The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

most inviting groves, stands the audfto-
rum OF the North Dakota Chautauoua
association, and scattered about through
the trees are the hotel and lodging
houses Tor transient guests, while a lit
tie farther away are the cottages of the
regular summer visitors, and during the
summer season all the dim and shady
alsies or the woods are lighted with the
white walled tents of visiting campers
come to enjoy the boating. bathing and
picnickinS so rare in a prairie country
The surface of Ramsey county pre-
SentS most attractive aspect to the
seeker for prairie home-gently roll
ing, watered by numerous spring fed
lakes. dotted with groves of natural and
artificial timber, covered in its natural
state with a heavy growth of grasses
that furnish the finest quality OF hay and
Pasture-it has no superior as a stock
country.
With a deep loan soil. rich in all the
elements Of plant food, a subsoil that re
talns the coplous rains Of spring for use
IN summers heat SO that crop failure
from drOuth is unknown; and every
where underlaid at depth Of from j. to
4V 1eet with veins OF gravel that furnish
an ineXhaustible supply of pure water;
no county offers greater inducements to
the agriculturist than Ramsey.
But few OF the primitive habitatiOns OF
the early settlers are to be seen. The
sod house and lumber shack have passed.
Although the county is yet new and a
large area remains uncultivated, the nus
bandmanS efforts have been richly re-
paid Comfortable and commOdious farm
houses and warm, roomy outbuildings are
the rule
Good roads extend in every direction.
School houses are numerous, and the tour
list can scarcely get out OF sight Of
church Spire.
The transcontinentaI line Of the Great
Northern railway traverSeS the county
from east TO west, and when the two
spurs now under construction from Lakota.
ana Devils Lake are completed. there VIII
be no point in Ramsey county more than
II miles from railroad
The strongest evidence of the wonder
agricultural advantages
~ possesses is found in the fact that
the wealthieSt citizens are faTmerS-the
men who converted the unbroken prairie
OF rev years ago into the We'll TILED.
highly improved and profitable farms OF
today have reaped the benefits Of their
own labOrS. And while many have prOhted
by buying Ramsey county lands as a
speculative investment. their gains are
not to be compared to those won by filling
the soil.
Think of prairie land selling at from
81 to Sl5 an acre, and producing enough
from the sod crop to pay the whole pur-
chase price. and this not in isolated cases
but so often that it has become almost
a matter OF course to expect it year after
year.
And these results have been obtained
solely by raising small grains. What Will
be the value Of such land when the coun-
tvs population of 5000 is doubled. and
stock feeding and dairying given proper
attention. 500, $50, yes 500 an acre viii
not be too high price for land of almost
ineXhaustible fertility and such
yielded as high as 43 bushels to the acre;
flax. 80; oats between so and so; barley,
go; while the fodder crops such as millet,
Hungarian grass and corn rival the ban
ner yields of the rich river bottoms Of
Illinois and Iowa
Montana and North Dakota ship train
loads of sheep east Of the Mississippi that
should be fattened in our own state on the
screenings our farmers pay for raising
threshinS and hauling to market To pre-
sent TO the elevator companies gratis I'M
- ClOcklOp those
same screenings are fed to those same
sheep to enrich the Mississippi valley
farms.
Devils Lake is the county seat OF Ram
sey county and one of the busiest little
cities IN the Northwest. Being the COM
mercial center OF a large. rich and rapidly
developing agricultural area, fits trade is
expanding very fast and there is room
for number of commercial and manufac-
turing enterprises which business men in
search OF new locations would do We'll TO
consider.
The other towns on the main line of the
Great Northern are Bartlett, Crazy, Grand
Harbor, Penn and Churches Ferry,
each Offering inducements to corners.
From Churches Ferry the Great Northern
branch line starts for Cando and St John.
The fuel question does not assume the
seriousness here usual IN prairie cOun-
tries. The finding OF vast deposits OF
Ignite. soft coal. within the western
and central portions OF The state has re-
leased the people of this state from the
grasp of the coal trust. Ignite coal IS
delivered in Ramsey county at a cost OF
50 10 S3.25 per ton. wood and hard coal
cost about the same as at St Paul and
Minneapolis The natural timber growing
along the streams in this county. COM
prise burr oak. white and yellow ash.
Eastwood poplar boXelder. cottonwood.
blackberry plum. chokecherry. hazel.
black haws. prickley ash, red and yellow
osier, iron wood. buffalo berry, wild grape,
IVY woodbine, gooseberries, raspberries,
etc.
A remarkably healthful climate album
dance good
the best possible transportation facilities,
graded schools churches of all denomina-
tiOns good society, goods at prices you
are used to. economical government 4
hearty welcome from a prosperous peo-
pie. and thousands Of acres of easily cul-
tivated soil of wonderful fertility, at
about the price OF the first crop are
among the advantages Ramsey county Of
fers to the land seeker the capitalist
and the business man.