The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-02

Great Northern railroad through the
western tier of townships.
The lands in Central Minnesota are be-
ing rapidly taken up by settlers who APP
preciate the many advantages which
county with diversified resources and
healthful. climate offers for successful
farming and comfortable homes. The soil
is extremely fertile, producing in album
dance the celebrated hard wheat, oats, bar
ley, flax, corn rye, hops, buckwheat, po-
tatoes, the various root crops, garden
vegetables and small fruits. The native
grasses are excellent both for pasture
and hay. and timothy, millet and clover
and streams furnish an abundance of good
water and farm stock-raising and dairy
ing are reliable sources of profit.
Dairy farming has proved in most of
out Eastern states very profitable. Min
neSota, all things considered, has no SUI
pefior in the United States. as a. dairy
timothy, alfalfa, blue grass and other
tame grasses that are produced within our
temperate belt. We have the purest wa
ter. and it is We'll known that in a eli
mate where human beings are healthy
cattle also do well. A carload of butter
and cheese is worth more than ten times
the value of a carload of wheat, and as
our farming lands here can be bought
for less than o1e-fOurth of what they
are selling for in the Connecticut valley,
IN New York or Pennsylvania, it is very
easy to calculate how much more profit
able dairy farming can be. made here
than in the Eastern states.
large cities and markets of the North
west. For local markets the Great North
ern railway crosses the county from
north to south, and the Northern Pacific
railroad crosses the southern portion.
Wadena county is well supplied with
churches, schools, creameries and cheese
kets.
During the past year about 200 families
have come to Wadena, and have pur-
chased land a reasonable prices. Some of
them have opened up entirely new farms
and will in a few years be well paid by
the natural increase in the price of their
lands. Wadena county and the surround
ing territory is by no means a wilderness
1t has good schools and churches and
good roads. There are a fine class of set
tiers IN the county, and there is plenty
of room for many more.
Lands around can be bought very rea-
sonablv. Good wild lands are selling from
sell from SIS to $35 per acre. These lands
are bound to go up soon, and buyers will
lind that there is a good profit to be
made in holding and improving these
lands.
The country abounds with running
streams of the purest water. The bot
tom lands along these streams consist of
valuable meadow lands, which yield large
amounts of hay in its native state, and
which can readily be worked into tame
grass. Wild meadows here will WELD on
an average of two tons of excellent hay
TO the acre, but. Of course, there are
meadows upon which the yield will be
ulOIe. clover ana IlI0OIlY do we'll here.
The low lands which are thus drained
are turning out to be among the best in
the county. In North Germany, Leaf
River, Lyons, Huntersville, Meadow and
Aldrlch townships some as fine meadows
can De seen as can be found anywhere, as
a result of ditching.
Wadena county will pass through the
same experience in this respect as has
sections of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois,
Some Of the best lands in those states
have been rendered accessible by ditch
ing.
The Soil.
The soil of the county is a black, sandy
loam, mixed with vegetable mold, with a
clay subsoil, and is rich and productive.
Inc advantages offer exceptionally good
opportunities for families with limited
means to secure comfortable homes if
they come at once.
Wadena.
Wadena the county seat of Wadena
county, is situated in the center of the
great state of Minnesota and enjoys the
advantages of five different railway lines.
as the Great Northern and Northern Pa
enc, TWO great tranScontinental lines
lulmsh an lngress and outlet in five diff
ferent directions This makes Wadena
q commercial center of no small impor-
lance, ana accounts for the fact that in
recent years numerous small manufac-
turlng concerns have been established
mere and find excellent facilities for ship
Northwest In the future Wadena is
destined to become an important point for
WholeSale houses of all kinds. Wadena
IS town of 1000 people, and the town
has over six miles of cement walks and
clean, well-kept streets, which look
well TO stranger when he enters the
town; Wadena business men are pros
porous and enterprising and are housed
in brick blocks that would be a credit 10
town of $4,000 people, The fine city
park is one Of the main attractions of the
town. The town contains four general
stores, three grocery stores, three drug
stores, three hardware stores, one har7
ness store, two fruit stores three res
taurants, four hotels. one exclusive dry
goods store, tailor and gents furnishing
goods store, exclusive boot and shoe
store, two weekly newspapers that are a
credit TO the town as well as the county
two livery stables. four physicians, three
lawyers 1aa7WeYyers.- four real estate firms, Frank
school with ten teachers, one of the best
IN the state, Catholic school of four
teachers which is one of the institutions
the town is proud of. seven churches of
the different denominations, public IL
brary. opera house. seating 500 people.
Germanla hall. volunteer fire department