The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-03-10
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to change their residence next spring
wish 30 know what can tell them about
Northern Wisconsin, and with your con
sent I will answer through The Pilot
closing with matter of special interest
to Maaitowoc. All true philosophy il
based on facts-no theory, however plau
sible, can stand against facts. A region
of country may appear beautiful and
promising and yet facts demonstrate its
unftLess for settlement. A region may
look forbidding and defiant, and yet facts
demonstrate that industry and economy
in it's improvement, viii insure delight
full home, competence and independence.
| Every new region has its sore inconven-
| ience, tolls and privations-there is no
exception. At first the prairie seems to
have the advantage-no great trees to
fell, no stumps to pull, no roots to annoy.
Yol have only to plough, SOW and reap,
but facts show that while many succeed,
the reaping is quite uncertain, and if the
harvest fail, all is dessolation-no profit
able business at hand, no demand for la
Dor. Some have gone zoo miles for work
and wages, to keep their wives and child
ren from starving. A man told me his
friends in Kansas had to draw every stick
of wook and every pail OF drinkable water
several miles, but they would not mind
that if they could get fair harvest. In
such localities the suffering is great. A
40, 80 or 160 acre tract, judiciously Sc
| lected in the timber, is Immediately pro-
ductive. Here are nice logs for house
building, fuel to keep you warm, browse,
in an emergency, to sustain your cattle,
game for your table-squirreIs, part
| ridges, rabbits, deer, ETC., and fish in the
streams. Within some miles of railroads,
ties, bark, hoop poles, telegraph poles,
cedar posts, et,., can be cut to a profit.
Within one or two miles cord wood pays.
Among the timber districts, crops are
very reliable, but in case of failure labor
| is in demand. Whatever the season, the
| saw mills and logging camps want men.
On recent trip through Northern Wis
consin, by the Wisconsin Central rail-
road, | found everybody busy-all at
work for themselves or others; wages
Sl.25 to s. per day. The people above
want and contented. Those seeking q
home IN new country should find good
soil, good timber, good water, good eli
mate and timely rains. Says Nebraska
man, 1 sowed several acres of wheat, but
not kernel sprouted; no spring rains;
the field dry as an ash heap. In Free
port, meeting prairie schooner, drawn
by skeleton hnroos, inquired WHAT 1t
meant, and learned that the party had
been in Nebraska fighting grasshoppers
and drought till thus reduced. They had
sowed wheat and planted corn, but gath
cred nothing. A lady friend tells me her
son in Dakota sowed % acres of wheat
and planted 70 acres of corn, last season,
| but hardly got back his seed. Another
man there, after seven years raising wheat
is still behind, and says the mishaps of
the country keep HIM down. A man,
with abundant capital to experiment and
speculate, can live even on the bald prai-
rles OF Western Kansas or sand barrens
of Southern New Jersey; but the man Of
limited means and growing family may
well turn to the timber lands of Northern
| Wisconsin. If the homesteads are all
| taken, the Wisconsin Central Railroad
| Company sells at such low rates and on
such long time as to be no barrier. What
is So, S5, or 81 per acre with market,
stores, schools, churches, and railroad
depot convenient. If the land is what
the settler wants, it is cheap at 5000 for
a 40; If not right, it is dear at any price.
For immediate returns the higher and
rolling lands are preferable. For dura-
bility and future productiveness, choose
the lower plains. It is well to get both.
The extensive mills AMI numbering
operations in Northern Wisconsin make
a good home market. Iron and other
new mines are reported as of great pros
pectlve Importance. The iron will be de-
veloped, possibly the copper and gold.
The timber vanishes rapidly. Three
years ago German boughl quarter sec-
ton, within one mile of a railroad depot,
and now, althoug working mostly alone,
has nice farm, over 20 acres cleared.
house and barn comfortable and cozv,
wife aud children healthy and happy.
High winds are rare, the temperature
steady and few sudden changes Apples,
the hardier varieties, do we'll; one farmer
last season. had 20 bushels. The small
fruits are abundant. With many soft
water is a great object. In Dorchester
60 miles north of Stevens Point, noticed
that the water was pure and soft. Fol
A. Pettitt's well, could it be transferred
to Rockford. I would gladly give 81 900
In many cases, those suffering from kid
ney and skin diseases, would be relieved
by its use.
There were raspberries last summer By
the bushel. From Dorchester, east ant
west, is turnpike and highway four rod
wide. These are opening all through th,
; country. Between Dorchester and Cobb,
Is Abbottsford, new point, the junction
of the Wisconsin Central and Wisconsin
L Minnesota railroads. It is well locat
| ed, and the prospective capital of ney
| county. Its chief attraction as vet is
J tip top dining hall, with its gentlemanl,
} landlord and fair attendants-a goot
place for the hungry traveller, and, fortu
nately, three trains meet here daily 70
4 dinner. The villages are prosperous
and the rural settlements, German, Nor
yeI, i.