The sun., 1890-07-15

male 10 mari beds the latter being accom-
panied by what purports 70 be an analysis b.
eides all this the land Ia enormously valuable
IL seems for stock raising purposes, and espe
cial attention is called TO one singular thinG
about 1t:
strange 70 ssy the Sr.,, tssS ETo.s S on the GD:,
during tho entire year Instead of the grass dying ant
failing q. /! doe. 70 other countries. The sap or gree
' saJu9 %y S''fs1si iaf !' uGS stEPs !as
S dG upon S sSs 2t
they DO when kent up aud red upon the best CURED hay
hsTSs hhTg Il TO 4S PIEps SE Gs
9 h, s Is 6 sur9Rs Where n rSs he
OF the season again causes 1t to take It's downward
After all this minuteness OF detail somethlnG
precise as TO tho location OF the lands might
be expected. but all the circular says on this
point is contained in the Irst paragraph
quoted and in this one!
New England city located on the north bank of the
SSSsSsC. SSsS @Son @ pFoms 10 pSEy the Gsts G
*. Mat MI9gT m. soss %lsHss nMS
SdyantNsss sxcesnt i ais" r,.pis's to Income 70
walton which lies directly to the south
New England City does not appear on any
mnp yet published. but the latest editions OF
the al las mention place OF that name in Het-
finger county. pak.. and that this ID the New
England City meant is ind dIcated by the follow
ing sentence IRON the prospectus OF the COM
pany: ',
Ater making nm examination, about as ooo acres Of
il. e.tng.r county on the line OF the 81 Pau, Black
Iills aud Pacinc Railroad
TO De an official report Dy James j. saunders.
Jnitod States Deputy Surveyor. Gladstone.
North Dakota" after referring in the m,s' IT. S. eX.
company" and rapturousy describing their
Ignite coal, gypsum. aud mari, with special
that "the St Paul. Black Hills und Pacific X
H. traverses his rsg'on; aii1rdinS an an easy easy
fu
no CONTRACTS; 40 RAILROAD EITHER.
The circulars also advise. everybody, in glar
Ing red letters, TO seud TO Mr.. Foote for our
new colored map circular" in,imating that
thereon the exact location OF the comnanys 8
lands. with its coal mines. gypsum. mail. and
never dying grass is clearly defined. MIR.
Eoote however could not supply one OF these @
seem to have any idea hmself where the lands
wore. They were, somewhere in HettinRer
the Northern Pacific hailroad Company, but
he had never seen any map on which they were
deeds or other evidences OF titles 10 the
lands, but supposed they we're all right be-,
"InrGe contracts for the briquettes MI; Foote
understood, were with the Northern Pacific
fuel on Its locomotives. He had never seen the
CONTRACTS hut guessed they we're all right, be-
other definite in formation as to the ;..,'ri.ies
which he was advertising SO eXtensi~aty, MIR.
Foote became decidedly skittish and finally re-
fused TO assume any responsibility Tor the cor.
rectness of the statements In the ad yertise-
ment. and referred the inquirer TO the Boston
Office. subsequently. when told that the con;
Germ did not own any lands in Dakota and had
no contracts with, the Northern Paciho Rail.
soHd G qt rna nof seem @dn rase 6G
as agent for the company any longer.
The Boston office Of the Northwestern Land
Gl0be building. It is in charge at present OF
young man and beauteous typewritinR
tbe % M % r the RRd and ff 1nf il bs IN
Contracts" con The young o iI man % was % more votube
than definite in the information he had to give
had no map on which the lands OF the company
wei laid out. but he produced mar, OF Da-
ran down from the Northern Pacific Nairoad
thirty or forty miles into HettinGer county;
That he said, was the St. Paul. BIsck Hills and
Pacific Railroad.
Subsequent investigation proved that in this
statement II In nothing else. the young man
is the st. Paul. Black Hills and Pacific Rail-
roud-all OF 1t and the whole Of it.
AN INQUIRER REFERRED TO THE NORTHERN
PACIFIC.
New England City was not down on the map.
but the young man knew it existed, and had
20O or 800 inhabitnnts., He also knew that the
Go%mEaRys lHHds rUes we're adoi11ing
make New England City part Of tllem-and
that they had been bought Of the Northern Pa-
eae kailroad Company and raid for two Years
produced from the Ignite coal from the com
pany's mines. and said that. while The con-
use OF these briquettes on Northern Paclllc
locomotives. there was much bigger thing
purchase ' Of them en- ABOUT ] to be consummated mi ted
With the state OF North Dakota What the
State S1 Tas G0DC to DO with the
titles, contracts. other. documents
evidence that the company really owned any
that he had never seen any. Mr. Titus attended
TO all that, he said. For positive information
mattcrs M tt s about % them the Young ' man am aereed greed
with the would be investor that good place
to apply would be at the Northern Pacific Rail-
In final burst OF confidence the young man
confessed that he and some friends were max
the concern that they could lay their hands on
at the present price OF 81 share. and then to
send It skipping R 1D to sl2 sti6 for LAS starter The
deal was going on was pleaded by the young
man as an excuse Tor any reticence he might
charge of the office a few weeks. and most OF
his Information about the company came from
In advising the investor to get In on the
ground floor, and assuring him that the stock
Investments owing to the wonderful future OF
briquettes. the young man said tha this twenty
10 arrive at that conclu uson. 1t was perfectly
evident. however. that he had carried his orlgi-
nHl innocence unthrnlSneu through all tnOBo
twenty years, and was a. green at heart as the
never dying grass of HettinRer county.
That he Is not on the inside" Of the COM
panY is sufficiently proven by the fact that he
going to the Office of tho Northern
Pacific Railroad for Information about the Da- |
kota lands and the briqnette contracts A |
eingle inquiry at tho Norh hern Pacific offices
knocked The bottom out OF the whole North |
western Company's scheme. President #. r. |
Oakes was the man to whom the inquiry was
addressed
EXPOSED by THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.
Yes we have heard OF the Northwest Land |
and Coal Company" he said we have heard |
? good deGl OF it, 1t wouldn't be our business |
to 60 into the matter OF our own accord | SUD- |
pose, but If the Boston office of the company I
has advised you to come 10 ns for information. |
they certainly can't object II we give 1t. guess |
their sending you here was blum. but II it was, |
they must take tho consequences. The facts |
are that this Mort hwestern Land aud Coal Com |
pany hasn't bought n single acre OF land from |
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. nor, |
50 far as we can discover; does. 1t own n single |
acre in Dakota Certainly IL cannot own |
$4,000 acres III llettingor county with
put having bought from us, for all
that county Is covered by our land !
grants, dividing tho land In alternate. sections
between the railroad aud the Government. Our
ands they have not bought ana the Govern
ment lands can be obtained only by actual sol
lement. There Is no railroad anywhere near
that section, in cOurSe q