The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-14
BIG OPPORTUNITY
FOR IMMIGRANTS
MINNESOTA APPEALS STRONGLY
TO MEN DESIRING CHANGE
OF LOCATION.
fine FARMS AT LOW COST
Anything Raised in North Temperate
Zone Can Be Grown in Southern
Section Of State-Many Acres
OF Homestead Lands Open.
BY F. .. Sherman.

BY F. D. Sherman
State immigration Commissioner.
The tide of immigration which -
constantly moving westward, Gomez
principally from the states ef 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 at
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 SO 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 Tenn
perate Zone, can be crown in South
ern Minnesota.
Natural Dairyin9 Country.
Looking further northwar' 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 s25 to $50 per acre.
e
Northwestern Minnesota embracing
all the counties south from the Cana
dian border line to Ottertail and west
OF Be1trami 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 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 pur-
chased at from $40 to $40. North
western Minnesota is probably re-
ceiving more immigrants at this time.
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 it
under cultivation, and in a few years,
l am of the opinion, that practically
every foot of tillable land in this Sec
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 be-
tween St. Paul and Minneapolis, ham
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 4
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, men
in all walks of life will find within
its border lines, splendid opportuni-
ties to secure location.
The state of Minnesota maintains
a state board of immigration with a
commissioner in charge, whose duty
It Is to furnish authentic information
about every section in the state upon