Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-09-20
Iowa Newspaper Man Gives
His Opinion After q
Visit Here

{ his paper have read tho sdveItlse-
ment, Of Geo. q. Powers. The Little
Falls land man, which have appeared
IN these columns from time To- time.
ooys the Wheatland. Ia, Gazette.
Among those who have read them.
a.esmauy who are interested in the
prospects of the country surrounding
that hustlipg, prosperous and 9rapidly
growing CITY Of Little Falls. MINI.
ft 10 now / city of from 600 to 5000
populstion: has II church q, g large
department stores. fine, Streets. water
works, i,electric light plant, and In
fact every improvement found in any
arst class city of many times ito size.
The Mississippi river has been broken
to harness and put to work turning
the wheels of Industry for the
mapufscture The -four mills, paper
mill, saw mill, electric light and
poWer plant and Numerous smaller
concerns now being operated, use but
4 small portion Of the enormous
mower available, consequently manu-.
featuring interests are being attracted
"a fast % the surrounding country
devel ,pes and creates q demard for
them.
The writer recently made trip to
this Minnesota city to- VISIT Mr..
Powers. who is life long friend of
ours, aad who has been preaching the
ADVANTAGES of Morrison county,
MINES ia, to as for several years
Personally we dislike cold weather.
and long winters, so his talk about
the conditions north had little attrac'
ton have q desire to visit him. To
make the story brief; We found our.
elves at Little Falls early one morn
ing lately, soon located Powers, and
onlv a short time later was riding
trough the country with him, view
ing dne crops Of Iowa products on
every side Corn, wheat, oats. rye,
barley, timothy and clover fields.
with the corn in such q stage OF
maturity as to insure gocdly crop,
numerous and .portly stacks OF grain
ready for the visit of the thresbing
machine. stack after stack OF the
finest clover and timothy hay to be
found anywhere and the second crops
Of clover we'll along toward'time for 9
second cutting. Sleek cattle and
horses: plump hogs and sheep. oil
testifying to the resources and produc-
tiveness of the soil, as we'll as the
push and enlS&prise of the people:
Morrison county is admirably adapted
to diversified farming principally
because Of it's productive soil and it's
abundant supply of good water. Old
iuh bitants assured as that there had
never been y allure of crops 1t is a
mixed timber and prairie comfy the
soil varies from q dark loan to Q
sandy clay loan with clay subsoll,
and produces wonderful crops of
potatoes, onions, sugar beets. small
fruits and all kinds Of garden veg
tables, as we'll as the field crops before
mentioned. The country is fast
developing into dairy country-near.
= every farmer milking from 8 to 20
cows. from Which he realizes sure
cash income each monthly pay day.
Such q country aud such people
have built such a city az Little Falls.
and still the country has only jost
begun to develop. =.
e., Il is only q comparatively short
time before every acre will be titled,
and as valuable to owners Is Clinton
county land is today. At present the
opportunities for getting possession Of
farm In Morrison county are
plentiful :, but if you have any inten.
ton of purchasing . farm Of your
own, don't wait until 1.-The other
fellows get there first. Go look at
the cluntry and 20 at a time when
YOU can see the crops for yourself
and then you won't feel that the land
man is "stringing' you with his
stories of what they raise. Go now
while prices ara right. Go while the
big land syndicates are pushing, pull
ing, hauling, driving and rushing
homeseekers past such oportunities as
Minnesota offers. and on the bare
prairies of the far west. where they
must take chances, with droug hts,
the green bug and the humbug -"