-m •^srf'^aiA^" tw^r^ni^'iv"11y "4^*^ ^j* •V. Pip WKS2 'j w,. -a '1 Ffftllll!® 5r /l •T-I» «-. 'r 7? vu i"xt 4 f"^"^r "Sv "*5, ^5- ---»j tgp- •«!*.-.' E\ rs$ -t ft W 'Yz* -KU- •..%? INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. KOOCHICHING COUNTY When In Littlefork Stop at D. J. WEIMER The LJlloe Hotel THE AGRICULTURAL GARDEN OF MINNESOTA Ladies and Gents Tailoring. Furs Restaurant in Connection BY F. J. MCPARTLIN made to order. Meals at all Hours Koochiching County, as ^.n agricultural region, asserts her position in the sisterhood of counties of Minnesota. Though less Nect Door to the Bank than ten years old as a settled portion of the state she now has over Feed Barn in Connection one thousand home owners on her farm lands making a living from the soil and the work incidental io its development for farming purposes. HENRY LILLOE, Proprietor All kinds of Cleaning, Repair­ Koochiching County embraces approximately ninety-five townships. Of this vast tract the State of Minnesota still owns ing and Pressing done on about 900,000 acres, the government of the United States about 300,000 acres and the remainder is owned by settlers and lumber companies. shortest notice for ladies and The agricultural future depends upon highways and markets. gents. Prices reasonable. The soil of this county has been tested in every portion of its vast Three Leaders acreage and found exceedingly productive. Wheat yields this year on an average of fifty bushels to the acre oats, seventy-five potatoes, three hundred, while all root crops yield abundantly, and all other three hundred, while all root crops y: The vast tracts grains and grasses flourish with equal fruitfulness. 'Hk/t burned over by Dy tne the rorest forest nres fires are are this this year year sp splendid hay meadows D. J. WEIMER and grain fields. With roads and markets the farmers of this region Golden Grain Belt Beers will Tind themselves the best situated among the farmers of this state. Markets are being supplied by the building and operating of Ek Building, Second St. Third Ave. the mills and manufacturing industries spoken of elsewhere. The Harpers Whiskey highways contemplated under the direction of the Northern Minne sota Development Association affecting Koochiching County will give International Falls, Minn. to the various settlements fKe means of reaching the markets. There is being planned for this county trunk line roads aggregating 200 All kinds and sizes of buttons made to order Rock Spring Water miles in extent, of which large portions are now roads used for travel which will be connected up to make through roads from boundary to boundary of the county. Judicial ditches as well as State ditches have been established which aggregate in length about UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH, Local flgents 150 miles or more and these ditches with the roads will drain and ~*fr: International Falls, Minnesota. Ml MHPHHHMHHMMMm FAIR, STATE Eric Franson AND Dealer in EXPOSITION Lumber and 350 Real Estate ENTERTAINMENT EDUCATION® International falls and NO rAIR LIKE THIS IN ALL THE WORLD FARM BUILDINGS NEAR NORTHOME, OF COMMISSIONER WM. DURRIN. Ericsburg I make useful nearly every acre of the 1,800,000 acres of this countyThe work thus planned will take not less than two years and will require All K^nds of Lumber delivered at reasonable an expenditure #f about $700,000. This work, performed under the present laws', places but a small burden upon the farmer, while prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. the state lands, otherwise not taxed will bear the greater burden of Choice Business and Resideoce Lots. this development. While the season of summer weather is much shorter in this county than in the southern counties of the state the summer days are so much longer that the same amount of sunshine is received during the growing season, the growth is much more rapid and the crop matures much quicker. On this account the vegetables, especially, are of a much more nutritious Variety than those grown where the season so much longer. Ey ery clearing immediately grows up to grass and affords a natural pasture. The sowing of timothy and clover on the surface without further attention will develope a splendid timothy and clover field yielding two crops of hay each summer, and needing no re-seeding. MEAT MARKET UNDER Koochiching