Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-31
st, Paul & Duluth.

This company at tie close of 1878 had
about 100000 acres of land, mostly located
IN a heavy timber region, and all in the
northeast counties, but including majority
OF excellent farming lands. During the year
1879 the sales have amounted to about 10 900
acres, all in small tracts to actual settlers.
Ibis land grant, though absolutely Offering
the greatest of inducements to immigrants
and men of moderate means, has been meas
urably passed by in the eager rush of land
seekers to the prairies. Time and space for
bid such description as would show the va
rlety of land included in the grant, but we
can allude to some interesting facts showing
the ease with which good home and COM
petence can be secured in these timber lands.
NOT ONE FAILURE.
The farmers who have taken up timber
lands in the st. Paul and Duluth grant have
usually been men of very small means, seek
ing the largest opportunities for supplying the
immediate wants of their families. The chief
OF the land Office, Mr.. Harris, has information
before him which shows that not one of
these settlers has failed to improve his con-
oltion' Ihere are no paupers among them.
Not one has ever needed or even asked the
assistance of the company. And yet some
of them have only few acres cleared and
brought under cultivation. The details of
now they earn living, make money and
accumulate stock and other productive prop
erty is told in the annual reports of an ex-
pert detailed every year to make careful
inquiry into the situation of every settler on
the company's lands. These reports make
interesting reading. The prime fact they
show is that the timber land farmers are
proftably
EMPLOYED ALL THE YEAR.
Some get out frewood, ties and fencing.
Others work in the pine woods. One man
sold his first year Thousand tons of wild
hay and now produces annually as much
tame hay. Another devoted himself to
vegetables, corn and stock, for all of which
ne has good market at home. Others
have successfully gone into the dairy bust
ness; and cranberries, game and ornamental
trees have been considerable items of exnort
by others. Witbal, many are now in con.
dition to produce large crops Of wheat for
which the soil and situation are unfailingly
favorable, while the buyers along the line
uniformly pay st. Paul prices for wheat.
There is no crop grown in the State which
does not flourish in the St. Paul & Duluth
timber country. But let one fact suffice:
Take the town of Chisago Lake, for ex-
ample, closely taken up by men Of small
means and divided into small farms. In all
this town there is not one mortgaged farm.
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS.
In the northern counties least settled the
company offers special and extraordinary in
duoernents to settlers. It sells it's land at SIS
an acre, in eight annual installments, with
out interest, being 1926 per year for each
forty acres. and binds itself to buy all the
wood, timber and ties the settler will deliver
from his purchase at the line of road, for
the first four years. AS the timbered lands
are rich, and natural meadows are plenty;
there is no reason why any industrious able
bodied man cannot make good living, raise
stock, pay for his land and have a comforta-
bic home, and in few years competency.
Houses can be cheaply built, fuel is plenty,
the winters in the timber are not severe, and
every year the country is filling up with that
best clase of citizens, those who exercise
judgment in choosing home and go in to
work and win.