Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-12-26
GREAT ausu ros LAND.
Substantial Farmers Will Flock to
This state Next spring.

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Fred s. Haynes, who p In the real
estate and cattle business in Geneseo,
ILL.,, spent few days recently In ana
around Grand Forks. buying up rev
more sections Of land. He has been IN
terested in lands here for some time
past, and felt this fall that. the way
things were shaping themselves. now
was the accepted time to get hold OF
sc,ne more. He. therefore, lost no time
in closing several deals. and said. as ne
left for home, that he wished he had
bought even more than he had. as ne
was certain that real estate In this sec
ton Of the country would advance
steadily for some years to come.
In speaking of this state. Mr.. Haynes
said that last week he was at the In
ternational live stock show at Chicago.
and that he was sorry that North Da-
kota did not have better exhibit. He
said the state had a little booth, stuck
Off in one corner, where few grains
and grasses were exhibited, but there
was nothing such as this great state
should have had. He thinks the people
oe North Dakota make great mistake
that more attention Is not paid to ad-
vertising it than has been shown In the
past. While the resources of the state
are generally we'll known. 1t is good
thing to always keep up the record,
ard, on such occasions, have no exhibit
at all, or have rousing good one, such
as would do credit to the state.
Mr.. Haynes is very enthusiastic over
North Dakota. and says that the COM
ing spring will see the biggest rush to
the Northwest. on the part of substan-
tial farmers, than has ever been exoe-
rienced. The older farmers of Illinois
and Iowa are BEGINNING to realize that
the time for securing comparatively
cheap lands in North Dakota is rapid
" slipping by, and that within a few
years lands there will be sold for, APP
rroximately what they are in many OF
thu. older states, and that those who
are in a position to take advantage Of
the low prices should do so at once.
He says that there is little doubt but
that there will more actual cash come
to this state In the spring for invest
rnent in farm lands than ever came be-
fore in any one year; and that the de-
mand will, therefore. be excellent. Re
garding his own holdings, together with
those who he represents, they could sell
every acre OF land they own in the
state at handsome profit to-day; and
that even the lands he has bought dur
ing his last trip, could be disposed of as
soon as he reaches Illinois at a % per
cent advance. He says that those who
have owned land in North Dakota for
some time past fail to realize that, as
fast as the government LANDS are being
settled and taken out of the market,
the greater will be the demand for i'm
proved farms. The sentiment, at the
same time, in the older farming states,
in favor Of North Dakota, is gaining
strength. It is becoming known that 1t
is very far from one-crop state, and
that, while wheat is the staple crop,
fortunes have been made during the
past year from fax and other crops.
The record made by North Dakota but
ter, Mr.. Haynes says, at the Pan
American, was a revelation to some OF
the old Eastern farmers; and. taking
! these things all together, it is being
realized that the state has great fu-
ture, and that lands which can be pur-
chased for $780, or such a matter, per
| acre, mean much smaller investment
than the 500 per acre farms on which
they have been living for years; and
| that with the same amount of capital
they could do business on a larger
scale and with greater profit.