The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-12-02
U. P. The Big
Attraction.
Prominence Being Gained by Thii
Section at Chicago Land Show.

Chicago, the upper peninsula of Michi.
gan is being advertised throughout the
country as never before. The Chicago
papers are giving great prominence in
their news columns to the land show
exhibits, and Sundays Tribune of that
city, contained a two-column article
setting forth the agricultural advant-
ages of the fifteen counties of Michi-
gan north of the straits. Some of the
most interesting parts of the article are
quoted below:
''The upper peninsula of Michigan
comprises territory thirteen times as
large in area as the state of Rhode Is
land. It has 10, 425, 900 acres of land,
1000 miles of coast, and its present
population is about $50, 900. Professor
Rr C. Allen, state geologist of Michi-
gan, has written a detailed article on
the matter of soils as a result of the
work of himself and his staff in the up
per peninsula of Michigan, which occu-
pied several weeks.
He says that there are more than T.
600, 600 acres of fertile land in the up
per peninsula admirably adapted to
farming. He has eliminated more
than 5000, 900 acres as undesirable for
farming. A large part of this is min
eral land. Mr.. Allen says: TO sum
up the condition of the northern penin-
sula it may be stated that go per cent.
to 65 per cent. may easily be turned
into productive farm lands
''The rainfall of the northern penin-
sula averages about "a inches, and
there are few places in which it falls
below 81 inches. A large part of 18 to
inches, comes in the growing season,
80 there is little or no deficiency of
moisture for watering crops. The time
of the latest frosts in spring and of the
earliest of the fall is perhaps the most
important , condition shown by the
weather bureau report.
''The northern peninsula stations To-
Gated on the shores of the lake have
generally a more constant condition of
frendom from summer frosts than
those of the interior. Indeed, they are
free from frosts for nearly as long a
period as most of the stations in the
southern peninsula.
''In the annual report for 1906 of the
northern peninsula experiment station
at Chatham, it is stated that no dam
age could be observed from early sum-
mer frosts, not even on corn and buck
wheat, which at that time were sever
al inches high. The real season be-
tween killing frosts for that station in
1906 extended from May 20 to October
II, or period Of 144 days.
I'm some cases it is known that
these summer frosts are sufficiently Sc
we're to injure tender vines. such as Gu
cumbers and melons, without affecting
the grains and vegetables, which form
the main crops of the region. In gen.
eral. it may be stated that there are
six months Of the growing season
throughout the peninsula, from May to
October, inclusive.
"The natural as we'll as the artificial
conditions of the upper peninsula Of
Michigan are therefore no different
than they are in other sections of our
country similarly located. The climat-
ic conditions are the same as those of
the northern half Of Wisconsin, central
Minnesota. the northern line of South
Dakota, and of Oregon, and the 600
miles Of country south of the Canadian
wheat belt. The marked progress that
these sections of the adjoining states
are making, the yield, and the abund-
ance of the crops that they are harvest
ing, the fine livestock that they are
raising, and the increase in values in
farm lands will undoubtedly be dupli-
Gated in the near future in the upper
peninsula of Michigan.
Because of the quantity of land in
the upper peninsula not under cultiva-
ton the farmer and investor can buy
lands at q reasonable price. There new
er was q time in the history of the
covntry when the sentiment in favor Of
the development Of farm lands was
greater than it il today.
According to the last census, with
. population of 825, 62S inhabitants and
onlp $4,000 farms, only about one
twelfth Of the total number Of eighty
acre farms that It II possible to have
are under cultivation In upper Michi-
gan. The peninsula contains over TO-
900, 900 acres, and over two-thirds of
these acres can b turned into good
faE lands.
3S6ipe Of the best land IN this sectisn
y what b known a cut over land or
land from which the timber he's been
severed, cclloquially known - stump
land The cost Of clearing this isnd