St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-13
WHAT AUSTIN WANTS .

WHAT AUSTIN WANTS.
And now that have told in somewhat
imperfect way what Austin is, what it has
and what it is doing, 1 now propose to say
something about what it wants. In the first
place Austin wants manufacturing establish
ments enough Of one kind or another to
utilize the flow Of water which is continually
going TO waste. 1t is hard to stlpuate Just
exactly what factories would be the most
desirable, but almost anything which will
produce something which the people of this
section need would be OF benefit to the COM
munity as means of employing labor and a
wealth producing agency. A paper mill, a
carriage and wagon factory on a large scale,
harvester works. seeder or pillow works or any
thing in short which requires skilled labor
and which produces something useful.
Another thing which Austin wants
is the complete settlement of the
rich agricultural lands, of which Mower
county is composed. Over 200. 900 acres of
the finest lands in the world are still un-
productive, because they are not in the
hands Of agriculturalists. What this county
wants is a demand for small farms, of from
50 to 16O acres each, with a good, thrifty,
practical farmer on each of them, who will
make the soil yield him the greatest possible
return from the smallest possible area In
other words, higher and more restricted
system OF cultivation is what this and every
other county in the state needs to bring
about the greatest possible degree of pros
perity. When the average farm in Mime
sofa contains but eighty acres there will be
more practical economy among the farmers.
a fnha raft Of
gregate wealth produced than now. The era
of bonanza farming has passed, and let us
hope that higher and more restricted and
profitable era has begun.
How can the 200, 600 acres of vacant land in
Mower county be brought under cultivation
and made TO produce something's This can
be done by revealing 10 the outside world
what opportunities the county possesses.
Tell the world that these lands can be bought
at prices ranging from five to fifteen dollars
per acre, that they are not excelled in fertil-
ity and natural advantages by any on the
western continent that they are nearer mar
ket and will enable a farmer to get better
prices for his products than the plains of dis
tant Dakota, that they are better adapted for
system OF mixed farming than lands fur
ther north, that the finest small grain, the
best grass, the best corn and the best stock
Gun be produced on them, that they lie in
the dairy belt where more money can be
made out of COW every wear
than from the best ten acre field
of wheat with the price at one dollar per
bushel and that any man with few hundred
dollars in money and a disposition to take
hold and wrestle for a living can purchase
lands here and you will see the 200 600 acres
of uncultlyated lands in Mower county
snapped up in 4 trice. This is the mission
which the press OF Minnesota have to per-
form, aud the GLOBE will always t.y to per
form its share
| believe from my personal observation
and personal investigation OF the adyau-
tages which Mower county offers that there
will come a time, and not at very distant
day either, when land cannot be purchased
for a song. When tine price Of farms will
range from twenty five 10 one hundred dol
lars per acre, instead Of from five 10 twenty
five rs now. l believe that Austin, already
the queen of the lower tier of counties viii
yet grow to be place of ten TO twenty thou
sand people, and that its future viii always
be such as its most ardent friends could
wish Why not Il has within itself and
its Surroundings every element of success.
Il has the material and the people. What
more does ii want