The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-15
A BOOM IN
THE VALLEY"
The "Bread Basket of the
World" Attracting Many
Land Buyers.
They Are Buying for Invest
ment and for Homes
as Well.

| Hundreds of landseekers from southern
| Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas and Me-
hraska are investing in Red River valley
| lands. In no part of the northwest does
! the land movement represent as much
solid investment for investment purposes
| purely as in the Red River valley. Iowa
and southern Minnesota people, who have
| made fortunes by the rise in land values
in these sections, see the same opportuni-
ty in the lands of the Red River valley.
At no time since it was first settled has
/ the ''bread basket of the world attracted
as many land buyers as this year, and
| there have been few years when the land
movement in this famous valley has not
| been more or less active.
The various counties of the valley are
also attracting hundreds of people who in
| tend making their future home in this
productive section. The fact that the
valley is located near good markets and
| has railway facilities unsurpassed, as we'll
as the most productive soil on EARTH is a.
| big attraction to the homeseeker from the
south and east. Red river wheat has made
| the valley famous, but it's diversified prod
ucts promise to make it more SO. Fargo,
Grand Forks and Crookston, the three cit
les of the valley. are growing rapidly. The
| same can be said of every other town in
the region.
The demand for Red river valley land is
| such that many of the big bonanza farms
| are being divided into smaller tracts and
sold to newcomers. This is especially true
of the Minnesota side this year. Some OF
the big farms on the North Dakota side
were divided two years ago.
Nearly $4,000 to Iowa Buyers.
John H. Boyd Of Crookston, who has
| been resident of the valley for years,
says:
| There is bound to be big increase in the
| 80 Dad S{po oil do
| My sales last year amounted to $4,000 acres,
! 95 per cent of which were sold to IOWA pur-
chasers The buyers coming into the valley
! this year are Of the very best class of farm
ers from Iowa and southern Minnesota.
| Many of them want these lands for homes.
They have sold out at a good price in Iowa
! and know how to farm probably. Their
| experience in Iowa has taught them that
| lands such as they find in the Red river
valley will steadily advance in price, and
that without the necessity of land BOOM
| Train Loads of Effects.
| J. e. Carpenter of the Carpenter &
Hagert Land company Of Crookston, says
that over 200 cars containing immigrants
household effects and stock have arrived
at Crookston during the past two weeks.
Several hundred homeseekers have been
distributed in Polk and Red Lake coun-
| ties. Improved farms are selling rapidly
what over the figures of last season.
Many of the persons disposing of Red
| River valley land this year are residents
of the east who invested several years
ago and are now selling at a nice profit.
! Mr.. Carpenter says that there have been
few exceptions where farmers who nave
settled in the Red River valley have not
made money reasonably fast. The sea-
sons are generally very favorableeand the
| land in good condition for farming. There
! has been some seeding done already this
year. The fields are dry and the frost
out of the ground. The city of Crookston
is growing fast as result of the immi-
grafton into that vicinity. ~ ..-- = .ac
Never Such Activity.
George 3. Perley of Moorhead, MINI,
says:
I have never seen such activity in all
branches Of industry in the Red River valley
as see to-day. Our farmers have during the
last few years been growing rapidly rich and
are to-day in highly prosperous. condition.
Notwithstanding the tremendous advance in
Red River lands, during the past five years,
they are still to-day, in my opinion, the
cheapest and most profitable investment that
can be made. I have thousands Of acres for
sale at prices which will net the purchaser
from 10 to 10 per cent per annum on his
money. There is other place on earth where
SO much work can be accomplished in given
time by man and beast, and returns so graft
flying as a Red River valley farm. Land that
can be bought to-day for from $40 to $40 per
acre is generally superior to the land in
older communities, selling at from $50 to $500.
Now is the time to invest while prices are
still low. ..'
Come, See and Buy.
E. J. Wheeler of the Wheeler Sand COM
pany of Fargo, in discussing the inquiry
for Red River valley lands, says:
I There were several land buyers here this
week from Iowa and Illinois, and every one
of them has purchased land, returning home
more than pleased with this country and
realizing that the land which they just pur-
chased will sell as quickly as the land in
Iowa and Illinois. The lands in Clay coun-
ty need but very little advertising, as our
soil and products favorabIy known
in all OF the older states that there is a
great demand for the same.
We are receiving Of letters daily
4 from interested parties all over the middle
and eastern states, asking for information
regarding this country, which is sure in =
dication that customers buying here this sea-
son will double their money in short time.
blizzard Product Exhausted.
f. E. Lockart of Fargo says Of the
products of North Dakota:
It has for many years been supposed by
the majority of people in the eastern, middle
and many of the western states that North
Dakota's chief products were wheat and ''bliz-
yards We are pleased to say that the lat
ter product ran OUT several years ago. and
the columns of Jour- a for the past
half-dozen years will probably furnish the
best evidence that it has been wholly trans
planted into the effete east. II one desires to
raise wheat he NAV be assured that no Da ri