Hotel Svea BANKERS MUTUAL Mizpah 325, Northomk 650, Littlefork, 325, Ranier, Koochiching County, Minnesota ,300, Gemmell, 150. Ttoe county has six banks, the JOHN PETERSON, Proprietor deposits of which are. $416,103.16. 60 schools, one By HON. S. G. IVERSON. State Auditor. high school, two graded schools, and 17 churches Accident and Health Policies A gxJod, first-class hotel for local -f' are located in this county of various denominations. J: and transent trade. yThen inDecember, 1906, the County of Koochcliing The total assessed valuation in this county for 1910 A was organized out of the northern portion of was $6,310,935. Itasca County, -stretching northward to the Rainy On January 1,1911, there were 20,720 acres of Newly Constructed and Rates River which forms the Canadian boundary line, United States government land subject to homestead MASON & MASON, District Agents Reasonable. that region was considered among the wilds of entry also 836,350 acres of state school land northern Minnesota, for up to that time but little unsold. International Falls, Minnesota The price of land in this county ranges from -$h Sample Room in Connection had been done toward its development. However, free government lantj $3.00 per acre cut-over land since the organization of this country much has $5. per acre state land partly improved timber been accomplished along these lines and it is generally farms from $10. tip $25. per acre. Nearly all GILBERTSON conceded that Koochiching County has kept this can be secured by a small payment down, Licensed Plumbers and abreast, if not out-stripped her neighboring region and the remainder in installments to suit purchaser. in progress of development. Koochiching County and SMITH Where land is bought under this plan, it is cheaper like all of that portion of the State is a timber district heating Engineers than renting, and in a few years the purchaser is and her development has naturally been slow, freed from landlords, and while he has been paying but fortunately the class of people who are pioneering do all kinds of for and improving his land, he has had the satisfaction in this county are thrifty and industrious and General Mason Work of seeing his property rapidly increase in are making rapid progress along the much needed WATER AND SEWER WORK PROMPTLY DONE. value. As to the fertility and productiveness of the way. During the last five years large numbers of and ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE. soil in Koochiching County, the writer does not wish energtic, intelligent and industrious immigrants Plastering to longer dwell, but prefers to allow the magnificent E A S O I N liave settled within our boundary line, either taking 6t display of agricultural products exhibited by homesteads, or purchasing state or private lands, Neatly and promptly Koochiching County at the Minnesota State Fair to with the result that today thousands of acres of OVESON BLOCK Intrnotional Falls, Minn. PHONE 221 speak for themselves most eloquently. land that a few years ago were only a forest and NMMMN II mmw The State of Minnesota bwns many thousands wilderness have been transformed into fertile fields Satisfaction Guaranteed of acres of land in Kpochiching County which are which give forth bountiful yields of almost any crop being placed upon thg market. During the past raised in this State. No better evidence of the progress four years the State has offered 11,176 acres of Call or leave orders at the of Koochiching County can be presented that Northern Minnesota Hospital agricultural land for, sale and has disposed of 6,844 the census reports of 1905 and. 1910, which when Pure Food Cafe acres. At present a Board of appraisers are at work compared show that in the past five years her International Falls, Minnesota in this county and at the first sale in the spring of population has doubled. International Palls. Minnesota 1912 approximately 50,000 acres will be placed on Much of the land in Koochiching County is the market, level, low or swampy and needs draining, but this Below we give a synopsis of the law termsa nd handicap is being rapidly removed for in the past conditions under which state lands are sold. five years many miles of public ditches have been PRESTON & CO. constructed by the State which has reclaimed HOW LANDS ARE SOLD thousands of acres of land which when once drained STAJf FORT FRANCES, ONT. have prover to be the most productive found anywhere. Lands are first appraised. No sale can be made The total amount expended for drainage in for less than the appraised price, which cannot be Koochiching County since her reoganization has been High Grade Calabash less than five dollars per acre, and may be higher. $52,416.95 of which amount the State has paid Four weeks' notice of sale is given by publication $44,830.04 and private parties $7,586.91, so it will and Meerschaum Pipes. in a newspaper published at the