Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-10-18
Wl|LLMAR IN
BELTRAMI co.
A Big Colonization Company Is
Being Organized 70 Develop
Lands at NebiSh.

Lands at NeblSh.
The colonization, settlement and
development of a very desirable
farming section of Beltrami county
has been determined upon by num-
ber Of interested Willmar people who
are organizing a syndicate to be
known as the Willmar & Nebish COL
onization Company and who have
just purchased from the Crookston
Lumber Co., $500 acres Of land,
thru which runs the Minneapolis
Red Lake and Manitoba railway
(known as the "Red Lake" line) with
the village of Nebish as a center Of
the colonization tract that will be de-
veloped, Nebish being about Is miles
north Of Bemidji. ,>7 T..
The deal involved the raising of
more than $4,000, but Mr.. G. A.
Erickson, who has charge Of the pre-
liminary arrangements here, said to-
day that everything has been signed
for already except few hundred
dollars. People hunted him up and
asked to be given a chance to sub
scribe. A committee of local men
have been up and looked the land ov-
er. The company will own every foot
Of land in the townsite except the
R. R. right f-way, no one as yet
having secured title to the ground on
which the buildings stand. All the
lands Of the company are within two
miles Of the railroad station.
Many parties have been negotiating
with the lumber company for the pur-
chase Of these tracts, but the company
preferred to sell the property to people
who would bring in farmers who would
concentrate their efforts on making
prosperous farming communities and
good trading center and busy business
point at Nebish. This plan will be fol-
lowed in disposing of the lands, and the
start and own q small farm on
which, by Intelligent effort, he can
earn comfortable living, will be given
every encouragement sY.l-s y -. !.
These $500 Of clover, potato, onion
and celery lands consist Of the east
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33-34-35, all in Township $50, a solid
tract Of clay soil, every acre n,tillable;
covered with network of old railroad
grades formerly used in hauling out
the magnificent body Of white pine,
which was removed from the tracts a.
bout ten years ago.
These level railroad grades (from
which the ties and steel was removed),
built on a clay soil and ballasted with
gravel from the Nebish pits, furnish
fine wagon roads to all parts of the
colonization tracts and can be used until
the quarter-section and section line
roads are constructed.
the southwest part, around Nebish,
Bass, Symth and Round lakes, Is COW
erd with a fair growth of hardwood
timber.
The northeast part of the tract, 5000
acres, lies level or gently rolling, and
is easily cleared for potato, clover, corn
and truck farm culture.
One thousand acres, in the north west
corner, lying along the RED Lake" rail-
road and the Puposky river, is partly
rolling and well adapted for stock
farms and potato tracts. On this 5000
acres are several good mineral springs,
with meadows. The railroad enters the
tract at the northwest corner of Section
21, extending southeast throught Sec
tions 21-22-27-s4-35, with two large
spurs, one on Section 21 and the other
toes in car lots can be loaded on these
The townsite and village of Nebtsh
are located on the swA of Sec. 81, on
the north shore Of beautiful Lake Ne
bish Nebish has direct long-distance
telephone connection with the outside
world, as we'll as a separate line ex-
tending through the village from Ke1l-
iher to Fowlds. ".- ~
At Nebish there is a we'll stocked gen.
eral store, shingle mill running at full
capacity, depot, small hotel, ten resi-
Idences, school house, wholesale cedar
yard, and other accessories for good
business center. f.. .4s@ -p-..,-
| There Is splendid turnpike through
the western country to Island Lake.
In the center Of Section IS is located
Whitefish Junction, where there is a
branch railroad to Whitefish lake. At
this junction trains stop for both
freight and passengers. Page & Hills
wholesale cedar yard, is at Whitefish
Junction. -.-' s'-f
The Hay Creek school house, a dis
tinctly modern educational structure, is
located at the quarter line between Sec
tiOns rs and 26. - 5. =
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