Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-06-07
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The following from Mondays Pio-
|sneer Press We deem worthy Of a re-.
production in our columns:
Little Falls, Jpue 2,-While Lit
tie Falls has increased upwards Of 40
per cent in population during the
past year, and the attributed cause
was the new manufacturing and other
enterprises started here, a careful in
vestigation shows that large part Of
chat increase would be. warranted by
the development Of the agricultural
resources that has been going on very
rapidly in the rich farming country
tributary to this place. Certainly
the building Of mills and factories
has attracted the business, profession
al and laboring men here, and this
evident and substantial ground for
increase in population and business
has overshadowed another and
very valuable basis of growth.
An investigation of the growth
of the farming community that
is tributary to Little Falls will
surprise all who have not had their
attention drawn to it recently. All
parts of Morrison county have had =
reasonable increase in population and
cultivated land during the past year
or two, but it is the rich-soiled, tim
bered section Of the county west o.
the Mississippi river that has made
the most rapid strides and is enjoy
ing the greatest prosperity. 1t is the
experience Of proprietors Of small
farms that those who select homes in
timbered sections are in few years
much more prosperous than those
who settle on the large prairies.
The work at first is harder, and the
large returns are somewhat slower,
but the industrious settler who Sc
cures a good farm that is part timber,
part meadow and part brush land,
easily cleared, will in few years be
much better off than the emigrant
who settles on the bare prairie lands.
Hundreds of such timber, meadow
and brush lands have beeen recently
settled on by emigrants in this coun-
| ty, and there is still room for many
more. The excellent market for
wood, ties and timber gives the set
tiers chance to secure an income
Immediately after settling; the
meadow and grazing land make the
raising Of stock cheap and profitable,
and there are few tracts of this land
of 80 or 100 acres that do not include
enough land that is easily tillable to
raise the necessary crops to sustain
! the family and the farm stock. As
! the farms are cleared of timber for
| the market the tillable area increases,
and while the income from the timber
is often greater than a prairie farmer
can secure from cultivation, the land
| thus prepared for cultivation is of the
ibest quality to be found in the state
! An industrious settler with very small
means is wise if he avails himself Of
4 the advantages offered by settlement
| in such section Of country as Morri-
son county. Railroad facilities are
lexcellent, so that a market for the
! timber or farm products is insured
| The Northern Pacific runs along the
| north line of the county, the St. Paul
liz Northern Pacific passes through
1.-THE center of the county from north
to south, the Little Falls & Dakota
Iextends from Little Falls west to the
county line, the new Northern Pacific
"cut-oft', is being built from Little
! Falls northwest, and a new line is
projected from Little Falls to the
southwest. The building of the "cut.
jof'' is opening a fine farming and
timber country, and settlers are rapid.
ly occupying the tributary territory
| A small amount Of government land
is still left for settlement, but rail-
road, state, school and private land is
lall for sale at low rates and on easy
terms. Settlers are coming single, in
lgroups, and in colonies, and in at least
two cases colonies Of over thirty fam.
! lilies each have made their homes in
the western part of the county.
There is room for many more, and
the prosperity enjoyed by all who
|haye come in the past is a guarantee
that should be appreciated by all
lseeking new homes in the West.
Better conditions for farmers cannot
be found anywhere, and none who
have experienced the success that
awaits a settlement in this county ell.
Ivy The condition of the emigrant who
has pushed westward onto the prairiet
Here fuel is abundant, failures Of
crops are unknown, serious droughts
do not occur in the timber land, stock
is easily raised, and sells for a bette,
price than it does farther west. That
these advantages are appreciated is
: evident from the steady stream Of i'm.
migrants to the country tributary to
Little Falls, but there is still rom
for many more. JILL. ~@ =