Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-01
PARADISE FOR SETTLERS,
The Conditions in Northern Miehiaan
Are Most Satisfactory.

Newberry. Mich. June 30.-Congress
is providing for the irrigation of lands
! in the West, and millions are to be
spent in making the arid regions bloom.
| There is no question of the great value
| to the nation of these projects, vet in
| this north country, in the upper penin-
suia of Michigan, there are vast tracts
| of land far more attractive and valu-
| able than those in the regions of scanty
| rainfall now being given so much at
tentiOn. Here the man desiring a home
can practically carve one out, shaping
it to suit his fancy. He has an
abundance of wood ard shade, has
water in plenty and an atmosphere Of
great tOnical properties. He does not
have 10 scour the surrounding country
to gather enough fuel to cook his din
ner. In clearing the timber from his
land he sells his maple and birch at
price ample to repay him for his labor;
or. should he prefer 1t. there are great
tracts Of land free from timber that are
| available to the settler and the soil OF
which is suitable to the cultivation of
grasses, celery and other crops that
| thrive in the low-lying areas.
Last year was the first season that
| the cultivation of sugar beets was
given much attention, and the results
| We're surprising. the roots not only
thriving well, but yielding percentage
of sacchaIne matter at the very top.
Although /others are contemplated. the
peninsuM now has but one beet sugar
factors located at Menomnee. and that
wyft in commission for the first time
jrlMst fall. The farmers in that section
found last SEASON that the beet crop was
the only one that gave them profit, II
: successfully outstanding the almost
: unprecedented cold weather and heavy
, aims, and this year the acreage devoted
% the cultivation of beets has been
greatly increased The factory stands
ready to take all beets offered, and Is
willing to enter INTO longtime contracts
with farmers forNtheir supply, paying
ri on a scale based on the. percentage OF
\ agar in the roots.
= The State experimental station. at Chat
; Inn, Alger County, an enterprise NOT
ficiently provided with money to con.
C. its affairs on a scale demanded by
nj possibilities of the district, has shown
" at can be done by intelligent direction
n 6 inns. roots. vegetables and fruits OF a
e. wn tht e, and numerous experimental
crops OF a ind heretofore deemed foreign
! to the r., ion have been successfully
, raised In III north country. too. straw
l tivated on Z ! apidly increasing scale, me
sandy soil H. = and there apparently be. be
suited T. , the t Sfsp from
more souther points nave become . ex
4 hausted, ASSN 4, good market al Ia,r
!, prices. The ~ thern berry Is mucn n thn,
~, er, STANDS II deportation better tnan tnat
~ shlpped to the PENINSULA early IN me s sn-
json, and eac' year <.ees the farmer sM.
Ns year if i StoH more no ac aftent experence
- met nroft from $IW 70 Siwss PEI
he obtained by growing stlaW
while in addition. a second CID CID
was raised late In the SUNNY.
xperir entail farm. Aside from the
crop. OF the SOIL it has been ae-
|ated t at there Is money N s.o N
and the dairy business IN tne
Ia: an 18th an area greater tnhn
Rhod, Island, Delaware. ConMc.
ticSV nd Mass n Isetts combined .ne.c
is much land rsracially that from Was se,'
the pine tfmbe .a.s been cut, avai'aD'e
Much Of the upper peninsula Is as yer
virtually n wilderness. yet one Is soristsSs =,
| at the number OF new homes met with N
driving along the roads. In the most ouL
of-the-way places. in tramplnE .na aas,s
l the woods will he found neat ItIf ca1L .
about which the ground has been cleateg.
and upon which fine crops are gIoMi.h =;
These are not the pine homestsaasrsa y.
| a few years ago-these homesteaneIs
have long ago sold their timber and n nave
left the scenes where they lived SO LILLE
| and realized so much. These new noa ,ns
| are. as a general thing. upon Iaprs tue
| settler has purchased on easy terms irom
the railroad. lumber or land cofpoaa.'@ ~
| The man who wants a home does ~.
/ offen secure the soil he IL looking ZOE
| among the pineries. but turns ratnes "
| the hardwood districts. 1870
II n times IKE these when men are see4-
| Ing some Mace where they may eem =
| living while building their home VIZ ~
d,sY tilsses where there - snnehine. pure-
water cheap fuel beneftcial e eo'ss 1 t,s
<ssSs ..e,,sstyv - certainly entitled TO C0ss-
eideraffOS-ai1d the same condttiens -
NV to northern WISCONSIN ana Ainhesotas
The Porte having ISSUED orders ~
tha co1leefi0n Of license taxes from
Greeks IN the Turkish doailniqns. Il -
feared 1t Athens that there VIII Ds
fresh trouble. particularly at smyrna.