The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-09-09
is ATTRACTING THOUSANDS.
Northern Wisconsin Offers Great Ad-
vantages to Homeseekers.

and fertile lands of Northern Wiscon-
sin, and many farmers and homeseek-
ers in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and other
sections who have been studying diff
ferent localities for new home, are
buying farms in this section this year.
1t has been proved that these lands
are among the most fertile on earth
and offer great inducements for dairy
ing and stockraising, and the man
with two or three or four COWS can
go upon one of these eighty-acre
tracts and become an income producer
while he is clearing his land.
James L. Gates of Milwaukee is one
of the largest land owners in Northern
Wisconsin and has made this section
long study and has seen these lands
increase from almost nothing until
they have become very valuable. He
said
Northern Wisconsin, which was a
dense wilderness, nature was good
enough to this area Of territory TO
produce a dense growth Of valuable
timber of many, many kinds. AS soon
as the timber is removed the soil and
climate responds wonderfully to the
most remarkable growth of grass,
timothy, clover and bluegrass Of any
district in the United States. 1t is al
most universal in the whole north half
IF Wisconsin, as soon as the timber is
cut away, even without dispOslng or
the stumps, from two to four tons OF
timothy and clover an acre is pro-
duced. 1t is not necessary to ploW
the land to produce these grasses;
they seed themselves. In the old log
cling roads used by the old lumbermen
timothy and clover have first started,
and now it is spreading all over and
white clover even kills out the weeds
and brush wherever the shade trees
are removed.
We can and are producing more
milk, cream, butter and cheese per
acre on all of the lands in Northern
Wisconsin than any other place in the
United States
The ground is rolling and is not
sandy, nor is it rocky. Of course there
are places where there is some rock,
but nothing disagreable. The Chippe-
wa valley is the choicest agricultural
valley in the state, but it is all good.
Whenever the country is too new for
the tame grasses, the wild grass and
wild pea vine grow in abundance, SO
the cattle always thrive and get fat
on it.
The cattle of Northern Wisconsin
are as fat and shiny as sea lions by
the middle Of August every year, run
ming wild in the woods. There is no
waste land in Northern Wisconsin;
some is better than others, but it is all
good.
The resources are varying, first the
timber value and the second-class
timber. third-class timber, cordwood
and fuel in abundance. All farmers
succeed who work and improve the
land.
One will only have to look at the
map of Wisconsin to see it's location,
and it certainly seems strange that
this piece of territory, or neck Of the
woods, is not occupied by at least two
million more people. This enormous
wealth from natures resources is only
partially developed. We want more
people to settle in Northern Wisconsin
to improve the land and utilize the re-
sources so abundant, and the proof OF
it is to look at it.
The railroad facilities are ample,
the climate is beautiful and clean.
There is no yellow fever or other cpl
denies. But scattered through the
northern half of the state there are a
thousand beautiful clearwater lakes,
with abundance of the choicest fish,
from brook trout to muskellunge, plen-
ty of wild game, everything to make
life pleasant; in fact, Northern Wis
consin is the Switzerland of the West
ern continent.
These lands can be purchased at
from $40 to SIS an acre, and with the
enormous increased production OF
probable still further increase of pro-
duction of precious metal, the wealth
measuring standard, it is as plain as
the handwriting on the wall that these
Northern Wisconsin lands will con-
tinually enhance in value until they
are rated equal in value to choice
farming lands of the civilized world.
The average price of good farm
lands to the settler, not in wilder
ness, in the settled communities of the
United States ranges from 500 to 5000
an acre. And all these lands in North
ern Wisconsin will be worth in the
next fifteen or twenty-five years from
BIS to 500 and $3.50 an acre.
Here is the place to make invest
ments where nothing can cause loss
Or depreciation.-W.