Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1894-01-26

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Increase in farming population
and in cultivated area is of great !
advantage to any agricultural CON-
munity. A township with only a !
few settlers will never have good
roads and schools and low taxes
until the settlers increase in num-
Der and the land undor cultivation
increases In amount. Many town
ships in Morrison county that
consist entirely of land well
adapted to agriculture and stock
raising have little more than a
score of citizers. The country
could we'll support ten times that
number, and those who are, there
would better their condition by
making some effort that would
bring moro settlers in. a sparse
ly settled district cannot afford to
pay the expenses Of constructing
good roads, and it is a burden to a
few settlers to support any. kind
of schools, ard it is impossible to
provide good schools without a
large community to sustain them.
Then, also, with a scattered st
Element it is a hardship for pupils
to reach the schoolhouse at all
seasons, as it must necessarily be
some distance from many Of the
patrons. In some respects the
farmer at the best will lack. advan-
tages that village Or city afford,
but in we'll settled farming
country his advantages are
nearly equal in all respects to those
possessed by villages; and in the
matter of absolute certainty Of
the ordinary comforts of food and
shelter he is much more fortunate
than the workingman Of the town.
While the settler distant from
neigh bors, and therefore almost
NJ cessarily distant from good
roads and schools, has reason to
hope for an improvement III his
condition, the farmer who lives in
thickly settled district is among
the most fortunate Of people in
ordinary years and under average
conditions. In times of unusual
depression and business stagnation
his condition is much better than
that of the laboring man whose
welfare depends On constant sup
| ply Of work.
It is, therefore, for The interest
Of any settler to increase the i'm
migration to his town. Morrison
county can supply good homes to
thousands of new settlers, and
they can locate in 10 district
where success will more surely
follow industry and intelligent
effort. Our advantages are here,
and known to US. Our duty to
ourselves is to acquaint others
with them.
An object that was kept steadily
in view, and we believe fully ac-
complished, in the publication of
the Industrial Edition Of the
Transcript, was to completely set
forth the advantages Morrison
county offered to settlers. The
part Of the work that we at
tempted, with the help Of others,
Ito do, is finished The publica-
tion is issued, and the people of
Little Falls, Royalton, Motley and
Swanville have sent thousands of
copies of it to people all oyer the
country. It is the farming class
itself that can do the best work in
circulating this paper. They can
send them to parties who will
most likely be interested in study
ing the advantages Morrison coun.
ty has to offer to settlers. They
never before have had a chance to
inform distant friends so com
pletely about their county, and
The present opportunity should
not be neglected. Order few
copies of the Industrial Edition,
and see that they are sent where
they will be most apt to help this
community.