The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-12-27

So many inquiries come to us about
the panhandle OF Texas that it is quite
impossible to answer them all by
letter. For this reason it has seemed
best to use little of the printers ink,
knowing that the Sank Centre Herald
has a large circulation, we think IT
the wisest plan to answer them in
this way.
Our object is to explain and show
up this country as it really is, not to
tell only the good side and conceal
any of the disadvantages. AS mat
ter of fact there will be found very
little except what is most favorable,
and this not because it has been done
Intentionally, but simply because
there is only one side to tell.
We all know that there is not so
much good soil to be had almost for
the asking as there was quarter OF a
century ago. Most of what is left is
in the southwest and northwest. Now
as between these two sections the
southwest has so many undoubted
advantages that the greatest move
ment is in that direction. And these
points of superiority you will have
explained to, you from time to time ii
you will only have the patience to
read these ads.
The United States cannot grow any
larger, there is no more land to day
than there was centuries ago, but the
population is steadily and rapidly
increasing, estimated at the rate OF
1000, 900 people year. The inevitable
result will be that in few years there
will no longer be the opportunity to
secure land at price that brings
it within the reach of anyone today.
If you have high priced land, sell it
and buy cheaper where you can ex-
change one acre for ten or twenty
acres with the assurance that in few
years the natural increase in value
will make it worth as much per acre
as your present holdings. That is one
opportunity for man of means. An
other is that the young man with a
family for whose future he is respon-
sible, has rented farm at from So. 90
to $500 per acre each year and by
herd work and economy has laid up d
few hundred dollars. Does he need
to continue to work SO hard on an
others mans land for half what the
land produces? No, he may, if he
will, grasp the opportunity at once
and buy farm in this new and grow
ing Northwest Texas country and be-
come land owner himself Gan impos-
sibility where he is at present with
his small capitaD and by applying
himself for a few years become indie
pendent from his produce and the in
crease of the land.
When we tell you that Texas is the
largest state in the union, that it con-
tains 274,O 900 square miles and LIE, 1000
900 acres it may not convey much
idea to your mind. So get at it in an
other way. Texas forms half of the
entire southern boundary of the United
states. 1t is larger than the whole of
the New England with New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia
thrown in, is larger than all of Ger
many or France. If the whole popula-
ton of the United States were put in
to Texas it would not be more thickly
settled than Massachusetts. 1t is cap
able of growing enough wheat to feed
the entire population of the country
and enough cotton to make clothes
for all, from east to west is as great
distance as from New York to
Chicago, from north to south is repre-