Show CLOVERLAND IS ISI I PRAISED BY AGENT Land Merchants Man Declares De De- clares dares Conditions in Michigan Good A representative of or the farm t and ranch department of J i Rich Rich- ards land Jand merchants merch ha has Just returned returned re rc- re- re turned from Irom a er very interesting and amid successful trip to time the upper peninsula o ot ol Michigan where this well Known realty firm has hat become Interested as Western estern n ent for the sale or gra i In lands In what is known as Cloverland Cloverland Clover Cloverland land which comprises es fifteen counties counties coun coon ties tics of ot tim trio tho state of of- Michigan an Within thin this Jre great t tract which juts out into Lakes Superior Michigan and Huron are nrc over oer acres of or land UntIl Until Un Un- til Ill very recently a large part llan of oC this vast ast ast territory was va hel held by hy lumber r an and mining Interests somewhat similar I to the bl big land Jand grants of or However How How- ever eve the government go has lias urged the opening of all available a agricultural lands and for patriotic reasons the thc I principal owners have ha rl decided cl td to cut it itI I rup up UI Into smaller tracts Edward T T. who represented Richards in the Inspection I of or this great tract of land states tatos that he found conditions very cr encouraging ing ng for sheep nn and cattle men The TIme land L landIs Is covered with a 3 heavy growth of or clover r and timber and offers an nn unusually un un- usually fine floe grazing range rang p for tor live live- stocK The opening of or this land is especially opportune Just at this time owing to water shortage of or Western West West- est est- em ern rn grazing grazing- ands lands It is Intended to interest Western Vestern sheep and c cattle men in It this project with the object of or haIng having haying hay hav ing them ship their spring lambs to lo Michigan to fatten during the summer sum sum- Tn mer mner r an and thus bo be within a ride of the Chicago markets Mr lr Capener says ays the lands are are- ver very cheap in price from rom 4 to 1250 an aim acre Durin During the past week two of or the largest larest sheep sheet owners of Idaho have visited e Cloverland erla n and 1 hA have 0 purchased pur pur- chased big tracts of this excellent land one on having bou bought ht acres ares at nt a acost acost acost cost of approximately 14 and tho the other othel securing acres at a cost of ot about These are an some sonic of or the tilE largest buys ever made mad b by Western Vestern ranchers and indicate the time high opinion th these se practical stockmen ave 1 of or the Irr upper er peninsula of Michigan Doth floth oth I l tyers have ha expressed themselves es as asen cry ery well welI pleased with their new nOw property prop prop- arty erty and one of them has already or ordered ordered or- or dered sheep heep to be oc shipped at once for tor summer grazing |