The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
BID FOR SETTLERS
Upper Peninsula Land Company Is
Booming Things Along the
500 Line.
Small Farms With Mineral Rights
Thrown In Are Placed on
Market.

Land development along the 500
line in the upper peninsula OF Michl-
gan is to be pushed hard. Induce
ments are being offered to settlers to
buy land, virgin farming acres and
tracts of timber, which is to be placed
on the market by the Upper Peninsula
Land company, limited, of Detrolt,
Mich, which has acquired l,OOO,Oou
acres of land in that district. Fred
erick g. Matthews Of Chicago, FORM
publicity department Of this company
and naturally Minneapolis will come
to be an important distributing point
for the settlers.
The South Shore line will also be
benefited by the development of these
large tracts which are adjacent also
to the right of way Of this system.
In northern Michigan the interests
of the home seeker and the farmer
have been somewhat obscured by the
prominence given to the lumber and
mining industries. The riches Of the
upper peninsula have hidden the fact
that the soil affords as good return
for patient labor as can be found al
most anywhere else in the United
Estates, say the enthusiastic represent
ltatives of the company.
| In the upper peninsula of Michigan
broad acres of some Of the best agri-
cultural land in the world are offered
4 to the earnest home seeker. A farm
Of forty acres may be had on the east
est kind of terms There are no
1 fancy prices attached. They may be
4 bought outright at IS to $40 an acre,
and wherever desired, may be paid
for on installments which entail not
4 the slightest hardship on the settler.
This is the offer Of the Upper
1 Peninsula Land company, limited.
i Believing that there is ample demand
4 for small farms, that the small farms
are the source of the nations strength,
4 that reasonable prices are the readiest
means of settling the immense acreage
!. in the company's possession, it has
II resolved to offer these lands to the
public on such terms as any one with
, strength Of limb and strength of will
may accept without the slightest hest
tation. The opportunity presented
. is distinctly unique. Here is a COM
! bination of advantages that the small
investor will seek in vain for else
!. where, say the officials Of the com
pany. First, the means of building
a shelter, a home, are ready to hand
The lands of the Upper Peninsula
. Land company, limited, are rich ir
! timber. Second, the soil is pro.
3 ductive Of every crop known in the
year in and year out is the best fol
. health and strength in the world
9 Fourth, the small farmer can FIND
= ready employment at good wages
Z while he is clearing and cultivating hi
. farm. Fifth, the chance of fortune i
> added for the company has decided
: to cede all mineral rights to the buy
: ers of their land.
The land itself is fine farming land
. the soil will raise anything and i
:. easily worth IS an acre without tn
: timber. It is Of a variety of fertilit
: which suits it to the raising of crop
e now most in demand, fruit, celer
:, and sugar beets Fruit is a
:. abundantly and as profitably grown a
- - In the well-known fruit belt of tn
), southern peninsula. There are larg
tracts OF the same black loan whic
- has produced the world famous celer
e at NeWberry; sugar-beets yield
larger percentage of sugar than in an
Y other section of the country, from /
- to 10 per cent being the averag,
le These figures are furnished by tn
20 state agricultural college at Lansing.
leA The demand for these crops nee6
- no comment and the opportunity nj
le only for comfort and good living, bl
Al for independence lies waiting for tn
ii man who will go and raise then
10 Stock is raised and bred in this terri
= tory with great success, and stock e,
% perts, recently over the section say
offers extraordinary opportunities fl
this Industry. The staple farm crol
grow abundantly and luxuriously, fl
ST. the country is blessed with plentif
IN rainfall. 1t is a wonderful hay coul
try. Irrigation between the lakes
never thought of and crop failure
s. unknown. The mines, timber ar
he woodworking industries furnish Il
m. best markets in the world f
1 4 timber and prOdI1cts' ar tho 1yorxy dor