The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-05
MORT HERN iIZVVESOTA-W WHAT
1T OFFERS HOME BUILDERS
Millions of Ac7es of Free and Loy-P Price Lu1ds-Good
Markets, Healthy Climate, Abundant Timber
and Game, and FertiIe Soil.

In the settlement Of the northwest, |
nothing has been more surprising than
the persistence with which intending
settlers have, until recently, passed by
much Of the best farming lands on this
continent to take up homes on the
in the fact that prairie lands were vir-
tually ready for the pillow, while those
in the timbered country of northern
Minnesota were more or less covered
with forests, there being here and
there, however, large tracts of such
land, somewhat Of the nature of prai-
RE lands. Some of the reasons for set
Ting in northern Minnesota are emu
merated for the benefit of prospective
homeseekers:
In northern Minnesota tornadoes,
which so often bring destruction to
prairie countries, are unknown.
Northern Minnesota is, by reason of
its nearness to the chain Of the Great
Lakes, within the rain belt.
The rainfall in the summer is all that
any farmer could desire, and such a
thing as drought. is a stranger to this
territory; This is the reason why all
deed, all kinds Of vegetation grow so
luxuriantly here.
This territory is entirely free from
blizzards, and, while the winters are
cold, yet they are no colder than in
southern Minnesota, southern Wisconsin,
in Illinois, Iowa, or in the Dakotas, and
they are preferable to winters in the
other districts named, in that the win
ter climate is more uniform, the air
dry and the winds are neither as strong
nor as cold as in an open prairie or
unprotected country.
From the lands alone, and only at
the cost Of cutting, can abundant wood
for fuel and for buildings be had.
The Timber Wealth.
While the heavy pine timber has gen
orally been taken from the lands years
cause it was not then so valuable as
now, and lumbermen only took that
which was the best or the most access
sible.
So great, in recent years, has been
the growing demand for timber Of all
kinds, for lumber, for railroad ties, for
wood (out Of which paper is manufacE-
ture0, for fence posts, for shipknees
Hmade from butts of tamarack trees
and used for ship keels), and for pur-
poses of fuel, that today every stick of
timber has a marketable value, and
when the owner of land on which it is
situated will himself cut and market it,
enough money can be realized there
! from to pay for the land, and in many
cases much more.
Much Of the, forest is hardwood, COM
prising- such varieties as maple, birch,
hemlock, oak, elm and Eastwood, while
the soft varieties of wood comprise
pine, tamarack, cedar, spruce and bal
sam.
The owner Of tract of land in this
country does not have to lie idle during
the winter months, as is 50 often the
4 case in a prairie country.
From the 1st of December until the
LIST of April he will find all the work
for himself and teams that he can dc
in marketing the timber from his own
lands or from that of his neighbor, OF
in the many lumber camps in the more
northerly portion of this territory
For the reason above given, it would
seem entirely proper to suggest to the
aperson seeking a home that this coun
try should at least be carefully looked