Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1909 — FROM NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. [ARTICLE]

FROM NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.

W. H. Wyncoop, a former resident of Walker tp., writes to have The Democrat sent to him for a year at Caribou, Minn., where he is now located. He says: “I have settled on a claimA in Northwestern Minnesota. I like the country here. We raise wheat, oats, barley and flax, and the country can’t be beat for potatoes. There is some game here yet. We got one deer and there ar lots of chickens. We are having winter hera~j»qw a &now 8 inches deep and the river*7rozen over.- We are 20 miles from a railroad. I have been breaking up sod on th#- place until it froze up. There is plenty of timber here for building and fuel, and it is a ,good place to raise cattle. We have an ox team we plow with.”