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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-07-24

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Sidney Stevens Implement Go, reduc-
ton on mdse $1,000. 90
Sidney Stevens Imp. Co., reduction
on lots OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
2 block 2 Bagley's extension to Mont
pelier 10000
The application of MIR. D. G. Stuart
for reduction on account of road run
ming through certain lands rejected for
the reason that when the assessed yalu
alton was placed upon the lands of Mr..
Stuart this was taken into considera-
ton.
Application of Byron s. Nelson for a
reduction on valuation denied for the
reason that lands are assessed no higher
than others in the vicinity of Pegram.
In the matter of the petition Of resi-
dents Of Montpelier representing that a
new road had been made with no ex-
pense to the county in the mouth of
Montpelier Canyon near the residence
of Mr.. John Bowman's place and that
this road be accepted and the old road
closed.
The Commissioners being fully ad-
yised in the mattea it is hereby ordered
that the said petition be and the same
is granted and the clerk instructed to
write the Road Overseer authorizing
him to close the old road referred to in
said petition and to open the new road.
In the matter of the petition of NJ. L.
DeJulien ct al for the establishment of
a public road in the county Of Bear
Lake and state Of Idaho, fifty feet in
width and having its points of beginning
and termination, course and intermedi-
ate points as follows:
Commencing at what is known as
the st Julien Mining camps near Pc
gram station on the o. s. L. r. r. in
Bear Lake county. Idaho and run
southeast about quarter of a mile;
thence across said r. r. track at q
point just west of the deep rock cut;
thence following the r. r. right-of-way
to the eastward and bearing to the north
to Pegram station. Following on the
south side of the r. r. track from the
rock cut to the station. Also to have
removed Two gates in the highway at
the Phelps Ranch and all necessary and
reasonable improvements along the en-
tire public road from Marlboro follow
ing east side of Bear river and ending
at Pegram station.
1t is ordered that John H. Grimmett
William T. Perkins and Edward J
Haddock, three disinterested citizens
of this county, be and they are hereLy
appointed viewers to view said road and
make their report to this board on July
9th, 1908. at 10 o'clock a. m.
1t appearing to the satisfaction of tn
board tina certain piece of property
had been taxed twice and taxes paid in
Ito the comfy treasury, it is hereby
ordered that the clerk of this board bt
and he Is authorized to issue Warrant
in favor of the Middlesex Banking com
pany on the Current Expense Fund fol
the sum of $24.55, the amount paid by
said company for said property at ia,
sale July 9Th, 1902.
d.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-07-24
BEAR LAKE REALTY co.
JOE FULLER, I1anager.
MOntpeIiec. Idaho
MOntpeIiec.
Special this week to sell quick:

Special this week to sell quick
business house, lodging upstairs BEDS car
pets and furnishings complete. Downstairs dining room and
Kitchen steel range, cooking utensils dishes cases.
ice boxes counters Is tons ce good cellar stock candy
cigars, GOODS etc. Will be sold cheap This is snap
dwelling house, five rooms close Washington street,
big lot Will sell cheap.
Other property of all kinds for sale.
If you have anything to sell list it with U.S. We will
find a buyer. Call write BEAR LAKE REALTY Co.
Montpelier, Idaho.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
SAYS IT'S A GREAT COUNTRY

T. A. fictitious of the Minnesota Farm
Land company, in an Interview on the
North Dakota land situation states that
he has sold out 2s5,0O0 acres of western
North Dakota land, situate In Hettlnger,
Stark and Billings counties to an eastern
syndicate headed by H. H. Hamilton OF
Rockford, ILL.,, and .. E. Harman of st.
Paul, MINI. g.
''This section of the country" said he.
.has had: a remarkable boorl for the last
year.; The cattle and sheep Industries
have made all those who have engaged in
it comparatively rich and within the last
two years,rsiT1ce theSlands in that section
Of the country have come into the market.
The farmers from the older states have
gone in there and opened up farms and
are raising the finest kind of grain and
creameries are springing up wherever
there are settlemnts. That country has
an advantage in having a. wonderful
growth Of nutritive grass, goodsWater and
plenty of it and strata of Ignite coal
underlies the whole section which can be
had simply for the digging. :.
The people who compose the syndicate
will organize under the name Of "Westerr
| Land Securities company with offices al
| Rockford, ILL.,, st. Paul, Mimi, and Dick.
inson, N. y. They have ample means anc
will erect a hotel on the land south o1
Dickinson and operate stage line or some
other means Of rapid conveyance and will
| take the settlers out there in large mum
| bers. They expect as soon as the seaso1
opens to transport the settlers out ther,
| by the carload. They have as we un
derstand, made arrangements to run emf
| grant sleepers on the various lines OF
land seekers excursion days.
There is probably no better propositio,
In cheap lands now than this
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
RAMSEY COUNTY LANDS
M. P. Neff of Devils Lake, One of
the Best Judge Of Values in
a...+~ the State.

