The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-04-08

| are and will always be higher than in any
other rural part of the Northwest. It is NO
disparagement of tho rich prairie lands OF
Minnesota and Dakota to say that these tim
ber and meadow lands are as we'll adapted aa
they to profitable farming and stock raising.
But, while many immigrants will prefer the
| prairies because they are all ready for the
plow and allow of large farms being quickly
made productive; yet these timber lands
offer peculiar and greater advantages to
healthy poor men who are not afraid Of work.
A good living for wife and children can be
earned from the start. A comfortable house,
barns, stables, granaries, fences, etc., may
be built with little outlay beyond
the mans own labor. The woods,
though an obstacle to rapidly bringing the
farm under cultivation, furnish the means
of living and protect tho inhabitants and
their stock against extremes of temperature.
Tho company guarantees 10 purchase At fair
prices, from new settlers, the ties, timber
and fire wood they cut in clearing their
lands. Largo crops OF hay, grain and vege-
tables are grown and the selling values of
these all along the line approximate closely
to those of st. Paul, while for beef, pork.
butter, eggs and poultry the values at st.
Paul & Duluth stations approximate closely
to those of st. Paul.
TIMBER LAND FARMERS.
The pamphlet gives the history of numer-
GUS settlers on the St. Paul & Duluth lands.
Two of these will suffice to illustrate the
whole and are as follows:
Seward p. Woodman purchased and began
Improvements on 100 acres in section a. town
81, range az. in 1876. At the time of his pur-
chase he was worth about 800, which he
earned in tho pineries. He paid q small
AMOUNT on the land and commenced clearing.
he has now l35 acr( cleared and under cult
vation, and in 1870 the product of his farm
was 1000 bushels of wheat, $50 bushels of
oats and 500 bushels of corn. He has seven
horses, one of which is valued at 5000; twenty
head of cattle and ten sheep. Has twenty five
apple trees in bearing and various kinds of
small fruits. Has good two-story frame
outbuildings. Has thresher, reaper and all
necessary farming implements. MIR. Wood
man is out of debt and has money out at
interest.
Oscar Malmquist purchased from the railroad
company. in 1872 eighty acres in section thir-
ty y'three, town thirty-seven, range twenty-five,
payable in eight annual installments. Re had
no capital. The land was heavily timbered
with maple, oak, elm, ash and pine. He now
has sixty acres cleared and under cultivation,
from which he has cut and sold l 900 cords of
wood and 500 ties. In 1879 hc raised 600
bushels of wheat, ECO bushels OF potatoes
twenty tons Of timothy, and from eight acres
of meadow, two tons of red top and blue joint
hay per acre. He also made sixty gallons Of
maple syrup, and raised vegetables enough for
the use of hi. family. BE now owns 800 acres,
all paid for except two small payments on the
last eighty acres purchased, neatly all of which
ne has acquired from the product of the first
eighty acres purchased. He has two teams,
two wagons, ak COWS and two pair of steers.
SWALLOWED OR NOT SWALLOWED.
At Sioux City it is reporte! that the cash
receipts there of the St. Paul g. Sioux CITY
railroad are remitted to the Northwestern
railroad company at Chicago, and that the
Car reports of the st. Paul & Sioux City and
the reports of tho machine shops of the St.
Paul & Sioux City are also sent to the North
western at Chicago. The Journal also sees
pointer in the same direction in the fact
that MIR. F. NJ. Luce, car accountant of the
Chicago Il Northwestern railway, is also car
accountant of the st. Paul & Sioux City.
This latter fact has NO particular significance,
and there have been no late instructions at
st. Paul to confirm the other Sioux City dis
coveries. The existing orders here are that
reports are to be made as formerly until
further orders. But if the Chicago, St..
Paul & Omaha consolidation is not inde-
pendent, it naturally belongs to the Chicago
Il Northwestern company and We are in
clined to believe the Sioux City people are
not much out of the way. However, the
ownership of the st. Paul roads is not mat
ter of Importance, provided st. Paul eau in
any way make it the interest of the owners
of the roads not to discriminate against her
in tariffs. AS to that, time and St. Paul en-.
terprise and pluck will have to be taken into
account.