Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 31, 1900, Page 26

16 GRAND RAPIDS, ITASCA_COUNTY, MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS AS IT APPEARED IN 1889. PLENTY OF PINE. A. B. Clair, register of deeds of Itas- ca county, who deals in pine land and hasfbeen all over this region, says that the amount of pine timber still stand- ing in Itasca county is considerably underestimated, and that the total amount is certainly not less than two billion feet, mostly in the southern half of the county. He knows ten townships that have at least 80,000,000 feet each, and ten townships are only one-eighteenth of the area of the coun- ty. Hesays there is cedar enough in the county to last forty years at the present rate of consumption, but that the output is annually increasing. He says the official business in his oftice as register of deeds is double what it was a year ago, and inquiries about vacant lands are received by almost every mail. PART OF GRAN MARL IN THE SOIL. One reason for the extraordinary fertility of the soil of this region is the very general presence of marl in it. No reason is’ known why there is more marlin the soil here than else- where, but there certainly is a re- markably large amount of it through- out central northern Minnesota. It is a fertilizer of great strength. rl