The Calumet news., 1911-12-07
VILLAGE OF L 'ANSE
HAS GOOD FUTURE
WAVE or OPTIMISM COMES WITH
NEW INDUSTRIES AND pos
SlBlLITIES FOR
FARMING.

A visitor 10 LAnse, the pretty little
town on the east side of Keweenaw
Bay, now possesses not little inter-
est for the visitor mainly for the rea-
son. that where there was just a sug-
gestion of optimism always in evidence,
now there is more than a suggestion.
everybody Is optomistic seeing a new
future for the town.
one OF the first reasons given for
the faith that the inhabitants of the
town hold in its future is the begin
ming of operations on the sawmill OF
the LAnse Bay Lumber company,
ground for the foundations of the build
ings being broken last week. The
company has large areas of timber in
Baraga county, which will keep the
mill busy for a long term OF years,
and will give employment not only
20 some 20 men at the mills, but two
or three times that number in the
woods in the vicinity of the village.
The mill which the company has pur-
chased was that formerly used by a
large numbering concern at Grand
Marais. but which was closed down
when the railroad connecting the town
with the outside world was torn up.
This is a modern and up to date mill
built recently. and was built for service
FOR the next forty or fifty years, but
with the railroad taken away, it was
Of no use at Grand Marais, and the
present owners seized the opportunity
of securing it. It was taken down and
was brought to L'Anse by the steamer
Winnipeg.
Some Fine Farm Lands.
There is another reason for ..he
pleased feelings OF the inhabitants Of
the town. and that is the great in
terest that is being awkened 10 the
possibilities OF the farming lands in
the vicinity Of LAnse Great tracts
Of land lie to the eastward and south
Of L'Anse which when settled and
cleared will provide homes for more
people than there are now residing in
the entire county as the soil is the
finest in the whole Lake Superior reg
ion, which is coming to be acknow-
ledged as the garden spot for hardy
fruits and vegetables. being about the
same as which has made Ontonagon
famous for its products OF the soil
There are some farmers near L'Anse
and Skanee that I'm fruit lines vie with
the famed Bitter Root valley in Mon
tana, and what those farms have de-
veloped into, show the possibilities Of
the whole region east and south Of
L'Anse. This region is particularly
well situated, as far as transportation
is concerned, as the Chicago. Milwau-
kee& 81. Paul and Northwestern. with
the Duluth. South shore & Atlantic
railroads furnish all facilities, while
the fine harbor at L'Anse provides wa
ter communication with the outside
world.
Markets Near at Hand.
The markets at the door OF LAnse
are the large centers. such as Chicago
and other nearby cities, and also the
copper country with its 100, ,O00 people.
and the iron counties with an addition
al 100000 people. The two latter dis
tricts will give a market for all the
produce that can be raised for years
in the entire region tributary 10 Ke-
weenaw Bay but sometimes the mark
cts in the larger cities spoken Of is
higher than even in the copper coun-
try.
There arc two inducements for set
tiers in Baraga county, which those OF
few other communities have and that
is that there are two fine educauonal
institutions, practically az the door
Of LAnsc, one Of them is the world
famed Michigan College % Mines at
and the other is the North
ern Michigan Normal school al Mar
quette. both within an hours ride. and