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I feet to the east, south and west; thejha\lt;1 mountain side covered with trees evoli | mouniam . _11 decked in living green and bathed in • I the soft September haze formed asoulthetrytere r e lt;thogra[! picture not soon to be for°!-te'• Prairie Grove is a naturalj battleneid.The high ridge occupied by the Confederate forces, to the north of it a lovely tract of smooth, fertile land, beyond which was the Federal position, somewhat broken by 11 If.Creek and patches of timber. rhe valley across which our troops charged was cleared land at the time of the battle. The eye can take in almost the entire held with one sweep and I : this as well as the land at Peak Ridgt i should he bought and laid out for a ’ military park, like Gettysburg, ^ ick»-i burg and Chicamaugua. The daughl* ters of the Confederacy have already purchased ten acres on the timbered ridge near town where frequent re- j pff unions are held. No better soil is , R found in the state than that around1Prairie Grove and as one e\piit no people earned a living easier— | gr the fact that 400 car loads ot apples gtf fwere shipped from this place id one yJ' year shows that it is a great Iimic0growing country. The town has twocanning factories where tomato* s*. t ^ sweet potatoes, berries and appms {t|, are canned. They shipped out in one Tvear 70,000 pounds of evaporateu ^fruit and the planf is engaged in taat alt; business now; they pay from -to ..o , w cents a bushel for culls as tney are w called, apple, siakea from the tree;: n)Unless spraying is resorted to u ,j(. \ or four times a year and the orelinnU a! frequently plowed and pruned ,he;f(1 amount of culls will be greater thanfruit.' They also have a vine-, i gar factory. _ J ti
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Albert Lea Times Enterprise
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Wed, Oct 06, 1909
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