county seat, and in therefore be seen that while these conditions exist a St. Paul paper. Appraised value of timber, if any in some portions of the county, thanks to our must also be paid at time of sale. The lands so advertised liberal drainage laws, the State of Minnesota can English and French Briars are then offered for sale at the county seat and stands ready to offer immediate relief when of the county in which the lands are situated, and necessity demands. are sold at public auction to the highest bidder. The soil in Koochiching County varies from a "C. B. D." and "B. B. B." No bid can be received for less than the appraised R. H. MONAIIAN, M. D. ELIZABETH MONAHAN, M. black loam with clay sub-soil to sandy loam mixed price. Where it is not convenient for parties to attend Makes MARY C. GHOSTLEY, M. D. with clay but everywhere there is a thick top the sale they may arrange to have some one Office over International State Bank. soil of vegetable mold. The presence of sandhastens present and bid for them. But if parties who wish crops by warming the clay and provides a to purchase are unable to attend the sale and have Lowest Canadian Prices speedy escape for surplus moisture. some one else present to bid for them they must The general surface of the county is level with have their money there to be paid on the day of the a universal slope of about four feet to the mile sale. If a party bids on land and refuses to make towards the northwest in which direction all payment in other words, if he makes a straw bid, Mesaba Boiler and streams trend. The surface is broken occasionally Notice the State Auditor may refuse to accept any further by the ravines and springs which remove the dullness bids from that party, and debar him from bidding of a plain. Streams are plentiful furnishingnatural upon any tract or participating further in the sale. drainage and moisture to nearly every Manufacturing Co. The state proposes that there shall be a square deal. tract of land in the county. 40-acre tracks where requested. Lands are sold in In area this county stands third in the State Not more than 160 acres can be put up and auctioned-off having 3,096 square miles or 1,980,913.68 acres, of at one time.-. Fhe state employs no agents jyhichi4i2][l.?41,243.2 acresarejand 9,6TO,28 mclwater. and pays no comiMMohsr: The state is unable to The population of the county in 1905 was *0 furnish for distribution detailed descriptions of the 3,563 and in 1910 was 6,431. The nationalities besides tracts offered, or a map showing the land. By calling those of American birth and parentage are at the State Auditor's office at the Capitol, St. Norwegian, Swedish, French, English and Germans. Manufacturers of Paul, access may be had to the reports of the appraisers Porter & Allen successors The sereal crop and average bushel per acre were as who have examined the lands. The state employs follows: Wheat 23.0 bu. oats 31.2 bu., barley, 21.3 Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Tanks, to Brown's Electric Laundry. no one to show the lands the prospective purchaser bu. must look them up on his own account. The county is nearly all covered with forests of We call and deliver Structural and Sheet Iron Work pine, poplar, birch, tamarack, spruce, cedar, ash, Lists of lands offered will be furnished upon application. promptly. We make a Fifteen per Cent of the purchase price and interest maple and oak. The timber is wonderfully mixed Gates and Castings. on the unpaid balance of the purchase money so that all varieties may frequently be found on one specialty of hand work, silks, small tract of land. In nearly the same proportion. from the date of the sale to June 1st. following The trees grow to an immense height, attesting the must be paid at the time of the sale the balance woolen goods and ginghams. strong qualities of the soil. can run for forty years on interest at 4 per cent per Give us a trial. Phone 148. After the timber is removed and the land cleared, annum, payable annually in advance on June 1st. Repair Work Promptly Attented to Day or Night it can be either seeded down to produce a big each year, provided the principal remains unpaid for crop of hay or it can be cultivated to produce ten years. If the principal is paid in full before the abundant crop of root and grain varieties. The expiration of ten- years, the rate of interest to be principal crop so far has been vegetables (potatoes Telephones: Office and Works paid is 5 per cent. The principal can be paid at any especially) and although wheat oats and corn have Zenith, Lincoln, 65 time—all at once or in partial payments, at the Bell, matured wherever sown, and potatoes have been Melrose, 839 pleasure of the purchaser, subject to the beforementioned known to yield as high as 350 bushels to the acre provisions as to the rate of interest. Office and Works: Clover, red top, blue joint the wild pea and other