Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 31, 1900, Page 33

22 GRAND RAPIDS, ITASCA COUNTY, MINNESOTA. F C. H. MARR’S LARGE STORE IN GRAND RAPIDS. GC. H. MARR. The large store of C. H. Marr in Grand Rapids is at the southeast. cor- ner of Third and Kindred streets. It is an establishment that has fully kept pace with the increasing requirements of a growing country, and in the large stock there are great assortments of clothing, dry goods, boots and shoes, hats and caps, ladies’ and gents’ fur- nishing goods, etc. As may be seen by the picture above, Mr. Marr has a spacious double store, and it is very conveniently and nicely arranged for the inspection of goods. Mr. Marr was formerly in business in Aitkin, Minn., but came to Grand Rapids in 1891, and has been in the mercantile business here ever since. His trade has steadily increased mean- time until it has reached its present large proportions. Mr. Marr has al- ways had great confidence in the fu- ture development of Itasca county. Accordingly he isa heavy investor in Itasca county property. He owns an interest in the Deer River townsite, as noted in the Deer River depart- ment of this book, and has property in various parts of the county. He is an earnest supporter of every effort that commends itself to his judgment for the promotion of the substantial interests of Itasca county, and believes that the time has come for the tide of immigration to turn largely this way. With such a variety of permanent re- sources as exist in this county he is confident of the result, as is adequate- ly shown by his becoming identified so largely with Itasca county inter- ests. Itasca county investment is now known to be all right. WM. E. MARTIN, REAL ESTATE. Mr. Martin has 15,000 acres of land of his own in Itasca county for sale, and is agent for the sale of 60,000 acres of other lands. All of this land is within fifteen miles of Grand Rapids, and some of it is only about two miles distant. This land consists largely of tracts now owned, or formerly owned, by non-resident lumbermen, who have taken the pine, and then offered the land for sale. They do not take the hardwood, because hardwood logs are too heavy to float on the river to the mills in Minneapolis, and on many of the tracts it would scarcely be noticed that any timber had been taken. Mr. Martin says: “These lands are mostly a_ black loam with clay subsoil. There is a clay subsoil throughout this whole re- gion around Grand Rapids, and it pro- duces large crops, with no crop fail- ures whatever. it is the greatest po- tato country I ever saw, but the soil produces all kinds of crops. The set- tlers are all getting along well accord- ing to the work they do. It is so easy to make a living here that some are negligent and do not accomplish half of what they could accomplish. 1 be- lieve it is the easiest country to make a living in there is in existence. The number of inquiries about land is in- creasing, and they come largely from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, and some from Pennsylvania. On the cut-over lands nothing has been removed but the pine, and a large amount of good, marketable timber of other kinds re- main. I am selling good land at prices ranging from $3 to $8 per acre, with six per cent interest on deferred pay- ments. From ten to fifty per cent of the purchase price is required at the time of purchase, according to the amount of valuable timber on the land, etc., and time is given on the balance as the purchaser may desire. The whole region will soon be filled with settlers. Indications are, abun- dant that immigration will be very heavy during all of this season. The prosperity of Itasca county is not speculative, but is substantial. In fact there is not as much of a specula- tive movement as the facts would seem to justify. There will probably be much more of it hereafter. SOME DEER RIVER PICTURES. PRR AAARAAAA LAA AAAAR ARAL: MRS. FRED L. CHURCHILL. MANILA CHURCHILL.