PEOPLE WOULD TINK IT A FIB

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 1, 24 October 1887, Page 4

PEOPLE WOULD TINK IT A FIB

Yts, I’m from Dakota, be said, meekly ns li« got iiiio conversation Willi a man on an Eastern train. All, is that so V I’m thinking of going ont l)i*ro myself to invest in some faming land. Wo have some ve:y fine land. {jo I understand ; but arc no; some of the stories they tell of its fertility exagge. rated ? Why. my fiiend, I am sorry* to say some of them are dowmight untruths. That’s wind I thought. .Now, what is the mod rem ik.-.b!c instance of tiie fertility of Dakota soil which ever came under our observation ? Well, I believe Ihe ease of my pump mii.’ht ,r o at tin* head of the d-t. Wind was it ? I dug a weli about forty feet the first seio-on I was (here, ami put down a wooden mini;'. It happened 'hat it was ma il' mil o: u smdl I oil 1.11 WOO'I log which was n little green, an t the soil ai ihc bottom of that we. 1 !, forty feet from the .scif-ce. was so fertile ilit the pomp look root, ami it also grew up ami Inanched out ; all i now while my ehimre:! play in a swing attached to one of the branches, 1 pump water through the hole which stiii r. undue in the inn!;. Do you tell me that for the truth ? Why, eei:aiu!y, sir ; I never toil a y* thing but tlie truth. Arc you engaged in fanning or the real estate business ? Why, I’m 'Ugag-.'il in neither, rny fii.-nd, neither. I’m a preacher. 1 went out 1 here as missionary seven years ago, and though my work has been humble, I trust it has bad a beneficial infinencti on our peu.de.