The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-12-09
What Others
Think Of L'Anse.
An Interesting Article Taken from the
Keweenaw Miner of Mohawk.

A visitor to L'Anse, the pretty little
town on the east side of Keweenaw
Bay now possesses not little interest
mainly for the reason that where there
was just suggestion of optimism al
ways in evidence, now there is more
than suggestion, everybody is opti-
mistic, seeing 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 securing of a
mill by the L'Anse Bay Lumber Co.
The company spoken of has large areas
of timber, which will keep the mill busy
for long term of years, and will give
employment not only to some rs men
at the mill, but two or three times that
number in the woods in the vicinity of
the village. The mill which the COM
pany has purchased was that formerly
used by large numbering concern at
Grand Marais, Mich, but which was
closed down when the railroad connect
ing that town and the outside world
was torn up. This is 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 Ma
rails, and the present owners seized the
opportunity of securing it. 1t has been
taken down and brought to L'Anse by
the steamer Winnipeg.
There is another reason for the
pleased feelings of the inhabitants of
the town, and that is the great inter-
est that is being awakened to the pos
sibilities of the farming lands in the vi
cinity of L'Anse. Great tracts of land
lie to the westward and south of
L'Anse which, when settled and clear
ed, will provide homes for more people
than there are now residing in the en-
tire county, as the soil is of the finest
in the whole Lake Superior region,
which is coming to be acknowledged 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 now some farms near
L'Anse and Skanee that in fruit lines
vie with the famed Bitter Root Valley
in Montana. and what those farms
have developed into show the immense
possibilities of the whole region east
and south of L'Anse. This region is
peculiarly well situated, as far as
transportation is concerned, as the Chi
go, Milwaukee & Puget Sound. the
Northwestern, and Duluth, South
Shore & Atlantic railroads furnish rail
facilities, while the fine harbor at
L'Anse provides water communication
with the outside world.
The markets at the door of L'Anse
are the large centers, such as Chicago
and other nearby cities, and also the
Copper Country, with its 100, 900 peo-
as well as the iron country with an ad-
ditional loo, 900 people. The two latter
districts will give market for all the
produce that can be raised for years in
the entire region tributary to Kewee-
nav Bay, but sometimes the market in
the larger cities spoken of is higher
than ever here in the copper country.
There are two inducements for set
tiers in Baraga county, which those Of
few other communities have and that
is that there are two fine educational
institution practically at the door of
L'Anse; one of them is the world
famed Michigan College of Mines at
Houghton, and the other is the North
ern Michigan Normal School at Mar
quette, both within an hours ride, and
which will prove of advantage to those
raising families on this favored spot.
There is still another reason for the
people of L'Anse feeling optimistic as
to their future, and that is, that the
shore front clear from L'Anse to Pc
quaming is an ideal place for the erec-
tion of summer cottages, and we ven-
ture the prediction that in few years
this will be fair rival of Mackinac Is
for the favor of summer residents.