ANNOUNCEMENT is made that 21,000 acres of cutover 

 land in Clearwater and Hubbard counties from seven- 

 teen to twenty-five miles southwest of Bemidji, owned 

 by the Red River Lumber company, a T. B. Walker & Sons 

 property, will be opened at once for settlement, with J. J. 

 Opsahl as the colonization manager. The land is to be sold 

 in forty and eighty-acre tracts, each to front on graded or 

 laid out roads. The prices are to range from $4.50 to $10 

 an acre, and on the forty-acre tracts $20 is to be paid down, 

 another $20 in six months and a third $20 at the end of a 

 year, ten years' time being given on the balance. As an addi- 

 tional inducement to settlers the lumber company will fur- 

 nish on $8 to $10 land four cows on eighty acres or forty 

 sheep on eighty acres. The tract is said to excel in dairying 

 possibilities. Six schools are already in operation. 



To test the soil and demonstrate the value of alfalfa, the 

 company, two years ago, distributed $500 worth of Grimm 

 alfalfa seed with a result that much alfalfa is being grown. 



At present the Walker mill at Akeley has only enough saw 

 logs in sight to continue the mill for a couple of years, and 

 it is because of the short life of the lumber industry that the 

 lumbermen decided to promote agricultural development. 

 Duluth Herald. 



LAST year's lumber cut in Minneapolis will be consider- 

 ably exceeded this season according to estimates and 

 figures from the office of the surveyor general of the 

 second Minnesota district and the Mississippi and Rum River 

 Boom company. The cut for this year up to August 1st is 

 more than double that of 1911. If a log drive located near 

 Little Falls reaches Minneapolis in time the season's cut will 

 be far greatest than that of 1911. 



On August 1, 1911, about 19,400,000 feet of lumber had been 

 cut by Minneapolis mills in that season. By August 1st of 

 this year 45,904,550 feet had been cut. More than twice as 

 much lumber already has been cut this year than in this sea- 

 son a year ago. 



Only two lumber milling companies are operating in Min- 



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