The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-18

the three divisions make this their
headquarters and residence. The Great
Northern has here one of the most ex-
tens1Ve yards on the system, three
quarters of a mile in length and using
tWenty-eight tracks. Six passenger
trains daily give the city excellent
communication between the towns at
the head of the lakes St. Paul and
Minneapolis and the Dakotas and wide
West.
Desirable Location for Home.
Cass Lake presents variety of in
ducementS to those looking for new To-
cations and a chance to make a home.
1t is in the center of the agricultural
lands of the late Chippewa reservation.
Many people who have never visited
this section of the state (and others
who have visited here and had but a
! casual glance at the topography of
the country have been misled by the
statements of unprincipled parties into
the belief that the soil in this particular
locality is unfit for use in agricultural
pursuits. This belief is erroneous and
needs but the citing of a single in
stance to show that the best of cereal
crops can be raised on the soil which
prevails here. About four miles south-
west of CaSs Lake lies the little town
of Guthrie. 1t is on the border of the
late reservation. and there are large
number of homesteaders who have
lived there during the past six years.
These settlers have cleared their lands
and have but recently made proof on
their possessions: They have each
year raised good crops of wheat, oats
and barley. Last year, o. ]. Farden,
one of the settlers harvested from a
field of forty acres of wheat an aver
age of twenty bushels to the acre of
No d.
also been grown there with the same
marked success. The same soil covers
the ground there as is encountered in
most of the land classed as agricultural
in the immediate vicinity Of Cass Lake.
This city is natural headquarters for
people who desire to take homeSteadS
or to squat on government land. The
United States land Office for the newly
created CaSS Lake land district is To-
Gated here, and anyone desiring to
make proof on lands or to obtain in
formation concerning the same must,
under a recent ruling of the general
land department, come to the land Of
flee to secure it. The lands of the Chip
pewa reservation, including the Cass
Lake, Leech Lake WinnibigoShish,
Red Lake, Bots Fort, Deer Creek, Pi-
geon River and other minor reserves,
has all been estimated and classified
by the late Warren estimating corps
and under the provisions of the Morris
law there is nothing to hinder the Sec
rotary Of the interior from at once de-
claring these agricultural lands open
for settlement, which he can do by
| proclamation. South of Cass Lake and
also northeast of this place (across the
lake, on the shores of Cass river) is
some of the best farming land to be
found in the entire state. Here are
homesteaders who are in a really pros
| porous condition. They have been able
to cut what timber was on their land
and market the same at a good margin
of profit. After their summers work
has been completed, they have been
given employment, with their teams
in the logging camps all during the
winter months at a good stipend for
both man and beast. This method of
obtaining a subsistence does not pre-
vail at any other point in the entire
state. There is also an abundance Of
game and fish, which can be utilized
for food or sold in a good market,
where there is an increasing demand
FOR the articles mentioned.
Cass Lake is also the natural outlet
! Tor the vast stands of timber of the
late Chippewa reservation. After the
! timber is cut, 1T must be floated to
some point where 1t can be either
| manufactured into the finished article
| or the logs hoisted onto cars, taken to
the Mississippi river at a point below
| Grand Rapids. and there dumped into
| the water and again driven to
some remote destination. In either
| case the logs must first be brought to
| Cass Lake. There is already one fine
sawmill here, and there are several
| good sites along the shores Of Cass
| lake or Pike bay for half dozen more
| sawmills. The lake is a most excellent
body Of water in which to boom logs,
being deep and not inducive to storms.
| 1t is known that the Great Northern
| and other railroads which have been
] hauling logs in the past have found the
| work very destructive to the roadbeds
| of their right of way, and they would
| much prefer not to haul the logs at any
! figures. With labor at very reason
| able wage figure, elegant sites where
the logs can be handled to advantage