Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1891 — Crops in North Dakota. [ARTICLE]

Crops in North Dakota.

New York Press. Mr. John W. Dwight; of Tompkins county, whose great farm of 60,000 acres in the Red river valley of North Dakota has often been noticed, is in New York to take an energetic part in the election of his friend, Mr. Fossett, for Governor; but that does not prevent him from talking about Dakota crops, on which he is well posted. He said yesterday: “There has never been such a period, of prosperity for North Dakotans as now. The crops of this year will sell for more money than all the land on which they were raised would have brought on sale last spring. With a population of only 200,000 people, the crops of the State'will bring between $45,000,000 and $50,000,000 into their pockets at the lowest estimate of prices. There were 3.000,000 acres of wheat, from which at least 50,000,000 bushels have been produced. The price of wheat .there Is now 80 cents. Then there is considerable barley, oats and some corn. There are fully half a million sheep on the rai ges—something new for this section. ‘ ’As a result of this prosperous condition of things,” continued Mr. Dwight, “the farmers in North Dakota are paying off their debts and looking comfortable and happy. The older settlers, who were out of debt, are buying more land to extend their aperations. The bank, deposits at b'argo have increased 40 per cent, in twelve months, and every dollar of the increase is home money. In I’argo, Wahpeton, Grand Forks and Red River there is not a house vacant, and no real estate- agent in Either place has one to rent. There .never has been such prosperity in “hat country since I have known it, ■>r ins the memory of the oldest iniabi.tant of iny acquaintance there.”

I remember having often been told in my youth that the kwe of glory was a virtue. Strange must be that virtue which requires the aid of every vice. ■- ■ A great capitalist is Bke a vast lake upon whose bosom ships can navigate, but which is useleib to the country because no stream issues thence to fertilize the land.