Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24
INDUCEMENTS TO LOCATE
IN UPPER WISCONSIN
Good Farm Land At Low Prices
Still Open For All
New Farmers.

To the homeseeker looking for an
opportunity to establish himself
where the price of land is within the
range of a person of limited means,
the timbered and well watered coun-
try contained in Upper Wisconsin
: presents many attractive phases.
Several features of the land, climate,
churches, schools and other matters
that have direct bearing upon the
successful building of a home and
( rearing of a family, offer distinct
advantages that are not found else
where.
A portion Of the region consists of
open park-like reaches of rolling
dairy and farm lands which merge
into those vast reserves of hard
wood and pine for which Wisconsin
has become famous.
Various trunk lines of railroad
radiate to all parts of this district
joining in close connection the humid
reds Of cities and towns which there
find for their manufacturing in
terests abundant raw material,
markets ready at their door and
Transportation facilities that are I'M
excolled.
In this highly favored region sett-
lers and homeseekers are locating
with but little outlay in comfortable
homes where, with fertile farms, a
healthful climate, nearby markets for
all products, and schools and
churches for the families, an OPP
portunity is presented to the man
Of small means to attain a com
potency.
There he may find what are
probably greater industrial, COM
mercial and agricultural possibilities
than in any other portion of the
Uuited States.
Throughout the years of the
nations growth, the army of i'm
migration to the west has ever fol
lowed the lines Of least resistance
and over-running the Middle States
the pioneers have rushed westward to
the Missouri ami beyond, leaving the
rich and fertile region for later de-
velopment so that one can STILL
within nights ride of Chicago
and Milwaukee settle on land at $40
to $25 an acre, which if it were To-
Gated in Indiana or Illinois, would
command from SIS to 1925 per acre.
Ii is true that considerable hard
work is necessary in order to clear
this wooded land and prepare it for
crops but it is also true that in the
process of doing so, the timber pro-
ducts will nearly pay for the labor
expended
One of the chief reasons for the
existence of these cheap lands is that
it was not until the timber had been
largely cut off that the agricultural
possibilities of the region became
generally known, so that the very
heart of the continent was thus
passed over by the home-builder of
the seventies and most of it left for
the homeseeker Of today.
And the resources of the region
are varied. Several years of pros
perity have brought increased capital
and population and more fully de-
monstrated its splendid possibilities
for the investor who desires a safe
investment, for the business man
VINO is seeking a new location and
for the farmer of small means who
desires to establish for himself
modest home.
There are two distinct classes of
land offered to the settler in Upper
( Wisconsin, each Of which has its fea-
lures Of special interest to the
farmers and dairyman.
The two classes referred to are
the hardwood forests and the cut
over land from which the pine has
I been taken.
The cutover lands have, until
quite recently, been held to a great
extent by lumber firms who have
taken off the timber, and by land
companies and individuals who are