INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS J' V" J.y **r 'jA V- 4 k-j rV ill iPiMliilliBSil *rx*r"- Partial View of the Lumber Yards of International Lumber Company. Northwestern Minnesota is nearly all dealers, who are selling lands In prs^ Message to the Northwest. prairie and the soil is a heavy black tically all of the northwestern state* loam resting on a clay subsoil. While thif admit that during the past year, corn, grasses, and vegetables are By Cyrus Northrop, have handled more Minnesota raised in this section of the state, other than they have in any of the President Emeritus, University of Minnesota. small grain, such as wheat, oats, rye, states included in their territory. barley and flax are the staple crops. Take the state of Minnesota as ft About fifty per cent of the lands in the whole, from the Iowa line on 1 am an old man now, and have seen many things in the Northwestern Minnesota are under south to the Canadian boundary oa world. I have seen this great country that we speak of as the cultivation at the present time, while the the north, from the Dakotas on MINNESOTA APPEALS STRONGLY northwest come, in my lifetime, to be populous and rich. The the remaining fifty per cent awaits men west to Wisconsin on the east, TO MEN DESIRING CHANGE forest has fallen before the farmers, the field has blossomed and only the hand of man to make them in all walks of life will find within bloom and give forth abundant crops. the cities have risen to greatness. If there is OF LOCATION. Its border lines, splendid opportune Improved farms are selling in Northwestern anything that an old man 80 years of age could ties to secure a location. Minnesota at from $40 to $75 say to a people among whom he has spent the The state of Minnesota maintains per acre and wild land can be purchased FINE FARMS AT LOW COST a state board of immigration with a happiest days of his life, it is this: We liv.e in at from $20 to $40. Northwestern commissioner in charge, whose duty the most blessed country in the world. The Minnesota is probably receiving it is to furnish authentic information things we have accomplished are only the beginning. more immigrants at this time, about every section in the state vptR As the years on, and always we than any other section of the state, go Anything Raised in North Temperate application increase our strength, our power and our because of the low price placed on Zone Can Be Grown in Southern her lands, the fertility of same and wealth, we must not depart from the simple ADVANTAGES OF MINNESOTA. Section of State—Many Acres their comparative ease in bringing it teachings of our youth. For the moral fundamentals of Homestead Lands Open. under cultivation, and in a few years, are the same and unchangeable. Here Minnesota has 4,000,000 acres ol I am of the opinion, that practically timber. in the northwest we shall make a race of men F. D. Sherman every foot of tillable land in this section hi By F. O. Sherman, The primary horsepower used that shall inherit the earth. Here in the distant of the state will be farmed. State Immigration Commissioner. Minnesota factories is 297,670. years, when 1 and others who have labored with me shall long The statement made that Minnesota and rivers, while the eastern portion The estimated value of Minnesota have been forgotten, there will be a power in material accomplishment, The tide of immigration which is is receiving more immigrants of Central Minnesota is a gently rolling standing timber is $4 per thousand. constantly moving westward, comes in spiritual attainment, in wealth, strength and moral influence than any of the other northwestern hardwood timber country. Improved The value of the annual timber production principally from the states of Iowa, the like of which the world has not yet seen. This I firmly states is made on good authority. farms can be purchased in of Minnesota is $25,991,104. Illinois and Indiana, although practically Last year, the Minnesota Transfer believe. And the people of the northwest, moving ever forward Central Minnesota today at from $65 The cost of material used annually all of the eastern states are Railway company, located midway between to greater things, will accomplish all this as they adhere always to $100 per acre and wild land at in Minnesota factories is $281,622,000. substantially represented in this St. Paul and Minneapolis, handled from $25 to $50 per acre. to the moral fundamentals, and not otherwise. The annual production of Minnesota movement. To these men who are 5,277 cars of immigrant movables, factories is valued at $409,420, seeking a change in location, the state "Bread Basket of the World". of which 2,350 cars were left 000. of Minnesota appeals strongly, because Northwestern Minnesota embracing at various points in Minnesota and Minnesota building stone is beavtfc of the many opportunities afforded all the counties south from the Canadian the remaining 2,927 cars were distributed