The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-17
Tuesday Evening,
HONESEEKERS NOW FIOCkLNG
INTO NORTHERN WISCONSIN
Immigration Priced Land Area Means that
People Already O. the Ground Haze Made Good
Some of the Why

! take short cuts of elm and Eastwood
as "bolts'' to make into slaves and
heading for barrels. Farmers make
winter, as they clear their lands, and
work with good returns when most
men on farms are doing nothing and
getting nothing for it. This is an I'M
portant item with the young settler
who comes in with little money, and
buys his place on payments. In good
share of the cases the timber taken OH
has paid for the land, every cent, Civ
ing the settler his farm clear OF in
! cumbrance, earned by his winter labor.
Small grain crops are not overlooked,
by any means, and the oats product
Of northern Wisconsin now runs into big
figures. The cool summer climate al,
lows the oats to get its full growth ana sah
does not force it's ripening. Forty bush,
high as 100 bushels to the acre has
been threshed. There is a good market
at the railroad for oats, but most farm
ers have stock enough to make better
use Of it than selling it.. Rye makes
sure crop, Of great value in feeding
hogs and other stock, and the straw IS
valuable for bedding. Barley well re-
y
kin flourishes, even in the very northern
counties, and in favorable soil consider
able tobacco of good grade is being
raised. ...~-~~-.s '.--
Good Prices for Potatoes.
, Potatoes are one Of the staple crops
and sure money getters Of the northern
Wisconsin farmers. With but small
clearing potato crop can be harvested
that will bring a comfortable income.
The soil, being well supplied with moist
ure, but loose and warm, is ideal Tor
potatoes, which not only yield in big
Quantities, but are of fine quality and
have no trouble in getting the top mar
, ket prices. There is not only the city
, market, but another outlet for potatoes
in the starch factories that have sprung
: up in several localities within few
: years, which consume enormous quaint
ties of potatoes and make as sure mar
ket for the poor grades as for the best.
7 The potato is generally raised in con
nection with diversified farming, and it
is valuable factor in the income of
many an Industrious settler of this
rorthland empire.
Market gardening offers great posi-
y bilities. Anything that will grow in the
i. north temperate zone can be raised sue
8 ket, which is essential to the market .
e garden, is solved by the great cities
e which surround this section on every
: side, at short distances. There are
n Milwaukee and Chicago to the south
J. and east, Oshkosh, Green Bay and the
Il lake cities to the east, the iron anC
IS copper towns of Michigan to the north
l. east, Duluth, Superior and Ashland tx
Z the northwest, and Minneapolis and St
}, Paul to the west. 49,
s. With all these great natural resources
v it is no wonder that progressive men art
Is reaching out to bring new people tx
northern Wisconsin, and it is no won
II der that they come. What appeal
L strongly to homeseekers is the fact tina
:; not have to stake everything on a sin
d gle crop, with the risk Of losing by
d drouth. Crop failures are unheard o;
8 in the experience Of the oldest farmers
d for there is always plenty Of rain tt
q. carry things thru, and the loose sol
4 with it's sand constituents is porous
8, enough to save fields from the opposit,
le danger. The farmers who have beer
50 here twenty years or more have ampl,,
n tested the soil, it's staying qualities, an
st all the advantages it possesses, and tn
e; settler Of today does not have to ex
"a pertinent. Many farmers who hav
been here only six, eight or ten year
ne have by industry turned the wilderness
~ into productive farms, making ther
X good livings, in security and happiness
er Some Lively Land Movements.
OF The different sections Of norther
10 Wisconsin have their various advantage
~ ~ and the settler can get what he want
ess if he only looks for it. The genera
10 characteristics already told apply in til
~ ~ main to every county, but northern VII
70 no consin is a vast area, and condition
IL differ. In the central and western par
~ where there is still much good Ian,
nb the normal climate is slightly warme
I'll corn is more easily raised, and whs
goes with it. There is great activity
" old Marathon, where in spite of lare
population already on the ground, the1
TO are some excellent lands and some fiji
m settler. Going west, one finds thin,
~ doing in Clark county, where John
We Owen is putting the fine lands held k
,er the John S. Owen Lumber compar
ne on the market, and meeting with GOO
ID, success in his endeavors. Just soul
nc in Jackson county the Wisconsin Far
i G5p Land company and other hustling pc
We touch with his home. They point wi
ne pride to the strides made in the liv
nd stock industry, which is proving mil
~ of wealth to the farmers who have go1
re, after it in the right way One farm
ng of Jackson county, it is matter of re
TO two years ago seven carloads of f
ne cattle, sheep and hogs, all his oy
at breeding and raising, and got the hig
"a, est market price for the day in CT
ne ne cago. He is not kicking about Jacks
mt county results, and the opportunity
as there for the newcomers just the san
The land crop has not been exhausted.
IN The railroad and lumber compani
IN have large share of the land to be
me posed of. The North Western, Wisco
lze sin Central and Milwaukee are dol
nf great things in advertising and brin
er- ing homeseekers on special rates. Nc
les Of the lumber companies have land fre
sys which they cut the timber, and wifi
ar they are now disposing of to actual 81
en- tiers. Such is the policy Of the Dan
IS Shaw Lumber company of Eau Clai
nly Others have turned over their Ian
al to investment companies, which are n
5 a only advertising with skill and 81
IT'S. cess, but going right after the hon
I'M seekers and diverting the westward a
on northward current Of immigration
aw this poor. man s paradise. They 9
Of telling the settlers that they must s
for Wisconsin before they go farther, a
cts the settlers are often convinced, wit
out any argument, that it would
easy to ego farther and fare worse