The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-10-12
che State Day by Day.
GRABBED BY BIG SYNDICATE.
Fort Stevenson Reservation Sold at
Public Auction.

Fort Stevenson Reservation Sold at
Public Auction.
The necessity Of owning land for big
stock ranches is impressing itself upon
those engaged, Or about to engage. in
stock-raising, ard all tracts Of good
land available for ranch purposes are
being bought up by sy%ndicates and cap
italists. Such a purchase was that Of
the abandoned Fort Stevenson reserva-
ton, made by l.. C. Black of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, law partner of Senator For
aker, and representing an Eastern syn
dictate.
The Fort Stevenson reservation was
abandoned several years ago as a mill.
tary reserve, and ordered appraised
and sold. The appraisal was made IN
1899, and the lard was offered at public
sale at the land office at Bismarck.
Many ranchmen living in the vicinity
attended the sale, in the hope Of pick
ing up desirable bits Of grazing and
hay land. But all small bidders were
shut out by MI. Black, who bought ev-
cry tract Of the. 1920 into which the re-
serve was divided for appraisement and
sale. Some of the land was hidden up
as high as SIS per acre. The average
price paid for the $500 acres in the
reserve was SLIGO, n Mr.. Black gave
Receiver Satterlund his check for SILL
$50 for the entire amount Of land.
The reserve contains some good graz
tng and timber land, with coal on parts
of the reservation. The parties who
have purchased the land will put a
share of it on the market for farm land
aid viii. Use this SIDE of the river for a
stock ranch. 1t is we'll wooded n
watered, and excellent shelter anE
srazinL are to be found.
The encroachment of settlers from
the East is reducing the free range so
long enjoyed by tine cattlemen, and un-
less the latter own or lease their range
they will be crowded cut Of business in
the near future.
About $50, 900 acres of land will be put
on the market his fall by the state.
This is land belonging to the state COM
mon schools, and the proceeds of the
sales will go INFO the permanent COM
mon school fund of the state, for in
vestment in desirable securities. Thu
sales of LAM occur at a time when the
market Is firm and lands have reached
a high price. Most Of the and is locat-
ed in the Red River valley and the GEN.
trail part of the state, and the sales al
ready made indicate that the land will
bring far above the appraised value.
None of the state school land can be
sold for less than $40 per acre, and the
average price of the land up to this
time is nearer $40 per an acre than the
minimum price.
Considerable interest is taken by at
:orneys throughout the state in the dis
barment proceedings against States
Attorney H. G.. Voss of Mandan. TINS
case was brought by the state bar as
ISOLATION, and the answer of MI. Noss
Is to be filed in the supreme court this
week. The principal charge against
Mr.. Voss is hat of dereliction in re-
gard to liquor prosecutions. Several
other charges are made. n when the
answer is filed the matter will prob
ably be turned over to a referee for the
takirg Of testimony. This is the Sec
ond case of disbarment that has been
brought in the state, the other case be-
ing that of l.. A. Simpson of Dickin-
son, who was disbarred, n a motion
for whose reinstatement has been re-
ferred to a committee of the state bar
association before it is acted upon by
the supreme court. The Simpson case
will probably, not come up before the
spring term of the supreme court at
Fargo. The action of the court will de-
pend largely upon the report of the
committee to whom the petition for re-
instatement has been referred. Mr.
4, Simpson is a state senator from the
Thirty-first district and prominent po-
litically in the western part of the
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