M. p. Neff,. the subject Of this article,
is one of the practical farmers and land
men of the northwest, being formerly one
of Iowas substantial farmers, born and
reared in Washington county, that state.
He predicts that the influx of actual Iowa
and middle state farmers to North Dakota
in 1903 will far exceed all expectations.
Notwithstanding the great immigration
from those states in 1902, in his judgment
the present year will be the banner year.
In conversation with Journal repre-
sentative, he said the prospects and op-
portunities Of the farmer and settler were
never as bright before. Mr.. Nef sold
over 5000 acres to Iowa and Illinois tarm-
ers last year. He predicts that 1908 Will
see the last Of the cheap lands In North
Dakota, and that Dakota is bound to
be the greatest country for diversified
farming in America. Wheat in Ramsey
county in 1902 averaged 25 bushels an
acre. flax, IS bushels, and oats and bar
ley SO bushels
Devils Lake, the county seat of Ram
sew county, is one of the most thriving
cities in the state, with a population OF
3. 900, sewer system, electric lights and
all improvements that go to make met
ropolitan city. Devils Lake Is also the
meeting point of the state Chautauqua,
which opens the latter part of June and
continues through July, each year.
Mr.. Neff is one Of the best judges of
land values in this section of country.
He extends a cordial invitation to all
farmers and settlers to make a personal
investigation of lands he holds In Ram
sew county. ia. -, r
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
PERMANENT LAND VALUES
ACTUAL DEMAND CAUSED THE
PRICES STILL FURTHER
NORTH DAKOTA.

Farmer Wallace in The Record of Fargo.
During the past year, 1902, have fre-
quently been asked, Has the great ad-
vance in the price of farm and grazing
land in Central, Northern and Western
North Dakota been caused by actual de-
mand from those who intend to occupy it,
till and Craze it, or by the manipulations
of skillful real estate dealers?" My an
swer has been, and is now, I attribute it
to actual demand, and the real estate
dealer, being the first to foresee' the move
ments Of land seekers, has placed himself
where he could be of profitable service
to both the buyer and seller of land
The real estate dealers now doing busi-
ness in the Dakotas and Minnesota de-
serve. credit for the open, honorable and
accommodating manner Of conducting
their business. We hear but little kicking
nowadays about the real estate dealers.
They rank in every community as ener-
getic, leading citizens, are good adver-
tisers, good entertainers and tireless in
their efforts to secure settlers and assist
in locating them in desirable sections of
our state.
The advance in the price Of land in
North Dakota is real and has come to
stay. And it has many substantial rea-
sons to justify the advance, and believe
to bring about during the year 1908, and
| ever after, a steady increase in values.
| The free government lands are being
| so rapidly taken that if no other reasor
for advance in prices of private holding:
could be given, that would be one grea
cause -
! Tlle railroad lands are now owned
by, actual settlers or dealers financial.
able to hold and handle them. The stat
lands are held at $40 and upwards a,
i acre. This is one of the strongest rea
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

will make the investor well-to-do In an
incredibly short time. Free government
land is almost a thing of the past, and the
days of real cheap land, which we are
passing through at present, are numbered.
I think these facts are about as patent
to the easterner without q home, who
would have one, and the man who is look
ing for "a good Investment for his money,
as they are to you and me, and for this
reason I believe thatyw shall sell just
as much land and be just as busy in the
good Year of 1908 as we were last year"
1t is doubtful il there is a land dealer
in the United States, located in a small
town, who does the business MI. Pierce
does. But while in way it is a disad-
vantage not to have "a big suite of rooms
in a sky-scraper, it is in other ways an
advantage. The expense of conducting
what may be- called middle Landmarks
business is greater, and that means higher
prices. Besides, some people like to buy
lands on the spot. They like to go into
the thick of hostilities, so to speak, and
buy from the mans who may be their
|neighbor. They sortSof feel they are get
ting closer to hard facts and farther away
from hot air when they do business where
II they. can see lands Instead of housetops
ard can smell the soil instead Of sewer
q . 3
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
ADVANCE AND WILL BuLL
WHY CAPITAL FEELS SAFE TN

