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North Park union., 1901-09-06
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Gold and silver are pou,.s
Into the lap of the melton h,,.s .sou4asn,
rial wealth and strength il rssh f o@ -
wealth of 2 human being iies }aa u d,
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scs sc Bittsrs Il e s,'aGlea; Il G, Try
bowels, improve the appetite ne s!osll
constipation, dyspepsia, blliou,rsA N
and kidney disease. sneea, u
North Park union., 1901-09-06
AsPest's ~rr

The heasian fly was b,r.,.
country IN straw or hay i%nse = -
the Hessian troops durin. ~ Z
tionary War. 1t first mad. s -. hesssls;
ance In IT'S on Staten islsnS s sas!
It spread to Long island wAaa
England, then came West we M
sian fly has Travelled from ~ raA
and % west at the rate of about t y, -
North Park union., 1901-09-06
Water Melon Day at Rock, rora

For this occasion and the Arka,,,.
Valley Fair the Santa Fe will nal. :,
exceedingly low round-trip rate on H..
tember 3rd to 9Th to Rocky Ford ana Y
turn. An opportunity to visit the disirs.
Of the sugar beet. watermelon and csn,.'
loupe industries. Particulars on apnlIe..
ton TO ]. p. HALL.
yer, Colo, Osr
North Park union., 1901-09-06
HoW's Th,sr

We offer Ono Hundred Dollars rrv,,a.
case Of Catarrh that cannot be cursd Z, p%sty q
CAtArrh Cure. W aalS
F. J. CHENEY CO., Props ro,...
We. the undersigned, have knnvs q
Cheney for the last Is years and bei1.,.ul
perfectly honorable In all business trsnsM1
and financially able to carry out anv ~
tons made by their Arm. eay ooon-
West 4 TruAx. Wholesale Druup.,, ,...
O; Walding.. kinnan & Marvin MN ~
Druggists. Toledo, Ohio "nosaAs
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken intern,u, A..
lng directly upon the blood and mucous WA.
o. tho system Testimonials sent frea -
nc per bottle. Sold by all drugRists '@
Halls Family Pills are tho best
North Park union., 1901-09-06

"Wait for me at heaven,
the silly sentimental young msu na.e m
murmured the girl, "I don.t M
stand around outside forever" want b
North Park union., 1901-09-06

Mr.. Kirchoff says the new works of
the Santa Fe, New Mexico, Gold-Cop-
per Mining Company were not COM
pleted until very late In the year, 30
that the output will not appear until
1901. The greater part Of the copper
ores originating in this territory last
year were handled at the Silver CITY
reduction works.
North Park union., 1901-09-06

La Grippe conquers life-wi,,,d IN
eonquers La Grippe. Your drusus
sells Wizard OIL.
North Park union., 1901-09-06

Ptto's Cure for Consumption Is an inisnns
medicine for coughs and colds--N. W. SA4ru.
Ocean Grove. N. j.. Feb. IL. 1900
North Park union., 1901-09-06

'Tis true the early bird may find
The worm. but. sad to say.
Too oft stronger bird. inclined
To sinful greed. comes up behind
And takes the worm away.
North Park union., 1901-09-06

IF woman killed her husband n, y,
NE insurance who would get IL" .Hs
lawyer. my dear" s
North Park union., 1901-09-06
Are You Using Allen. roo,.,...

1t 10 the only cure for s,on
emartins. Burning. Sweatips % -
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Inss
Foot Ease. a powder to be sh.,.s n
the shoes. At all Druggists ana ~.
Stores. 16c. Sample sent FREE n:
Areas. Allen 8. Olmsted. LsRoy . y |.
North Park union., 1901-09-06

The strenuous life consists In attempt
ing to live up to our own advice 10 Oh
eTI,
North Park union., 1901-09-06

:. Jsakins Hainss. the author Of the
- talsa. owne . yaeAt oe his owa.
wA1eA 4, Ao1k of IL time. his homs.
~ ~ - ~ eaeeain Of . merchant
80, - - sensssuantIy an sxpest
North Park union., 1901-09-06

