Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1910 — LETTER FROM NORTH DAKOTA. [ARTICLE]

LETTER FROM NORTH DAKOTA.

J. T. Wagner Writes Interesting Letter From the New Eldorado. Larimore, N. D. Feb. 23. Editor Democrat, Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sir:—lnclosed you will find $1.50 for subscription to The Democrat for another year. It is fine to get the news from home twice a week and we could hiardly get along without it. We have had a good year all the way through, the summer was fine and have had a much better winter than I ever expected. December was rather stormy, but January was fine, ■%jjd we had very few days It did not thaw. February has been some colder, but no colder much than I have seen In Indiana, and we Hoosiers do not mind It so much as it is a dry cold, and steady. Our crops were good. I have a quarter on which I raised 1,142 bushels of wheat off 70 acres; 1,100 bushels of oats'off 35 acres, 3,500 bushels potatoes off 32 acres, or that is what was shipped, as I had quite a few freeze and In sorting over, lost between 600 and 700 bushels. The rest I have In pasture. I paid S4O an acre and am 3 miles from Larimore. Have not a foot of waste land on the quarter. 1 All the Hoosiers did fine last year and there Is quite a settlement of us here. We all like the country and do not think you will see any of us back to Indiana to live yet awhile.

We get good prices for our produce and grain, and it does not cost much If any more to live here than in Indiana. Hoping to see more Hoosiers come up the next year, I remain J. T. WAGNER.