The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-22
LARGE LAND SALE.

OYER NINETEEN THOUSAND ACRES
IN MOBILES COUNTY,.
Over 1O0.O 900 acres Of st. Paul and
Sioux City railway land was sold yes
terday by !. II. Drake, land commits
sioner. The lands are located in near
]y all the counties in Minnesota, CON-
prising the original grant to the com
pany. The sales aggregated over $780,
900. A large number of purchasers
were present, among them many from
abroad-St. Paul Pioneer Press, 10th.
The lands sold are nearly all situa-
ted in Mobiles, Murray, Jackson, Cot
tonwood, Watonwan and Martin. or
in the famous Blue Grass Region. They
are known to the land department as
the "Red Lands,' being so marked on
the maps and correspond to certain
class of bonds. 1890 acres, or nearly
one-ffth Of the whole sale, are in No.
bles county. and lie principally in the
towns of Bloom, Willmont and Leota,
with some in L!smore and Larkin, the
largest number of acres sold being in
Wiilmont.
We are assured by Field Agent
Smith that the sale is bona fide one,
and that the deeds will he made out by
May, so that by another year the lands
will be taxable beyond doubt, and will
b. taxed accordingly.
At this rate the people of Mobiles
county will soon have no individual or
personal interest in the long-mooted
question Of taxing the railroad lands.
Over two thirds Of the lands in this
county have now been sold, leaving
not more than thirty or forty thous-
and acres unsold. II the present year
should prove as favorable for the sale
of railroad lands as last year and the
year before, the whole Of the Uri ginal
railroad lands will have passed into
other hands, and will lie sold as rapid
ly as possible to actual settlers, just as
they have been in the past by such
companies rs Nre!lcriHsen Il Co., Close
Bros, the Iowa Land Co., etc.
OF the agents HOW selling in this
county we learn that Nessrs. Shell &
Smith sell in E!k and this vicinity,
Bnysen in Seward and Hansen in WILL
mont and Bloom. They will push the
work CT securing settlers as rapidly us
possible aud this ought to be our best
year for land sales, as the opportunity
for cheap lands will soon pass on to
other and inferior localities to the
west Of us.
The senior editor has returned to his
desk to find that IA little sparring has
been going on between the Sibley Tri-
bune and the editor pro TEN Of the
ADVANCE concerning the "tgotism'
and the "iLtlueuce' Of the ADVANCE
The last issue of the Tribune has just
come into our hands, and we see that
it comes back ut one Of the ADVANCE
articles as follows:
Simply because one man has always
worked for the interest Of u certain
done it all and that it would not have
survived only for him. There are
many men in Siblry and OsccUln coun-
ty who have done rs much for this TO-
cality, and in the face OF opposition ut
that, still they are not eternally harp.
ing about it and claiming all the honor
for themselves. Take the Iowa Land
Go. for instance. They have invested
more money and improved this part Of
the state more than Il whole hay rack
full Of Advance or any other newspa-
per man has done, still they are not
claiming anything extra for it. Mr.
Miller made a living and lots Of money
out of his work, so has the Land Co.
Other men have done as much in pro-
portion but not prospered so we'll. A
mans efforts should be appreciated
when directed in the right direction,
but if he is continually l,arping about
it and claiming Il killed the bear" the
people soon drop him and let him get
all out Of it his egotism will permit.
We think we can settle this whole
controversy in about two minutes if
the Tribune will take the trouble to
look back over the ADVANCE files. All
the ADVANCE ever claimed was that it
led in many important suggestions and
enterprises and that some of them sue
ceeded largely through the efforts OF
the paper and the personal hard work
of the editor. The ADVANCE never
claimed that it did it all or that the
bulk of the enterprises would have
failed without it. Some We believe
would. The ADVANCE claims only
that 80 far as the success of this COM
munity has been due to newspaper ef-
fort, it has 'bagged most of the bears.
AS an humble member of the Oriental
Order of Humility, we can only ex'
claim, "Oh, why should the spirit OF
mortal be proud?''