Mrs.. WinsIov's Soothing syrue.
9of children teething. softens the gums, reduesh
0Ammat100. AllAys pain. cures wind collie &c abU0b
North Park union., 1901-09-06

II saloonkeeper In Munich d..,
more than quarter of an inch ~ ~ g
In a glass Of beer he is liable IN <, tss.
SIPS and sent to jail for two we.Ss " md
North Park union., 1901-09-06

The fact that Adam and Eve vv,
evicted is alleged as proof that H.,
were Irish. 'As'
North Park union., 1901-09-06

0ladstone.s humorous advice 10 the
farmers to convert their supernuous
turnips Into beautiful jam has been
abundantly acted upon, even in the vir-
fuous United States. Around one case
Of the Agricultural Departments ex-
Aibit At the Pan-American Exposition
hang squares Of cloth. originally white.
now yellow. orange. scarlet. crimson.
bius and purple all colored by anilins
dyes extracted from commercial jam
ard jellies. In comparison with such
AsfArious adulteration comment would
b colofleoo.
North Park union., 1901-09-06

The gorilla II getting Into good So
eisty. A German philologist advances
u theory that he was the Polyphsmus
q Homsr's Odyssey. The sruasat
Wrestling with his Greek will welcome
. suggestion that brings = reminis-
ssnes Of The msnageris into the rscita-
tioo-room.
North Park union., 1901-09-06

The hottest week of the season -.
also the one on which there wer. Il.
nest marriages. This leads a cyuicI
paragrapher to declare that peonis.
minds are affected by the heat. '>''''
North Park union., 1901-09-06

Michael Davitt, place the position Of
the Nationalist movement before the
Americans. Mr.. Redmond will sail for
New York early In October.
President Mckinley has appointed
Joseph Wheeler, Jr. captain in the
artillery corps. Captain Wheeler was
. major In the Thirty-fourth infantry
of volunteers, organized at Fort Logan
three years ago. He IL q son OF the
famous Confederate cavalry leader.
Charles zones. In charge since his
attempt at suicide while In jail await
ing trial for the alleged murder of his
employer. William N. Rice. the aged
New York millionaire. 10 still under
police surveillance. and is regularly
visited by physicians. but is improving
IN health.
A cyclonic windstorm and cloudburst
did great damage at Centralia. Illinois,
on the night of August 25th. The color.
Cd Baptist church was wrecked, peach
orchards. were destroyed and $1,000
bushels Of peaches were shaken on the
trees. The rain was one and one-Quar-
ter inches.
II has been decided by the attorney
general OF the United States that .
guessing contest in which prizes are
offored to the persons making the near.
est estimates of the number OF paid ad-
missions to the Pan-American exposi-
tion at Buffalo from the day OF opening
to the day Of cloaing, 10 mot unlawful.
Tax collectors for the city and state
OF New York and the state Of New Jer-
coy are closely watching the work OF
valutng the estate Of the late Jacob g.
Rogers, who left the greater part Of
his e6, ,000. 600 or es.0o0, 90 to the Net
ropolitAu Museum of Art. Il y estf-
NAfod TIT The tag q the eetate Will
6nount b u. ~. ~.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

state than elsewhere in it. The soil is
better adapted to such production, and
the same is true of the climate. ;:
Corn a Success.
1t has been said that corn cannot
be grown here, and that consequently
this will initiate against stock keeping.
Men who have talked this have talked
foolishly. In their innocency they have
thus shown great ignorance of the ag-
ricultural capabilities of this part of the
state. Before setting foot in Mime
sofa it was my firm conviction that corn
for live stock uses could be grown right
up to the Canadian boundary. That
conviction was based on the fact that
"A. S. Bedford, the capable manager of
the Manitoba experimental farm at
Brandon, had made good ensilage from
corn grown thus far to the northward
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19
Prices of Potatoes,

