The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-06-17
Ward County Independent:

Ward County Independent:
Please go back with me on my
outward trip to Herman IL miles
and return. On the morning of MAY
% four of US got into an auto and
went to Fresno down the beautiful
drive of Palnes and we stopped at
nearly every vineyard and one
could hardly believe the many beau
tiful things we saw flowers Of all
kinds and the beautiful cedar hedges
some turned square, some square up
2 feet then wedge shaped at top, some
like top, some like an umbrella, in
fact in all manner of shapes. We
were four hours going 13 miles. Got
driver in Fresno then went back to
Herman by the way of the Fig drive.
The trees are so large that they
mostly touch overhead. We were 4
hours on the way back. 1t was worth
all I paid out just this one day.
will give you just few prices in the
grocery line. Sugar $685. per cwt.,
-four best 1870 cwt., meat the same
as Minot, crown layer raisins sc,
seeded 3 dried peaches best halves 2
lbs. for Csc, strawberries "a OTIS. for
$3.50, English walnuts 15c, 2 for 25c,
lemons 1Oc per dozen, potatoes 25c
per cwt, hardware about the same
furniture, wagons, buggies and farm
implements, lumber about the same
as Minot, horses 400 and up to 8
years old $3.50. You can get good
year old team, sound, for $3.50. As
I see things in and around KEENAN,
first dairy butter fat brings now 36c
and not less than 24c at any time do
not have to put up hay. The COWS
feed the year round on alfalfa and
alfalfa cuts from to IL ton per acre
a year and sells at 50 dollars per
ton at Herman Mills that is ship
ped east and doctored up and sold
as stock food for from S. to $14.5O
per cwt. Pigs bring the same as
here, but never get any grain. One
acre of alfalfa pastures COWS. All
kinds of vegetables are grown there,
pumpkins, squashes, MELONS grow
so thick it is hard to find a place to
step. Sweet potatoes are big pay
ing crop, then there is the date wal.
nut pecan, olive, orange, lemon, april
cot, fig, peach, pear and apple trees,
grapes of all kinds and lot of logan
berries besides all other kinds OF
small fruits and these all hang full
in fact they had to pick off lot of
peaches so the limbs would not break
of, There is very peculiar tree
that grows there. It is called Euc-
alyptus. At two years old and about
6 through it is 40 fet high. It sheds
its bark in place of it's leaves. 1t Is
used for furniture and takes on
polish like mahogany and is very
heavy. You pay $3.50 per acre for
land with water right. You get about
6 thru it is 40 feet high. 1t sheds
of ground. The main ditch runs
$500 gallons every second. There Is
plenty of fishing and hunting to be
had. In few hours drive one party
of 10 went Is miles and were gone
two DAYS and came back with 500
lbs. trout, bass, etc. There is no
rain to speak of. About 3 inches
sometimes 9. No rain from April
LIST to Dec. LIST, and no fog. Grapes
bear at two years old. At four years
old you cannot reach the top of them.
Peaches, oranges, ETC., bear at 3
years, olives at 8 years. There Is
R.F. D. all over and telephone lines.
7 am located 2 IL miles from Ker-
man on the Fresno & San Fransicco
road. This land all Slopes to the
south and east about 3 and 3 IL TT. to
the mile and takes but little work to
get water onto it. I left Herman at
9 a. m. the 22nd of May via San
Francisco, Ogden, Denver, Omaha &
St. Paul. A little ways out of ker-
man barley all at the same time. 1t
ing barley all at the same time. IL
takes 40 horses to do this work This
was a 600 acre field. 1t was all
grain to Los Plaos. oN l""ge
herds of cattle to the j -. = gu
could see them cutting hay as
high up as 1000 feet. ookci as
though they would go bottom side up
In these hills is the Livenmore VAL
lev and it is just grand with its beau
tiful homes and vineyards Then
comes the valley that extends back
from the bay where most OF the
truck gardens are for Oakland, you
could see hundreds Of bushels bas-
hsts Of lettuce. onions, radishes etc.
and there was one Geld Of pie plant