County, ao rich in nutritious grasses and root crops, affords a remarkable field for dairying. The lakes and rivers of this region supply the best of waters for stock, and the forest lands N E W A N A E E N shut off the winds of winter prevalent in prairie regions, and prevents any severe hardship upon the live stock during the winter months. ESI The in and around Northome and Mizpah in this settlements county have developed farms that will surprise those who visit it for the first time. Good roads, good buildings and thrifty "farming people prevail throughout that region, and the greater part of the timber FASTEST PACERS PROGRAM has been removed in that territory. Following the railroad *250000* northward the settlement prevails, except where the lands belong to V58h 2.02% the state. In the Big Fork Valley for miles around the village of MINOR HEIR GEO.GANO Big Falls the original settlers still own their lands and have commenced Get your Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton HEDGEWOODBW 2!01 LADY MAUD 2.00 & a systematic scheme of road building so that their farm and Chickens and fish from us. A new dairy products may marketed. The timber is fast disappearing rh*BE5iSpecimens«fleading be in this valley and farms and prosperous homes are taking its place. consignment arrives Friday and It is a most fertile region and its agricultural future is assured. BBEEDS41VE STOCK Saturday. WE WILL GIVE YOU Still further northward along the Littlefork Valley has its reputation v, for fertility well established in many of the agricultural colleges of IN PURSES SATISFACTION. the United States. This reputation is born out by the homesteaders FROM ALL OVERTHEWORLD in that valley producing every variety of farm produce. Roads are fast being built in a systematic way in this valley and the swamp lands thoroughly drained. Hundreds of farms are started in the Littlefork Valley and there is room for many hundred more. All along the Rainy River the lands have been cleared and cultivated for several years and it has passed the experimental stage and become an assured agricultural success. The products from this valley reveal its fertility. In the lower Rainy River Valley there is a settlement following up the Black River and another settlement still further HARMAN & GEMMELGARD down following up the Rapid River both of these rivers flow north into the Rainy and their valleys are well settled and producing all oPectaco AEROPLANE FAMOUS FOR ITS MUSIC MARINE IRON CO. MEET THE BEST EVERYWHERE AND ALL THE TIME WRIGHT BROS 5 BAND* 3 (MM SOME or MANY THE MACHINES 4 FLIGHTS 0 OTHER SPECIAL ATRACTIONS THRILLING CONTESTS NAIH10IH OUTDOOR SPECTACLE ^*v~ BATm-CLOUDS EVERYDAY gp( 2DAYS WATER CARNIVAL All kinds of new and repair work. MONEY'S ELECTRIC TANDEM AUTOMOBILE Heavy forging and steam fitting. RIVERDALE FARM NEAR INTERNATIONAL FALLS, C. B. KINNEY, MGR. it EXHIBITS®'CHAMPION SHEEP kinds of farming produce. Following the Duluth, Rainy Lake & Gasoline engine work a specialtv DOCS DIRECTED BY FAMOUS Winnipeg Railroad south the valley or the Rat Root Rivei is traversed ?•%.affftsfc SHEEP FARMERS RACING with the stations of and Ray affording markets to one of Ericsburg All HI6H CUSS ATTRACTIONS the county's best settled and most prosperous farming regions. In COME this region a system of roads has been laid out and provision made NO FAKES ALLOWED for the draining of the swamp lands and the uniting of the various localities. The land in the Rat Root Valley is cultivated WITH YOUR FAMILY in many places and tKe produce of grains, grasses and root YOU WILL BE ROYALLY crops are most satisfactory. ENTERTAINED EVERY MINUTE TO THE Space will not per mit altiore detailed agricultural description is of vast territory It is a veritable parlor in Nature's palace. The ^k STATE FAIK CltOUHDS past few years have given forth such a great development of this great region that the mind must pause in contemplation of what the future has in store for the thrifty and industrious. We do not invite MIDWAY BETWEEH the wealthy to bring their money but we invite the poor and industrious Long Distance. Telephone Melrose 1270 MINNEAPOLIS to come where wealth abbunds and needs but the energy and Duluth Minnesota united effort of the industrious and optimistic to bring it forth from its store house in the land of this rich region. ST. PAUL. it M" .'*• a