The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-19

South Dakota regiment in the Philip
pines, and now register of the United
States land Office at Watertown and senior
member Of the Slower Real Estate Ex-
change, speaks as follows of the situation
in South Dakota:
The experience of individuals who have
purchased from US, in the three years past has
clearly demonstrated the wisdom of their
cholce. There is not one of them but that
could get from 25 to so per cent on his trans
action in a minute and those VINO purchased
soon enough to place their land in crop have
made much larger profit on the investment
net, from the proceeds Of their crops The
lax crop in the upper Sioux valley has been
the means of making financially independent
more farmers probably than has any other
cropFin the state. In October 1900 we sold
w. 6. Putnam the NY sW1A, 20-1le-54, this
county, for $50 an acre, that is for 81 400. This
was raw prairie land with no improvements.
N the spring of 1901 he broke up rs acres of
SAID 80, PVT a crop of flax on the sod and
harvested and sold in the fail! of 19o1-a little
over 800 bushels OF net fax-for $1,47S.37.
Ills investmentSwas $1,000. This one year he
received on said investment $1,47S27 He
could sell the land to-day at a net advance
| OF 20 per cent on the purchase price
We have made speciality Of selling lands
to SPECTATORS on the profit sharing contracts.
nave IN mind one instance where we sold o.
man section in Clark county in the spring
OF 1901. Within three months we resolG it for.
him and his share of the profit on the trans
actlon was over SO per acre. Some lands we
have sold for the third time One section in.
| Sphinx county we sold in 1900, for SIS and in
the fall of the same year for SIP last year
! early for SIS the present owner has repeatedly
refused $1S for it
! There never was as sure, safe and profitable
an Investment as Dakota lands to-day
We especially call attention to the Missouri
| valley country There has been a great boom
largely augmented by the c. NJ. est p road
IN MCPHERSON. Campbell, Walwortli8 and Ed
munds counties, this being strictly Milwa,i-
| kee territory Sully and Potter counties are
OF exactly the same soil, has the advantage
II any, of being little further south, and
4 lands there can be bought from So to s. an
acre cheaper than, can lands in the four other
counties. We have made and still can make
thousands OF dollars for our clients who wish
to speculate in lands in the Dakotas At the
| same time we believe that our facilities our
large force, and the fact that we handle lands
from the cast state line to the Missouri river
with eglht sale offices, enable US to show to
the prospective buyer the farm he really
wants for home. We expect 100000 men,
non residents to make bona fide investments
In Dakota in the coming year. There is no
porperty on earth that is as near United
| States government bonds as are good Dakota
| farm lands to-day.
| Inspecting Lands in a Mobile,
! Mr. Morrow of the Adams & Morrow
Land company, located at Eureka, S. D.,
speaks enthusiastically Of the demand for
| farm and grazing lands in his section In
order to accommodate the great number
of land seekers buying and Investigating
their lands, the Adams & Morrow company
has erected fine hotel northwest OF Eu-
reka, with accommodations for sixty
Realizing the unsatisfactory results from
! taking land seekers over the country in
| Indifferent outfits, and the impossibility
OF getting teams that are Satisfactory,
this company is now operating a twelve
horse gasoline automobile that will carry
fourteen persons at from Is to 20 miles
| per hour. Mr.. Morrow is thoroughly con-
versant with conditions in this part of the
country, and has watched the development
Of the, northwestern part of South Da-
kota carefully. He sums uo the pres
ent movement in a few words: namely,
that the eastern farmer is beginning to
realize that the climatic conditions are
as favorable in South Dakota as in the
east, while the rich, black soil Is far
more productive, and having learned this
fact, he is disposing of his possessio ns
| farther east. and establishing himself and
! family on his newly acquired lands in
! the west. Elghty-f1Ve per cent OF the
movement coming into South Dakota this
year. says Mr.. Morrow, SIS this class
Of farmers who will make the very best
i of citizens and whose influence will DE
! felt not only in private, but also
/ in state affairs. This company is taking
4 an up-to-date and business-like method
! of interesting investors and land seekers.
Pullers for Aberdeen lands.
i The Illinois Dakota Land company, with
headquarters at Aberdeen, S. D., is meet
ing with great success in the locating OF