Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-11-21
ARTICLE VII.

WHICH We EcdCucO aOOub OscV ih bAO
afternoon aud were loaded into au-
tomoblles furnished by the hospita-
BILE citizens and taken for long ride
over their farm lands, spinning out
possibly sixty miles or more aud see
ing their lands both being titled and
wild and being cleared and broken
by the tractor. They have woodland
or what they call brush in this sec
ton, which was lacking about Por-
tage and their land shows up to be
good, but not on the average so good
and black as we found it at Portage
La Prairie. The soil is not So black.
shading off somewhat in color to a
whitish admixture, though the black
is there as basis. But they clear
up forestry and subdue land that
immediately with nothing but cult
walton begins to produce remarkable
crops. We see many fine farming
estates and lots and lots of such fine
barns. Some where the farmers
have not yet had time to build good
houses and are still using the old log
houses but with modern ventilated
barns, which are necessity both
for the housing of the stock and the
taking care of the harvested crops.
Our party broke up into groups and
the segment with which we were
thrown got lost off from the main
drive for awhile owing to our follow
ing lead-car which was driven by a
woman who became confused and IL
nally gave it up and asked for some
one better acquain ted with the coun-
try to get in front and lead-off with
his car, which was done and after a
bit we fell in with the main party
again. la some places they are
throwing up new roads and opening
out new by-wavs and closing up
crossroads to make them match up
to the survey of the country which
is laid off by the compass with town
ship lines followed for the main road
when the country is sufficiently set
tied up to close up the cut-across
trails.
When we got back to the station
in Dauphln the evening was rapidly
waning and we found a splendid
supper prepared for us at the theatre
building which was just across from
The depot. and here we ate and were
entertained with speeches by the
local celebrities and some in our
party made bid for fame on the
trip, by managing to get put up as
singers and reciters etcetera, some
of which was not SO pleasing to our
management and was headed-off a
good deal afterwards.
While out number of miles from
Dauphin on the auto tide we had
pointed out I'd us in the distant haze
the first outline of mountains to be
seen on this trip. These are called
the Riding Noun tains. and is long,
low range of hills densely covered
with the tree life which here asserts
itself, namely the spruce. tamarac,
poplar, cottonwood. oak, balsam. ash
and ash-leaved maple. This noun
tain form what's called high dark
background to the plain from which
we viewed it. When we had it poin-
ted out to us there was slight cloud
haze over 1t but we could discern the
ontline of the elevation. The car
host informed us that you could ride
until you were quite piece up on
its side before you we're aware OF the
ascent so gradual was the slope up
ward. The formation of the land
here is such that we were riding in
the bottom of saucer and the hills
at which we looked we're the outer
rim of such saucer, and it's the geo
logical theory that these PLAINS we're
once the bed of lake known in the
terms of that theory as Lake Agas-
siz from the scientist who elaborated
the same. The hills stand for the
shores of the lake and encompass the
plain on another side under the
name of Duck Mountains. If this
plateau on which we were was ever
great lake it was an immense one
as there are several large lakes in it
now. intentionally of which Lake
Winnipeg and Lake Winnepegosis,
and the earth certainly must have