The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-27

the fair fields Of your own counties
instead of living out of tin can COM
ing from Ohio or Illinois and filled
with products grown by the farmers
of those and other states.
Do YOU not realize how much more
your cost Of living is than in coun-
try that feeds itself?
You must not forget that you have
got to pay the cost of transportation.
which is added To the price you pay
for the food products you buy from the
farmers and commission houses Of
other states
For example, a ton of hay bought
in Milwaukee for $500 on board cars
costs you i'm Houghton $1,000, four dol
lars for transportation, nearly thirty
three and a third per cent more than
in a country that feeds itself.
\ mining camp has got to go through
several years of regeneration.
II is generally started in a hurry
with no streets, no sewers. no good
drinking water no churches or school
houses. but with plenty OF saloons and
gambling houses.
Everything is expensive and every
thing done with a kind of lawless-
ness
After all this passes away and your
camp turns into real Christian, home
like cities like Houghton, Hancock,
Calumet and the other locations i'm
point the way; when you have pure
water to drink and pure, moral peo-
pie; when pure men and women say,
This is my home, and | am proud of
it, then there is an opportunity for
the building Of that community.
Now you have this conditions in
these two counties but you lack be-
ing independent, you lack the farmer
who will feed you and who will raise
the sheep TO clothe you at a much less
price than you are paying today to
the farmers of other states.
Today is "a new day.
To-Day you are in position to do
what?
To build yourself up stronger than
you have been, but to obtain this
strength YOU have got to be supported
and fed by your own home people.
Let every mining company, let every
local railroad that is interested i'm
these two counties start a farm, clear
II. take off the stumps and if you can
not spend the time yourself to work IL,
for Gods sake go and get some in
tclligent, Christian man and woman to
come and work it for you.
Get these splendid agricultural lands
to produce something, and if you will
do this the day will come when Clover
land will be one of the strongest parts
of this country.
Ii is the home of Potatoes OF Quail
ity," and of clover.
Its fruit lands are valuable, and it's
truck lands will furnish abnormal |
profits.
hope you gentlemen who have cap
ital and energy and love for your own |
counties and Cloverland will devote a |
large part of your energy and capital
from now on in clearing up the for
'''H anu pulllIlb the SlumpS, ana place L
these two counties i'm position to be
fruit growing counties,
To be potato growing counties,
To be dairying counties,
Cattle and sheep raising counties.
And If you do this, the profits from
The mines that will come to you will
be greater than before.
Let me call your attention to this
fact:
In looking over your mining statis-
Ties | find that i'm the last seventy
years there has been shipped from
'loverland iron and copper ore to the
amount of eight billion dollars.
Now If these ten million. five hum
lred and sixty thousand acres of agri-
cultural land i'm Cloverland, that is
purely AGRICULTURAL, with the best soil.
Innate and opportunity for market.
would have been placed under agri-
'uitural talent one-half as good and
Intelligent as these mines have been
paced under, the agricultural revenue
n seventy years, at the very low aver
'se OF fifteen dollars per acre, would