Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-05-03
SALE OF STATE LANDS.
All Lands Delinquent will be
Sold this Spring.
From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press
been too lenient, have I?'' says
Auditor Dunn. "Allowed the state
land contracts to become delinquent,
have I, I'll just give the Legislature a
dose of their own medicine. I hate to
turn a man out of his home," he says,
''where he has been making improve
ments and working to keep it together
for ten years, but if the legislature
doesn't approve of a gentle policy,
I'll obey their instructions.
"SOme of the contracts are five and
ten years delinquent, and the bill to
reduce the interest would have brought
good many of them in There's no
use wasting any more time with them
now. I'll put up every acre that is a
year behind on its Interest,"
Therefore,, outspoken Bob Dunn
announces an auction sale to take
place between now and July in every
county in the southern half of the
state. It is intended to be a cleanup
of lands sold but delinquent and of
lands not before offered. The latter
is a comparatively small item, in some
counties only three or four parcels,
in others fifteen or twenty, in none of
them in the older part of the state
considerable amount.
The delinquent lands are of much
more extent. The delinquent interest
amounts to $500, 900, of which perhaps
two-Jhirds is in the southern part of
the state.
The district marked off for the sale
includes all the counties of Washing
ton and Ramsey, Hennepin, Wright
and Meeker, Kandiyohi. then a jog,
| and Douglas, Grant and Traverse,
with everything south of them, forty
| nine counties in all.
NO OTHER SALES THIS YEAR.
''There will probably be no other
| sales this year, says Mr.. Dunn.
''These sales will take the early sum-
| mer. In the fall we may clean up the
| delinquent lands in the northern half of
the state, where the amount is less and
the delinquencies have not had so long
to run do not believe there will be
5any sales at new land Ia Che northern
part of the state this year.
81 have collected twice as much in
terest now as any OF my predecessors,
but if we must adopt strict policy
| there is no time like the present.
Some of these patriots in the legisla-
ture will be the first to roar.
"We will give it as wide notice as
possible and arrears may be paid to
the very day of the sale, so that peo-
pie who are in a position to clean up
| their arrears have all the chance there
! is. Even at that good deal of the
$500, 900 will be forfeited, lost to The
school fund.-"
Notices will be sent immed lately to
the counties and appointment of ap-
praisers will be made at once. In each
county one will be appointed by the
governor, one by the state auditor
aud one by the county board. They
| fix the value of the land, which must
not be less than IS an acre, and the
sale will be to the highest bidder at
not less than the appraised valuation.
The sales will be advertised in one
paper of state circulation and one
paper in each county, and lists con-
tanning complete descriptions of all
the lands will be furnished by the
state land commissioner for as wide
circulation as possible.
Dates of sales will be announced as
fast as they can be appointed. The
terms are the same as in all sales.
The law requires Is per cent down,
with interest on the unpaid principal
at 5 per cent to the first of next June.
The remainder can run forty years
with interest payable annually June l
in advance. The deferred payments
may be made at any time in any in
stallments.
On timber lands-there are few tim
Der lands in this lot-the rule is at
least Is per cent down on the estim ated
value of the stumpage. The land it.
self is not sold until it Is cut over.
The timber is paid for by scale and
the deferred balance is due as soon as
the logs are scaled.
No land or stumpage is sold in any
case except at public auction at the
county court house.
This series of sales will be much
larger than any previous seoson's
disposal of state lands.
A girls "complexion" may be
slammed on her. l0ver's heart hit most