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water for boats of light draft ; the current appearing 

 to run about two and a half or three miles an hour. 



On my return to Fargo, by stage, I had for com- 

 panions two gentlemen from Iowa, who had been 

 examining the valley up to near the British line. 

 They told me that farther to the north the wheat 

 appeared to be even better than at Grandin or nearer 

 Fargo. 



On the way to that town my attention was particu- 

 larly attracted by the many large fields of wheat and 

 oats, some of them a mile square, all along the road, 

 and away from it as far as could be seen from the top 

 of the stage. Inquiries put to the driver gave me the 

 information that much the larger portion belonged to 

 men doing business in Fargo, or its neighborhood. 

 It was doctor A, or lawyer B, or some merchant, or 

 trader, or speculator who owned this or that field. 

 There, as elsewhere, everybody had turned wheat 

 growers or farmers of some kind. 



Two miles east of Castleton, and eighteen west of 

 Fargo, is the station of Dalrymple, and the sites of 

 the Cass, Cheney, and Alton farms, forming one com- 

 pact body of land, on the two sides of the road, six 

 miles in length, north and south, and four miles in 

 width, east and west ; this body being one wheat field 

 for the six miles, north and south, and three miles on 

 the road, which cuts it in the center, except for a few 

 small bodies of oats and barley. 



The Cass farm, owned by Charles W. Cass, of New 

 York City, has 6,355 acres, of which 4,327 acres are 

 in wheat, and 350 acres in oats and barley. Newly 

 broken ground for next year's seedii 



