The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-03-25
NOTES FROM WALKER.
Several Blue Earth County People
LOCATING in Cass County.

We are glad to be able to inform our
readers that we will soon have a small
saw mill at Walker. Harry Paddock,
secretary of the Minnesota Northern
Land company on Friday last sold to Mr..
Joseph Schooner of Blue Earth county $50
acres of heavy timber two miles south
east of Walker, ands beneficial result
will soon follow, as Mr.. Schooner will re-
turn to Walker in May, and will soon be
prepared to saw the lumber for many a
farm home in this vicinity. The tim
Der Mr.. Schooner purchased consists of
hardwood and some nice pine. This will
enhance the value of land in the vicinity,
as the farmer can get his lumber prac-
tically at the nominal cost of saving,
and with the best class of farmers COM
ing in from the south part of the state
and Iowa, we wall soon see our rich tim
Der land covered with houses and barns
with clearings well titled, adjacent to one
of the best towns in the northern part
of the state.
Mr.. Schooner is a substantial farmer,
living about seven miles from Mankato,
and has also had large experience with
timber and cord wood. He will rent his
farm in Blue Earth county, and return
to Walker. He was very much pleased
at finding good land and timber close to
good town, which has bright prospects
for the future; and stated that he found
both soil and timber much better than he
expected. We will heartily welcome Mr..
Schooner and family at Walker and con-
graduate him on his good fortune in Sc
curing so fine tract of land with good
timber. The land company has more
just as good close to Walker, and we
shall look for others to take advantage
of the present low price, which will
rapidly advance with the incoming of
more good farmers.
There are apparently few people who
know what the resources of Cass county
are, and it is safe to say that as soon as
they are called to their attention that
our lands will all be settled up, and the
quality and productiveness of our soil
will soon make prosperous well-to-do
farmers of those who barely have enough
to make start
Mr.. Mason Hynson, who also lives
close to Mankato, and is one of Blue
Earth county's farmers came up with Mr..
Schooner, and purchased tract of land
about two miles west of Walker. The
Pioneer recognizes Mr.. Hynson's goou
judgment of land and timber, as he Sc
lected a fine tract of birch, which in it.
self is good investment, and when
cleared will make very fertile farm
Mr.. Hynson will reap many dollars from
his timber, as birch wood demands
good price, and he is close to the Great
Northern depot, and he has enough saw
timber to put him up comfortable build
ings.
bOCn tnese gentlemen carefully look
ed into the products of the soil here, and
were much surprised and favorably inn
pressed by grains, grasses and root crops,
which grow so abundantly and yield
such large quantities to the acre. They
remarked particularly about the wild
poe, craving on the lands, as being such
fine feed for cattle surprising even
tame pastures.
We have other Blue Earth county
farmers in this neighborhood and expect
to see more; they have shown themselves
to be good farmers and know the value
of timber and how to handle it, and to
transform the land into good farm.