LANDOLOGY 17 



STATE FUNDS TO CLEAR LAND. Wisconsin now has a law 



by which, under proper 



procedure, state funds may be drawn on for clearing land. Five 

 acres each year for three years can be cleared on state funds, the 

 money to be paid back in taxes over a period of twenty years. 

 With the land that a settler can clear himself, and the acreage 

 which can be cleared with state funds, any settler of moderate 

 means can get his place well developed in a few years. 



MARINETTE COUNTY LAND INCREASING IN VALUE. 



Land in Marinette County has increased in value from 25% 

 to 40% during the past year. This upward trend in land prices in 

 Marinette County has continued for the past ten years, and prices 

 are going up faster today than ever before. Land which you can 

 buy at $25 per acre now will cost you $30 per acre by next season. 



THE VALUE OF FORESIGHT. The Skidmore Land Company, 



is recognized not only as a 



company which has been successful in the sale of lands, but a com- 

 pany that has learned how to combine development efforts with 

 its sales efforts. This is one of the secrets of the success of settler? 

 in Marinette County, but back of this success is the fact that many 

 years- ago when the Skidmore Land Company purchased these great 

 tracts of land in Marinette County they had first looked over every 

 great tract of land available for settlement in the entire United 

 States. They decided finally that the lands of Marinette County 

 were absolutely the best opportunity to be found, and today they 

 are able to offer you the advantage which their foresight provided. 

 Their judgment regarding the lands of Marinette County has been 

 proven correct. Inquiry shows there are more actual settlers 

 taking up lands in Marinette County today three times over, than 

 in any other county in any state in the Union. Your risk in taking 

 up these lands of Marinette County is practically nothing, for the 

 land is surrounded by valuable farms. We feel certain there will 

 never be a better opportunity in land. 



WHY THIS OPPORTUNITY? Many ask this question: "If 



there are such great agricultural 



opportunities in Marinette County, why was the land not taken up 

 long ago?" You can answer this yourself by glancing back a few 

 years. . * .. j 



While other regions were giving to the farmer of the past their 

 prairie lands, Marinette County, Wisconsin, was attracting the 

 lumberman and the manufacturer. As the farmer passed by the 

 Wisconsin timber regions, the lumberman was cutting away the 

 forest. This same lumberman, to carry out his purpose, built 

 towns, railroads, highways, schools, churches, and the factories 



