The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-28

"Put" reports that Granite Falls
will have building boom this year.
Springfield Advance: On Monday
County Attorney Aug. e. Erickson
made trade with Frank Jaehn for
his fine residence property, the
former trading in his residence
near the Catholic parsonage. Mr..
Erickson will gain possession of the
Jaehn residence May LIST.
Ortonville Journal: A letter from
a former business man of this city,
who is now located in the state of
Washington would indicate that the
rosy pictures Of easily acquired
wealth in the coast state is, to say
the least, slightly overdrawn. He
says, IF any one tells you that
Washington is better than Minneso-
ia in any respect. don't you believe
him. not even if he is a preacher
under oath, It's back to Minneso-
ia for mine"
Two boys had a rug out on the
lawn beating the dust out of 1T. A
gentleman passing told them they
had the rug wrong side up, to turn
it over. They did so. Soon another
gentleman passing by asked why
they did not hang it on the clothes
line. They did so. Shortly after
another gentleman passed and told
them they would break the clothes
line and advised hanging the rug on
the fence, They did so. Pretty soon
a lady passed land told them they
should scatter some straw on the
ground and then spread the rug out
upon it and beat it as the dust would
settle down through the straw. They
did so. All of which goes to show
that there are many ways to beat a
rug but no way to beat the average
man or woman out of the privilege
of butting into something that does
not concern them. There is moral
hidden in this item.-Ex.
LIE Sueur News: The man who
will claim that there is nothing to
the proposition of the Minnesota
river floods being caused by ditch
ing must admit this spring that he
is growing uncertain himself. There
is or should be no question to this
claim. We notice that the legisla-
ture went on a junket to the iron
ore country in northern Minnesota.
1t is too bad to let the session close
without having the house and the
senate make a trip through the
valley so as to see the waters over
the land and to know from actual
observation how much land is de-
stroyed annually for crop purposes.
A survey is a good thing, maps are
necessary, but a trip into the flood
ed country would be best. The lands
are valueless and yet they are taxed
Until legislation made the valley a
dumping spot for the waters of the
state it was the garden spot of Min
nesota. Now it is worthless for
crop growing.
The saving of the old groves into
lumber this winter constrains US to
advise the farmers to plant five
acres of cottonwood trees on each
quarter-section of their farm.
Around town these trees are con-
demned on account of the cotton
flying in the summer, but when it
comes to saving timber it is the
fastest growth and makes the best
and most lumber of anything we
can grow here. Five acres with
good care and proper thinning out
will furnish a family with all the
summer wood they want after the
first five years, and cut 10000 feet
of lumber to the acre as a conserva-
tive at the end of 20 years. Not
one grove in a thousand is properly
thinned out. At the end of twenty
years the trees should stand at least
twenty feet apart each way. Trees
thirty years old have produced 1000
feet of lumber in Iowa the past year
but 400 to 600 feet is a good show