Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-04
OLIVIA.

Olivia, situated IN the very center VI
RenyiIle county, on the highest bench of
land, on the Hastings Dakota division of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
road, one hundred miles west Of st. Paul,
is thriving little village d two hundred
and fifty inhabitants. It vas Incorporated
as village, under the general laws OF the
state in 1881 and since that time has been
steadily growing and at the present time
is the best village in Renyille county. we
do not claim to bs Chicago or st. Paul;
but simply the metropolis of this county.
The country around Us IS settled up with
a very desirable class of people, Ameri-
cans, Scandinagians, Irish and Germans
all good citizens ana IN honor and bless
ing to any country.
We have thousands of acres of land
around Us IN crops, and thousands of acres
of wild land waiting for some enc to come
and turn it over when it will yield crops
that will surprise them. North, south and
west of US the land is high, with but few
sloughs; but east of us the country is full
of sloughs and mud lakes.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road Co., and the Saltwater st. Paul
railroad Co., hive large quantities Of land
for sale arouuC II at prices for which no
person can 90 Dakota and take a pre-
emtion or homestead. It is strange that
so many persons are wild over Dakota
lands, when tn = is SO much land of a
better quality right at home for a less
price. We suppose it is owing to tho fact
that we can furnish no alkai water nor
cowboys to aEuse tham with. We can
show several il Stances of young men gong
from here to / kota, and in short time
return home ll5gusted with the country,
and spend -.outh or two recruiting up
from the effect Of alkali water vowing that
Olivia and her surrounding country is the
best and cheapest on top of the earth.
The crops of all kinds have been good
this year and last. Wheat has yielded
from eighteen to twenty i've bushels per
acre, oats from fifty to sixty Bushels, and
corn and vegetables in abundance. We
are only one hundred miles west of st.
Paul and Minneapolis and are near enough
to those markets 10 insure Us & good price
for our products.
Olivia being in the confer Of all of this
prolific country and on the railroad is
made the market for all tho grain and
farm produce, which she ships to St. Paul
and Minneapolis, dor.. q very large bust
ness in shipping butter and eggs alone.
Her three elevators, enable her to handle
all of the wheat, oats and other grain
which come 10 her. The elev ltors are con.
Quoted by Mr.. Ehle Of Faribault and
Messrs. Kellogg and Long of Minneapo-
lis, and can handle twenty-five thousand
bushels of grain per day. Wood and coal
L. -
Paul CT MINNEAPOLIS and all kinds Of mer-
chandise is aboHt the same price. Flour
we purchase . Granite Falls, twenty miles
west on the Minnesota river.
Our farmers, the main stay Of the vii
lage ara not obliged to market their farm
produce in one town, thus being in po-
sition to protect themselves against mo
nopoIies, eighteen miles south we find
Morton on tn minneapolis d ST. Louis
railroad, t'lre. miles west of Morton is
Redwood Falls on a branch of the Chicago
q Northwestern railroad, and twenty miles
north of Us We find Wilmar on the st.
Paul and Manitoba road, thus you see We
are well provided with railroads and every
thing necessary to make large town,
(which We are certain to become) and to
make the people happy and confronted.
Now it is not necessary to go three or
four hundred miles west of the Mississippi
river to secure home; poor men can
make homes around US much cheaper than
to go farther west, even if the land in Da-
kota is given to them.
Just stop at Olivia the garden spot of
Renville county and we will furnish you
land at from four to seven dollars per
acre and give you eight years to pay it in,
we will show you some of the best land in
the United States for stock raising, on
which you can cut from two to five tons of
hay per acre, and the best of hay at that,
we will show you land on which you can
raise twenty-five bushels Of wheat per
acre, sixty bushels of oats or eighty bush
els of corn. We will introduce you to as
good a class of men and ladies as you ever
saw; we will take you to church and
Sunday school on Sunday, and send your
children 10 school nine months in the year
if you wish, III fact we will furnish you
with everything necessary to make you
happy and prosperous, except aikali wa
ter and cowboys. JIM.