By , H. Chaffee was, like Oliver Dalrymple, dedicated to efficiency in farming and utilizing all modern tools available. He bought a Cadillac automobile in and purchased new equipment for his farm. In , he began to manage the land by a different method. Chaffee set up a lease system. Farmers could lease a to acres to farm on shares. The company would give a farmer the use of the land and the seed for planting. The farmer would work the land and provide the equipment and livestock.
After harvest, the company and the farmer split the income fifty-fifty. Chaffee was successful in managing the Amenia and Sharon Land Company.
He added land, built an elevator and the Casselton Flour Mill, and brought railroad branch lines to Lynchburg and Chaffee. The Amenia and Sharon Land Company was in operation longer than most of the other bonanza farms because of H.
In , Chaffee and his wife Carrie traveled to England. They boarded the S. Titanic to sail home. On April 15, , after the Titanic hit an iceberg, H. Herbert Fuller Chaffee remained on the ship as it sank into frigid waters.
Carrie returned to her family in Amenia alone. When she died in , she still owned 41 sections of good, fertile farmland. By , 13 African Americans had filed for Homestead land. They did not form rural black communities because the 13 were scattered over 10 different counties. Some of these farmers were never able to acquire more than acres, but others found opportunities to become large landowners. Isham Evans was a veteran of the Civil War.
Giddings who owned a acre farm near Page in Cass County. Evans with his wife and three children owned and farmed acres which they later expanded to acres. Evans spent the rest of his life on his Page farm. Montgomery put together a bonanza farm of more than 1, acres in Richland County. Montgomery had been born in slavery, but served in the Union Navy during the Civil War. After the war during Reconstruction , he was elected constable and later treasurer of Warren County Missisippi. Montgomery was the first black man elected to public office in Mississippi.
He passed his illegal education on to his sons. By , Montgomery had moved to Dakota Territory where purchased acres one section from the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St.
Paul Railway. The land was located in Eagle Township of Richland County. It was good land, two miles from Red River. Montgomery eventually increased his land holdings to 1, acres. He located his home near the northern boundary of his land holdings. He built a grain elevator nearby. See Map 6. Lithia A community grew up around his home and elevator which he named Lithia, after his mother.
By , Montgomery was spending most of his time in Fargo, but continued to manage his Lithia farm. After losing money in some bad investments, Montgomery gave up his farm, but remained in North Dakota until at least He later returned to Mississippi which remained his home for the rest of his life. Oliver Dalrymple was the first to see the potential in a huge, carefully managed wheat farm.
Other bonanza farms, such as the Bagg Farm, the Grandin Brothers Farm, or the Amenia and Sharon Land Company were equally successful, though their management systems differed. All of these farms proved that modern industrial efficiency applied to fertile farm land could result in a very successful business.
Ironically, as the bonanza farm era passed, North Dakota farmers made a personal and political commitment to family farms of about to acres. Skip to main content. Navigation Close. Search this book Search. You must login before you can bookmark pages.
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