The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-01-19

The land sales by the Northern Pa
cific railroad company In October last
amounted to 9l25 acres, at an average
price of 1888 All acre. There were
then on file applications for the pur-
chase in large quantities of farming
and grazing lands, aggregating $780,
920 acres. When such large sales are
made, partial cultivation is one of the
conditions. There was strong de-
sire to get land IN Montana, some two
thousand applications to purchase be-
ing yet enacted on.
A tract of forty-five thousand acres
in Dakota has been sold to Richard
Sykes of Stockport, England. He in
tends according to the St. Paul Po-
neer Press, to break ten thousand acres
during the coming spring, and pro-
poses to send out large numbers Of
Englishmen to occupy his land and
settle on adjacent Government lands.
He has written a pamphlet, published
in September last at Manchester, Eng
land, which sets forth the advantages
of Investment in that locality. He
expresses the opinion that for some
years to come an investment in Da-
kOta will prove more remunerative
than in Manitoba. or the northwest
territory of Canada : He Travelled
everywhere, through Manitoba, Da-
kota and Montana, questioning every
body, investing, traversing hundreds
Of miles of prairie, aud the results Of
all his labor was the purchase 0f the
lands reported above.
Every ten or fifteen miles, all the
way from st. Paul to Bismarck, a dis
tance Of 469 miles, is q thriving viii
lage, each with positive elements of
growth, that encourage their residents
to believe that it is destined to be a
lively town.
A colony Of Germans, mostly in
families, possessing from $4,000 to $1,000
each, will form the first settlers of a
new town called Landtshei, five miles
west of Glendive, early next spring.
Each colonist will receive eighty or
one-hundred and sixty acres for stock
raising or farming. The town site
proper is to be divided into blocks six
acres each, of which each colonist will
receive one for y residence and gar
den.
A party of gentlemen were recently
at Miles City, Montana, to spy ont the
land. Among them was repressn-
tative of three land companies, the
Scottish Canadian and
Dundee. He is in search OF land on
which large colony can be located;
and not less than one million dollars
will be expended in the enterprise.
The plan OF these companies is to
choose the ground, and to build q good
house and barn on each quarter Sec
tion before the colonists arrive. By
this arrangement every settler is ready
to begin farming on arrival, having =
home from the start.
A correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean tells how he rode, seven
years ago, with Custer and the Seventh
Cavalry, across Dakota to the Black
Hills. The route was over q pathless
prairie, and the march was guided by
the compass and Indian scouts. In
August last he went over the same
country ina parlor car, and saw q
line OF thriving little villages. A
bridge that will cost q million dollars,
will, in two years, span the Missouri
river from Bismarck to Ms15dan, y VII
lage that was started last f6ik, aud nov
contains fifteen hundred Inhabitants.
The speculative fever is raging all
along the line, and taEsJSts are eag-
erly bought.