The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-02

made in developing the resources OF
the county and in general improve
ment is truly wonderful. Now we
have a. population of over 1900 and
poll nearly 1000 votes. We have ex-
cellent schools, artistic churches and
comfortable homes, which bespeak the
moral status of the community and
the character of our citizens.
INDUCEMENTS TO SETTLEMENT.
This county offers unusual induce
ments to settlement by good men and
women from every land and cline. Tc
the farmer, stock-raiser, dairyman
fruit grower and manufacturer, here is
field as rich in opportunity as any
region in the great west. For manu-
featuring most of the wares and goods
in common use there could not be q
more fortunate location than Redwood
Fails, WITH it's fine railway system
cheap fuel, abundance of pure water
thus affording splendid protection
from fire, fine timber, and, in fact, ev-
erything that is required to build up a
large manufacturing town. There are
openings here for all classes of intelli-
gent, self-reliant, self-sustaining men
The land titles are unclouded, and the
lands are no dearer than free home
steads on the border. Taxation is low
educational advantages are of high
order and the new conner will be
greeted by as cordial and hospitable
people as ever crossed the Mississip'
pi, and will find here not only cheap
lands, mild climate, generous sol
and fine commercial and social condi
tions, but perfect freedom to work Out
his destiny on any plane of honest con
viction and action that belong to the
prerogative of the American. To the pee
pie of the West it seems almost unac
cOuntable that industrious and enter
prising people East will continue t(
plod the weary rounds of fruitless toi
on farms that at their best have les:
intrinsic value than our cheapes
lands here, and what is still more
strange is the fact that, of the thou
sands who do come west, SO many
should persistently push to the dry
prairies Of the extreme frontier, anC
endure the hardship5 and p:ivation:
incident to pioneer life, when righ
here in the richest farming state in
the Union, almost at the threshold ot
their journey. they could find better
soil, better climate, and as god poo
pie, with all the accessories and ad
vantages Of refined community
Redwood county has some marked ad
vantages. 1t has good climate, soil
water, stone a1i wood, and an ener
getic and thrifty people who are ma
tives of New York, New England anc
Northern Europe. These, all togeth
er, make a combination which has nev
er failed to plant the sturdy oak o
prosperity where they have lived. Nc
region with ;hese elements and elias
of inhabitants can be restrained from
taking first place in the rank of pro
gress. 1t has, besides, diversity O
soil and formation, adopting it to the
various crops and products of the
state; upland prairie and its soil; val
leys with sand, fitting them for crop:
at least two weeks earlier than the
more elevated lands, such as corn
which needs to mature early; the roll
ing and hilly land, with the streams
in the valleys, a class of lands few
years considered of small account
when wheat was the chief crop, bu
now proving to be the best for cattle
and sheep culture. In 1873, the grass
hopper year, the wheat crop failed
and with it the value of the land; bu
as the farmers are making the turn in
to diversified farming, raising some
thing of each kind that land will nat
urally produce, some wheat, with oats
corn, barley, with the seeds of fax
timothy and clover; with the tame
grasses fitted for COWS and the dairy
products, and the various vegetables
with cattle, hogs, sheep and horses
the land values are again coming up
and it will not be long before prices O
land will range higher than ever. Some
of the small fruits have long been {
success, such as Strawberries, raspber
ries and currents. The larger fruits
such as apples and pears, are gradu
ally being introduced.
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