Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-06-06

With yearnlngs Tor the dead.n
Mrs. NJ. ]. E. Crawford.
10sFa Land Sales-Ea0yg Lands
are Bougint-squatsers anss Land
q spectators.
The western correspondent Of the N. Y.
&Tribune thus familiarly notices the Iowa
LAND Sales:
& Persons going to Dubuque, on the arr
bal Of the evening train cannot receive
q heir baggage until the following day, as
the ferry boat does not wait for luggage,
Dor return to Danleith after u P. II. aud
persons in Dubuque intending to go up the
liver by the evening boat, can as well re-
:inember thisj if they do rot wish to re-
main another day, This is a nuisance and
'pn imposition to detain travellers. Those
wishing to go to the northern range OF
counties of Iowa, may better take the boat
4o McGregor's Or to Lansing, from which
points stages 90 westward every morning.
l came to the land-sale, not to buy land,
kut to see the people; thinking it as good
i chance as | should have, and | am not
all disappointed. AS this is probably
le last chance to purchase land, in this
4 art of Iowa, the rush is immense, There
re about 1000 people in this town H. e.
etual :residents0 but now there are at
asst 1000 strangers. Of these, perhaps,
leo are. settlers from adjoining counties,
C0 lockers on, and the rest spectators
Of course, the residents Of this county are
nth the actual settlers. As Eastern peo-
De may like to know how the sale GOES On,
% me describe it:
At the beginning of the sale, the Reg
ter urged all TO harmony if they wished
accomplish their object, and advised
bat the settlers rights should be respected.
Il agreed in this, but all were not agreed
to what those rights were, as Twill show.
Where a man was an actlelsettler he has
keen allowed bis land if ne has proved
~, for no one could prevent this. But
Die settlers who already have 100 acres OF
And, claim as their right for their hardships
Ind sacrifices, to have IAN extra quarter
1kctiou' at Government price. Tie spec
olators generally Thoughts this fair but de
handed that the settlers should tell how
Aany they numbered, and when their land
Eas taken: then the rest should have a
Ilanee. The settlers would not DO this,
: stood on their honor" ands;.id they WOULD
faye as soon as they had their 'se1tra quar-
er section" So the spectators deter
bined to bad up the land. But the set
ers were united, and their bidder would
id as high as any one. Unless payment
made the same day, the Lard IS pat up
the following day, and SO on until the
|urteen days are up, and then the Ian d
bmes in again for -emption. fla man
Ills on land and fails to lake il, he canno.
{ ID again during the sale. The settlers,
eyade this, have u new man to bid for
bem every day; and, if a SPECTATOR bids
Yer their 81, 20 per acre, they bid above
im, and thus go on as high as 81 40 per
ere. In this way the speculator Is kept
ut, and for the same reason, the settler Is
deprived of his "extra quarter section. =
Only one Spectator has had land cheap,
Ind that. through carelessness of the set
hers bidder, went for s., 05 per acre. The
ettlers say they prefer to go without then
hnd. and thus leave it for pre-empton,
han TO have a Spectator hold it ard keep
unimproved. The Spectator tells them
hey are wrong in this, for if they want
eilroads built and public works carried on,
bat they, the spectators, will pay as much
awards these as the settler. But the set
Pr says: We want neighbors, we want
eope to sell our provisions TO, to help
eak out our roads in Winter, and we'll
I'D our own roads, for the Government
les US the land, and you may be sure we
give ap having our extra quarter
peh we would like, to speculate with in
pail way, and you may 90 home with
your land. But then another class are
erested to have the sale go by default
the land-warant men, for pre-emptors
then enter land with warrants. while
no one can. Then the land warrant
N can center land on time" for preenp-
S 8 With their land warrants at forty per
pc. per anlum. But the sqold men
pat Ike this much, for tken thew would
and a second chance for making the most;
erefore they are about resolving to unite
pd get up bank and loan their cold for
u per cent less than the land warrant
en- oiier-at any rate, to loan for less
p' the gold men have an advantage not
,own to all. Uaele Sam will ALWAYS
Ae gold sooner than land warrants, and
= ii p'eenptors know this and prefer the
p'I' y II costs THEM no less, though the
~ warrants cost only s5 cents an acre
Quay The settler must pay the full