Since potatoes have been raised in
this section and made the Minnesota
potato belt famous, there have been
few seasons when the price did not net
the farmer very good profit.
In 1880, the price was $1.oo; in 1901
the price ranged from so to Is cents;
in 90 from IS to IS; in go from IS to
20; in "a they sold around 40 cents;
in '95 from S to 10 cents, this being the
year when potatoes were drug on the
market. In 'o6 the price was 10 to IS
cents, with Triumphs, then new va
rlety, o5 cents; in 81, 90 cents; and
then in 'o8 the price was low, ranging
from IS to. 20 cents In 90 the price
again rose to IS cents, and last year
ranged from 20 to 80 cents.
The average price of potatoes is from
rs to 40 and so cents, according to the
kind and quality, and the farmer never
misses it when he plants few acres to
potatoes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

today at $40 will be worth a good $40.
1t may not be that everybody would
care to pay this price for it for present
cultivation, but'.there are plenty of far
seeing investors who judging by the
past, can see profit i'm the land at
present prices. The day is not far dis
tant when every piece of wild land that
can be cultivated will be made: to serve
the wants of man. The land through
out this section has all the elements
that go to make valuable land for the
husbandman who will in the course OF
time bring it all under subjugation.
The history of the land movement in
the northwest shows that wild land has
enhanced in value right along with the
cultivated land which has increased in
value at surprising rate. Cultivated
land in southern Minnesota that a
short time ago could be bought at $50
per acre is now worth $50 and SIS.
But not alone in Minnesota has the
price of farm land rapidly increased in
value, for lands in Iowa and Illinois
have gone up in the last few years from
SOS and $40 to $1oo per acre. And
these very lands have no greater pro-
ductive capacity than good cultivated
lands in some parts of central eastern
Minnesota. Lands in this section TODAY
that can be bought at SIS to $40 per
acre will be selling in the next five.
years at $50 to $50, unless all signs fail.
Only few years ago Prof. Hayes, of
the Minnesota Agricultural college, in
an article comparing the lands of CEN
trail northern and eastern Minnesota
with the farm lands of southern Mime
sofa and northern Iowa, said that the
northern farm lands were really worth
as much as the farm lands to the south.
Here there is the best of access to the
markets at the head of the lake and at
the twin cities, and there is always
great demand for all products of the
farm. The day of cheap farm land is
fast passing and the time to buy is the
present.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

will be fattened upon northwestern
Minnesota corn
A third important requisite to live
stock production is natural and artif-
clal protection, winter and summer and
materials in abundance with which to
furnish these. Where in all the north
west, / ask, is such protection so abun-
dant, and where do the materials for
extending it lie about in such profu-
sion? This region has stones to build
Easements in the stables. 1t is the tim
Der region of the state; hence the mate
rails are here for erecting structures
above those Easements. Here are
groves and forests to break the fury of
the blasts of winter, and to furnish
grateful shade in summer. And here are
materials in great plenty to fence the
t1elds, without which stock keeping can
never be made to attain the greatest
success.
Prot. Shaw says: "As one interested
in the agricultural development of the
state, would that intending settlers
would look this country over, which is
SO easily accessible to the two cities, be-
tore they push out into the treeless
areas OF the dry west in search of
home. The land in this region is prob
ably not more than one-fourth of the
price OF that in the southern areas of
the state, and for stock keeping it has
no superior in any part of Minnesota.
l look upon it as an ideal country in
which to locate, if one has a little CAP
ltal to tide him over one or two years.
after settling on it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

