The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-11-27
fine BOOKLET ON
UPPER PENINSULA
COMPREHENSIVE WORK ON AGRI-
CULTURAL ADVANTAGES OF
DISTRICT ISSUED BY
DEV. BUREAU.

A comprehensive booklet of the up
per peninsula, containing a wealth of
Information concerning this district,
photographs of farm life, crops and
livestock, letters from Secretary of
Agriculture James Wilson and other
officials of that department, also a soil
map, indicating the quality of the soil
in different regions, mas just peen is
sued by the Upper Peninsula Develop
ment Bureau. 1t is attractively gotten
up, and is largely the work of Theo-
dore t. Quinby, general manager of
the association. The cover design is
particularly striking, it representing
the upper peninsula as a cornucopia,
the horn of plenty" Nature having
fashioned this northern portion of
Michigan in that form. The cover de-
sign calls attention to the fact that
there are seven million fertile acres in
the U. Il.
The upper peninsula comprises a
large territory. There are in all 49,
100000 acres of land up here, enough
ands! 1t has one thousand miles of
coast, its shores being laved by the
waters of Lakes Superior, Huron and
Michigan and many Of the greatest
natural harbors i'm the land are to be
found along its water front The pop
ulation is about $4,000.
Concerning the upper peninsula, its
advantages ana possibilities i'm an agri-
cultural way, the booklet has the fol-
lowing:
Less than seventy-five years ago the
upper peninsula became a part of the
state of Michigan. At that time it was
considered comparatively worthless
territory. 1t was thought that its geo
graphical position would make it UNI
favorable to agriculture because OF
short seasons and cold climate. The
man that would have predicted the de-
velopment that has followed since the
opening of such eXhaustless wealth in
mines, farms, factories and commerce
the existence of many hourishing
villages, towns and cities-would have
been called a dreamer.
The natural resources of the upper
peninsula are SO abundant, particularly
i'm her supply of copper iron ore and
lumber, that the business of farming
has been neglected, and the farmer in
the upper peninsula has not received
the justice due him i'm the Industrial
classification. Nevertheless the natur-
AL advantages that present themselves
to the farmer everywhere are many.
and his influx to the lands of the upper
peninsula is steadily growing larger
and larger from year To year.
There is also an idea held by some
persons that the upper peninsula of
Michigan is located near a region of
snow and ice and perpetual cold, where
the natural forces i'm the soil are dor
.mant during the greater portion of the
year, and where the soil is cold. mn
fertile and unfit for cultivation. There
is also the erroneous impression that
the seasons are too short for the proper
maturing of crops and that the climate
Is Objectionable; that markets and
traffic and all forms of transportation
are as yet undeveloped and that civil
izaton is just beginning to take root.
These ideas concerning the upper
peninsula are of course ridiculous. The
natural. as well as artificial, condi-
lions of the upper peninsula are no diff
ferent than they are i'm other sections
of our country similarly located. The
climatic conditions are the same as
those of the northern portion of New
York, the northern one-half of Wiscon-
sin, central Minnesota. the northern
line of South Dakota and of Oregon,
and 600 miles south of the Canadian
wheat belt. Look at the marked pro-
gress that these sections of the adjoin-
ing states are making. Note the yield
and the abundant crops that they are
harvesting; the fine live stock that
they are raising and observe the rapid
rise i'm the values of their farms. What