The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-06-26
AUTUMN SEASON
WILL WITNESS
BlCLAND BOOM
Dakota and Nebraska Farmers
Are Making Inquiry About
Lands Near Virginia.
WILL COME HERE IN
FALL TO LOOK THEM OVER
Miners Are Busy Buying Large
Tracts Which They Will
Clear andf Cultivate.

D. M. Cole, sales manager of the
Duluth & Iron Range railroads land
department, who phas been spending
the past couple of days in the city
looking after the l5company's local Of
flee in the absence Of his brother,
Harry D. Cole, the Virginia agent,
says the settlers are coming into Nor
thern Minnesota; tributary to Vir-
ginia, in large numbers. The out
look for the fall months is regarded
as most promising by land agents.
He said that though the present is the
off season in the way of promoting a
selling campaign owing to farmers
being busy with general work, good
inquiry is being received from North
and South Dakota and Nebraska
points. Some business is resulting
from it, recent sales including two
tracts in the Floodwood district to
South Dakota parties. The majority
of those becoming interested contem-
plate coming up this way to look over
the ground during October.
Owing to the quiet situation on the
iron ranges many tracts are being dis
posed of by the railroad company at
it's Virginia Office to miners who pro-
pose changing their vocations. The
majority Of these are foreigners who
had engaged in farming in their ma
tive countries, so that they are we'll
qualified as a rule to make success
of the venture here.
eve are pushing our land selling
campaign on a broader scale than ever
this year." said Mr.. Cole, "and we
are getting results from our propa-
ganda of previous seasons. Sales are
being effected in all our districts, in
Guiding Virginia, Meadowlands, Flood
wood, Kelsey, Cook and in Aitkin
county. We are at present engaged
in putting twenty-four miles of drain
age bitches in the Meadowlands dis
trict, and with their completion we
will have a stretch Of fourteen miles
of good land between Meadowlands
and Floodwood available for settle
ment. Our Meadowlands demonstra-
tion farm is. BEING found productive
Of good results unler the direction of
FW. A, Dickinson. It is enabling set
tiers to obtain their stock cheaper,
and is leading them to grapple more
intelligently with the various agricul-
tural problems peculiar to the dis
trict that confronts them. It is the
aim of the farm management to help
settlers in the way of information and
advice whether they bought their land
from the company or not"
Though the season is somewhat
backward owing to excessive rains,
Mr.. Cole averred that the various
crops promise we'll, with the yield of
hay likely to be especially heavy. The
best relative progress is being made
in dairying, according to the COM
pany's records. The output of cream
being shipped to the creameries has
shown a remarkable gain this season
and settlers are therefore directing all
their energies towards increasing
their dairy herds.
Mr.. Cole will spend considerable OF
his time in Virginia during the alb.
sence of his brother, who is taking
treatment for rheumatism at Shake
pee, and who is expected here some
time next week.