The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-12-31

SAUK CENTRE HERA
Listen while I tell you in q few
words what this empire produces.
The farmers Of Minnesota every
year raise two hogs, and half
head of cattle, for every man, wo-
man and child in the state. They
raise twice as many sheep as they
did five years ago. The hens of
Minnesota lay enough eggs every
year to furnish every person in the
world with an egg for his Easter
breakfast. Poultry products alone
furnish an income Of $4,000, 900,
one-tenth of the value Of all field
crops, in normal years.
There are 1900, 900 dairy cows on
Minnesota farms-three for every
family, including Magnus john
sons! It is worthy Of note that in
ten years, while the number Of
cows increased Al per cent, the but
ter production increased 9S per
cent.
On January 1, 1928, there were
S58 banks operating under Mime
sofa charters. The total of their
capital stock, surplus ana undivided
profits was $45,000,000. If some
night, burglars by pre-arrangement
should make a concerted attack up
on those banks and get away with
a sum equal to their capital stock,
surplus and undivided profits, the
loss would be great. There would
be CONSERVATION throughout the
state. The people would be de-
manding of the governor that he
order out the militia. What is
worse, they might even ask him to
call the legislature into session. If
I were governor should do neith-
err. I should call upon the dairy
farmers of Minnesota to milk their
COWS and deposit the money they
received for their milk in those
banks; for if they did it, in just
fourteen weeks they would replace
every dollar lost. There are "acres
of diamonds" in the farms of Min
nesota!
Let us consider the states indus
trial resources. The greatest -four
and linseed-oil mills in the world
are located almost within a stones
throw of where we are met today.
Within fifteen miles is one of the
five principal livestock markets in
America, with huge packing plants
leading in the packing Of pork.
There are within the state two
sugar mills and thirty canning fac
tories. There are $50 creameries-
an average Of ten for each county
and So cheese factories. The great
est and most successful Of all farm
co-operatives centers its activities
here, handling the output Of 465
creameries and doing an annual
business Of $50,000,00O.
Our industrial development is
not by any means exclusively in
fields related to agriculture. Be
sides -four mills, packing plants,
creameries and canneries, are fac
tories producing great variety OF
goods and merchandise. Only
twelve states outrank ours in the
value of manufactured products. In
dustry is well diversified. Half Of
the factory payroll is outside of the
Twin Cities area. In stoneware,
linseed oil, sandpaper, heat regulat-
ors and burglar alarms, Minneso-
ia leads the nation. Situated at the
gateway to the West, she offers o.,
portunity for even greater indus
trial development in the future.
There are "acres of diamonds" for
those with the initiative and cour-
age to seize that opportunity.
But there is another resource,
with which Minnesota is blessed be-
yond any other state, the value OF
which, in dollars and cents, has un-
til recently been quite overlooked.
refer to the blue skies, deep lakes
and rushing streams; woods and
hills and valleys; deer startled at
the roadside, fish nibbling at an
gler's bait in deep water. pheasants
in the stubblefield, and south
bound geese flying high.
At the risk of being accused of
being too much disposed to consider
things in terms of their monetary
value, let me cite some facts that
may serve to show what Minneso-
ta's playground is worth to her
people. It has been estimated that
this year more than 100000 tour
lists visited this state. This esti-
mate is substantiated by figures
that seem convincing. These tour
lists, we are told. left here more
than $4,000, 000-a sum which, If
divided equally, would add $3.50 to
the income Of every family in the
state. To be sure, the money was
not divided equally, but it was dis
tributed widely. The hotel and re-
sort keepers got only a part of it,
| and 80 per cent of what they got
eventually went to others. Much
of the income went directly to farm
ers, grocers, dealers in sporting
goods, owners of gasoline stations
and garages. It may seriously be
questioned whether there is any in
come derived by the people from
trade, commerce or agriculture,
that is so soon, and so widely, dis
tributed, as that which comes from
| the tourist crop"
The recent increase in tourist
business has been phenomenal. Fiji
teen years ago, when the first or
ganized effort to attract people to
Minnesota's summer playground
was made, only $1,000 tourists were
registered. Florida, Colorado and
California were then the only rec
ognized tourist states. Outside OF
these, the Yellowstone National
Park alone was generally known
The progress that has since been
made can be illustrated by the fact
that this year fully half as many
4 people visited Itasca State Park as
the Yellowstone.
What has brought about this re-
markable increase? Several factors
of course, have contributed. AS 8
nation we travel more than we did
and we do more of our travelling
within our own country. We are
becoming tired of spending our