Burnett County, Wisconsin : a pamphlet descriptive of Northern Wisconsin in general and of Burnett County in detail

              GENTRALIiY LOCATED
'Had Dciture been sparing- in her ^ifts and placed notbing within the present borders of Burnett county ex¬ cept soil of the lightest character there would still have been conditions which would eventually have made that part of Wisconsin of much im¬ portance.
The one jzreat and most favorable •condition is that of location. The importance of this should be fully un- 'derstood.
At the head of navigation on the Mississippi river have grown up two ^reat cities, the northernmost limits of which reach within forty-five miles of Burnett county. At the head of ^navigation on the Great Lakes are two other cities whicli are destined to be the greatest of all cities in the Central west. The southernmost limits of these cities are within thirty-five miles of Buinett county.
An air line drawn between these iBike and river cities passes directly
Tjhe Unlimited Agriccltural Resources
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle¬ men:
When asked to prepare a paper on the agricultural resources of Northern Wisconsin, it seemed to me I was getting a threadbare subject. A few days later I read in a Milwaukee paper that the lumbermen of Northern VVis- <X)nsin were aiding the slate to stamp out small-pox by fumigating their camps weekly and that the men were taking frequent baths. I made up my mind that if an editor, one of a class supposed   to   know   everything,
througli Grantsburg, the county seat of Burnett county, and the distance is but 125 miles between city limits.
The growth of tiiese cities and the interchange of business will greatly afi'ect all the territory between and that v\hich is along the line of most direct connection must re^.eive the greatest benefit.
In dealing out gifts to Burnett county nature was not sparing in fav¬ ors and there are few things now found in Northern Wisconsin which aje not found in Burnett county in greater or less degree. So true is this that any article descriptive of the northern part of the state must likewise be de scrip! ive of Burnett county
Among recent papers on this sub¬ ject is one prepared by Louis K. Wright, of Wausau, and read before the Agricultural Mass Convention re¬ cently held at Madison. It is so full of good things that it is worthy of a place in this pamphlet and we repro¬ duce it in full.     It clearly sets forth
of the Entire Northern Pi^rt of the S:ate.
could stand for "frequent baths" in a lumber camp, I might Qnd farmers who knew but little of the agricul¬ tural resources of our northern country.
The southern part of Wisconsin has long been famous as an agricultural country. North of this rich belt, but nearly all in the southern half of the state, a strip of sand land, of varying width,'runs east and west across the state. Years ago this was spoken of as Northern Wisconsin, and was looked upon as  the   beginning  of  a