Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-30
SOUTHERN MINI. R. r.

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Through the Rich Belt of Counties ON Our
Southern Border-Choice Agricultural
Land at Low Rates-Favorable Ind uce-
ments to Actual Settlers---How our Va
cant Lands are Being Settled Upon---
Railroads the Great Civilizers of the
Country.
Correspondence of the Globe
In a conversation with the Hon. j. C.
Easton, President of the Southern Minneso-
obtained the following valuable information
pertaining to their enterprise The road
already in operation to Winnebago City will
be completed to Paramount, the county seat
OF Martin county, on or before the first of
July. From that point it will be speedily
pushed on to jackson, the county seat of
that county, thus completing distance of
forty-three miles, the distance between
Winnebago City and jackson, by which
the company acquire forty thousand acres of
choice lands along the line. The road will
be completed to jackson this season. and the
company will push on next year to Flandreau,
| Moody county, Dakota. In addition to the
lands acquired by the original company, this
auxiliary enterprise will, when they reach the
Dakota line, come in possession of one hun
dred and forty thousand acres, of which ten
| thousand are in Rock, twelve thousand in
Murray, and the remainder in Pipestone
county. This road has its initial at La Crosse.
Wisconsin, and it crosses Houston, Fillmore,
Mower, Freedom, Faribault, Martin, Jack
son, Murray, and Pipestone, nine of
the rich counties of southern Minnesota,
from the eastern boundary to the Dakota
line a distance of about three hundred and
twenty-five miles. One hundred and sixty
seven and a half miles of this road now COM
pleted is already doing a profitable carrying
trade, and when it spans the State and opens
up the fine counties of land further on it will
certainly become one of the best thorough
fares in the West, and aid in developing one
of the grandest agricultural regions under
the sun. It will, at an early day, be pushed
across Dakota to the Missouri river at or
near Fort Thompson, thus linking the two
great rivers together by additional iron
bands and spanning nearly nine hundred
miles of the fertile lands of the North
west. The company is composed of men
who are capable of looking ahead compre-
hending the grand destiny that is looming
up for all this marvellous prairie region.
Their lands are being eagerly sought after,
not only on account of their excellence and
accessibility but by reason of the very lib
eral terms upon which they can be obtained
as well. In Martin, jackson, Murray and
Pipestone counties settlers can obtain these
lands in tracts to suit purchasers at from
$5 to 81 per acre upon the following terms:
The settler is required to break one-half the
entire area of his purchase this year, the
other half next season. When the company
acquire title stipulation will be given upon
which So 80 per acre will be Endorsed for all
breaking done, and SO cents per acre
additional when the first crop shall
have been raised, making a deduction of $3
per acre, thus bringing the actual price of
! the lands down to the very low rate of from
50 to 81 per acre. No payment is required
down, and only per cent. per annum in
terest is asked from the time the company
acquire title. The breaking and crops are
considered in lieu of the payments, 50 nothing
is required on the principal until the end Of
four years. No one could reasonably ask
for terms more liberal, and both large and
small farmers are fast availing themselves OF
l those privileges. Parties are not limited as
to the number of acres they may
f purchase. but the company would muct
order to secure more dense population.
= About twenty thousand acres in the town
ship of Jay, Martin county, have been con
. tracted to large company, of which Dia,
mond Joe Reynolds, and Bassett and Hunt
ing, of McGregor, Iowa, Cargill Van, OF
!, La Crosse, and Robert Eliot, of Milwaukee
Wis, and Harvey Anderson, of Brownsville
! Mimi, are members. They are now break
ing with large force, and will turn the sod
of one half of it this year and the remainder
next. Bonner & Wheeler, of Winona, and
? Sam Hyde, of St. Charles, have ten thou
sand acres, upon which similar work is being
done.
Hon. S. L. Campbell, of Wabashaw, and
Col. VIM. II. Teller, of Elgin, have each q
section, and Senator James McHench, OF
Plainview, section and half. The Neal
, Bros. have taken a section, and the Hon
Geo. B. Dresbach half section, all in Mar
tin county. A large number of quarter and
half sections are being settled upon in add,
ton, and still the work goes on. 1t is the
proper way to bring the land under cultiva
ton at once and settle up the country. Ap
plications have already been made
for thirty thousand acres in Pipestone
county upon the same basis. Lands belong
ing to the original company have
3 recently been reappraised, reducing the price
about $500 per acre, thus bringing the sell
ing price down to from $500 to 5000 pei
l acre. The following are the rates on these
lands only to parties who will improve them
sale certificates on contracts will be issued
to purchasers bearing Z per cent. interest
payable annually, principal payable in small
installments after four years. Such terms
to be made only with parties who will settle
4 upon and put their lands in cultivation with
in two years from date of purchase
A large area of these lands have already
been disposed of, among which, Mons An
derson. Charles l.. Moe, and Charles anc
s John Michel of La Crosse, have taken foul
Q sections, south of jackson, on the Des
Moines river, and made contract for hay
< ing the entire twenty-five hundred and sixty
acres turned over this season. Competen
3 agents are located at the various towns
t along the line, through whom applications
r may be made to John X. Brown, land com
3 missioner of the company, La Crosse, Wis
The road handled of last seasons crop ove
3 six million bushels of wheat, and from pres
! ent indications ten millions would not be al
. unreasonable estimate for this years bust
! ness. The gross earnings from August
1877, to August, 1873, will exceed 81 100000
. G. L. HALL.
y DAKOTA, May 81, 1873.
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