The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-02
NEW ACRES TO FARM
OVER 100000 ACRES OF THE RED
LAKE RESERVATION READY
WEDNESDAY
LAND OFFICIALS ARE BUSY

Register and Receiver at CrookstOn
Are I'm Receipt OF n Number OF
Inquiries, and Indications Are
That There May Be Quite n
ton.
On Wednesday the government wifi
throw open for settlement 300 900 acres
or land in the Crookston land office dis
trict and something over 10000 acres
In the Duluth district. These lands
are known as the Cedar Red Lake res
erVatlon lands, having formerly been
part and the property OF the Indians
OF Lne HE'D Lake country, but later
ceded to the government by the Chip
pewas.
Any citizen of the United States Of a
lawful age who has not exercised h1S
right 10 homestead is entitled to locate
on a quarter section in any OF the
twenty odd townships south of Lake
or the Woods and Rainy Lake river
designated by the government for set
Element.
large number OF people are now at
Crookston waiting for the date OF open
Ing or these lands, which has been set
TOT Wednesday, when the big rush
across the country for the choicest of
these lands will begin.
The Crookston land office received
abstracts Of the land to be opened for
settlement, and a printed list was
issued by the registrar last week de-
scrIblng what lands are to be opened
for entry. Inquiries have been pour
ing in from ell parts Of the United
states and at present there is promise
that great many people will particl-
pate in the rush, both people of Mime
sofa and those from neighboring states.
who have been attracted by the wealth
of this section of the country agricul-
turally.
The Duluth land office will not ex-
perience much OF a rush, as the lands
to be entered in that district are com
paratively few, and it is said that the
best are situated in the Crookston dis
trict.
Several thousand acres In the Crooks
ton district are c0Versdwith the chO cesr
Of white pine, growing very closely, ana
Is or exceptional value, by reason or
the large bodies of this timber which
lie directly south OF II. Very little loS-
ging has been done in the Red Lake
country and just as soon as the timber
around the shores of the lake is logged
to any great extent that in the town
ships directly north, which are to be
l.
In addition TO the white pine. which
is confined to limited localities. there
is a great deal of jack pine in several
or the most southern townships, ana
this can be logged with profit, as sew
eral new mills are to be started along
the Fosston branch OF the Great North
ern. Jack pine is of smaller class or
timber than either Norway or white
pine, and 1t cannot be fioated to Min
neapols, For the reason that 1t viii
become waterlogged and sink. 1t is al
most too small to be manufactures into
lumber for the Eastern market, vet
there are many uses to which i can
be put by the establishment of mills
near where it is logged. There are bill
Hons of feet OF this kind of timber in
this region
Roseau, seventy miles from the rail-
road, is supported by a thriving little
farming community living within the
immediate township. The first lands
which the government throws open are
situated about twenty miles east from
Roseau, and the country Is equally
beautiful and rich In agricultural pos
sibilities.