Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-12-26
LETTER FROM FORMER
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Crowded Out Last Week }


Crowded Out Last Week.
Hubbard, Iowa,
Dec. 10, 1918.
Editor Emmons County Record.
Linton, N. Oak.
As l promised to write you letter
when ! last saw you, will say we had
a pleasant trip down here. Left
Linton on November 14th, and ar
rived in Hubbard the 18th. at 1890
a. M, in the rain, and for the first
eight days ] never saw the sun. 1t
rained and showed and the ground
froze, and such rough roads never
saw as there were here for q couple
Of weeks. We got our household
goods on November ED, and have got
moved into our new home. It took
Us two wesks to unpack and get
Strengthened around so it seemed like
living-we just stayed here for that
time.
This is quite different appearing
country from North Dakota. We
had about seven inches of snow that
fell on Thanksgiving Day, but the
snow is all gone now and it is fine
and warm with plenty of-(Mud)
The pastures are nice and green, al
most like summer.
Land is high here. It is worth,
or sells for two hundred and fifty
dollars per acre. One farm of one
hundred and sixty acres, just south
Of town, sold this fall for over three
hundred dollars per acre. Rent is
in proportion. know Of different
farms here renting for tan dollars
per acre. ! asked some of the men
how much corn they raised-corn is
the principal crop hsre-and they
told me from thirty-five to forty
bushels per acre, and oats about the
same; but there doesn't seem to be
much oats grown here, and l think
they have their. corn bushels average
. little low. But, however, can you
or any one figure out how a man
is going to come out with such rent
to pay while his expenses are so much
here, or rather more than in the Da-
kotas, for a man can't accomplish
near the amount of work here on q
farm as he can there.
Corn is sailing here now for one
dollar and forty-four cents per BUSH
el in the crib, and is very hard to
find at that price. Can only be got
ten at public sales where man is
leaving the farm.
Oats are selling on the local mar
ket today for sixty-fve cents per
bushel, and hogs for sixteen and a
quarter cents per hundred pounds.
There are lot of FIRE large hogs
in this county. saw good brood
sows that would weigh about one
hundred and seventy-five pounds sell
for close to forty dollars per head.
Farm machinery salls about the
same here as in North Dakota; also
cows, but horses are much higher
here than there.
We have a fine school here, but it
looks as though they were going to
close the school on account of the flu.
There is quite lot of flu around here
now-just broke out the last few
days-but there hasn't been any
deaths that have heard of lately,
and all patients seem to have it in a
light form.
A few words about our new home:
We have good six-room house in as
good location as there is in town;
have electric lights, good well at
the back door, a good barn. coal house
and auto shed, for fourteen dollars
per month.
was in the country today helping
a farmer to get ready for a public
sale on Thursday the 18th. He has
a large sale.
My broken leg, and arm that was
dislocated, bothers me quite q con-
siderable yet, but am able to do quite
a little work.
There are quite number Of friends
l would like to write to, but writing
is quite task for me, 50 will make
this answer for all Of them for the
present as ths Record IL read by the
most of my acquaintances.
will close by saying hello "a
everybody. and wishing your Ill I
Merry Christmas and q Happy Nsv
Year.
T. ]. RICHARnSnN