Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-08-09
AUGUST 9, 1916

higher registering Of the thermometer
back home. There is in this section,
water, water everywhere. 1t is all fit
to drink. On an average there is
lake every three miles or less in any
direction. There are also numerous
streams, including the Mississippi riv
er, the Prairie and the Big Fork, and
any number of creeks and brooks.
Water in wells can be secured almost
anywhere at from thirty feet down
and NO sweeter, purer water can be
found anywhere.
Talking about lakes, l don't believe
there is lake here that is not a good
fish lake. Pike, black bass, musk
alunge, great northern pike, a large
thick species Of pickerels, weighing as
much as ten to twenty pounds or
more. ALI the good game fish can be
caught here. Game of all kinds,
deer, some moose in the wilder parts
Of the county, wolves, bear, all kinds
of fur bearing animals adapted to this
climate and conditions, grouse, par
tridges, ducks, rabbits, plenty Of all
kinds Of game so that there is natural
diversion as we'll as a chance to work.
There is plenty Of timber left, such
as cedar posts, and ties, tamarack for
ties, etc., fine spruce, balsam, poplar,
maple, oak, birch, Eastwood, ash and
other woods good for logs. Stoves,
bolts, and box timber pup wOOG for
which there is ready market at all
times, there being paper mill, sew
eral sawmills, box and woodenware
factories and kindred industries handy
to much Of this land; lumber for
building purposes can usually be cut
from timber secured on the lands, new
settlers buy and saw at the small
sawmills which are scattered every
few miles at a comparatively small
cost. The best schools in the world
is the boast of the schools in this
country and the boast is not an idle
one, for the school system of Itasca
county was made the subject of bull
! letin by the United States Department
Of Education and held up to the world
as the model school system. Grand
Rapids, the county seat, has $4,000
high school and two other splendid
buildings. 1t is the seat of school
government for a district comprising
some fifty congressional townships
and people living outside of walking
or transportation distance from the
sist in sending their children through
high school in Grand Rapids, thus saw
ing the necessity Of maintaining sew
eral high schools and increasing the
efficiency of the central high school.
ltasca county contains 81 townships,
has only nine dozen or so of school
lines with splendid school buildings,
of nj
aged.
Religion in the leading denomina-
tions is a forward movement. Church
odist, Lutheran, Episcopal, Christian
Science and Christian are in -four
fishing condition and doing much good
work 1tasca county, altho an en-
pire, has hundreds Of miles of excel
lent roads. A fund practically $780,
900 per year has been added to in the
past three years by bond issues for
road building Of almost half a. million
dollars and excellent trunk roads with
many tributary feeders are now in ex-
istence. 1t is very easy to get land
near to first class highways. The vii
lagos and towns are all progressive
and wide awake.
Grand Rapids, the county seat, is
the largest among the cities. The
others ranging in size are Coleraine,
Bovey, Nashwak, Marble and Keewa-
tin, iron mining towns; Deer River
Cohasset and Warba, agricultural and
numbering towns. There are NO
drouths in this county Even in per:
iods of three or four weeks without
rain, the crops are fine because of the
wonderful moisture retaining quail
tiles. There is always plenty of rain.
fall and every winter there is suffi-
cient snowfall to insure moisture in
the ground in the spring. The land
will grow large crops of grains, hay,
potatoes, vegetables and root crops OF
all kinds, clover and grasses grow pro-
ILLEGALLY. There is a good market for
practically all the crops which can be
raised here. The population centers
at Duluth with it's steel mills and man
ufacturers and shipping. The iron
range with it's great number of peo-
pie engaged in mining and the lumber