The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-07-18
1.-THE BEAUTIES OF The
NORTH STAR STATE
Continued from First Page

new settlers which are scattered
throughout; and the operations of
the loggers and lumber companies
that while showing many millions of
feet OF logs cut each season, seem as
yet to have made but slight impress.
sion on the immense area of timber
left standing; yet in the aggregate
there are literally tens of thousands
OF acres of cut-over lands available
to the new settler. ~~~
There is sufficient pine timber in
this belt; to say nothing of the hard
wood, to keep many hundreds of
men employed in the logging camps
during the season,f for the next twenty
years, thus assuring to Bemidji it's
continuance as the chef market and
supply depot for this whole region.
With this practically unlimited
supply of raw material close at hand,
BemldJl should, and undoubtedly
will attract to itself, the attention of
manufacturers of all kinds of wood
work, both soft and hard. Its geo.
graphical position and present rail-
way facilities offer an assured means
of.reaching not only present ready
market, but in many instances a
large territory as yet undeveloped.
The farm lands of Beltrami and
Hubbard counties are as rule the
best in northern Minnesota. These
counties are not as yet settled very
extensively, but farmers are coming
in more and more as they learn of
the merits of the lands. State audi
tor S. G. Iverson, who is we'll posted
on the soil and conditions of farm
lands in northern Minnesota, while
in Bemidji recently addressed large
number of farmers.
1.-The pioneer recently published
this speech in full-ED: j..
The sentiments expressed by
State Auditor Iverson are justifable,
and the man who purchases lands
here, works as theoretically to i'm
prove and clear his land as he would
IN other locations will be rewarde d
with a farm of equal value to tn ose
now selling elsewhere at from forty
to sixty dollars. The presence of
stumps are no hindrance to immedi-
ate farming, as the clearing of land
is easily done. This country is
destined to become rich dairying,
sheep, hog and stock raising section
in a few years. Clearing of land is
not considered the difficult task it
was generation ago. In the past,
in older sections, hardwood timber
was cut and burned on the ground,
entailing loss of hundreds of dol
lars to field maker, and stumps
we're removed by the crude process
of mixing muscle,p ickaxe and mat
took.
Today practical farm-makers real
ize that agriculture does not need to
lag on account of the presence of
stumps, although they can be speed
lily removed with stump-pullers. To-
day there is good market for both
soft and hard woods, and the timber
can all be disposed of readily at
good prices. Once the timber is
removed, the stumps will practically
remove themselves if given about
four years to rot away. -
Grass seed scattered around the
stumps followed by cattle, sheep
and hogs, will hasten this decay, and
in a short time the land will be in
a condition to be cleared at very
little expense.
However, if the farmer is in
hurry for cleared field, he. will
find on every quarter section many
acres of meadow land and under
brush stumps which can be grubbed
at small expense. The land is worth
the cost of the clearing, even if
there be nothing but stumps to pay
the labor at the time. AS a rule,
even on Cut-over lands, the high |
prices paid for small and partly
decayed refuse timber will more
than pay the cost of clearing the
and. The lands in Beltrami and
counties a few years ago
we're we'll covered with saw timber,
out with the timber off there is
soil left that will produce the finest
md most delicious clover, timothy,
llsike and root crops produced any