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which he developed were in themselves the means of creating great 

 home markets which still are able to absorb at topnotch prices the 

 products of the farms of Marinette County. 



SETTLEMENT WAS DELAYED. This land of ours has been 



held from the market until 



the present time by the interests of the lumber companies which 

 formerly owned it. It was not to their interest to have any part of 

 it developed until they were through with it. They realized that 

 with the coming of settlers the clearing of land might start fires 

 which would burn millions of feet of valuable timber which they 

 owned. They would not let these lands be opened for settlement 

 until practically all of the first growth timber had been cut, and 

 when fires for land clearing could not possibly spread from the 

 settlers' lands and destroy valuable timber. 



A NEW DAY OF OPPORTUNITY. Today, the lumberman has 



for the most part vanished 



from Upper Eastern Wisconsin. By the process of evolution the 

 day of the farmer in Marinette County has arrived. The one great 

 crop of timber taken from the lands is being replaced by great 

 annual crops of farm products. The lumbering industry of upper 

 Wisconsin made a few men immensely wealthy. The farming 

 industry of upper Wisconsin will in turn make hundreds of people 

 moderately wealthy. 



WHAT NATURE HAS DONE FOR US. Consider for a moment 



how kind nature has 



been to Marinette County. The mantle of timber that for centuries 

 covered this land was in itself a protection against wasteful farming 

 methods such as have destroyed the best lands in many other parts 

 of the country. Marinette County has been kept for you a rich 

 land of opportunity in the very heart of the highest civilization of 

 this continent. In a circle roughly taking in the states of Iowa, 

 Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and small 

 parts of other states bordering on these states, there are 28,000,000 

 people. These 28,000,000 people make up by all means, the greatest 

 farmers' market in the world. Our location is just slightly north 

 of the center of this circle. The center of population of the United 

 States is in the state of Indiana. Marinette County is within eight 

 hours' ride by train of the state of Indiana. In other words, we 

 are practically at the door of the center of population in America. 



OUR SIXTY THOUSAND ACRES. We own today, sixty thous 



and acres of the best farming 



land in Wisconsin, the surface of which varies from level to gently 

 rolling. The rolling land is for the most part the best farming land 

 because it provides natural drainage. It is just as near good 

 markets as any land that sells today for $100 per acre. It is better 



