Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-01-31
the SIXTH DISTRICT.
Remarks Of DIR. Kelsey at
the immigration Con-
ventiOn at, Duluth.
How to Treat the Fault
Finding CrOakers-
Quarantine
Them.

The following synopsis OF the
speech Of DR.. c. A. Kelsey at the
Sixth district immigration conven-
ton was published in the press re-
ports OF the meeting and are we'll
worth general circulation. The DR..
said:
The Sixth district is ZIG miles
across from north to south and 2S8
from east to west. Has an area o.
81 1923 square miles, almost one-half
OF our state and larger than Yer
mont, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, New Jersey and Del
aware all put together. More than
$4,000, 900 acres. Room for 222.OOO
farmers, each with 100 acres. We
have three counties, either of which
is larger than the State of Connecti-
cut. st. Louis county, sixty miles
wide and 1872 miles long, contains
farming land, timber Of great value
and a deposit Of iron ore which. in
quantity. quality and ease of mining
surpasses any known deposit in the
world. 1t will make Northwestern
Minnesota the Pennsylvania OF the
West. The soil of our district varies
from q sandy to heavy clay loan.
This variety of soil affords an Op-
portunity for the gardener, grain
raiser. dairyman and stock raiser.
We can produce all kinds OF
grasses and garden veget' bles
adapted to this latitude OF supe-
rior quality, and the finest tame
grass and clover in the state. Our
large tracts of timber lands, our
close proximity to the great body OF
water of Lake Superior. the large
number OF lakes in our district.
makes a sufficient supply Of raiaful d
comparative certainty. Men, by
building expensive dykes and break
waters, have made barbOrs, thus
PRODUCT conditions rendering the
building of great cities possible, but
an all-wise Creator has made our
harbor when he placed that narrow
belt of land seven miles long across
the head of the greatest inland body
of water in the world. He made u
harbor with capacity sufficient to
shelter the vessels of the entire COM
mcrce of the great lakes, as well as
the ocean vessels which will he seen
here when that deep water channel
is completed to the Atlantic ocean.
When he created the vast fertile
Northwest which il tributary to
this natural harbor. conditions were
formed which insure the building OF
a city which is destined to become
the largest in this country and the
rival of any city in any other coun-
try, that city is Duluth.
With our large area Of government
land offered free to the actual settler,
the moderate price for when excel
lent farming land can be bought adj
iacent to trunk lines of railways, the
advantages OF the commerce OF the
great lakes which touch our border,
vast deposits of minerals, valuable
tracts of timber lands, conditions
most favorable for mixed farming,
soil, rainfall and climatic conditions
favorable to the production OF excel
lent tame grass and clover, healthful
conditions for people and stock and
the best markets in the Northwest.
We have conditions which ought to
enable us to double our population
in two years. Will we do it? The
opportunity is before us. Will we
improve it? The earnest expression
in your faces, the appearance OF the
representative men of our district
gathered in this hall encourages me
to say with emphasis, Yes" We
have the advantages to offer. the
people to do the work. In order to
reach the greatest success we must
carefully study two conditions. first
those which hinder, and second,
those which help. OF the former, re-
member it is rluch easier to pull
down than build up: one unwise, evil
disposed person can largely nullify
the efforts of many earnest workers
Show
THE FAI'LT-TIND1NGC RoAKER.
no quarter. Treat him in such a
manner as to plainly let him know
he is looked upon as clog to the
development and well being OF the
community. The influence of calam.
ity howlers should be reduced to a
minimum by isolating them as fa1
as possible. Let those who have
soured upon the world, who have nc
apparent good in themselves and
who can see no good in Others. the
locality, state or county they live in
be strictly quarantined.
Correct erroneous opinions; some
honestly believe that all soil is poor
where piue grows. The statement