The Cook County herald., 1905-09-30
COMING OUR WAY.

our boasted enterprise we appear to
have "taken the cue" from our Canadian
neighbors. During the past few years
the Canadian Northwest has been more
than llberally advertised and attractive
Inducements have been offered to home
seekers of the desirable class. AS re-
suit there has been food OF emigration
from the United States to that country,
and we have witnessed the spectacle of
thousands upon thousands of
Americans leaving their own
country to build new homes IN foreign
land. And the fact that strikes home
most forcibly Is that the greater part of
these thousands have passed through
Minnesota, the "bread and butter state."
But a change is coming over these
conditions.
'"Ali is not gold that glitters." Some
of these wanderers have returned. For
these experience has removed the CLAM
our from the dazzling stories that led
them on long chase for golden oppor-
tunities, and they warn their fellow.
countrymen to be wary of the Canadian
Northwest.
Minresotans have awakened to the
need of the hour and have started a
campaign of advertising. The newspa-
pers, especially in Northern Minnesota,
are now more inclined to eschew politics
and to devote themselves to interesting
the homeseeker in and acquainting him
with the opportunities awaiting him
here. We have been shown that even a
great commonwealth cannot safely place
her light under a bushel with the idea
that past-earned fame will still push her
to the front, but that "eternal vigilance
is the price of success" The land de-
partment of the state government has
become infected with this spirit of en-
terprise and now shows disposition to
lend helping hand to the individual
workers for the states welfare.
The manifold benefits sure to accrue
from this new order of things will fall
principally to Northern Minnesota. Be-
cause here are still vast tracts of unde-
veloped agricultural government
lands to be had at practically no cost
and other lands at prices within the
reach of homeseekers of moderate means
The march of civilization, which first
extended northward inco the Red River
valley, has spread eastward at a sur
prisingly rapid rate, and regions that a
few years ago were in their wild state
have developed into prosperous commu.
mites, cities and villages having grown
up.
Look at Itasca county. Our memory
need not 60 far into the past to reach
the time when the Mississippi furnished
the only means of transportation and
lumber was considered her only resource
The time is not now very far away when
her lumber industry will be thing o1
the past, yet she is growing in popula.
tion and wealth. Her lands are being
taken up by home makers of the agricul
tural class from over-crowded sections
of this and other states, and railroads
cross and recross the county.
perity of Itasca and other frontier coun
tioes are not wanting in Cook. The sol
is as good, the climate is as good. oul
natural transportation facilities far bet
ter.
The forests are being fast thinned out
and as the sound of the Ak dies ava,
the man with the plow follows. L
seems to us to require no great stretcl
of imagination to draw hopeful pic.
ture of the future. With railway &C.
commodations, which will come sooner
than many Of us anticipate, and witt
the State doing her share in the work o.
development our progress will not b'
slow.
Tumble-down shacks scattered herr
there tell story of spoliation thai
has been instrumental in holding bach