Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1899-04-21
ming, north andsouth. heJames-

ming north andsouth. TheJames-
town e. Northern railroad, running
north and south, crosses Eddy and
Benson counties, touches the west
end of Devils Lake at Minnewau-
kan and forms a junction with the
Great Northern at Leeds, while
the 500 road strikes the southwest
ern part Of the district, crossing
Wells and McHenry counties.
The land office is located in the
city of Devils Lake. The Devils
Lake land Office is presided over
by Ole Serumgard as register, and
Henry E. Baird as receiver. This
land office is the largest, or does
the largest business of any land
office in the United States. Dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 30,
1898. there were 1857 homestead
filings made here, aggregating
about 5000, 900 acres ofland. The
total amount of land remaining
surveyed and unopened is est
mated at about 100000. At the
rate it has been taken up in the
past year. which was larger than
any preceding year, every ere will
become private property within
the course of three years. The
homesteaders of late years are Of
an intelligent and thriving class,
nearly all of whom are practical
farmers, a great many coming from
the central&western states.
REAL ESTATE IN DEVILS LAKE
COUNTRY.
It would be difficult to find a
section of the country where there
is a mor inviting field for real
estate investment than in Devils
Lake and vicinity, and the same
may be said of farmers seeking op-
portunities in the way of new To-
cations. The large amount of gov
eminent lands open to settlers in
this section until quite recently
has had an influence in keeping
the price of farming lands at a
very low ebb. The opportunity to
secure free government lands is
rapidly passing, however. In fact
the quarter sections of good farm
ing land Uncle Sam has to offer
his nephews are becoming scarce.
During the year ending June 80,
1898, 1867 original homestead en-
tries were made in the Devils Lake
land district, the largest aggregate
of any land district in the United
States. However, this will stand
as the high water mark for future
years, as the good vacant public
land is even now almost exhausted,
and the value of all land in this
section will consequently begreatly
enhanced in the near future. The
demand for farming lands in this
section is now rapidly increasing.
New settlers are coming from every
direction, mainly from the eastern
and middle states. Good farms,
convenient to railroads and towns,
can still be obtained here at prices
in many cases less than one-half
the amount at which land in the
middle states, no more accessible
or more remunerative, are held by
their owners. q
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POWELL, THE LAND MAN.
Prominent among the Devils
Lake men in the several lines in
dictated by the above caption, we
mention Nh. Albert NJ. Powell,
who, by his untiring effort for
more than fifteen years of active
work, by conscientious devotion to
the interests of his nonresident
and local clients and customers,
and by moderate charges, has built
up a very extensive, successful and
ever-increasing business. Supple
menting locally the efforts of the
immigration departments of the
Great Northern Railway Co., the
unprecedented influx of new. and
sturdy settlers to the Devils Lake
region for the past four years, can
in no small measure be fairly at
tributed to Mr.. Powell's extensive
advertising and personal work