sons in favor of present prices and a
steady advance. The next great influence
is the confidence of the old settlers in our
state. They are here to stay--nO exodus.
Steadily improving, each year adds to
their knowledge of the state; of the best
methods of farming, storing and markst-s
ing, and better facilities for conducting all
all parts ofs the state. Our people begin
to realize fully that North Dakota is a
state with the broadest meaning of the
word state The high rolling, razzIe-
dazzle of territorial days is over. This
condition is as well known: abroad as at
home, and that is another good reason for
land values of the present. Then comes
capital-money-ready at low living rates
for every legitimate enterprise. This is.
one of the greatest factors. helping the
state.
Capital feels safe in North Dakota,
where the people are law-abiding, indus
trious and prompt. We have fewer crazy
horse agitators" than any state in the.
union. We are not at war with the
railroads. They are dealing literally with
the people, are bringing. IN new settlers,
are extending branch lines, and at great
expense are enarging, improving and
I beautifying their stations and grounds
/ throughout the state. They are, through
their agents and advertising matter, con-
stantly spreading good words for North
Dakota. This is another good reason for
permanent land values. >
Lastly, and I think ciineher, is, in
asking, Where in the United States or
you buy for less money as good land, with
like advantageous surroundings. as in
North Dakota?" Where? That's the ques-
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
WHERE CHANGES ARE MULTIPLIED
Land Becoming North Dakota Slice Thousands
3 H@s Of New Settlers and Prices Are Low.
The Struggling Renter and Hando Mouth the
Genuine Mecca in the Fckertail State

Very few people realize the magnitude
OF the development in progress in North
Dakota. d, In a general way they know
that the state is growing in population
and wealth. but actual contact is needed
to drive hcme the fact that the present
is an era of commonwealth building and
soil subjugation. The raw resources of
the country are being developed in Won
derfm manner. Values are climbing up
ward and there is not a section of the
state that is not bursting with business
activities. New towns are building and a
thousand new agencies are at work ad-
ding to the wealth of the country. No
pen can make these facts so patent as can
personal observation and investigation. A
vast domain has practically" been settled
this year
No state has profited more by the great
population and land buying movement of
the last few years than North Dakota.
That state found itself most happily situ-
ated when people everywhere began to
realize that land was scarce and a good
thing to get while still cheap. The hard
times of the early ninetieS caught North
Dakota before it was found to have mil
lions Of acres Of good government or cheap
privately owned land waiting as it had
through all the centuries for men to come
and take it.
The homeseeklrs soon realized this fact.
There ensued a great rush to get free or
cheap land-50, 900 people In two years.
Practically all the good. arabic easily ac-
cessible government land was soon taken,
but large amounts Of virgin prairie still
remain in the hands Of companies and in
dividuals that have for the most part Sc
cured it from the original land grants of
the Northern Pacific railway. Land val
ues were so ridiculOusy low in North Da-
kota few years ago that even though
there have in some parts of the state been
increases of 100 per cent within a few
years intrinsic values have not yet been
exceeded anywhere.
UnprejudIced Authority
Every state is so much interested i'll
putting itself forward as a region of sur
passing fertility that it is we'll to seek for
the verdict Of an unprciudiced authority.
The United States census reports ought
to be such authority In the bulletin on
agriculture in North Dakota the bureau
says that except for some of the south
western counties especially adapted to
grazing. 1.-The soil throughout the state Is
unusually fertile. being nearly everywhere
a rich, black loan. varying in depth from
q few inches on the highest hills to from
five to fifteen feet in the valleys. 1t Is
easily titled. and as its composition faVors
the absorption and retention Of moisture
it Is especially adapted to the prOductlOl
of wheat and barley. The subsoil Is
strongly impregnated with lime and aka
line elements, which serve as perpetua
fertilizers.'
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
IRANs.MIssOURI FARMS.
Fine Level Tracts Are Offered by the
Western Land Securities
Company.

