Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-12-02

out complying with the homestead
,, law, but simply paying the price due
to the Indians.
This is the only instance in the
United States where a man can get a
tax title against the government. Un-
Gle Sam has done this to encourage
the reclamation of these rich lands.
only small part of the land was dry
enough for farming, and these wet
lands remaining untaken and untax-
able, blocked the way for drainage re-.
clamation, so it was decided in effect,
to grant all the equity the United
States had in these lands, lover and
above amount due the Indians), to;
the purpose of drainage, and therby
secure the occupation and develop
1nent of the lands hitherto vacant and
waste, On the White Earth reserva.
ton containing SO townships, there is
still another class of lands that can
be had at a low rate. The mixed
bloods who constitute several thous-
and individuals, were granted the
power by recent act of Congress to
dispose Of their lands, and these al
lotments, most of them in 80 acre
tracts, are for sale at very low prices,
when compared with lands in the i'm,
mediate vicinity. The State also has
large tracts for sale in this region OH
easy terms and low prices. ~
There is no place in the United
States where greater opportunities ara
offered to farmers and homeseekers
than right here in northern Minneso-
ia, situated epui-distant between the
oceans, with several great trans-con-4
tinental lines traversing it from end
to end, and access to the cheap water
route to the eastern sea board by way
of the Great Lakes and the 500 Canal
it has commanding position, and
farms and farm lands here will uns
doubtedly rapidly increase in vafue
Minnesota has a school fund of twen
ty million which, when all unsold min.
eral and other lands are disposed OF
will eventually amount to hundred
! million; it has state institutions of the
most elaborate and modern type; it's
public buildings, costing many mil
lions are the pride of it's citizens; it
has one of the best systems of laws
for the regulation Of railroads and
the whole country, in fact, the farm
and an elective commission run the
! railroads and do it so we'll that they
all pay big returns on the capital in
vested The State thru its agricultural
college and agricultural schools and
| experiment stations, it's Dairy and
Food Commission, Farmers Institutes,
and aid to Agricultural societies and
several other state agencies, is contin.
ually aiding and encouraging agricult-
ure. 1t maintains the most perfect
and complete system of grain inspec-
tion and weighing service, and all
grain elevators are strictly regulated,
both elevator and transportation
charges being fixed by public author
ity, in short the whole state govern
ment is organized and carried on with
the special aim and object to en-
courage, aid and foster the industry
of agriculture, with the result that we
are fast forging to the front, not OH
ly in dairying, stockraising and the
productions of small grain, but of
corn, of which last year, we produc-
ed fifty-eight million bushels OF the
highest quality.
| That this state policy is having a
good effect, is shown by our winning
the chief prizes for butter and cheese
and ranking first in yield per acre of
wheat and fourth in weld per acre Of
corn, as shown by the reports of the
United States Department of Agricult-
ure. Why the people of the United
States who are DESTROYS of engaging
in profitable farming, or who desire
homes upon the public domain, still
undisposed of, should pass by the
great State OF Minnesota to the wilds
of Canada, or even to the undeyelop.
\ ed arid regions within our own bOr.