The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-08-21
County on the Lakes Takes Big For
ward Steps.
PART OF THE NoRTHLAND
Has So Many Admirable Features That
Individual Excenencies are Over
looked Climate is More saln-
tary than supposed.

The editor of Tia TINES, in one Of
his articles, recently published in the
Milwaukee Journal, has the following:
Douglas county is famous for many
things tt has the second city in
size ard Importance ID the state, and
there are more politicians in the
busting and active city Of West SUI
parie than in half the remainder OF
northern Wisconsin, it is city Of
great schools, excellent churches,
wonae, ful manufacturing plants aud
the best of railroad and shipping
facil les. It has harbor that is
filed during the summer months
wfth.5he ships OF commerce. Doug
las c8ltnty is a locality where things
are not done by halves, aud if it were
any here else the great development
OF tue agricultural interests would be
attracting widespread attention.
But "a Douglas county no one thing
is particularly important, ii only
serves to form part of the great
whole which any man from West Su-
perior or its vicinity will tell you
goes 10 make up the great city at
the head of the lakes.
1000 New Families in County
No less an authority than James
II. Agen, of West Superior, Depart
ment commander Of the Grand Army
of the Republic of Wisconsin, is au-
thority for the statement that dur
ing the past year very nearly 1000
families have located in Douglas
county. Mr. Agen says that there
is astcing of land seekers all the
time, and many sales are being made
to people who will move this fall,
and become actual, bona fde settlers.
Perhaps no far northern county
can show such a remarkable increas
IN settlers as Douglas. although Bay
field county is a close secord and
Ashland county is not far behind.
Many Of the people who are at pres
entsettling Douglas and other north
ern counties are from Iowa, south
err Wisconsin,, Minnesota and Ne
braska. They have unbounded faith
IN the new north as an agricultural
country most Of them being men
who have been brought up on lands
that have advanced to very high
figures. One of them was heard a
few days ago telling rea' estate
man that his farm in Iowa originally
cost So an acre, which was about
eighteen years ago, and that now it
has advanced until it is worth 500 an
acre. These people may be building
their hopes rather high, but many
of them actually expect that within
q few years they will secure better
returns from their Douglas county
purchases than from their earlier
ones in other states, for they declare
the Douglas county and northern
Wisconsin land is The best that ever
laid out of doors.
Climate is SaIutary.
An erroneous impression exists as
to the climate of the country abont
the head of Lake Superior. ''The
awful cold weather of the winters
is simply matter of imagination.
The climate is tempered to some ex-
tent by the bodies of water, and it is
fact that in the coolest winter
weather the thermometer in the To-
calities about Lake Superior do es
not register within ten degrees as
low as 100 miles further south. The
summer months have long cool
nights and warm days, without the
EXTREMITY hot burning winds which
other counties often suffer from.
Gardens, Grains. Grasses.
In the republican state convention
Sheboygan county was advertised by
one of its citizens as the county of
acheese, chairs and children. Doug
las county is wiling to concede all
these things to the county down the
state, but it is claimed that as the
s'hone of gardens, grains and
grasses, " that the county way up on
the lakes is entitled to pre-eminent
distinction. The first big test of
what the soil here would produce
was IN the year that Gov. Pingree Of
Michigan proclaimed from the house
tops that everyone should grow
potatoes" The citizens OF West SUI
perior lad ample ground upon which
~ carry out the advice. and every