THE WAUPACA POST

January 1894

 

HENDRUM MINN., Jan. 8, 1894

EDITOR OF THE POST –

            Dear Sir – Thinking that some of your many readers would find news from the far Northwest interesting, I will send you a few items.  Just now we are enjoying good cold wintry weather, forty below this morning, and eighteen inches of snow on the level.  Last year’s yield of wheat was a little below the average about fourteen bushels per acre, all graded No. one hard, and is selling at fifty cents per bushel.  Now the farmers in this vicinity have begun to realize that they must do something else than raise wheat, and are turning their attention to stock raising, principally hogs and horses.  Hogs can be raised with less expense here than in any other state of the union, as everything needed for feed can be produced in abundance.  For instance; barley, which makes the best of pork, will yield forty to fifty bushels per acre.  Beyond a doubt the change in farming will bring us out O.K.  Our little burg, Hendrum, is going forward.  It is situated on the Moorhead Northern, a branch of the great Northern R.R. thirty miles north of Fargo, N.D., in one of the richest farming districts in the Red River Valley.  We have three general stores, two hardware and two furniture stores, two restaurants, one harness shop, one lumber yard, one meat market, one hotel, a good graded school, millinery shop, shoe shop, two blacksmith shops, two churches, feed mill and four elevators.  One of the latter being owned by the farmers gives us the best wheat market in the Valley.  The population of Hendrum is nearly 200.  With our different industries already named we need a flour mill, the nearest being sixteen miles distant; also another lumber yard, a drug store and a doctor.

                                                                        Yours truly,

                                                                                                            A. W. J.