The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

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All interests Urged to Pull Together
for Advertising Spring Sale Of State
Land.
Special to The Journal. ~. r. ..-.. \
Grand Rapids, MINI, Jan. 15.-Busi-
ness men Of this city, members Of the
Commercial club, met Saturday after
noon with G, II. Warner, state immigra:
| advertising and promoting the state
land sale to be held here in April.
Mr.. Warner addressed the meeting at
| length, speaking from the standpoint
| of citizen of the northern country,
as well as a state official. He said in
part: ~.
The people of northern Minnesota
ton Of our state, who are here to
spend the balance Of their days and
grow up with the country, if it pros
pers and develops, should be largely
interested in the questions Of good
roads, the drainage of our swamp and
overfowed lands, and in securing a
large number of settlers. People living
in the villages and cities are as largely
interested in all these questions as are
the farmers, for every prosperous grow
ing city must depend upon the settle
ment and development of the surround
ing, tributary territory for it's support,
growth and progress. Much as we need
roads, in northern Minnesota; badly
as we need drainage, I'VE need settlers
even more, for more settlers will mean
more people to assist in building roads,
digging bitches and contributing to the
cost of maintaining our schools and our
township, county and state govern
ment.
"President Roosevelt said in his last
message to congress, I'VE cannot have
too much immigration of the right
kind and, gentlemen, there is very
little immigration of the wrong kind
that finds it's way as far as this from
the great seaboard cities. We want
men and women who are strong and
vigorous, who are not afraid of the
clear and subdue, our reproductive
lands and make two blades of grass
grow where none grew before, and
clover, timothy, potatoes, corn and
small grains, where today there is
nothing but brush, windfalls, unmer-
charitable timber and stumps.
"We have a hard cauntry to settle.
Every timbered country, not only set
ties, but develops slowly, and almost in
! VdiidDly ny pooI people, NY meH OIL
small means. I think that the land men
who have had some years experience in
this part of the country will bear me out
in the statement that the men who come
and buy wild timbered land out of
which to carve homes, are as rule men
with but little none y. AS a general
proposition, those with couple of
thousand dollars or more, are looking
for prairie land or for something par,
fSa11 49,
safely say that for the settlement of
the timbered portions of northern Min
nesota we must look for men who have
not to exceed a few hundred dollars
Better Than Homesteads Were.
!, l. l.. During the last ten years, perhaps
lEno one thing has brought us as many
settlers as our free homestead lands.
But the vacant government land is near
ly all gone, at least the most accessible
and desirable is about all gone in MANY
of the counties, and it seems to me that
the next best proposition for a man of
small means looking for a home is the
; state land. In fact am strongly of the
opinion that when we consider the loca.
ton, the terms upon which tits offered
and the development that !, has beer
made, that state land in this county is
today better and cheaper proposition
TOR the prospective homeseeker, thar
was taking a homestead in the same
townships five or ten years ago.
1.-The legislature Of 1905 appropriated
$1,000 year to advertise these state
land sales and to secure, compile anC
publish such statistics of the resource:
or the state, as may be useful in secur
ing desirable class of settlers to pur
!, chase. and to locate onsthese lands. That
practlcaiiy means that we have $1,000
a. year for immigration purposes. Gu
OF that we must pay for all advertis
mg' printing, postage, salary and Incl
dental expenses. It is not large sun
and we feel that in order to make tn,
, WORK a success, to show some substan
t tlal results, we should have the co-onera
tlon and assistance Of all interests. AM
am here to ask the people of thi
county, your commercial club and ever,
interest in the county, to do somethin,
! IN the way of advertising the sale. I
| you decide to do so we shall render yo,
all the assistance we possibly can.
~" All Can Cooperate.
"In the advertising of the sale j.
5 this county by your local people. T he
. lleve that every interest should cooper
- ate and contribute. Every man in III
county should for the time BEING he
come an immigration agent and Scum
tne praises OF the town, county an
state in which he lives. There
scarcely settler, business or profe{
s1onal man in the county, but can oe
one or more of his relatives, friends -
former neighbors to come here to ir
X1estiigato the country, if he will tax
the time and trouble to write PERSONAL
letters to them, inelosing such printe
matter as your commercial clnb ma
furnish: Write to your friends and te
!hem OF the many opportunities that e,
ISL In TINS new country, send them copie
OF your local papers, tell them of tn
nagnlncent crops you raise, the ferti]
SOIL, beautiful lakes, delightful climat
. and your splendid schools. If Won war
more neighbors do this. If you want =
b settle your county, if you want mo,
men here to assist in building roads an
bridges, digging bitches and erect FL
schoolhouses, if you want to increa "a 80 -
value of the land you own, write tbe a.
letters. -. 'nes
| IT think it would be good plan I
have maps OF your county printed. ghoy
ing the lands that will be offered an
literature descriptive of the connty o.. 81
IT'S agricultural resources and Doss;h;1
ties prepared and furnish these man
send to their friends All over ~
country there are men LOOKING FOR -,
such chances to secure homes az +be.
state sales afford. - ''0S
II Settlers Worth Money.
NStatisticians figure out that ever
b sett1er ia worth $QOn ~ ~, $1,000 =.