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

4 Land deVelOpment along the ooa
line in the upper peninsula OF Mlchl-
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 1,0OO,OOO
acres of land in that district Fred
erick G. Matthews Of Chicago, form
erly of Minneapolis, is to handle the.
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
that the soil affords as good a return
for patient labor as can be found al
most anywhere else in the United
States, say the enthusiastic represen-
tatiyes of the company.
In the upper peninsula of Michigan
cultural land in the world are offered
to the earnest home seeker. A farm
Of forty acres may be had on the east
est kind of terms. There are no
fancy prices attached. They may be
bought outright at SIS to $40 an acre,
and wherever desired, may be paid
for on installments which entail not
the slightest hardship on the settler.
| This is the offer of the Upper
Peninsula Land company, limited.
Believing that there is ample demand
for small farms, that the small farms
are the source of the nations strength,
that reasonable prices are the readiest
in the company's possession, it has
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
pary. First, the means of building
a shelter, home, are ready to hand
The lands of the Upper Peninsula
Land company, limited, are rich If
timber. Second, the soil is pro
4 ductive of every crop known in the
temperate regions. Third, the climate
year in and year out is the best fol
health and strength in the world
4 Fourth, the small farmer can fine
ready employment at good wage:
while he is clearing and cultivating hi!
4 farm. Fifth, the chance of fortune il
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 il
easily worth SIS, an acre without tn,
timber. 1t is of a variety of fertilit,
which suits it to the raising of crop
now most in demand, fruit, celer,
!, and sugar beets. Fruit is a
abundantly and as probably grown a
in the Well-known fruit belt of tn
southern peninsula. There are larg
u tracts Of the same black loam wl1icl
has produced the world-famous celer
at Newberry; sugar-beets yield
other section Of the country, from 1
to Is per cent being the average
These figures are furnished by tn
state agricultural college at Lansing.
The demand for these crops need
no comment and the opportunity no
: only for comfort and good living, blu
| for independence lies waiting for tn
:, man who will go and raise then
: Stock is raised and bred in this terri
tory with great success, and stock ex
perts, recently over the section say
offers extraordinary opportunities fo
this industry. The staple farm crop
grow abundantly and luxuriously, 70
:. the country is blessed with plentifr
!, rainfall 1t is wonderful hay coun
try Irrigation between the lakes
: never thought of and crop failure
: unknown. The mines. timber an
e woodworking industries furnish tn
|. best markets in the world fc
4 TIMBER and products at the very doc