St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-01-14
G9e yntelligenttr.
westward the course Of empire takes it, way "
A. d. ?. HITnRETH L D. d. W. CARVER, EDITORS
st. Charles City, Iowa, Dec. IA, 1853.
Land Sales in Iowa.

We have adviccs from Washinrto
that the Commissioner of the Genera
Land Office has already issued proc
lamation offering for sale all the Coy
ernmcnt lands i'm Iowa which hav
been surveyed. This will cause
| greater rush to our State during tn,
coming season than we have ever be
fore witnessed 1t is understood tha
all those lands which have been here
to!ore offered at public sale, and wer,
withdrawn from market on account O
the railroad grants, but which do no
lie within the six mile limits of tn,
railroad grants, will be open for sal,
and entry in the latter part of Febru
ary. These lands comprise all th'
even numbered sections lying between
the six and fifteen mile limits of tn,
railroad grants and both even an,
odd sections outside the fifteen mil,
limits so far as they have hcrctofor,
been in market The minimum pric,
Of these lands will be 81, ,25 per acre.
The even numbered sections whicl
lie within the " six mile limits" of the
railroad grant (thc minimum price o
which is $3.50 per acre. and all those
lands which lie outside the "six mil,
limits and which have never as vet
been offered at public sale (thc mini
mum price of which is 1925 per acre
will be brought into market during
the months Of May and June next
There will yet remain a few oountic.
in the Northwest portion of tn Stat,
where the surveys are not completed
These facts we are sure will graft,
both the people of Iowa and those a
the East, since great inconvenience,
has accrued to many who have beel
dcsirous of securing lands by pul
chase, but have been prevented by
reason of their having been withdrawn
from market. We expect therefore
that the land trade of Iowa will cr,
long assume an unusual buoyancy anc
activity, when our State will become
the home Of additional thousands o
honest farmers and mechanics, hithcr
to prevented from cmigrating for tn,
reason just named. Indeed it is no
necessary for our Eastern friends to
wait IA day. Let the hundreds anC
thousands in the manufacturing towns
and cities of the East, who are now
discharged from work, quit at one,
and forever their precarious depcn
dcncc and seek home in the West
Withdraw your five hundred or thou
sand dollars from the savings bank
where you have for years SO sacred.
kept it at an interest of only five pc
cent, and bring it out here to deposit
not in banks, but in land the most fer
tile and lovely that the sun ever look
ed down upon. When factories stol
and banks fail, this land will stand b,
you, aflording sustenancc to your
selves and your families.
We know NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. o
lands in this vicinity of the very bcs
quality-who are prepared to undersel
the Government, and still make mon
cy. This at first thought appears in
credible ; but when it is understoo,
that the land was procured with wal
rants costing less than a dollar al
acre, the fact appears plain. w,
deem it better for the settler to bu,
these lands at second hand than +
purchase of the Government, for tn
reason that home can thus be ol
tanned near village or in a neighbol
hood ailordng the convenicnccs q
stores, mechanics, churches, schools
&c. If Eastern people, and especial
ly those in the manufacturing dis
tricts, could understand the facts a
they actually exist here, they woul
not hesitate a moment about coming.
AS it is, we have reports that ther
will be a large immigration into ou
State the coming spring and let u
here suggest that no New Englan
man should stop short of the Ccda
River. The soil of the Cedar Rive
valley is unsurpassed in fertility, an
the healthfulness of the climate is be
coming proverbial. Our county G
Floyd, as well as the counties Mort
and South of us, is settled with til
best class of Inhabitants mostl
Eastern people, possessing INTEL
gence and enterprise. Eastern thrii
and energy are sure to make thci
mark, AMI they are Enthusiastically see
throughout the towns of this porto
of Iowa.
To those wishing to locate in a fine
healthy and enterprising town in tn
interior, we would modestly sugges
st. Charles City. The McGregor, S
Peters and Missouri River Railroa
Company have concluded, it is said, t
make this point the terminus of thei
II road for n four uaars apl hanca ,y;