Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-04-15

into Bismarck, either over the North
ern Pacific tracks Or over a line Of
it's own within a year. The Northern Pa
cific may also extend it's Mclean coun-
ty branch west to the Missouri river,
in an endeavor to cut off traffic from
the Washburn and the 500 roads at
that end of the line.
Land syndicates, and investors are
endeavoring to follow the march of
progress. and get in on the ground
floor. The Hackney-Boynton people
recently purchased a large acreage OF
land at Mckenzie, and are buying up
and filing upon land in that vicinity.
The entries at the Bismarck lane office
run from thirty to fifty a day. the
business being limited only by the ca
pacity of the Office force to register
the entries. If the Northern Pacific
builds its Emmons county branches
from Mckenzie. it will build up an
important trading point there and this
accounts for the eagerness to tile on
land in that vicinity. Other toWnsites
are being laid out, where it is expect
ed there will be rapid settlement. The
land company that bought <l2o,MO
acres of land at Sentinel Butte is now
engaged in laying out a
there, and will at one erect a hotel
building, bank, and other institute Ills.
Parties are being brought out by land
syndicates by carloads, and thirty land
BUYERS in a special car will be brought
out the latter part of the month by
one of the big land companies operat-
ing west of the river, for an inspection
of the land. All of the land-seekers
have money and few of them there
are who do not invest, either for set
Element or speculative purposes.
This same condition exists from the
north to the south line Of the state.
The Great Northern is urging the
settlement Of the country along It's
line of road, and the local papers at
Minot recently reported a thousand
freight cars loaded with immigrants
moveables in the yards at that place.
From this the magnitude of the imml-
grafton to the. state may be calculated.
Ranch property is being eagerly
snapped up and a few days ago a
ranch in the vicinity of Bismarck sold
for 81 an acre, a greater price than the
average assessment of farm lands in
the Red River valley.
Cattlemen and ranchmen who see the
signs of the times are getting in to
clear. The days of free range on
government lands are past and the
big ranchmen now have to own thelr
ranch lands or they will be forced out
of business by the small farmers and
stockmen. A big ranching company
on Cedar river a few days ago AIDED
two townships to their holdings and
now have a strip of country twenty
four miles long along the river as a
ranching property.
The demand for North Dakota farm
lands has resulted in a prosperous
condition all through the western
part of the state. Real estate agents
rejoice in many sales and liberal com
missions. Small hotels through the
slope country enjoy an unprecedented
patronage at good rates, and the de-
mand for lodging and accommodations
exceeds the capacity of many OF the
hotels to furnish. The trans1ents are
, for the most part land hunters witt
ready money. Liverymen share IN tn
profits in the demand for teams Il
E show purchasers over outlying lands
The butcher. the baker, the candlestlci
maker and all branches of trade shar'
9 in the era of good times. The stat
at large will also feel the result OF TN
o immigration in the coming year
= Thousands of parcels of property
formerly untaxed or taxed at a low
figure, will appear on the tax rolls o
y the state and contribute its share t.
the support of the state government