Jul, durable and adaptable to evory in this state, so rich in natural border line to Ottertail and west between North and South purpose. resources. of Beltrami to the Dakota line is what Dakota, Canada, Washington, Oregon Minnesota ranks thirteenth Improved farms in the states to is generally termed "The Red River and other western points. In addition the states in the value of its LAND ARE FOR SALE the south and east are selling from Valley," and is frequently referred to to this, statements made by land factures. $150 up to $300 per acre and are renting as the "Bread Basket of the World at from $4 to $10 per acre, while in Minnesota, highly improved farms in the southern part of the state, 98C which is conceded to be in the Corn •TATE'S POLICY, AS NEAR AS P08SIBLE, Belt of the Northwest, are selling at IS TO SELL TO from $80 to $150 per acre, and these farms will compare favorably with Deposit your money in our savings depatment— ACTUAL SETTLERS. the richest agricultural lands to be We Pay 4 per cent Interest found anywhere in the United States. While corn i^ the principal product in MANY OF LANDS NEAR MARKET Southern Minnesota, grains, grasses, fruit and vegetables of all kinds art grown abundantly. In fact, anything Sell on an Average of Between $7 and that can be raised in the North Temperate $8 Per Acre, The Minimum Ap« Zone, can be grown in South* ern Minnesota. praisement on Any Parcel Being $5 Per Acre. Natural Dairying Country. Looking further northward, we find By J. A. O. Preus, ourselves in what is known as "Central State Auditor. Minnesota." This is a section of The State of Minnesota still has J. A. O. Preus the state where the lands are not yet all tnore than 2,000,000 acres of land for developed, but in every county Bale. Its policy is as nearly as possible embraced in the territory mentioned and its average value about $10,000. above, many highly improved farms to sell lands to actual settlers. When you carry cash you have Minnesota has a larger school fund than The Legislature has determined that are found growing corn, grain, fruit everything to lose and nothing to monthly sales must be held in nine different any state in the Union. The proceeds and vegetables abundantly. The fact counties in Northern Minnesota from all school lands and swamp lands that Central Minnesota is dotted with gain. go into the Permanent School Fund. many lakes and streams makes this at the 'Court Houses. 320 acres can The trust funds are at the present part of the state a natural dairying When you carry a bank book be sold to any individual and all lands mseWi are sold at public auction. Fifteen time as follows: sota is for the most part you have everything to gain and Permanent School Fund.. $26,162,123.98 per cent cash must be paid down and prairie country, excepting that Permanent University Fund 1,627,606.62 the balance may be paid any time nothing to lose. INTERNATIONAL^TA' Internal Improvement Land wood timber i8 found along the lakes •within forty years at four per cent Fund 2,893,166.42 BANK BVILDING Swamp Land Fund 4,792,008.23 interest. The lands are largely cutover In addition to its agricultural wealth, lands and some of them are Minnesota has three large cities, Minneapolis far discovered is $1,468,000,000 which swamp lands. Many of these lands has an approximate population then is one-half of its actual value. are at a reasonable proximity to markets, of 360,000, St. Paul, 275,000 and Of this the State of Minnesota owns schools and churches. Legal descriptions Duluth 100,000. approximately ten per cent which is of the lands for sale may be Minnesota is not only an agricultural leased to Mining companies at 25 cents obtained from J. A. O. Preus, State State. It produces more iron ore than per ton. The proceeds from these Auditor. any other State in the Union and in mines go into the State's Permanent The lands this year have sold on an fact more than 63 per cent of the iron SS73.00 Trust Funds. Only their accumulations .average of between $7.00 and $8.00 per ore of the entire nation each year, or can be expended by the State :arce. The minimum appraisement on nearly one-fourth of all the iron ore Legislature and these only in the manner any parcel is $5.00 per acre. Minnesota in the world. The assessed valuation prescribed in the laws regulating was lost by Andrew P. Smith. He carried it has 170,000 farmers and the average of Minnesota's mining properties so our Trusts Funds. size of each farm is 160 acres in a wallet. The wallet was kept in his coat pocket, the pocket was fastened by a safety pin. Smith hung the coat on a post for a few ... minutes. Upon his return he found the money was gone. Had he kept the money in the International State Bank this could not have happened. I N E N A I O N A S A E A N Capital, $30,000.00 International Falls, Minnesota M. F. MURPHY, President. N. L. OLSON, Cashier. R. S. McDONALD, Vive-President. B. B. KOTILINEK, Asst. Cashier. On Beautiful Rainy Lake