The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

great grass country and its clover
feeds the bees and feeds the "bossie."
Already there are several large stock
ranches adjacent to the lake. Geo. w.
Patterson, of southern Minnesota, re-
Gently purchased all the Weyerhauser
lands in the town of Isle Harbor and
comprising nearly 5000 acres, and is es-
tablishing stock ranches in several
places. Already he has several hundred
head of stock in that section and intends
to open an extensive sheep ranch. He
will inaugurate system OF placing
settlers on small farms of 80 or 100
acres, and letting them open and clear
the land on shares, giving them a Ger
tain share of the land at the end of
term of years. In this manner he
hopes to clear up considerable land and
get in class of industrious settlers.
-Four miles south of Onamia is the
Prouty ranch of 1900 acres, and he
has 800 head of cattle that are thriving
we'll on the Mile Laos grasses. There
are numerous small ranches around the
lake and settlers are loud in their praise
of this section for stock raising
The entire country around the lake
is rapidly filling up. There is yet quite
a little pine uncut in the town of Rob-
bins and over on the northeast side
of the lake. Mile Laos pine will con-
tinue to go on the market for little
time to come. At Onamia, Cundy &
Mcclure have put no a fine saw, lath
and single MILL The mill has a ca
pac1ty OF 10000 feet of lumber daily.
Near the mill they have also erected a
store building, 25x76, two stories, with
fine large basement. A view of the
mill and store and the site of the new
town Of Onamia is shown in this issue.
The mill is at the end of navigation on
the lower lake and conveniently local ted
for logs and lumber of all kinds There
is dam constructed here to control
the supply of water. The present site
of Onamia was at one time sold for
fifty cents an acre and a heavy body of
pine was cut from the land adjoining.
Mr.. Cundy was recently appointed
postmaster of Onamia, which place bids
fair to become good business point
for this portion of the lake country.
Cundy & Mcclure handle considerable
real estate in this section.
Up on the west side of the lake the
country is filling up gradually and Of
fers many inducements to the settler
There is Vineland and Robbins, the two
old trading points and settlements, and
up further on the lake is Garrison,
where there is quite little settlement
and that will in time develop into a
smart little burg. In the vicinity of
Garrison, A. Mark, of Princeton, has
made extensive purchases of land for a
! stock ranch, and there are many new
settlers locating in this part of the lake
country. On the south shore of the
lake nestled back from the bay is Cove,
in the town of South Harbor. Here is
fine bay guarded by old historical
Mozomania point that stretches out
into the lake for quite distance. Cove
is plated and bids fair to become a
{ prosperous little town some day when
the lake gets railroad, and Cove hopes
to be on the main line A short dis
lance east of Cove is County Commits
sioner Norton's forty acres, occupying
commanding location a short distance
back from the lake. Mr.. Norton has
cleared few acres for his new house
which he will erect next year and he
will have very pretty and cosy place
when completed. Across the road
from his place he recently sold to Geo.
A. Burner, of J. w. Thomas & Co., of
Minneapolis, thirty acres for summer
home. Mr.. Norton has also sold to w.
T. Murray, banker, of Black River
Falls, Wis.,, mile of South Harbor