The Minneapolis journal., 1902-10-07
IT IS SETTING THE PACE
Hackney Roynton Company the Largest
and Most Successful Of All Land Com

and M ost Successful Of All Land Com
cerns ', s..
The Hackney Boynton Land company
of ST. Paul continues to set the pace in
the matter of locating settlers transfer
ring soil and developing the northwest.
This company was the pioneer in the
great land movement. 1t has persistently
held out the fact that all cheap lands in
the northwest will soon be settled up,
and that just as much can be raised from
these lands as on land in Iowa or Illinois
selling at 500 an acre. All that it has
said or claimed is being more than borne
out. The movement is permanent. No
less judge and authority than james J.
Hill says it Is bound to continue. He
adds GGThe movement, into the northwest
Is in accord with the general law. It. Is a
normal and substantial fact - - --
During the past eighteen months the
Hackney -Boynton company has sold over
81, 900, 900 worth of land. 1t has about
100000 invested in cattle and owns two
cattle ranches in Burleigh county, North
Dakota. 1t has about $50, 900 acres of
land yet for sale. Almost one-half of the
big tract purchased by the company from
the Northern Pacific in February, 1901,
has been closed out, the great bulk going
to actual tillers Of the soil. The company
is nothing if not enterprising, 1t had a
very attractive display in the agricultural
building at the Minnesota state fair.
There was splendid collection of all va
rieties Of grains and vegetables grown in
the territory owned and exploited by the
company. These included all the common
products of the northern farms and many
varieties of grasses and plants indigenous
to the soil. Just the other day it shipped
a car load Of it's fat cattle to the state fair
at Springfield, ILL.,, where it also had a
booth showing samples Of grains, grasses,
! vegetables, ETC., raised on its lands. 1t
has neglected no opportunity to advertise
it's properties and to make the way easy
| for the man Of small means to make a
home in the northwest and lay the foun-
dation for a future competency. Tht
| thousands of acres it has sold are occu-
| pied to-day by prosperous, satisfied set
| tiers, and there is room for many more
| with almost every advantage of the thick
ly populated sections of older states with
out their crowding, killing competition
and many discomforts.
| That was a narrow view taken; by {
Minneapolis paper recently, when it as
serted that certain land companies cas-
of the Missouri river were checking the
movement of land seekers by the high pri
ces placed on lands. Land values are
normal and will remain So No one ha:
been carried away by the boom. If-lant
in Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois has in
creased in value in the past decade t.
500 or thereabouts an acre, is it not rea
sonable and is it not a good Investment t,
buy in the Dakotas and elsewhere at from
Sc to $40 an acre, even though the com
pany handling the land bought It at 81 t.
50 an acre, if the purchaser can in few
years time sell out for $40 to SIS an acre
The home seeker and investor can max
no mistake by buying now. The land wi
never be cheaper or the opportunity bet
| ter. f.. o., ;.-.,, ,s....
No greater inducements are offered any
where than by the Hackney -Boynto1
Land company in North Dakota lands. 1t
offices are in the Germania Life building
rooms 603 to GIL, st. Paul.