chemical division of the Minnesota ex-
perimental station at the Worlds COL
umbian Exposition at Chicago received
the award from the United States gov
ernment for soils rich in plant food"
Prof. Thos. Shaw, of the same college
says in an address on the productive
possibilities of central, eastern and
northeastern Minnesota:
"Settlers have Stunned this region
because it is misunderstood Had l
been guided by rumors regarding this
district when I first came to Minneso-
ia, would have said to every inquirer
that it is god-forsaken, sandy wilder
ness, only fit to furnish home for the
jack pine and the jack rabbit. Men
looked upon it as region of sand
But what are the facts? From the
data at hand it is not possible to esti-
mate accurately the proportion of the
sandy soil to that of heavier texture
But it would seem to be true that the
more sandy portions of this area are
the best settled Much of the soil of
Anoka, Sherburne and Wadena is un-
der successful tillage. In these coun-
ties therefore much of the sand must be
underlaid with clay, hence the profit
which even in rather dry climate can
be obtained by tilling sandy lands The
region Of sand on sand, that is to say.
the region of the jack pine and the jack
rabbit, when compared with the whole
area of the district is not large. But
little of the soil in Wright, Benton,
Stearns, Todd, Carleton and Mile
Laos counties is sandy A large pro-
portion of the soil of the entire district
has strong clay element in it, which
is at once a guarantee of varied pro-
duction and staying power. Then may
this land be made what it ought to be,
and what it will be if rightly handled,
the Eldorado of the stockman of the
Northwest. Tell it's merits to the con-
gested rural population of stock pro-
ducing realms. Tell them only what is
true about it, for less than all the truth
should be enough. Seek settlers with
stock raising predictions and try and
save them from the curse of farms that
possess too many acres
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*$9 to $40. 1928 to $50.

If there is any one thing that will in
dictate the wonderful demand for, and
absorption of, the lands in central east
ern Minnesota it is the steady enhance
ment in value of these lands. Just be-
tore the Great Northern road was built
through Sherburne, Mile Laos and
Kanabec counties there was little value
attached to the land in this section
which at that time could be bought
for song. In fact there was practi-
cally no market for the land, as there
was no railroad to develop markets,
and as has been noted, there was so lit
tie attention paid to these lands that
land seekers and spectators knew very
little of their value. But when the
road was put through in '86 the fol-
lowing year there was slow awaken
ing to the fact that out of this neg
lected region would develop one OF the
richest farming and stock sections in
the state. The horizontal lines above
will indicate how lands have enhanced
in value since the road was built. It
will be noted that lands close to Prince
ton in 1890 were held at S. per acre,
which price would buy the best land
within two to five miles of the town.
This land has steadily enhanced in
value from year to year until now it
is worth SIS per acre, and in some cases
the best land is held as high as $40
per acre at the present time. Railroad
land and outlying land held by lum-
berlng concerns was worth about ST.. so
per acre in 1890 and since then has
risen in value until now the best is
worth good $40 per acre. Last April
the Great Northern Railway Company
advanced the price of its lands an even
dollar, and will make another advance
of 81 the first of next January, which
will make these lands worth So to $40
per acre. The lands are being taken up
quite rapidly and it will not be long
before there will be few good selections
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

longer turn away in disgust when you
talk of wild and rather uninviting land
IN seemingly remote places at So and
$40 per acre. Even the tamarac lands
are now admitted to possess wonderful
productive capacity and are to prove
great sources of agricultural wealth in
short time. The truth of the matter
is that hidden away in the recesses of
the old pine forests and land adjoining
is some of natures primal wealth and
in the next ten years land that is held
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19
THE SOIL.
Sandy and Clay Loan, with Rich
Clay Subsoil.

