thousands of happy
homes dot the prairie. The people
who have settled here have not neg
lected the educational part of their
development but have established
high schools, colleges and universities,
in which the young receive that men
tai training necessary in order to
make the best possible use of the
opportunities open to them.
1t has been our good fortune to
have been born and reared in this
highly favored region and while in
the coming years, we may find that
in the words of our class motto.
The World is wider Yet still.
wherever our lot in life may be cast,
and wherever our habitation may be,
we shall never forget the Red River
Valley. And in after years many of
us can probably say:
I've wandered wide and wand
cred far,
But never have / met,
In all this lovely western land
A spot more lovely yet"
Two choruses by the Glee Club and
a trio, ''Pit, Pat', by Missess Cross,
Moulton, Chaffee, Lewis, Carlton
and Vavrina enlivened the exercises.
The program was concluded by the
singing of the class song, composed
! by Miss Adams, the words being as
| follows:
Thru four long years in shade and
sun,
The river of our lives has run,
And now we fesI the happy days
Are onlyknown in older lays.
The time has come when we must
part
And sadness falls on every heart.
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