New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-04-29
Bound For Red
River Valley.
Exodus From Brown and Redwood Coun-
. ties About to Begin.
Attracted by the Low Price and Wonder
full Fertility of the Lands Along
the Red River.
The Northern Pacific Active in Engineer,
ing the Movement.

A Springfield special to the Pioneer
Press reads as follows:
There has been a great stir here in the
last few weeks among the farming pop
ulation in united movement by which,
in the uext month or so, some fifty fami-
lies are likely to migrate to tie counties
of Otter Tail, Becker, Clay, Norman, or
some other point in the Red River valley.
Since the division was made by the su-
preme court between the lands of the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railways, the lands of the latter have been
| thrown on the market, and are selling at
such low rates that many are being attract
ed ttither from this county, as we'll as
from neighboring counties. Judge J. J.
Ray is the agent of the company here,
and is to send off the first installment
within the next two weeks.
The class of men who are going are
those who desire to own land of their
own, but have not enough to buy land in
this part Of the state. These are young
men, farm renters and men who have
been in business on small scale. Land
within easy reach of Springfield cannot
be purchased for less than from $25 to
$50 an. acre. In the Red river valley,
Judge Ray assert that land quite as good
as the land around here, and for wheat
purposes better, can be bought just now
at prices ranging from So to $9 an acre
and timber land at lower figures even.
In the last four or five years the land un-
der cultivation in the Red river valley
has yielded on an average from twenty
six to thirty-five bushels of wheat per
acle, according to locality. The North
ern Pacific company makes easy terms
of payment: If, for example, a man
were buying quarter section for $5 an
acre, Re can settle down on it by paying
one tenth of the price at the time he set
ties, and has ten years in which to pay the
remainder Of the sum in equal INSTALL
ments, and will be Charged 6 per cent
per annum on what he owes the compa-
ny. A man, on these terms, can 90 there
in this way with $130 and come into pos
session at once of a quarter section farm,
for which he will get a contract, and
when the land is fully paid he will get
warranty deed. Timber there is a
great deal cheaper than here. For anoth-
er $3.50 man could build house SUI
ticient for all ordinary purposes until
such time as the farmer could afford to
build better home.
At the request of Judge Ray, one of
the field agents, John NJ. Danlby of
Moorhead, here Saturday and >ad-
dressed large number OF those who are
now arranging to go north, and they
were we'll pleased with his descri pt1on of
the lands and prices. MI. Dahlby offers
to bring any man or number of men free
of expense over the whole stretch of
lands, covering 100000 acres, until
they are satisfied with location and are
prepared to settle down. If maa should
90 up there and not he satisfied he is un-
der no bond to buy land, and will be
charged nothing for the expenses which
the field agent has incurred in showing
him around. ...
The idea of the men from Springfield
and its vicinity, who are meantime on
the move, is to form a colony and settle
down as near to one another as possible.
Judge Ray wishes them to buy several
townships in proximity and get built at
once in the center town with church,
school house, stores, ETC., before next fall
is over. He will go north himself after
all the arrangements here of the colonists
are completed. and will open d store at
once. He believes firmly in diversified
farming and will encourage the colonlsts
to get into that type of farming as soon
as possible, though he thinks that wheat
farming will be necessary for two or
three years until little money is made.
The villages from which the northern
colonists are being drawn are Springfield,
ISanborn, Lamberton, Mountain Lake aud
Morgan. Six men from Springfield will
start by team with all their goods and
chattels next week and the Others will
follow by twos and threes Immediately
after. The agents there do not wish
more to come at a time than they can
look after and get settled down comfort
ably.