The soil is one of the most essential
features of any section and without
productive and good wearing soil the
farmer can accomplish little in crop
raising. The soil of the section around
Princeton and in fact through the CEN
trail eastern and northeastern country
is rich in its composition and formation.
Prof. Snyder, agricultural chemist in
the Minnesota State School of Agri-
culture, says:
1.-THE yellow clay subsoils are very
rich in potash and lime. This makes an
ideal combination as to plant food. The
black top soil is strong in nitrogen and
phosphates, while the subsoil is very
strong in potash and lime.
I'm many parts of the state the soil
has been formed by the drying up and
draining of old lakes. Soils of this
character are very fertile. The abund-
ance of lime in all of the soils of the
state prevents the formation of sour
mould. There are no 'moor-land soils
in the state. The soils formed from
old lake bottoms are quite frequently
used for permanent meadows, and in
many cases they have produced 40 and
more crops of native hay without any
apparent decrease in yield.
1.-THE fertility of the soil of the state
has a marked effect upon the quality
of the products which are produced. In
the case of wheat, the average amount
of gluten in the wheat raised in the
United States is 10 per cent. This
is from the reports of the United States
department of agriculture. The average
amount of gluten in the wheat raised
in Minnesota is 1875 per cent. Other
crops are in the same proportion. The
crops raised on the rich soils of Min
nesota have greater food value than
crops raised on the poor, warm soil of
older countries.
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kanabec County.

Adjoining Mile Laos county on the
east is Kanabec county, that occupies
one of the richest parts of central east
ern Minnesota. This county is much
younger than some other portions of
the country near by, but it has shown
a most remarkable development in the
past few years. Mora, the county seat,
is today in the heart of as fine a Sec
ton of rich farming country as any in
this part Of the state. The county
stretches away up to the Mile Laos
lake country, and is covered with a
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

Every factor in nature seems to
have been at work in making the soils
OF Minnesota rich in plant food. They
are mainly drift soils, derived from the
very best rock materials pulverized by
the action of glaciers, and enriched for
centuries by the natural workings of
vegetable and animal life. A great deal
more could be said about the fertility
OF Minnesota soils, but about the most
convincing proof that can be given is
the fact that the soils exhibited bv the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

home for both, they are unable to
maintain their hold upon the soil for
many years. Other grasses will crowd
them out. These two grasses are the
best that God ever gave to man. and
where they are able thus to maintain
themselves for so many years with un-
diminished vigor, all fears regarding
the ability of such a country to raise
grasses in the finest form should be
forever set at rest.
Reference has been made to timothy
grown on tamarac swamp lands. Such
lands are abundant in this northern re-
gion. The major portion of them are
underlaid with clay. The marvellous
riches of these lands will be guarded
by this subsoil throughout all time, so
that much of the fertility escaping
downward to the subsoil will not be al
lowed to get away These tamarac
lands are frequently Stunned by the
foolish settler, because they are low and
wet. The men who so shun them fail
to reflect that when they pass them by
they pass mine, which holds the power
of an extraordinary production, as it
were, in perpetuity. Men of north
eastern Minnesota, is it not true that,
viewed from the standpoint of futurity,
these will be relatively the most valu-
able of all the lands?
For heavens sake, keep the fagot
from consuming the timber in those
marsh lands, which will be sorely need
ed in those incoming days when this
section will be famous in all the coun-
try for the number and the excellence
of its aocks and lands. These lands
will yield their treasures of timothy,
alslke, clover, rape, forage and roots
IN an endless succession of harvests and
without any renewing until after long
years OF tillage. And the grasses in
this region do not readily winter kill.
They are, in the first place, usually pro-
tected by blanket of snow all winter
long, and the forest, which grows in
all directions, arrests the winds of win
ter and checks their force. When des-
olatlng winds sweep over a country.
unchecked in their progress, they are
tar more destructive to plant life in
the soil than far lower temperature
would be in the absence of such winds;
and the short season between the de-
parture OF the snow and the season of
the commencement of vegetation,
coupled with the absence of excessive
moisture, hinders that heaving of the
soil which is oftentimes so fatal to the
growth of clover in the east.
"A good stock country, where animals
are to be finished in completest form,
must be able to grow a great variety
OF food in addition to grasses. Tried
by this test this part of Minnesota is
not found wanting. There is no part of
the state in which so great a variety of
food can be grown for live stock, and
in part of the same can it be grown in
greater luxuriance. The great yields of
wheat, oats, rye and barley that have
been obtained bear ample testimony to
this truth, and this region will yet be-
come the home of special production in
two or three important products. Ruta-
bagas, for instance, are always likely to
grow better in the northern part of the