The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-06-03

its leases, and reasonable per cent
of any other minerals that may be
found. Whoever finds iron. coal OF
other minerals upon his land can
not steal them out of the state, and
if he developes his mine he must pay
taxes, he must employ labor and
it will have to pay taxes.
Third. Amend the Constitution
so that some of those lands will be
on sale at the respective county
seats every day in the year, and not
as it is now, one day in the year.
The people of but small portion of
the county hear of these annual
sales, and even should they so hear,
it is oft times impossible for intend
ing purchasers to be present on that
particular day.
Fourth. Amend the Constitution
and enact a state homestead law
similar to that of Michigan, or with
the state royalty incorporated, which
l have noted in Remedy No. /.
That the commissioner of the land
Office is hereby required to issue a
certificate of purchase to every SET
tier or occupant of the swamp lands
belonging to this state, in proper
legal subdivision for eighty acres of
said land whenever it shall be
made to appear to said commissioner
that such a settler or occupant has
actually resided upon said eighty
acres of land for a period of five con-
tinuous years, and that he has also
drained the same so as to comply
with the provisions of the act of
congress approved September 20
1850, by which said lands were con.
veyed to this state.
" Section 2. Before any such
settler or occupant shall require
the right to occupy or drain any Of
the swamp lands pursuant to the
preceding section, he shall file
with said commissioner his ap-
plicatlon under oath. for priv.
lege OF entering upon said land,
specifying the same for the pur-
pose mentioned above, and upon
payment of the fee of two dollars,
which said fee shall be paid into
the state treasury by the said COM
missioner and credited to the gen.
eral fund, shall obtain from the
Commissioner a license to enter
upon and occupy and drain said
lands for the purpose of obtaining
title thereto, and the state treas
urer, upon the certificate OF the
commissioner of said land Office,
and of the auditor general, shall re-
fund the sum of two dollars to
each settler having paid said fee
who shall receive a patent from
the said commissioner for the land
so licensed.
Fifth. Provide for the assess
ment of state lands, for drainage,
roads and schools on the same
basis as private lands are assessed.
"No part of the magnificent
school fund we hear so much about
reaches these struggling settlers
until they have provided for four
months term of school, which
means that they must tax them
selves to build a school house and
pay teachers wages, and
where there are but few settlers in
a township the result can be easily
imagined"
Excellent advice on dairying was
given and the prediction made
that Northern Minnesota will be-
come agreat dairying region by
Bernard Boeggild professor in the
Royal Danish School of Agriculture
at Copenhagen, in his address on
"Co.operation for Northern Mime.
sofa" yesterday afternoon. The
substance. of his address follows:
Cooperation in Denmark has
resulted in wonderful increase in
productiveness of each COW, and the
product has been marketed at a
very low cost Through cooper
alive methods the producer gets
more for his product than he formerly
did, and the consumer gets it 70,
less, because of the saving in handl
ing. All milk goes to the creameries
and is handled through them. Prac
tically all the milk is pastuerized.
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