The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-04
er wealth will now begin to come from

er wealth will now begin to come from
the SOIL r f. . .' - =, -
Streams and lakes everywhere abound,
and these make it an ideal stock country.
When we recall the fact that cattle each
consume daily fifty to sixty pounds or
water, access to the purest is Of the hrst
Importance. Within the county there are
seventy-seven lakes, big and little. The
largest and most interesting Of these Is
Lac Court d'Oreilles. 1T signifies short
ears" from the fact that the Chippewas
once, in revenge, cut off the ears OF an
Ojibway and then hung him on tree.
The French Of it" must have come IN
with Radisson and Grosseiliers In about
1859. The lake is Minnetonka, about one
half reduced. 1t lies seven miles south
of Hayward, and Is great summer re-
sort for the tourists of the south. one
club house, owned by Chicago parties,
cost $20 900, and has every; modern con 1
venience. The 500 on its way to Ash
land will reach it in about ten miles, and
then it Will be truly famous. Round lake
much like our Calhoun, only, larger and
more irregular, lies about the same dis
tance east of Hayward 1t was lately se-+
lected by the state fish commission as a
hatchery Grindstone, Sand, Spider, Lost
Land. Little Duck, Ghost and Chetac are
all good sized and are fairly alive with
pickerel, bass and maskalonge. The willy
trout can be readily lured away in any of
the hundred streams.
Indian Reservation.
Within the county lies the Indian res
ervation of about $4,000 acres, and about
1900 Chippewas. They farm a little,
hunt a little, fish and pick berries, but
for the most part they loaf The time
has certainly come when all such "reser-
vations' should be broken up by congress,
and some other disposition made Of the
tribes. They do no good to the Indian,
but on the contrary, stand in the way or
progress. The lands here are the finest,
and would soon become smiling farms.
The government last year built an indian
school on full section near Hayward.
The four large brick buildings cost over
500, 900, and are models of the kind. Last
year. being the first, there were IN at
tendance 105 pupils.
Town Of Hayward.
Hayward, the county seat, on the beau
| tiful Namekagon and four short hours
from the twin cities, is a thriving place
| of 5000, with brick pavements, electric
| lights waterworks, rival newspapers,
parks, schools and churches. Among new
| enterprises started recently is the Bank
Of Hayward, founded by O. H H:
Sopth Wscon5n phs nuns humoer company ny
have an annual capacity of 45,OO0,0OO feet,
but alas, this is their last year, for now
there are in all that region no more
| pined worlds to conquer. The manager OF
the company, R. l.. Mccormick, is Min
nesota man, formerly from Waseca. He
went there just twenty years ago with
only moderate capital. Now he is rated
many times a millionaire. Besides the
mills, he runs the company bank and
store, the schools and, library, and pretty
much everywhere. He is ready writer
and a fluent speaker, and may one day
break into the United States senate.
Spooner and LaFollette may we'll keep
an eye on the Sawyer county magnate.
This company owns large tracts of choice
lands in Sawyer and bayfield, counties.
Soil and Topography. ..
All this leaves me a little, space to
speak of the lands. There they lie await
them enormous wealth. Let it be remem-
bered that while these lands are good for
all purposes, they are first and foremost
dairy and stock lands. The mere raiser
of wheat or flax may we'll go to the pral-
ries, possibly into Canada, but the stock
man must come into the land OF! clover
and pure water. Where the hardwoods
remain there is coming fortune IN
them. Much Of the land, however, is as
open as the prairie. The iDugaboo
so aften raised about the difficulty OF
clearing can't here throw the scare,
for often it simply clears itself Timothy
and clover sownf FL and cattle; hogs and
sheep turned on, little more7than' brush
scythe is needed for the work On the
Phalen farm, about six miles south Of
HAYWARD, I rode along the highway ant
on either side stood forty acres each O.
timothy and oats which cannot we'll b'
surpassed in any part of the two states
nor do l except Illinois and Iowa. Sew
eral stock farms have recently" 9bee1
opened up in that vicinity. 7o*o'
l doubt whether the Phalen farm coul'
be bought at $40 an acre, yet there ar
meny Just such tracts, In their nat1v
: state, to be had either in central Mime
sofa or northwest Wisconsin at from 5
to SIS an acre.
A Bright Future.
: All that is now needed for either regio
, is that the proper railway extensions b
promptly made and that the light may b
v turned on so that all men everyWher
! may understand the true condition:
: With a united front both these grea
v and growing states could duplicate the1
/. present assessment rolls, and so add
a their dignity and grandeur as we'll 8
! minister to the residents. 1t is mob
3 work and the man that can push 1t o
q even in the smallest way is doing a va:
h good. Lying we'll within the two mobiles
j., of the western states, with a climat
q water and soil unequaled, wwith leadir
n markets at their very DOORS: the wilde
- imagination cannot picture the seer
quarter of a century ahead. 1t
indeed, a land that is fairer than day
and destined in the future to blossom
in the rose. "A. 1. Ankeny.
& July %, 1902.