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

men living in southern Minnesota. Iowa
Illinois and Wisconsin, as well as further
east. who are accustomed to farm lands
ranging in price from $50 to 5000 an acre.
are surprised when they reach this coun-
try-and they are coming on every train
to find wild lands that can be obtained at
prices ranging from 50 to $40 an acre,
while improved farms adjacent to thriving
villages can be bought at from SIS to $50
per acre.
These wild lands can be bought on easy
payments and only need industry and
persistence to convert them into beautiful
country homes where, under shelter of
his own grove and as result of the crops
planted on his own acres and the herds
and focks raised thereon, any man can
possess with the passing years an indie
pendence and solid comfort which viii
stamp him as one of the kings of the
earth. What man cannot rejoice at such
an opportunity to lead strenuous life.
knowing as a moral certainty that amid
such environments his fireside may be
secure from the perpleXities which con-
front the thousands who live in the crowd
Ownership in land is one of the first
conditions to sure and lasting success
The thousands are everywhere recognize
ing this. They are looking for land
land at prices which they can meet It
is to these men that this valley gives
cordial welcome and to whom waiting
hands are extended
The man who is seeking a home in the
newer west should come to Crookston or
any point in the valley and look over the
situation for himself We have no fear Of
any other region. The investigator will find
what he wants and become a settler and
in the years to come his children viii rise
up and call him blessed as they comment
on his sagaeity and contemplate the
steady rise in farm values sure to app
preeiate. There are both wild and i'm
proved farms for sale and either can be
had at prices so low. and terms SO easy
that in five years time they will seem
strangely cheap. That has been true in
every new country; this will be no ex-
ceptiOn to the rule.
The county is already we'll supplied
with railway facilities. being traversed by
both the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific lines, and furnish excellent IA
cilitleS to reach the large market centers
of the Twin Cities and Duluth
This county has something for the in
dustrlous man to do both summer and
winter. To place a man, whatever his
energy and industry, in a new country.
where he is compelled to be idle and not
earn anything during the winter, or if he
does do so by going long ways from
home and you have placed him at a ire
mendOus disadvantage. But in this val
ley every able-bOdied man who is will
ing to work can find steady employment
in the neighboring lumber camps. There
are still millions of feet Of pine stand
ing ready for the woodman's ak. the
mill and the market
The great lumber companies will give
| employment to thousands of men. and this
industry will continue a fourishing and
| important one for ten or fifteen years tC
| come. To be able to earn cash during
| the winter months means much to the
new settler 1t means that when spring
| comes. instead Of finding himself cramp-
ed for lack of means. with his pocket
book fiat and his affairs "out at the ell
bows" that he is able to buy his seed
make further improvements on the farm
add to his stock. and is not cramped
for the daily necessities. This means that
he goes about his farm life in real earnest
and with that assurance as to the future
which is the very essence of success.