Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-31

been formed and many farms have
already been opened; while larger inn
migration and the establishment of i'm
portant coal mining and commercial en-
terpriscs arc expected during the coming
seasons
MINNESOTA AND DAKOTA.
In Minnesota and Dakota the company
has for sale Exclusive of the /, ,459 200
acres. of Minnesota lands not to be pat
ented until the Lake Superior terminus
of the road is built at this time about
10000 acres of land, mostly agricul-
tural. Of the whole about / ,450, 900 acres
arc in Minnesota and the remainder in
Dakota. These lands arc being rapidly
taken up for cultivation, over 10000
acres having been sold or exchanged for
preferred stock in the last summer and
fall. In his annual report for the year
ending June 80, President Billings men
tiOns that the sales of the year in the
Minnesota and Dakota divisions had not
been as large as in previous
years and adds: ''The reasons
are obvious. The company's lands near
est to the road have generally been taken.
There are government lands nearer
Nonresident purchasers are offering
their lands for sale. The preferred stock
commands higher price Yet the
sales of the five months following June
80 have been unusually large-nearly
doubling those of the whole year to
which Mr.. Billings referred
The total sales in these two divisions
for the year ending June 3oth last were
239 1905 81 acres In the five months,
July 1st to November 30th inclusive,
the sales amounted to 456, ,243. 90 acres,
making e total for the seventeen months
of 695. .54s.77 acres. The lands sold in
the Dakota division during the year 1879
go amounted to 224, ,s42 acres during
the five months ending November 80,
to 440,65 acres; total for seventeen
months, 665, ,493 acres. The sales in the
Minnesota division during the year end
ing June 30th last were II, 1853 acres; in
the five months ending November 30th
80, ,055 acres. These returns do not include
sales in Minnesota on the joint (contested)
account of this company and the st. Paul
& Manitoba company, which in the five
months ending Nov. 80, amounted to 3d.
532 43 acres; nor the sales on account of
the Western railroad company of Mimi
esota, which amounted in the five months
ending Nov. 80 to S,e39.2l acres. The
Western railroad lands appertain to the
line between Sauk Rapids and Brainerd
The joint lands are located at the crossing
and tapping of the n. p. and ST. p. & NJ.
land grants; and the two companies are
united in selling and conveying them
pending their contest as to ownership
The government land sales in this re-
gion are further indicative of the rapid
settlement of the country The returns
obtainable are only for the year ending
June 3oth last, but it may be presumed,
from the increased railroad sales that the
sales of government lands have been con-
siderably larger during the last half of
this year, In the year ending
June 80 there were 1909 en-
tries at the Fargo and Bismarck
land offices in Dakota, amounting to
1,0S1, l04 acres, of which 5,485 entries,
covering S11, 1924 acres, were inside the
land grant limits of the Northern Pacific
In the same time there were at the Du-
luth, ST. Cloud, Fergus Falls and Crooks
a L..
sofa 6, 793 entries, amounting to e72, 145
acres, of which 3,027 entries, covering
404, 729 acres, were within the lines of the
Northern Pacific land grant. Large sales
in the same limits have also been made
by the State of Minnesota and many for
mer large purchases of railroad lands
with bonds have been sold out to
actual settlers.
THE GREAT WHEAT BELT.
The most of the lands of this company
appertaining to its Minnesota and Dakota
divisions, lie in the great wheat belt of
the New Northwest and the increase in
earnings of the completed road IS
mainly to be attributed to
the rapid advance of wheat production
along the line. Last season in the Min
nesota counties of Grow Wing, Morrison,
Todd, Wadena, Otter Tail. Becker and
| Clay, the cultivated area tributary to this
road was 90, 16O acres, of which 155, ,2s2
acres was in wheat and 1903 acres of
new breaking is to be added TO the culti-
waited area this year. In the Dakota
counties traversed by the road, between
the Red river and the Missouri, the farms
and areas cultivated and broken of the
season of 1850 were as follows:
Quilted In New
No. area. wheat. break e
| Counties. farms. Acres. Acres. Acres.
Cass 1000 $4,000 10000 10000
| Trail. ,O6O $4,000 25,O00 12,OOO
Richland -. $50 $1,000 10000 10000
Barnes 1900. 600 26,250 $4,000 $4,000
| Stutsman. -. 2225 12,050 5000 10000
Kiddcr. ...... 2 2,6y0 $50 1000
B,lrleigh 49,, 400 1900 5000 10000