, 1900-07-06

Is Us OllOWS
State. Acres Amt.
Nebraska $500. ....335, 597.S3 $500, 391
Colorado $3.50. ....1St. GOS.39 276,9l2
wyoming ..... ....522, 72S.57 G53.Ill
Utah ........ ...316,937.7S Big. 93S
Kansas ...... $500. G2 ,S29.G7 All, 225
One thousand, one hundred and four
different purchasers were numbered
among the patrons of the Union Pacific
land department and the states repre-
scented by them were Iowa, Illinois,
Minnesota, Colorado, Kansas, Nebras-
ka, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Utah and
Wyoming. Among the most important
and the largest purchases during the
year were:
w. j. Lindsay of Ogden, Utah, 2,96G.97
acrs5 in Weber county, Utah; William
DAILY of Rawlins, WyO., S,SO4.S6 acres in
Sweetwater county, Wyo.; George F.
and Z. w. Roberts of Livermore, Colo,
80, 236.0S acres in Laramie county,
Wyo.; Il. S. VanTassell of Cheyenne,
Wyo., 7,163.7S acres in Laramie county,
Wyo.; C. w. Hirsig of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
7.7OS.29 acres in Laramie county. Wyo.;
l.. E. Wizard of Rawlins, Wyo., 34,442.O3
acres in Carbon county, Wyo.; Jay
E@nham of Byers, Colo, 2,iOl. SO acres
in ArapahCc county, Colo; Peter A.
Henning of ~Zumbrota, Mimi, 3,lSS.9G
acres in Lincoln county, Colo.
The enormous sale of lands in the
five states west of the Missouri river.
in which the Union Pacific has land
grants obtained from the government
at the time of the construction Of the
route is certainly an eloquent showing
of the prosperous conditions present
throughout this entire region said an
official of the land department to an
Omaha Bee reporter. In all the his
tory of the Union Pacific land depart
ment no such an acreage has beer dis
posed of.
1T has been the policy of the land
department in the sale of land to dis
pose of it wherever possible to actual,
bOIdllut stNlltlS anu bul q SIiIdll pei
centage of the entire business repre-
sents that which was taken up for the
purpose of speculation. The most OF
the land was purchased with the inten-
ton of using it for grazing purposes
and except certain tracts sold in Kan
sas and eastern Colorado but little will
be used for agricultural pursuits.
This remarkable sale of land during
the year is unQuestionably due to the
improved financial conditions that have
existed in the west during the past year
or more. Then, too, many of our pur-
ohasers are sheep and cattlemen who
have been located in business for a
number Of years and have made a great
deal of money in the sale of their stock,
These profits they have turned in the
channel of added acquisition of land.
believing no better investment possible.
Cattle and sheep men are confident that
these good prizes will continue and they
are banking against the future and
avoiding possible encroachments upon
the territory necessary to the mainten-
anCe Of their business by gaining abb
solute possession of the bulk of the
land needed for grazing purposes. By
this means they are placing their
ranches upon a permanent, substantial
basis.
Many of our purchasers have in
years gone by depended upon free range
for their cattle and sheep. Recently,
by settlers and the growing complica-
tions between the cattle and sheep men
have forced the ownership of range.
In this way the overcrowding of ranges
when used in common is avoided and
the individual owner gets better salts
faction and better returns from his
bunch of cattle or flock of sheep. BY
buying railroad lands and leasing gov
ernment land the stockman has been
enabled to own and control all the land
necessary to the successful conduct of
his business. The high prices of land
in the states east of the Missouri river
have forced people to look to western
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Wyo-
ming for cheaper lands.
I'VE expect to make big sales of land
for farming purposes in Kansas during
the coming year. The splendid crops
assured In the Sunflower state this year
will attract attention to it.. The drouth
and failure of crops in the Dakotas
will divert immigration to Kansas, a
large proportion of which under ordi-
nary circumstances would go to the Da-
kotas. We expect to continue large
business in the disposition of grazing
lands in Colorado and Wyoming. The
desirable climate of those states is one
attractive feature commencing itself to
eastern people who want 20 go into the
cattle or sheep business"
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