The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1921-07-22

I DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JULY
something OF my trip. / spent =
few days in Winnipeg and enjoyed
meeting acquaintances there. Win
nipeg is growing rapidly, there is 4
considerable amount Of home build
ing going on, and l found the busi-
ness men with whom I came III con
tact with, in an optimistic mood
concerning the future.
B Leaving Winnipeg June 9Th, /
visited my brother, G. F. Emerson,
at Central Butte, Sask., via Canad-
ian National Railway, passing thru
Portage La Prairie, Brandon, Re
gina and Moose Jaw. The crops all
along the way look we'll but the
soil is light and they do not plow,
but disc their land, as the plow will
not clean, the land blows and they
will have to sow sweet clover and
alfalfa to help this condition. Wheat
and oats are the principle crop and
you see some fine herds Of cattle
and lovely homes all along the trip.
intended to go to Fort Qu'Ap-
pelle to see DR.. George Fergerson,
an old Dakota boy, but found that
he had gone on his summer vaca-
ton. He has charge of the Santa
rum at Fort Quepell, the erection
OF which he superintendent. 1 left
Butte on the tenth of June for my
old home near Lindsay, Ontario, via
steamer Huronic, down Lake su-
perior, Sault st. Marie locks to
Sarnia. I especially enjoyed my
trip on the steamer, so clean and
cool and such good fellowship, also
god eats and fine scenery.
The crops between Sarnia and To-
ronto were spotty in places, on ac-
count of insufficient rain, but in the
eastern section, around Lindsay and
Port Perry, the crops are fine and
the weeds are fully under control:
the alfalfa is good and they are
raising a good deal Of fall wheat.
some of it will go forty bushels to
the acre. I had not been here in
crop season for forty years, and 1
1eund farming around my old home
has been very profitable business,
IL is a mixed farming section, they
taking great interest in fine stock
Shorthorn and fine Holstein
herds; they also take great pride in
their homes and are, of course, ma
king success at farming.
It was a great pleasure to meet
50 many Of the friends of my boy
hood days and visit the scenes of
childhood, especially the old home
on the shore of Singag, beautiful
inland lake, 18 miles long and from
one to five in width. It flows thru
the old locks at Lindsay where the
Purdy family owned the old stone
mill, which is still there. This was
Hazard and Jessie Purdy, formerly
Of Toilette and Pembina. The shores
Of Lake Singag are lined with sum-
n'er cottages and you can hear the
hammers going continually. No
better place could be found for fish
ing and bathing. I caught some
fine muskellunge and black bass and
made a record fishing as good as
the best of them; it is such good
sport getting large lunge on your
trowling line that it puts some pep
into fellow.
MY brother Frank is doing we'll
on the old homestead and has made
good through his perseverance: he
says it was his corn and silo that
put him over the top. He has a
fine herd of dairy cows. 1 called on
tne sparllng's at Lindsay and found
them both well and glad to hear Of
tne old Dakota friends. am now
visiting the MAYORS in Essex, and
am, while writing this, on the YER
andah Of their cottage on Lake Erie
shore. On either side Of this cot
tage are some very fine residences
owned by Detroit millionaires. The
vacant property here lis worth from
$50 to 800 a foot.
Wheat is grown around here and
here are acres Of ripe tomatoes and
.uch q place for berries, only wish
could take some back to Dakota.
Most of the fall wheat is cut here
md they are cutting alfalfa the
second time. Had fine sightsee-
ing drive through the country with
D. E.. Naylor: he has a nau, co~ owl