The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-27

splenu1Q IanOs at low price. Inc resOluClOn
reads: "Resozcea, That the agricultural lands
of the. company west of the Missouri river to
Puget sound shall be offered for sale to actual
| settlers at the government price of $3.50 pei
acre cash, with an addition thereto of ten cents
| an acre to be paid to the company to REIN.
| burse it for the cost OF situating surveying
| and conveying sale fands. This resolution
does not apply to coal or iron lands, nor to
! lands chiefly valuable for timber, nor to lands
| required for townsites or suitable for manufac.
! turing sites, nor to regions where water is
| scarce. SO lands containg springs or the natu.
raj supply, where it shall be for the interest OF
settlcrs'at large that such water privileges
shall not I've exclusively held or controlled by
any individuals, nor to lands required for tie
! use of the company in connection with the
! operation of the road.
CENSUS APPOINTMENTS.
The formation of supervisors districts
| under the provision of the census act of March
3, 1879, has been completed by superintend-
Massachusetts and California. The appoint
| ments of supervisors must be made in each in
| stance by selection from applicants residing
within the boundaries of the respective dis
| tricts. These officers will practically control
the thousands of local appointments neces-
! sary for the work of taking the census, and
they are to be filed by the first of January
Minnesota is composed of three districts as
| follows: First district Blue Earth, Brown, Cot
| tonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore Freebon
Houston, Jackson, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Ly-
on, Martin, Mower, Murray, Nicollet, Mobiles
Olmstea, PipestoDe, Redwood, Rock, Steele,
Waseca, Watonwan, Winona, and Yellow Med
icine counties. Second district, Big Stone,
Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Douglas, Goodhue,
Grant, Hennepin, Kandiyohi, LIE Sueur,
Nc Leod, Meeker, Pope, Renville, Rice, Scott,
Sibley, Stevens, Swift, Traverse, Wabasha, VIII
| and Wright counties. Third district, WASH
! ington, Ramsey, Anoka, Sherburne, Stearns,
Todd Aitken, Otter 1ail, Clay and all other
counties lying to the north and east of the line
Wisconsin has formed districts us follows:
First district, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Greene,
Lake, Kenosha, milwaukee, Ozaukec, Racine,
Rock, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington
and Waukesha counties Second district,
Adams Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Grant,
Greene, Iowa, Jefferson, Juneau, Lafayette,
Marquette, Richland and Sank counties
Third district Vernon, Monroe, jackson,
Clark, Taylor, Price, Chippewa, Ashland and
| all the other counties lying to the north and
west OF the line thereof. Fourth district,
Manitowoc, Calumet Winnebago, Waushara,
Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln and all
the other counties lying to the
| north and east Of the line thereof.
Iowa, four districts: First district, Cedar
Clinton, Davis, Des Moines. Henry, Iowa, JET
ferson, johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Lee, Louise
Mahaska, Muskentine, Poweschiek. Tote, Van
Buren,, Wapcno and Washington counties
Second district Aiamankie, Benton, Black
| hawk, Bremen, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw,
| Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd,
! Grundy, Howard, Linn, Marshall, Mitchell,
Tama and Winneshiek counties. Third dis
trict> Adair, Adams, Appanoose,> Audubon,
! Cass, CLARK, Dallas, Decatur. Fremont, Guth.
ire, Harrison, Jaspar, Lucas, Madison, Marion
Mills, Monroe, Montgomery, Page, Polk, Potta
| wattamie, Ringgold. Shelby, Taylor, Union,-
| Warren and Wayne counties. Fourth district,
! Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carol, Cerro
Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford. Dickinson,
Emmett, Franklin, Greene, hamilton, Han
! cock, Harden, Humbolt Ida, Kossuth, Lyon,
Monona, OBrien, Osceola, Palo Alta, Plymouth,
! Focahontas, Sac, Sioux, Story, Webster, Winnie
bago, Woodbury.. Worth and Wright counties.