The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-13
R. c. Haynor Tells Why More Set
tiers Fail to Come to Northern
Minnesota.
STORY IN DULUTH HERALD
Saws. Let the World Knew What this
Section of The State Can
Produce.

In recent issue of the Duluth
Evening Herald that paper produces
a communication from R. c. Hayner,
of the city, formerly county auditor
of Beltrami county, which is as fol-
lows:
Why don't more settlers come to
Northern Minnesota?
perhaps you have asked yourself
the same question many times and
nothing but the echo answered
"why?'
Now looking at it in a logical
manner we will have to admit that
there is some reason for the lack of
settlers. 1t surely is not from the
fact that the soil. in Northern Min
nesota, is not productive, because we
can produce as much per acre here
as they can any place on the face Of
the globe. 1t is not because we are
to far north as we have watched the
trains carry hundreds, yes thousands
of settlers right through our state
and land them in Canada.
Il can imagine that l hear you say:
For heavens sake, Hayner, cut it
Well l won't prolong your agony but
III let you into the secret. You are
to blame.
You. the man with a lot of real
estate to sell. you don't advertise.
What! Oh yes I read what you
had in the paper. You said that you
controlled over 100000 acres of land
and that it could be bought for SIS
per acre and that you would take any
old thing down and give all the time
a man wanted on the balance, etc.
Now actually, do you call that ad-
vertising?
Have you ever in your widest mo-
ments. conceived the idea that set
tier would want to start in here to
farm 100000 acres of cut-over land?
But hear you say, Great Scott, that
amount of land looks big and should
be very impressive and anyhow didn't
| tell how cheap it could be bought
and what excellent terms I would
give?'
Sure you did and when you said
how cheap it could be bought the
man looking for a home passed you
up. He just looked at your ad and
said to his wife: Mary we don't
want to go there; the whole gosh
darned country is for sale and they
will be trying to give their blamed
land away in a month or two
mo, you real estate men of North,
ern Minnesota, you haven't the right
idea. What you want to do is tC
create a demand. Then talk prices
Il would have been proud of you il
| could have read and ad. something
like this:
For sale a tract of land that can
be improved so that it will produce
500 to 1000 bushels of onions pei
acre and those onions would bring
over a 81 per bushel on the market
today. or if you don't want to raise
onions raise celery. This land is thu
same kind of soil that is producing
today. $1,000 worth of celery to thu
acre right here in this country, AM
then on this tract you might rais'
some potatoes; they are yielding a
much as 465 bushels per acre. Or,
you don't want to try intensified
farming, timothy hay will yield abou
three tons per acre or alfalfa five tons
per acre, or $40 to $50 worth O
clover seed per acre, according tt
state reports, in addition to abou
$40 worth of clover hay per acre
each year, or the land will produce
wonderful crops of all kinds OF cerals
or you might start dairy farm. Viii
liam F. Hays, assistant secretary o
agriculture, says that Northern Min
nesota is destined to be the creates
dairying country in the world