The mirror., 1919-08-07
LITTLE over half of
Minnesota, 81, 900, 900
acres, to be exact, is un-
develOned Yet MANY

USMSN M luu0SOGd, Cl,OOO,OVO
USes4NGN acres, to be exact, is un-
l!gWzgy developed. Yet many
people in northern Minnesota want
to run line across the state just
south of Duluth and make new
state up here. They think that
the southern part of the state is
too slow about finding out that we
have mighty empire in embryo
in northern Minnesota. A most
intelligent Duluth oculist, whose
native place is Mankato, told the
writer a few weeks ago he had al
ways supposed that it was impos-
sible to raise things in northern
Minnesota.
All know about the inexhaustible
resources of iron and lumber to be
found in northern Minnesota. No
one has to be told that some of the
biggest mills in the world are here.
and that sixth of the iron in the
world and two.thirds of the iron
in the United States is mined in
the county of St. Louis.
In this article, however, we shall
content ourselves by referring to
but one of the counties in the vast
land north of the head of Lake
Superior, the county of St. Louis.
As we stated above. this county
mines two thirds of the iron in the
United States and one sixth of the
iron in the world. Duluth. the
county seaty. is for tonnage one OF
the biggest shipping points in the
United States. And besides, with
in a few years. it will ship practi-
cally all the wheat in the North
west of both the United States and
Canada, as deep sea route is to
be opened through the St. Law
renee river and the Welland canal
so that the ships of all the world
can dock at Duluth. We also
have in Duluth $25, 100000 steel
plant with model city for its
employees.
One of our mining companies
alone pays into the county treasury
more than $5,OOO,OOO in taxes.
Hibbing, one of our iron range
towns, in the township of Stuntz,
is said to be the richest village in
the world. The Weyerhaeuser
mill at Virginia has the reputation
of being the biggest sawmill in the
world. But these things are well
and widely known, and we only
refer to them in passing. The
thing to which we wish to call es-
pecial attention is that our agri-
cultural resources are just as in
haustible as are our iron and lum-
ber but not 50 we'll developed. And
this is what outsiders cannot seem
to comprehend. While this is be-
ing written, clover is being cut
around the writer, yielding three
tons and more per acre. Our
wheat, barley, rye and oats cannot
be beaten anywhere in the United
States acre for. acre. Rutabagas,
turnips and potatoes, carrots and
all other root crops are almost in
digenous. Wild bluestem hay
seventy-two inches high is being
cut today, and "clover is weed in
Minnesota" Hay is selling al
Duluth, 100 miles away, at $44 a
ton. Hay. beef, pork and every
possible thing that the farmer car
raise has an instant, high. and a
cash market on account of the
mining towns on the great iron
range and the easy shipping point
to Duluth.
St. Louis county has two more
things that compare most favorably
with any county in the United
States. First, low taxes; the rail
roads, the iron mines and the big
lumber companies bear the burden.
the farmer goes almost scot free
Second, the roads. The county
literally spends millions of dollars