The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-06-17
THE WORLDS BREAD BASKET.
Good Crop Prospects in North Dakota
Down to Date.

the Worlds Bread Basket.
This headline in a 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
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
crop can be set down at less than
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 an old
German twenty miles north Of Wash
burn a few years ago, he showed
me q very fine field Of wheat in
shock while on the other side of the
road was crop showing as much
/. pig weed as wheat. His answer to
my question about the poor crop
was stubbled it in and if the
Lord will forgive me / viii never do
T it again.
AS the country gets older thepe is
less grain put i'll without blowing
The rapid spread of population and
development of these western plains
would seem at first TO be providing
bread faster than the demand war
rants, but the history of the spring
wheat industry is that it is constant
iy shifting from the old states to
the Northwest.
Sunny Southern Alberta. a
catching term for the region south
of Calgary to the American boundary.
is winning settlers from here as we'll
as from Redwood Falls. | saw a
few days ago some who have proved
up claims here leaving for Alberta.
A good many men who have secured
land here under the homestead law
are trying it again n Canada.
| You may sometime see Ho for
Peace River" sign displayed in the
display window of Quarton &
Barnes. Does the reader ask
where is Peace river" Only 400
or500 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 $50
We had a heavy sleet storm over
two weeks ago. lasting over a day,
and next morning several Indians
from Fort Berthold reservation
were on the streets. | asked one of
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
were on shopping expedition and
appear to have plenty of money and
enjoy spending it. | saw the squaws
buying fancy colored calicoes, loud
fancy ribbons and other articles of
/ 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.
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 fo coTnn1ain Ac to the lonU
ago immutable law that a bar
barous and indolent people cannot
be permitted to block the progress
of civilization was in force. Had it
not been this country would never
have been settled.
The Redwood colony here is small.
Mr.. W. E. Baker. Ernest Root of
Walnut Grove. who is clerking in
Postmaster Byes store, and his
.