The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-03-25
DRAINAGE CONVENTION
HELD At GRAND RAPIDS
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be easily and perfectly reclaimed
and had it been, there should be
not square foot of it's surface
for sale today. It would have
made room for a batch of i'm mi
grants.
Then there is T. 1873 N. r. %
W.-next east of Margie-of the
same character as to surface,
surface slope, subsoil and need
of thorough drainage. Of its
$4,000 acres only few hundred
are taken up and occupied. Some
of it before government subdi-
vision, by pioneers settled on low
knobs such as usually protrude
like islands through the great
marshes of that region. All of
this can be easily and thoroughly
reclaimed and provide $1,000 or
$4,000 acres for another batch of
immigrants.
Then there is T. 1873 N. K. 81
W.-next west of Margie-of the
same character in all respects as
that of the vacant $1,000 acres of
It. 1913 N. R. NV. There is not a
human being located within it's
boundaries, and it presents
$4,000 acres for another batch of
immigrants.
Then there is T. 154 N. r. rs
W.-neXt northeast from Margie
on the northern border of
which the townsite of Big Falls,
with AUDITING settlements and a
waterfall is located.
Long since, settlers were at
tracted thither on account of the
facilities presented by the higher
ground of the natural levee on
the Big Fork river. The levee
on an average reaches somewhat
beyond the south line of the
northern tier of sections, where
it runs under the moss of the
swamp. The levee with the lobes
which protrude from the fringe
into the swamp may cover $500
acres of that taken up; and the
slope of the Margie mordine may
cover 1900 acres of higher
ground-a little of which is taken
up-so, at least, $1,000 acres
crossing, northwesterly, the
central portion Of this township
is swamp; but of the general
character given in the foregoing
description, only it can be, yet,
more easily reclaimed. This
reclamation would afford field
for another batch of i'm migrants.
There is no doubt whatever
respecting the fertility of the
soil. All that enumerated, and
part of that over which we have
swung, from such patches as
have been cultivated by old time
settlers and quarters, made a
public showing of grains, gras.
ses, roots, tubers, seeds and sc
forth to excursionists who went
through Beltrami and Itasca,
from the twin cities and south
ern parts of our state, and it was
the unanimous verdict of the
examiners-that the exhibits il
size, form and quality could moi
be excelled.
The exhibit worked up the in
clinatlons of visitors so much
that If drainage canals had beer
in operation over the 137,OO(
acres have referred TO, the 85f
quarter sections could have beer
disposed of on short notice.
There can be no waste in north
ern Minnesota. 1t is the HON,
of the Evergreen and on those
areas where from the stony de
bris scattered by the drift of tht
past, the roots of the grain
grasses and horticultural stuf
cannot pierce, the root of tn,
evergreen will be in it's glory ane
send up support and sap fol
noble trunks.
There IS no region in the worlt
more endowed by nature will
wonderful and needful oppor
tunities than northern Mime
sofa from Crookston on the west t.
Duluth on the east; from Little
Falls of Morrison county on tht
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