50 THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY, 



5, 10, 20, 40, 80, or 1,000 Acres or more of land for Fruit, Vegetables, 

 Poultry Kaisihg, or general farming in Sections 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 30, 

 as shown in plat at |8.00 and up, per acre on easy payments of $1 

 per acre down and 50c per acre per month. 



FKANK W. SMITH & COMPANY, 



Owners 



Room 60, 88-90 Washington Street. - Chicago, Illinois. 



Agents Wanted. 



Eoscommon County will grow more and better wheat, oats, rye, speltz, 

 timothy hay, clover seed, beans, field peas, potatoes, cabbages, sugar 

 beets, turnips and rutabages to the acre than any other County in the 

 State, or in Illinois, Indiana or Ohio. * * * 



Our land will pay double the value per acre that the average high 

 priced land of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio does. And yet such land can 

 be bought for $6.00 an acre up. Land upon which, the third year 

 it is under cultivation, a clover seed crop will yield from |75 to $100 

 per acre. 



St. Helen Development Co., 

 Chicago Offices : — 607 Atwood Bldg. St. Helen, Michigan. 



Corner Madison and Clark Streets. ' 



WATCH 



For a large advance in 

 values of Roscommon and 

 Ogemaw county lands this . 

 spring. : : : : 



Last Year's Crop Warrant It 

 Don't Wait Get in on the Ground Floor 



Wm. F. Johnston 

 Roscommon Michigan 



II. TIMBER STRIPPERS AND SPECULATORS, NOT SETTLERS, GET THE LAND 



SOLD. 



In the body of the report, reference is made to the fact that but 

 little of the land sold is bought by those who come, in as settlers to 

 establish homes, most of it being purchased by those who buy for 

 speculation, whereas most of the real settlers come in as homesteaders. 

 Reference is also made in the body of the report to the fact that most 

 of the tax homestead land sold is bought by habitual purchasers who 

 buy in large quantities. These large purchasers, it is stated, constitute 



