Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 24, 1912, Page 21

j { TEN SUPPLEMENT TO GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912. The Story of a Man’s Success in Itasca County When the panic came in 1893, Duncan Me- Dougal! had 38,000 ties on track in Pine county, which he had sold to Northern Pacific. But North- ern Pacific went into the hands of a receiver and asked him to keep his ties another year, which was all he could do. In 1894 came the Hinckley fire and burned up Mr. MeDougall’s 38,000 ties, leav- ing him stranded. -A pleasant situation in hard times for a man rising 45 with a newly married wife. For the next two years he just managed to sustain their lives. He walked hundreds of miles from lumber camp to lumber camp. Wages were $16 a month and jobs were scarce at that. A sea- son in Dakota brought in some money that was swept away by a doctor’s bill. And in 1896 the situation had not improved. His good wife consenting, McDougall deter- mined to take up a homestead on one of the lakes in Itasca county. The ground was wet and there Many farmers are making a fair living with a small clearing and pasturage among the brush. John Nyberg’s place near Deer River was no road nor trail. Supplies had to be packed twenty miles from the nearest town. Nevertheless, with plenty of courage, he took possession of his claim July 3, 1896, with the following outfit: Blankets, a mosquito bar (they had no tent), a few tin things, an axe, the clothes on their backs, a sack of flour, a little pork and a little lard, a pound of tea and two pounds of coffee, their whole commissary amounting to perhaps ten dollars, and fifty cents in cash. There they picked up a living such as the Two hay crops on the meadow shown in the fore ground paid for the clearing.—William Welte’s farm near Big Fork. north woods affords, game and fish and wild fruits, with the sale of forest products as the mar- ket improved, and soon McDougall was making money. They did not long depend on their mos- quito bar for shelter, for McDougall knows how to handle an axe and his first job was to build a home of logs that he cut himself, since replaced by a comfortable frame dwelling. One year he had a contract in the woods, another he bought a quarter section, took off several thousand dollars in ties and posts and sold the land for nearly as Sectertectestectectont eo Pecteatestoct oehoteeenbnteteetetetectenteteteeendesteteetndetete DUNN & MAROIA | Sustestectastectest Castectectecterst Suctectastecte teatestestectostectestestestestestestecteateston’ Sa es sa Sontoadoedoeguregontontonzonseatoegeetoeseasoateazeezengentsuazeegeseesetsoaseazegegeets Oe a a a a ac sa ae sustpredostestecteatestectentect 38650000006 ° SS eh a a OD Small fruit grows wild and thrives under cultivation. Raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, plums and other fruits are found everywhere.—Ap- ples do well.—In the Phil Smith orchard near Grand Rapids much as he paid for it. Until now he is a sub- stantial man in his community. Besides, Little Jessie is an alluring lake, abounding in fish and Mrs. McDougall is famed for her cooking. So that people have taken to spending a few weeks at McDougall’s in summer or during the hunting season, until the business of the resort amounts to a considerable item. His clearing is fourteen acres, which is to be increased this year. ‘‘I have done pretty well,”’ he admits, ‘‘but I would be better off today if I had given more attention to farming instead of fooling round so much in the woods. The land is rich, it will grow anything that can be raised in the middle west and the markets are good for everything we have to sell. It is easier now that we have railroad service and good roads to get back and forth. 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