Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1906-03-29

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n@n ado ~eLen s:19 aaNr iy-1 = .ile
u lssol'i >ios- g., MANY ,.a.s have
Isss' ~ al hoe, is4g al, aeuD. As u
the future. Tie. lave af4oan ina.
The country MAS . flsi.. Du. al times
they ilad elnos, settled j. iii tA.if
minds tlla. The railroads would not
c5me within ibei, Cay ana generation.
And Without theii coming X would
he impossible for this region u take
tie position 70 which il is entitled.
For years everything that the people
oi kmmons county raised on their
farms they were compelled 70 haul a
long distance 70 market. some Of the
farmers being fifty TO sixty miles dis
tant thereffom. Now il is impossible
70 una part u the county that is
much more than twenty miles from
market, and more Of it is much near
er. What a great advantage this i, to
The FARMER can hardly he appreciated
Dy those who have never experienced.
drive over the long and weary way
TO and from Eureka eyenfartler-
Tie south, and to aud from the y. T..
on the north. Why. before the Mil
waukee was extended u what is now
Eureka, there are farmers now re,jd
lng IN this county who had TO haul I,
Ipswich to find a market. The Fisch-
erS and others in the Exeter neighbour
hood are among those we remember
That formerly made that trip. In
those days the farmer found little
time for fall blowing. 1t took the
most OF his time To get his grain to
market. But it is different now. 4
large proportion Of our farmers carat
the present time make two or more
trips daily to Il railway station.
sometimes voice is heard conn.
planning that the country is getting
Too thlckly settled, that there i, mo-,
now enough wild hay, and tina, il win
not pay to raise live stock. Hut
10 Ih's lfues Is IT not a fact that
good many farmers of this county
nave Tor years been raising com and
FODDER, and from choice would taile,
raise IT than g. any great dis,anc. 10
cut Wild hay: IL is tie history n
every ne" country that denscr settle.
ment compels new methods and more
careful farming, and that history ";u
We heileve, be repeated here.
IL Is true that MANY ~ il,,s. ~.
nave taken homcstcads In EmuonS
county within the last two or thron
years have not been able u obtain aS
choice land as those who came c.rgi.r
a great deal Of the good land If t,,e
county is IN the hands OF Spectators
Ihis is dra" back, but il is a couai.
lion that will not be permanent. Tho
spectators will gradually dispose Of
tie'r lands u actual settlers. They
will not hold IL many years a, a con.
siderable cost in the way Of taxation
The somewhat billy land ON Which
many VI the newcomers have settled
VIII, we believe, prove To he cntirclv
available for the making of co,nfor,
able homes. There are few quarter.
sections In the county upon which
hali VI the area may not be farmcd hv
fencing OIL lots ~ a few acres l4ereand
There. And, with more careful culti-
walton and more frequent blowing il
VIII probably come To pass here as il
has after other new regions came 10
w more denscly settled that the
Well-tllled quarter Will produce about
as Well as the half-section that has
''eeh SKINNED every year. And nutrj.
Ilpus grass grows ON the hills as well
AS ~ the valleys in this region.
There isn't IA family that has come
mere and taken up a homestead i'm lie.
cent years that will not. through en-
ergy and perseverance. better itself
NY the change. Most Of those who
have settled this county newcomers
as we'll as old. timers were not very
we'll on in this worlds goods when
they came here A great many rented
land or worked ON a salary before mo,