The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-11
Extracts from a Folder Issued in
The Interest Of HOmeseekers

products reach the highest known quality and
growth. There is no healthier climate in the
world, and it is as healthy for cattle, sheep and
hogs as il is for people. The finest meats in
the world are raised here. Hog cholera is un.
known.
We cannot claim that this is fruit country
although all kinds of small fruits, such as
strawberries, backberries, raspberres,
gooseberries. currents, cherries, plums and
hardy varieties of apples and pears do
exceedingly well. II is claimed that grapes
can most proftably be raised on the light
est soil.
Men of small means who desire to spend a
portion OF their time working for wages can
find plenty Of work on the new railroads that
are being put through the country, and in win
ter can find employment for both self and team
at good wages in the lumber camps near by. He
can be absolutely independent. Wages on
the railroads are $175 per day, and an equal
amount for team. In the lumber camps
good man will receive from $4,000 to $3.50
per month and board and about an equal
amount for a team.
1t should need no argument to convince you
Of the superiority Of the market facilities en-.
joyed by those who settle on these lands. You
have only to look at the map to convince your
self. Duluth is as good market for your pro-
ducts as Chicago, on account of cheap water
transportation. Within few hours after the
BE- in st. Paul and Minneapolis, or Duluth and
West Superior. Besides these markets are the
immediate home markets afforded by the lum-
bering interests of this section of the country,
and the mining interests of the Mesaba Range,
only short distance to the north. Do you
know that north and west of Duluth and near
these lands, are the iron ranges of Minnesota,
where there is greater deposit of iron than
in any other part of the world to-day? The
Mesaba range is the place towards which the
eyes of the iron kings of the world are
turning, and where the great rolling mills
Of Pittsbnrg and other manufacturing cities
Of the East must look for their supply of ore.
work upon these ranges and they must be fed
bv the products of these lands.
There is no state in the Union which does
more, or even AS much for it's schools as Mime
sofa. In consequence of this, there is scarcely
neighborhood where there are dozen child
rem of school age, but what yon will find we'll
equipped school house. And in nearly every sec.
tion where these lands are located the new COM
er will find the school house ahead of him. .
The climate in winter is pleasant, though
cold. The air is dry and bracing, and although
the thermometer sometimes reaches 40 degrees
below zero in mid-winter, yet the cold does
not affect one SO much as ten degrees or five de-
grees below zero in the central and eastern
states. There are no billiards.. and almost ev
cry day is an ideal day for work. As a rule. the
winters continue brisk well into March, but
ing the 'Storm King" of winter back to his
home in the N Northland, and April seems to
awaken the earth from it's long sleep, clothing
it with beautiful mantle of green.
Spring work on the farm commences in Ap-
ril and sowing and planting follows not more
than week later than in southern Michigan
and Iowa. -.-.
The delightful summers are too we'll known
to need lengthy comment here, for from nearly
every state in the Union, thousands of pleasure
seekers make this, the "Park Region Of Min
nesota, their summer home. There is no ex-
treme heat, in consequence of an abundance of
The writer has been here three years and at
no time during the summers Of that period has
there been more than four days without nice
refreshing shower, excepting during last une,
which was an extreme case, and one which
was not only felt here but throughout the
Northwest. However, no crops suffered here,
except those planted in the lightest soil.
We have variety of soils here. Light sand,
on the Norway pine ridges, sandy loan, clay
loam,, heavy clay, mari and muck:
On the high Norway pine ridges the sand
is deep, but in all localities where there
is white pine, large ''jaek" pine, popple
and hardwood, there is heavy clay sub
soil. ......
The cut-oyer lands are owned by lumber com
panies from which the pine has been taken.
We trust yon will not hold up your hands in
horror and say that YOU do not want cut-over
pine lands, for you will beshappiy disappointed
if you come and look these lands over. Please
bear in mind, that the pine did not grow as
thickly in this country as it did in Michigan
and Wisconsin, and further the pine was thick
ly interspersed with hardwood timber. Since
the pine was cut fire has run through the coun-
try, burning up much of the debris left by
the lumbermen, as well as to kill and burn up
much of the underbrush, thus in some locali-
ties, leaving the ground almost ready for the
plow. The clearing of the heaviest timber
found here is nothing, compared to what the
pioneers of Michigan. Indiana and Wisconsin
had to encounter. However, there is timber
enough for fuel for years to come, and on most
tracts sufficient for building purposes.