DULUTH. MINN. The state issues certificates of purchase to the purchaser 212-218 Garfield Ave. International' Falls succullent grasses and plants grow wild throughout of stte lands, which are assignable, and the timber and brush land in this region, affording should be recorded in the county. & excellent grazing for live stock, and Koochiching Not more than 320 acres can be sold or contracted County is destined to become one of the greatest to be sold to any one purchaser. dairy counties of the state. The county has many All payments of principal or interest must be made wild meadows and bottom lands which yield on an to the county Treasurer of the county in which the Arnold Coal and I N N E S O A average of two tons of excellent native hay to the land is situated. acre, which the up-lands when seeded to clover have No lands can be sold at private sale. The state been known to produce two crops three feet tall hay reserves the mineral on all its lands. STATE PAIR per year. Fuel Company In conclusion the writer wishes to most emphatically This county is sadly in need of more farmers and state that we have unlimited confidence in the manufacturers and the possibilities here are great bright future of Koochiching County and are watch-, for its resources are still undeveloped. The farmer ing her progress with interest. We are watching or business man who goes to this county and takes Hamline, Midway between St. Paul and Minneapolis the hardy frontiersmen who are blazing the trail to an active part in the up-building will be paid for his September 4 to 9 civilization and? development of her many natural labors. The opportunities'are especially good for Agent for resources we are watching the railroad and water manufacturing hardwood lumber, wooden-ware transportation facilities of the Qounty, bringing her This Great Exposition goods paper and pulp, staves and boxes, excelsior resources to the commerce of the world we are etc. Two railroads traverse the county viz., the Standard Oil Com­ watching the manufacturer harness her water power Minnesota & International which enters the county Will be grander than ever this year, to turn the wheels of machinery, in short, we are in the southwestern corner and traverses to the pany's Lubricatin watching those two great forces "Capital and Industry" Agricultural, Horticultural, Stock, Dairy,. northeastern corner while the Duluth, Rainy Lake develop one of the richest and most importani and Winnipeg Railroad, which is a part of the Manufacturing, Trades, Culinary, Arts counties in northern Minnesota. Canadian Northern system, traverses across the Oils, Coal Oil and and Craft exhibits. St. Paul, Augus 124,1911. northeastern portion of the county. There are Samuel G. Iversoi} seven thriving villages in this county as follows: Horse, automobile and motor cycle Gasoline, State Auditor and Land Commissioner. International Falls, population 2,500, Big Falls, 425, races aeroplane flights—-all to compete for magnificent prizes. One and One-Third Fare Sale and Transfer Ilomeseekers* Rates several lines have been quite active of Building Loans late in advertising Minnesota, the For the Round Trip Stable in Connectfon The Northern Pacific Railway is If you are in need of money to buy, Northern Pacific particularly so, aud out with official announcement of the build or pay for a home the Northwestern those homeseekers' rates are expected inauguration of homeseekers' rates to Building Association of Fergus to attract settlers in Increased numbers points in the state of Minnesota. Falls will furnish it .to you. on the to homes in the thousands of Tickets on sale September 4 to 9 Telephone No. 59 These rates will be in effect on the most favorable terms, if you are interested aeres of rich Minnesota lands 'which inclusive. Return limit Sepember first and third Tuesdays of each write to the Association for are as yet either unoccupied or uncultivated. month, starting August 15th. The information. It has funds on hand at 11. Train service of the Northern srt basis will be one and one-half fare for all times to close loans immediately, Pacific "Superior Standard". Through tickets to points in Minnesota the round trip from Saint Paul, Minneapolis, £nd there is no delay. Address, Oscar?. Doughs r-sn Duluth or Superior- to all from points east and south of Northwestern Building Association* points in the state to which the regular H. A. McCormack, Agent, International Falls, Minn. Fergus Falls, Minnesota. •the Saint Paul and Duluth gateways round trip rate is $8 or more. will he sold at homeseekers' rates oh Northern Pacific Railway This indicates a desire on the part of Buy your shells from the Green the first and third Tuesdays of each Manaoer the railroad to assist Inpopulating Hardware Company and ge$ fjge month just as soon as they can fee developing the Gopher state The made effective lawfully.. chances on the repeating rifle.^ mSii.