Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 24, 1912, Page 25

FOURTEEN SUPPLEMENT TO GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912. Public Library, Coleraine. Broken Health, Regained. —" But if a man has money enough to make a good start, so much the better. He will sooner have his farm in profitable production and sooner be comfortably established. George Becker was in good circumstances when he came to Itasca county eleven years ago and bought land near Cohasset. He had been suffering from asthma on the prairies but the pine-laden air soon restored his health. His land was well covered with birch and hard maple, some oak and a little poplar. The timber paid for the clearing right through. His lumber brought him from $9 to $12-a thousand, i Real Wealth in the First Six Inchs of the Soil he keeps a herd of about twenty cows and raises a good deal of oats and fodder corn, and, of course, some roots and field crops. His farming opera- tions have been profitable from the start. He has matured corn successfully, getting a yield of forty bushels to the acre or better. He runs a portable sawmill on his farm, work- ing up what lumber he wants for his own use. He has added to his holdings from time to time till he has blocked out eleven forties. For farming, however, his fifty acres and twenty in pasture are doing so well by him that there is no hurry about extending his clearing. Weeagoed M. E Church, Coleraine. Minor forest products, ties and posts and small lumber, is left in the woods where the big lumbermen are done. Iron mines discovered and developed are valued above $50,000,000, though exploration has hardly begun. Yet there is more wealth to be had from the top six inches of the soil than from all the forests above or the mines beneath. Greater wealth than all is the content- ment of the people. All give the same report of the land: The best country in the world for a poor man. Above all it is the place to invest one’s labor. From Goodland to Wirt, from the Mississippi to the Big Fork, every settler who brings industry to his land, is progressing Marae By xleetoeoetoagoatoes ~ —— s . > hasswoc $13, 2175 :, . and some of the basswood $13 ; ; Billions of feet of pine have been logged and prospering. He has cleared about fifty acres for cultiva- in Itasca county and millions of feet is still All we ask is that you study the facts. tion and twenty more in stump pasture. On that standing. —The Publicity Board of Itasca County. ‘eseeeegenieninioeioeeniedeieteteeseeieniededenenteteteteteeetnetestaneeegteteteteeggetetetecendedeietetesntetedeteceet saeeorserbeiedeteetetenteteterententetetetentetentetetentebedindtidenietetesesientesneedesgestetnegbedeteteegeteteteteseetegedetesetage % es - % $ : ibe % ks Ks £ ¢ < Ks z oe . > oe —~ J “oo - dreteget Poererererioeeeiind eentatattnentieat mintetectecetete detected pete geresseeses setetetedeeteteeeedeteieteteciededetedeteteteetedeteetedeteeteege btetetetec 2 4 $ + $ % 3 b 4 P . z * i 4 D4 $ z H. D. REED, President E. L. BUCK, Vice-Pres. Fs $< £ z = z ¥ . 3 p y oe = y 2 3 F. J. SKOCDOPOLE, Cashier ¢ £3 ¢ esaba otor O.: : z Ks Ks 2 3 *< Ke —— a b 4 3. a & % & & $ $ ¢ % 3 $ = + —s — . - ~ a - gs % $ £ % W. G. MOORE, Prop. x % z pa a z SE % Ks & $ ¢ $ ¢ $e 3 utomobile Supplies e ¢ + + $ & + 2 ———EE—s % $ > gs afl ccessories £ ¢ : * £2 3 o£ z % $ % OF $ % z x $ . ) P= { ‘ 3 & 4 4 & BA ; ) )) ) ] = 2 = z pe Fo UVehdsel Olale Dank # Fe 4 ti a + $ ’ ode f u + + + + = $ an %: ? / = és xe es a % $ Cohasset, Minnesota $ 6: ¢ 4 % Ps Bs < = $ 4 = % £ . k3 f ~ c k3 bs Bs 2. oe ¢ an Wey. Gaver 2.33: 3 { ‘pti 6 ; 2 Denlcng and “ive Insurance 3° 23° 3 Repairs of all Description %. £ - 3% / é \ ¢ rer ¢ - © — é 3 2. . d Z. « & & % Ks £ S = & % & & 3 & 4 Ks Ba & & & Ks & & KS és & & & 2 & & 4 ne . @ 7 $3 3 ; 3 $ 5S $ $ 3 $ & $ : ¥ & & & & ‘ Oj ae * : % $e 3 Gasoline, Oils and Greases e ¢ $3 : % $ t= YOUR BUSINESS INVITED ¢ + % ¢ Charged Gas Tanks Always on Hand $ 3 eee Fe RE ron er Cote tee es Seen ap ee §caabee wneeer Woeeteateateecoetoeton’ soe Sostetostentontestoctontontontoetoctostotontontonte Sestoetontontostoc iadoetontoetoatoctontonsontectotonsostontostoeton ioe sonte totes: a ss es se ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eee ee ee eee ee ee eee ee