The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-07-10
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1907.

worth not more than S4 per acre.
In fact, they are worthless until
drained. When the states work will
have been completed, according to
the plans of the engineer, they will
jump in value to $50 per acre. Of
the vast tract 155, 900 acres are owned
by the state. The drainage will not
cost the state over Is cents per
acre, and the value Of the drainage
proposition to the state become ap-
parent at once. The soil seems to
be from two to three feet of the
richest black loan imaginable, and
the unanimous opinion of the COM
mission was that when the work is
completed the state will have been
an immense gamer and the settlers
that will take up their homesteads
on the so-called swamp-lands of
Roseau county will grow the great
est crops of any place in the world.
1t will require another year or
two to carry out Mr.. Ralph's plan,
and until it is completed these lands
will not be placed upon the market.
When the sale occurs the commits
sion looks for wonderful stampede
into Roseau county for the securing
of acreage in this vast tract.
1t was after ten o'clock that night
that we returned to Badger and
were again guests at a rafting good
hotel, and the next morning we
drove down to Greenbush. the near
est railroad point. Mr.. Hill has the
grade ready for the iron as far north
as Warroad, but for some unexplain-
able reason he has failed to iron
the grade. He is delaying the set
Element of a rich country by his
refusal, and he is retarding the
growth of live towns like Badger
and Roseau. 1t is to be hoped that
he will complete the work this year.
Greenbush is hustling town, with
fine eating places, and we babe
adieu to it and its hostelries with re-
greet that afternoon, only to land
in hustling and bustling Crookston,
the queen city of northwestern Min
nesota, at $50 that evening, where
the commission was taken in charge
of by the citizens Of that town and
continued as guests until 10 o'clock
that evening.
Crookston has a Is, 900 club, whose
purpose is to boom the population
to $4,000 inside of three years. In
an address before the people of
Grookston sassembled around the
band stand that evening, the writer
predicted that with the northern
swamp and other lands thrown open
to settlement, including the extern
sion of the Great Northern railroad
thru to Warroad, the $4,000 club
attain its object. 1t is great bunch
of people at Crookston, and you
must go there to appreciate the
hustling qualities Of each and every
one. Daniel Clark and wife are
among the boomers. They will both
be remembered as Redwood Falls
people, the latter as Mrs. Kemmer-
err, and the daughter Of the latter
has grown into beautiful maiden
hood under the northern breezes.
Dan is making big go in the hard
ware business.
The only draw back in the ex-
IRENE north is what is known as
the deerfy. These are huge horse
flies. The writer can we'll remem-
Der seeing them in this section in
the early seventies. and they have
disappeared with settlement. They
will disappear from the north with
the settlement and drainage of that
country. At present they are the
pests of horses and cattle, as they
were here years ago.
Another early day reminder was
the ox-team. We had them in Red
wood Falls in the '7Os and early sos
They have them up there. They
have disappeared from here gone
north. They will disappear from
there going still further north
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