Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-31

'AINT PAUL DAILY GIL
1879, to be cultivated next season, amounts
to $4,000 acres. Of the wheat crop of 1879
up to Dec. LIST, the Northern Pacific railroad
has brought out, to Duluth, Minneapolis and
St. Paul, 449l carloads or about 100000
bushels. The total of the wheat produced
the past year along the Northern Pacific is
estimated at I, 3OO, 900 bushels, and its aver
age selling value along the road has been not
less than ninety cents per bushel.
THE INQUIRY ABOUT LANDS
was never greater than now, at the Northern
Pacific land department.. There is four
times as much inquiry now "a last year at
this season. Each mail brings to the general
Office in st. Paul about thirty letters of in.
quiry, and many are received at the branch
Offices in Brainerd, Chicago and New York.
About a year ago this land department print
ed ninety thousand illustrated papers
describing its lands. OF these about
four-ffths were sent out during
the year in answer to letters of inquiry, with
also about forty thousand map circulars. In
all not less than seventy-fve thousand mail
addresses were written at the general office
in st. Paul, large proportion being of inquir-
ers about lands. The most of the inauirera
are residents of Eastern States, where the
company and it's property have been most
advertised. But an agency is soon to be es-
tablished in Europe, the operations of which
will be limited to the British islands and
northern countries of Europe.
There is already a great demand for In.
formation regarding the company's line and
lands beyond the Missouri, in Dakota and
Montana, and the coming season will bring
the setting in of current of immigration
which will in few years extend into the far
Northwest long broad line of towns and
settlements. The policy which the company
has lately announced, of Offering its lands
beyond the Missouri at the minimum price
conditioned in the Congressional grant-the
government price for public lands within tho
limits of the grant-shows disposition to
make the best possible use of the land grant
in early sales Of it to actual settlers. No
doubt the company, in adopting this policy,
considered what it had to gain from the
transportation it would have on account of
each and every settler, but its interests and
its policy are.happily in accord with all the
great interests Of the Northwest, and es-
pecially favorable to the growth of the COM
mcrce of st. Paul.
st. Paul. Minneapolis 6 Manitoba.
Ibis compan US land grant up to this time
will in all amount to over 4, 500, 900 acres Of
land, of which over 1,5oo, 900 acres is located
in the central and western portions of the
State, and about 100000 acres is in the
rich valley of the Red River of the North.
Up to the close of 1878 the sales and con-
tracts had amounted to 693,S75 acres, and
the cash receipts therefor were about 3d.
100000. The sales and contracts of the first
six months Of 1879 amounted to 57,1O1.23
acres, and the cash receipts to $296,525.2
The sales and contracts of the last six
months amounted to 1O6,911.26 acres, tho
valuation Of which amounts to $462,652. 10,
and tho cash receipts were 1925, ee6 GO.
The land disposed of during the present
year amounts to 154, O12.49 acres. But this
represents only small part of the increase
In population and cultivation along the road,
for large aggregate of government lands
nave been entered during tho year, and
thousands of families have moved in onto
lands selected and purchased during several
years past, while all along tho lines early and
new settlers alike have for the past two years
improved every day of the breaking season.
The inflow of immigrants has been especial
" great on lands heretofore bought in the
vicinity of the newly built lines, and along
the extension line in
RED RIVER VALLEY.
The land hunters nearly all 60 into the
Red River country, as far as Orookston, and
from there spread out over the country. Up
to Orookston and from Crookston down to
the river, most of the land near the railroad
has been taken. There ore few good &C.
leotions left but the rush is for wider choice
and it extends north clear to the boundary
line. The very large amount of the COM
panys grant located in this part Of the State
has influenced it to offer especial induce
ments for bringing tho land under cultiya-
ton. The prices are fixed at from 81 to So
an acre, mainly according to locality, the
lands being about uniform in quality. Two
classes are offered to settlers. For the first
class payment Of one-tenth the valuation is
required on giving possession and deferred
payments are at per cent. interest. Pos
session is given of the second class lin Mar
shall and Kittson oounties) without advance
payment or any payment except the per
cent. interest until the company is ready to
convey title, when payments of the princi-
pal will fall due under the contracts given
similarly to those Of the first class. In each
class the company offers
A BOUNTY FOR BREAKING
and Cropping, of three dollars per acre, to
be applied on the payments next falling due
after the land has been cropped, to the extent
of three-quarters of tho land purchased,
making the bounty offered a deduction of
1926 per acre from the appraised and SELL
ing value of the land, and enabling every &C.
tual settler to obtain the best wheat lands of
the world at from $1.75to$5.75 pera acre. The
company also gives reduced rates of fare to
land seekers and reductions from passenger
and freight rates to settlers moving in. This
policy is attracting good class of settlers.
Most of them have some capital and all in
tend to earn the company's bounty for early
bringing their lands under cultivation:
THE CORRESPONDENCE