Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-04-03
BUILDING A BIGGER
AND RICHER STATE
Some Facts About Wisconsin Re-
cources Bearing Upon the Need
for Greater Publicity.


The question: Whether the Wisconsin State Board of I'm
migration should be given larger fund.- dependent upon the
position taken the phases of the work
doing might be said with its small fund it is attempting
to do, Some Of these questions
Do wish continue a partially developed
ties pG we wish the people the partially developed 0un
best S @ leave this state while we yet have the
living to
Wish have our invest their savings in
w1ean9 ~n'e there are better ana SAFER prevailing
Of things win not until that portion of the state agricultra
If with the situation with
to the above points, then there need for increased
fund for the State Board of Immigration need for the
present fund IT, the contrary is believed that should
have greater and richer it be thought that the cond
ons in the partially developed portion of the
be made better by complete settlement if prefer keep
people within the state long have fertile unoccuped
lands if wish to check the increasing of living in Wis
onsn cities far it be done through the development
of unimpoved lands wish have people
their capital institutions home instead of in distant projects
(too often financial nkhoes if wish develop many
other natural that prevail within the
pied lands and it, further wish to add largely the states
taxable assetsperhaps double themthen should favor
liberal fund for the State Board of Immigration This board
the natural agency for the performance of all work calculated
to accomplish the objects above forth No other department
of the state do this least with less expenseand if
to do attempted the department undertaking
be encountered with work with which is unfamiliar urge
that this work should be done by the Board Immigration
that its efforts be judged by results without complication any
opportunity for shifting division of responsibility
Our Land Resources
There approximately 100000 acres of agricultural
lands in their unmproyed state this time in the Wis
conn The land of the state 35 $40 the land
farms according to the 1910 81 060066
ing unmproyed of IA TIA But Of the
land III all portions Of the state will be made into farms
Tor the OF rouhnes ocness other conditions and
should be deducted 1t probable that nearly all the counties
the southern portion of the state have practically
able lands farms The shows that 5 of the
Wisconsin counties the acreage included aggregates
S6S202 average of 25535 in county
Owing to the facts that the occupied by cities
and that there all these utterly
UNITED for farming it probably well to consider all the farm
lands taken IN these counties Deductng this total of S68 02
acres from the total Of the state and ubacng total
farms the state determines that there
other 81 counties total of 572 unoccupied lands
Land of the 5368s4o
Lana OI In "a southern counties
After dducting apparently 34495e3S
lotal land In farms in the state 21060066
Unoccupicd in 81 upper counties acres 1s485572
Allowing 3435572 for lands unsuited for farming
for timber and cities have 100000 that may
reasonably be expected in be added farms
the state
That these lands productive by the fact dis
closed by the 1910 United States census
crops they produce larger yield per than the average of
the United States The yields of 25 the uppemost counties