The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-11-08


fall Is 3i5 bushels per acre Eight far
mers report a yield ~ over 400 bush
els TO the acre and one Yield IS as high
as ais bushels. la the lower Michigan
peninsula the average yield as report
ell, is l51 bushels Ia the acre
what is being done with respect t"|
raising potatoes is merely illustrative
of what Is being done along othe:
lines OF farm development Business
men. these who control mining and
numbering operations. and al others
who are the industrial backbone of the
section. have come 10 the conclusion
that IN" copper country. since earliest
days has been paying heavy tribute to-
outside producing centers for food
supplies which shout Ice raised here
and can be raised here. Houghton.
Hancock, Calumet. Laurium and other
divisions Of the copper producing sec
ton. has a population OF about 10000
The points named are cities, not min
ing camps. The cities OF the section
are distinctive from the fact that civic
pride finds q better expression here
i'm schools, churches. business blocks.
improved streets and roads, the ap.
plication If comforts end conVen-
fences 70 living conditions than any
other section of the United States. Ev-
erythirg of this character is IN prog
ress of completion. not Of starting. II
is a rich county in wealth already ex-
IresseO by what has been made and
achieved and is intellectually mere rich
IN remaining resources. At the time
of the last statement. the thirteen
banks OF the section showed aggregate
deposits OF Sl1,272.634. Of which SO
0OC 900 were savings deposits. the mon
ey of the laborers and not of the cap
italists. In addition there are three
saving and loan associations with
their investments
Send Money Away.
II il this sort of a country. Consid-
cred at all normal business times the
best market I'm the middle west which
has been sending money at the rate of
many millions annually to the outside
markets. And this too. in spite of the
fact that thousands of acres could De
and are being gradually converted into
producing farms. Houghton is the
wholesale and iobbing center of this
section of the upper peninsula From
here radiate the supplies To the mines
ana lumber camps. \: this time at
tention is being directed to farming az
a resource. When this is added To-
what now amounts to IN Industrial
production of millions. the wealth of
the section can he conjectued.
That only "A commencement has
been made in this direction, is evil
denced by the fact that out OF lj.OCu
acres i'm Houghton county, only $4,000
are devoted to farm cultivation. This
development has been slow because OF
the land is still timbered or is subject
TO the reservation of mineral rights
n big start however has been mad"
i'm Houghton and Keweenaw counties,
during the last ten years. Anywhere
in the upper peninsula. IL is easy to
pick out show places. but these are
not representative of general farming
conditions or opportunities. They are
! typical Of highest and best standards
and results IN intelligent farming.
| They show what can be done. while
the average or ordinary farm COM
/ mands general. instcal of specialized.
| interest
The thousands of men all over the
United states who know John C.
Mann OF Douglass house fame. who
! have been entertained AT his Vestl-
| bule Ia the entire copper country,
| know him 10 he a successful hotel
man. He is also the owner of utility
farm four miles from Houghton.
! where he has about 100 acres under
| cultivation. Mann's form is the type
OF farm that the. average business man
or farmer would develop with the hope
of profitable success. There are thou
sands like II. all through the upper
peninsula or Cloverland country.
| These farms show what can be done
I in the production of food commodities.
dairy products. fruit and in fact ar"
| excellent examples of farm conditions.