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CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



Home of Jorgen Jensen, One of the Buffalo River Pioneers 



expense has been $12.00 for each of 

 the fifty-five subscribers. This includes 

 connection with the lines of the North- 

 western Telephone Company at Moor- 

 head, with no additional charge for 

 local service. Formerly the North- 

 western Telephone Company owned all 

 of the instruments and received $9.00 

 per year for each phone in use. Since 

 April, 1914, the local company has 

 owned the instruments and the cost of 

 connection was then reduced to $6.00 

 per year for each phone. 



The officers of the company are : 

 Victor Johnson, president ; M. G. Steen, 

 secretary, and N. J. Ness, treasurer. 



"Not a single load of straw has been 

 burned on any farm since I have owned 

 it," was the startling statement made 

 by Jorgen Jensen. It helps to explain 

 why the Jensen farm produced a train- 

 load of stock, potatoes, grain and other 

 products in 1914. He has kept up the 

 land by raising stock and growing di- 

 versified crops. Today the soil is as 

 fertile as when the first crop was 

 raised. 



Mr. Jensen was the pioneer breede: 

 of Holstein cattle in Clay County. H< 

 owned full-blood stock and alway: 

 kept a registered sire. He raised Hoi 

 steins because he liked the breed; anc 

 this is natural, for Mr. Jensen was bon 

 in Schleswig-Holstein of Danish par 

 ents. He came to America with nil 

 parents in 1870 and settled on the Buf 

 falo River in Clay County. 



Mr. Jensen is one of the big men o: 

 Clay County, and has done much to aic 

 in developing its resources and to pro 

 mote the things that are worth while 

 He is president of the Kragnes Farm 

 crs' Elevator & Mercantile Co., a di 

 rector of the First State Bank of Moor 

 head and of the Comstock & Holy Cross 

 Farmers' Insurance Company. 



In 1886 he was elected sheriff of th( 

 county and served two terms. He was 

 elected to the Minnesota Legislature ii 

 1890. but the fusionists, who controllec 

 the House, refused to seat him, as h( 

 was a Republican. 



Looking across Swede Grove Lak< 

 one may see the fine set of building! 



