The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-06-03
LOCAL STATE LAND SALES
ATTRACTING ATTENTION
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there is little left for the man who
does the work beyond good liv-
ing. 1t is only the exceptional
renter who will ever save sufficient
money to buy a farm in that locality,
as the cost is almost prohibitive,
and he may be lifetime in paying
for the land unless he has capital
to start with. His only chance is
to buy cheap lands where values are
likely to increase. Does it not seem
reasonable that the renter would
be far better off on some of our cheap
Minnesota lands, where his annual
payments, which would amount to
about the same as rental paid
in other states, for two or three
years would give full ownership.
Thousands of renters have solved
their life's problem IN this way to
to their entire satisfaction, for it is
one wav to get farm by starting
with small amount of capital and
by their actual work in developing
the land bring it up in point of
value to the high-priced land in
other sections where they would not
have been able to buy. Their labor
has been capitalized.
"Then there is the farmers son
who ought to have the same
chance which his father had in
years gone by. The young man,
unless he succeeds to the owner
ship OF the old farm, finds it
difficult to get a start in an old
settled community, and unless his
father can start him on farm of
his own he either has to seek en-
ployment in the city or start life
as hired man. The farmers son,
too, ought to have the same
chance as his father had before
him. and there are many farmers
who could give their sons this
chance to work out farm Of their
own in Northern Minnesota. The
initial cost would be small and
there is no better place in the
country where it would be possible
to give them this start. The
young man of today who wants a
farm OF his own should be given
this chance to grow up with the
newer sections of the country
where increasing land values will
give him as great an opportunity
as his father had before him.
Then there is the wage Garner
who is not making material progress.
Faced by a constantly increasing
cost of living which is not compen-
stated by increase of wages in the
same ratio, the city wage Garner is
not as enthusia site over our so-called
prosperity as would naturally be sup
posed. The man with large family
is especially hard pressed. There
are thousand of city wage earners
to-day, many who were raised on
the farm, who realized that their
great opportunity would be a piece
of cheap land. Many such city
wage earners have already taken up
farms in Northen Minnesota, and
their progress indicates that when
they do take up this land they not
only begin to make progress in
amassing a heritage, but are also
able to live more comfortably and
more independently than they ever
could in the city. Minnesota's
cheap lands open to the wage Garner
asplendid opportunity.
The land seeker may be dubious
as to the advisability of settling in
the timbered sections. The prairie
soil with the alluring prospect of an
immediate crop may seem to be the
wiser selection. With Out. in any way
disparaging the opportunities that
exist in the prairie sections, we
would call attention to few advan-
tages found in timbered section
that are not found in prairie Sec
ton. In the first place there is the
cost of improvement. On the prairie
farm expensive lumber has to be
purchased for putting up any build.
ings. Fence posts even have to be
brought from distance at a high
price. The question of fuel is
another expensive item. Then on
cheap prairie lands there are often
found disadvantages as to soil, water
and transportation. 1t is the high
priced prairie lands which to-day
justify the many assertions made
their favor. On the other hand