The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-06-17


THE WORLDS BREAD BASKET.
Good Crop Prospects in North Dakota
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Ed GAZETTE: All is Well With
the World Bread Basket.
This headline in daily paper in
dicates the interest taken by all the
people in the crop prospect. The
question comes up from transporta-
ton companies, manufacturers,
chambers of commerce. merchants,
farmers and those grinding in the
sweat shops Of New York, What is
the prospect Of the crop? AS far as
! the papers give US such information
! as they are able to get from rail
roads, wheat men and government
j reports, the showing at this time IS
/ very good
! am Very glad to report the pros
/ poets in this part of North Dakota
very good and that not one leading
fcrop can be set down at less than
4 100, unless in case of poor farming
/ of course, in a country so recently
/ brought under cultivation there will
be now and then a man who will
stubble his crop in.
Riding over the. farm Of All old
4 German twenty miles north Of Wash
burn a few years ago, he showed
! me very fine field Of wheat in
shock while on the other side Of the
road was a crop showing as much
pig weed as wheat. His answer to
my question about the poor crop
was i stumbled it in and if the
Lord viii forgive me | viii never do
it again
As the country gets older theye is
less grain put in without blowing.
The rapid spread of population and
j development of these western plains
would seem at first to be providing
4 bread faster than the demand war
rants, but the history of the spring
wheat industry is that it is constant
ly shifting from the old states to
the Northwest.
Sunny Southern Alberta, a
catching term for the regi2n south
of Calgary to the American boundary,
is winning settlers from here as we'll
as from Redwood Falls. / saw a
1 few days ago some who have proved
4 up claims here leaving for Alberta.
4 A good many men who have secured
land here under the homestead law
are trying it again ia Canada.
II You may sometime see Ho for
Peace River sign displayed in the
A display window of Quarton &
Barnes. Does the reader ask
where is Peace river. Only 400
or 500 miles northwest of Edmonton.
| True it is a long way from home,
but wheat will grow there and the
railroads pay part of the freight.
The fare from North Redwood to
Calgary is SO.
i We had a heavy sleet storm over
two weeks ago. lasting over a day,
and next morning several Indians
/ from Fort BerthoId reservation
] were on the streets. / asked one of
1 the men where they were during the
storm and he said in tents near
town. They can endure storms that
would be very hard on whites. They
4 were on a shopping expedition and
appear to have plenty of money and
/ enjoy spending it. saw the squaWs
4 buying fancy colored calicoes, loud
fancy ribbons and other articles of
d personal adornment. The bucks
took out baseball outfit and sup
| lies to enable them to entertain a
ball team from another tribe with
which they were. soon to have a
game.
4 Whatever may have been in the
past, these people don't need sym
pathy from anybody. AS to the
question that used to often be
brought up that we have taken their
lands without due consideration, the
present generation has nothing OF
which to complain. As to the long
| ago immutable law that a bar
barous and indolent people cannot
be permitted to block the progress
srs -