The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-03
Ten KenOsha County Farmers Go to
Marathon County to Make New
Homes For Themselves.
WISCONSIN ATTRACTS.
Already a Thousand Acres of Marathon
County Land Has Been Sold to Kenosha
County Farmers-More to Follow

The western part of Kenosha County
is losing rapidly in population aud the
charms of northern Wisconsin are
drawing large number of Kenosha
County farmers from the farms in the
western part of the county to Mara
thon and other northern counties in
the State.
This morning party of ten farmers
left kenosha for Wausau, and nearly
all of them have arranged to buy land
in Marathon County. Already over
thousand acres have been sold to the
Kenosha County men, and other farms
will be sold when the men reach the
northern city.
The advantages of Marathon County
as farming district are now being
doomed and the fever for investment
in the county seems to have struck the
KeLosha farmers hard. A colony IN
the western part OF that county has
many Kenosha people in its number
and it is thought that fully one-half
the county will be sold out to Kenosha
farmers before the fad has exhausted
itself.
At the last State fairithe products of
Marathon County won a noteworthy
victory and for this reason there has
been steady pouring of new settlers
into the county. The land has adj
vanced in price from a dollar and a
half and two dollars an acre until now
it is selling at the rate of from six to
sixteen dollars an acre. The Kenosha
County farmers were among the first
to go to the county after the remark
able showing made at the fair and
many of them were able to buy their
farms at exceedingly low rates.
Of course, the land in Marathon
County is unimproved, but it is claimed
that the Kenosha men see great pros
poets in the county for the future. The
land agents of the county and other
counties in the northern part of the
State have spent several months in Ke-
nosha County and have secured many
settlers. The German residents of the
town of Wheat1and seem to have con-
tributed largely to this company of
men who are seeking the northern
lands, and several that lhave gone
from Kenosha County have left farms
in Wheatland. In most cases the men
were either renters or men employed
on the larger farms, but in some cases
farmers have sold valuable property in
order to join in the rush for fortune in
the north.
In the past two years Kenosha has
lost quite nnm Der of its farmer fami-
lies. Last fall more than forty people
from the county went to Los Angeles,
California, and in other years many
have gone to Colorado and other west
ern states.
Notwithstanding this fact, the coun.
ty has not lost much in population, as
there has been the usual number of
new settlers from other lands, so that
the total number in the towns has OF
been materially decreased.
The service of the Nickel Plate Road
to New York City and Boston, is un-
surpassed. Three fast express trains,
in each direction, daily. These trains
are composed of modern first-class day
coaches, elegant vestibuled sleeping
cars between Chicago, New York and
Boston and other eastern points; super
ior dining car service, meals being
served on American Club plan, rang
ing in price from Csc. to $1.O0; also SER
vice la carte. Passengers can travel
comfortably, and economically via the
Nickel Plate. See that your ticket
reads that way. Chicago city ticket
Office, Ill Adams street. Depot La
Sale street and Van Buren, street, on
the Elevated loop. w23
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