New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-13
BIG OPPORTUNITY
FOR IMMIGRANTS
MINNESOTA APPEALS STRONGLY
TO MEN DESIRING CHANGE
OF LOCATION.
FINE FARMS AT LOW COST
Raised In North Temperate
Zone Can Be Grown in Southern
Section Of State-Many Acres
of Homestead Lands Open.

BY F. D. Sherman,
State immigration Commissioner.
The tide of immigration which 10
constantly moving westward, comes
principally from the states of Iowa,
Illinois and Indiana, although practi-
cally all of the eastern states are
substantially represented in this
movement. To these men who are
seeking change in location, the state
OF Minnesota appeals strongly, be-
cause of the many opportunities af-
forded in this state, so rich in nat
ural resources.
Improved farms in the states to
the south and east are selling from
$3.50 up to $500 per acre and are rent
ing at from 81 to $40 per acre, while
In Minnesota, highly improved farms
IN the southern part of the state,
which is conceded to be in the Corn
Belt of the Northwest, are selling at
from $50 to $3.50 per acre, and these
farms will compare favorably with
the richest agricultural lands to be
found anywhere in the United States.
While corn is the principal product in
Southern Minnesota, grains, grasses.
fruit and vegetables of all kinds are
grown abundantly. In fact, anything
that can be raised in the North TEN.
perate Zone, can be grown in South
ern Minnesota.
Natural Dairying Country.
Looking further northward, we find
ourselves in what is known as Cen
trail Minnesota" This is a section Of
the state where the lands are not yet
all developed, but in every county
embraced in the territory mentioned
above, many highly improved farms
are found growing corn, grain, fruit
and vegetables abundantly The fact
that Central Minnesota is dotted with
many lakes and streams makes this
part of the state a natural dairying
country, because of the pure water
and abundance of vegetation, coupled
with favorable climatic conditions.
The western part of Central Mime
sofa is for the most part a level
prairie country, excepting that hard
wood timber is found along the lakes
and rivers, while the eastern portion
OF Central Minnesota is a gently roll
ing hardwood timber country. I'm.
proved farms can be purchased in
Central Minnesota today at from SOS
to $500 per acre and wild land at
from $25 to $50 per acre.
"Bread Basket Of the WorId".
Northwestern Minnesota embracing
all the counties south from the Cana.
dian border line to Ottertail and west
of Beltrami to the Dakota line is what
is generally termed "The Red River
Valley" and is frequently referred to
as the Bread Basket of the World"
Northwestern Minnesota is nearly all
prairie and the soil is a heavy black
loan resting on a clay subsoil. While
corn, grasses, and vegetables are
raised in this section of the state.
small grain, such as wheat, oats, rye.
barley and flax are the staple crops.
About fifty per cent of the lands in
Northwestern Minnesota are under
cultivation at the present time. while
the remaining fifty per cent awaits
only the hand of man to make them
bloom and give forth abundant crops.
Improved farms are selling in North.
western Minnesota at from $40 to SIS
per acre and wild land can be DUR.
chased at from $40 to $40. North.
western Minnesota is probably re-
ceiving more immigrants at this Tina.
than any other section of the state.
because of the low price placed ON
her lands, the fertility of same and
their comparative ease in bringing II
under cultivation, and in few years.
4 am of the opinion, that practically
every foot of tillable land in this SEQ
ton of the state will be farmed.
The statement made that Mime.
sofa is receiving more immigrants
than any of the other northwestern
states is made on good authority.
Last year, the Minnesota Transfer
Railway company, located midway bs.
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis, han.
died 5,277 cars of immigrant NOV.
ables, of which 1850 cars were left
at various points in Minnesota and
the remaining 1927 cars were dis.
tributed between North and South
Dakota, Canada, Washington, Oregon
and other western points. In add.
ton to this, statements made by land
dealers, who are selling lands in prac.
tically all of the northwestern states.
admit that during the past year. they
have handled more Minnesota lands
than they have in any of the other
states included In their territory.
Take the state of Minnesota as q
whole. from the Iowa line on the
south to the Canadian boundary ON
the north, from the Dakotas on the
west to Wisconsin on the east. mon