Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-12-13
THE RESERVATION.

and future years. I
THE RESERVATION.
Already Visiting it and Select
ing Claims.
The fact that the Devils Lake
Indian Reservation will be thrown
opento settlement isalready known
throughout the western part of
The United States and in fact to a
more or less extent throughout the
country. The proof of this
is the fact that real estate dealers
in this city are being flooded with
about the matter from
all parts Of the United States.
During the past several weeks q
number of people have arrived in
this city and have gone across the
bridge to the reservation and ex-
amined the land, being fully con-
WINGED on their return hat all that
has been said about the exception
ally fine piece of land is true. It
is not the intention of anyone to
make it appear that the land is
better than it really is. Suffice it,
to say that the land on the reser-
walton is fully as good, if not bet
ter, than the land in this county
and that is saying a good deal,
when it is becoming a we'll know
fact that Ramsey county land is
better and sells for a larger price
than land in any place in the state
where it has been settled on no
longer than the landin this county.
When it is known that 20 years
ago, there was not a white man
living in this county and that to-
day $1,000 souls are now within its
limits and that land has increased
in value from nothing to $50 per
acre, in places, it will be readily
seen that the land is worth com
ing here for. And too, that the
land on the reservation is worth
as much as the land in this county,
that those who are fortunate
enough to get 100 acres of that
land on the reservation, are really
falling heir to several thousands of
dollars, by merely expanding a
very small sum. In some respects
the land on the reservation, about
to be thrown open to settlement,
is better than the land in any
other part of the state, because it
is a real Garden of Eden, bounded
and surrounded by the Sheyenne
river on one side and the great
Devils lake on the other. This
has a tendency to at alltimes draw
rain, even was this 60, when the
dry years occurred in other parts
of the county. Devils Lake is a
body of water some so miles long
and 10 miles wide and is one OF
the most picturesque places in the
world. All along the lake. is heavy
timber on this side as we'll as on
the side of tbe reservation and
there is also timber along the river
on the south boundary of the reser-
walton. Wood is cheap on the
reservation and the fuel question
needn't bother the prospective set
tier to any great extent. The
reservation seems to have been en-
dowed by nature with attractions
which no other part of the state
possesses, both in beauty and in
agricultural value. The soil is a
black loan fully Is inches deep on
the average and in some places al
least two feet and this is supple.
{ mented by q clay subsoil
: Throughout the whole extent Of
!, the reservation, on which there il
room for several thousand settlers
i, there are dozens OF lakes and fully
: 500 live spring, in which the waite,
remains fresh and good the yea
round-summer as well as whe1
! winter with its snow covers with
its blanket, the richsoil, to protec'
it as it were-so that it will be il
better condition IL The Spring t
Eraise rich and abundant harvestl