LANDOLOGY . _ 21 



land for it is virgin land, and there is no better soil to be found 

 in the entire state of Wisconsin. It has fifty years the advantage 

 of land that was settled fifty years ago, for it is that much farther 

 away from the condition of the worn out New England farms. You 

 can raise anything on the lands of Marinette County which can be 

 raised on the $150 per acre lands elsewhere, and usually two or 

 three times as much. 



LOCATION OF OUR LANDS, We own today practically all of 

 - the good available unimproved 

 farm lands in Marinette County. Our tracts include lands in every 

 township of the County, but the best lands available today are in 

 the central, western, and northwestern parts of Marinette County. 

 There are some lands available near to Marinette. but the better 

 farm lands of the county are not in the vicinity of Marinette. 



The tracts of land which we are settling are traversed from 

 north to south by the main line of the C., M. & St. P. Ry., and the 

 northwestern part. of these lands are also given transportation ser- 

 vice by the Soo Line. Several branches make up complete railroad 

 service. The network of railroads in Marinette County gives the 

 settler in this locality the markets of Marinette and the city of 

 Menominee, Mich., adjoining, which together have a population of 

 35.000 ; Milwaukee and Chicago to the south with a practically 

 unlimited population ; the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to the 

 west, and the copper and iron regions to the north. It is safe to say 

 that at the present time at least one-third of all the food products 

 raised in this locality are bought by the copper and iron countries at 

 prices usually at least ten per cent above Chicago prices. The 

 cities of Marinette and Menominee are in themselves capable of 

 absorbing all of the crops raised in this locality. The stores, banks 

 and schools of the city of Marinette are metropolitan. It is a manu- 

 facturing center of great and growing importance, and with natural 

 advantages which in less than ten years are almost certain to make 

 it the second or third city in the state of Wisconsin. 



With five great railroad systems forming a network in 

 Marinette County, there is very little of our land that is more than 

 seven miles from a railroad shipping point, nor more than the same 

 distance from a town. Our land overlooks a vast well settled 

 country divided into some of the finest farms to be found in the 

 state. The developed lands throughout our tracts, and immediately 

 adjoining- have already proven this to be the most productive land 

 in the state. 



THE OLD TIMES AND THE NEW. Y u envy the farmers 

 - ~~ - who started like this 

 years ago, and who have a competence now. But note how they 

 started. Civilization was far away from them and they suffered 



