The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-06
Former State Official Shows
Great Growth of Indust-
ries in Badger State.
STUMP LANDS ARE VALUABLE
Cost of Clearing Stump Land Is Small
Compared With Value of Land to
Men Who Are Seeking Homes Big,
Crops Raised on Wisconsin Farms.
(By A. D. Campbell.)

by A. D. Campbell.)
Former Commissioner of immigration
Now statistician, Wisconsin
Advancement Association.
If there is any one characteristic il
the Upper Wisconsin counties that
stands out more prominently than any
other from the home-maker 5 stand
point it is the fact that the industri-
GUS man cannot fail there. There are
no crop failures. There are large
crops and moderate crops, but there
are no failures. Anyone doubling this
statement is invited to examine the
records that will be found in the
United States year book, and if he
Will compare the regularity Of the
crops of Wisconsin with those Of other
states as far back as the tables go,
he will be impressed with the uni
formly good crops of the Badger state.
And in this connection it may fairly
be stated that the crops of the upper
counties are even more uniform than
those of other parts of the state.
There has been common miscon-
ception as to the nature of the soils
of the upper counties. In general it
may be said that about SO per cent
Of the area of the upper counties are
clay loans and silt loans, about %
per cent heavy sandy loans and the
balance lighter Loans, small portion
being light sandy loans, which are not
considered from an agricultural stand
point. These lands as regards soils
are well distributed over the upper
portion of the state.
Corn and Tobacco Crops.
In many Of the upper counties there
are well developed farms ranging up
to 500 acres each where 100 acres OF
more of corn is annually raised /
have personally inspected these fields
year after year and have been sur
prised at the rapid growth and de-
yelopment Of corn in the upper coun-
ties. The same is true of tobacco in
many of the upper counties, where it
is set out later and harvested oarliel
than in the tobacco counties Of the
southern portion of the state
From my experience as commission.
err of immigration / have come to re-
alize that the homeseekers yant t.
know lot of things about the undo
veloped and partially developed re
gions Of the upper counties. He has
been told that the weather is ex
tremely cold there. The fact is that
there is scarcely day in the winter
when the logging crews suspend be.
cause of the cold. The government
statistics show that the average tenn
perature in the upper part of the
state is from to degrees colder
than in the southern portion, but ii
is a drier atmosphere and for that
reason no more disagreeable- and il
should be remembered that it is the
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everywhere Men who run away from
Wisconsin winters do mighty little
anywhere. The cost of building ma,
terial is lower than elsewhere and the
settler finds that he can get his build
ing material off his land at the cost
of handling and saw bill Of 81 pei
thousand feet. The water is excel
lent and obtained at depths of from
so to 40 feet-usually about 80 feet
stumps Easily Handled.
The upper counties offer cut-ove1
and burned-over timber lands. There
Git ~ p1dlIAG ldHuS. 4 ne Surface
generally mildly undulating. The
lands have their original stumps anc
it is these, and an exaggerated idea
of the cost Of their removal, thai
cause people to hesitate to go there
The fact is that as a rule the stumps
set practically ON the top of the
ground and are much more easily dis
posed of than those that grow OF
alluvial soils with deep roots systems
Again, there has been great improve
ments in stumping machinery, which
has to a large extent simplifed an(
cheapened the cost of clearing land
At any rate the owner of Upper Wis
consin land finds when he hai
cleared them that he has got some
thing worth while.
The cost of clearing land in uppe.
Wisconsin Of brush and stumps will
as a rule, be found to range between
$40 and $40 per acre-seldom as Low
as $40 and that is usually the poore
land. and need not be as high AS $4l