D. F.. Hartman Of st. Paul and H. Fl.
Hamilton Of Rockford, ILL.,, have recently
purchased for the Western Land Securi-
ties company a tract Of land lying in Bill
lings and Hettinger counties, selecting
the level farming Hands as far as possi-
BILE.
The Western Land Securities company is
Incorporated with several eastern capital
lists interested and will colonize this tract
Of land. The company is establishing:
agencies throughout Iowa, Illinois, Indi-
ana and Michigan, and will also have
Offices at Boston and New York. 1t has
sufficient capital to place it's land before
the people in the proper manner and has
used great care In selecting only the. best
of land. 1t undoubtedly is in position to
give homeseekers and investors a very
low price on good lands.
Mr.. Harman, who will be in charge of
the immigration department of the com
pany, has spent years in this kind of work,
has thorough knowledge Of the needs of
the farmer and knows where to place
homeseekers to the best advantages. He
will have weekly excursions to Dickin-
son, N. D., starting from points in Iowa
and Illinois, and will usually bring his
customers in a special car, so they can
have the cOnVeniences and comforts which
make pleasant trip.
Mr.. Harman is a genial gentleman tC
meet and has the utmost confidence III the
| future Of the northwest. He seems te
| know intuitively where the tide Of immi
! grafton will go and on that account his
! statements that the northwest will be the
| mecca for the coming year carries grea
| weight Mr. Harman's address in care O.
| the company's offices is the Endicot
building, rooms 440442-444 and commun
ications addressed to the company at thi
address relative to this tract Of land, o.
means or going to see it, will receive hi
prompt attention.
Mr. Hamilton, who has charge Of the
business and sales departments of the
company's business, is real estate law
yer of experience and will devote his tim,
to the details of the company's business
in an advisory and legal capacity. The
company has offices at Rockford, Ill; st
Paul, and Dickinson, N. d., and CORE
! spondence addressed to any Of thos
offices will receive prompt attention.
Mr.. Hamilton has spent the past tel
years in the practice of real estate Law
| and will see that this end of the com
/ pany's business is properly carried out.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
ANOTHER BIG YEAR.
So Good an Authority as State Sen
ator Ed Pierce Of N. Dakota
Vouches for It,
What the Man Who Helped to Make
Ransom County Famous Has
.!'a to Say.

There are hustlers and hustlers, but
State Senator Ed Pierce Of Sheldon is
the greatest of them ALL Everybody
gnows where Sheldon is. in Ransom coun-
ty n. D., for Mr.. Pierce, as one of the
original land men Of this country, has
advertised the county with such per-
sistency that it has become celebrated far
and near, His Ransom county lmmigra-
ton association has attracted thousands
of settlers to North Dakota and has done
about as much good as a regular state
department with an official seal and a lot
of red tape.
Mr.. Pierce is a man who does things
one of the sort in whom that strenuous
man in the White House rejoiccs. He
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
RESULTS OF EXPERIENCE
Condensed by Great Northerns I'm
migration Bureau for Farmers
and New Settlers.

The Great Northern immigration de-
partment has coined the results of the eX-
perience of the settlers and farmers OF
North Dakota for twenty years into
communication to new settlers and the
advice given applies as we'll to those
who have lived there a long time as to
those who are new to the state. Here
are some of the pointers:
"a dry, hot wind may prevail and at
Just the critical time damage the crop
you have insured against hail. Some
other disaster may attend your farming
operations against which you had or could
get no insurance. Far better Is the plan
to have variety of crops growing on
your farm. If a dry spell catches your
wheat. then you have flax or other grains
coming on earlier later, which have
escaped and you have something to de-
pend for their growth on the never failing
grasses Of these fertile prairies. Neither
drought nor hail will stop their growth or
the resulting sure profit to their owner.
Better than any kind of insurance is
mixed farming with a reasonable number
Of young stock your farm.
"Another pointer is to sow only such
grain crops as you can plant with the
ground properly prepared and in due sea
son. Instead Of investing in high priced
machinery, buy few cows sheep anG
hogs.
Next plant a good garden, and in this
we do not mean only such vegetables as
you use your table, but all kinds Of
root crops that will be valuable as a win.
ter feed for your stock. Do not ask YOU
wife to give all her time to cooking anc
Shaving for lot of hired men on the
farm. Do your farm work and let the
wife raise a fine lot Of poultry.
"You can make slaves Of yourself anc
family by devoting all your energies tt
embarrassing. You can be really inde
pendent if you couple stock-raising will
diversified farming. Keep out Of debt
Do not try to advance so rapidly that yol
will be obliged to go into debt Do no
for one moment consider the proposition
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
aEMMONS COUNTY HUSTLERS

Fred Junge. Jr., and G. c. Semple. COM
posing the Emmons Land company, To-
Gated at Braddock, N. D., are two of the
most enterprising, hustling land men in
the northwest. They are practical bust
ness men, perfectly familiar with land
values, especially in Emmons, Burleigfa.
Kidder and Logan counties, where they
control large holdings. There is no better
soil in the state of North Dakota for di-
versified farming than the above coun
ties. An abundance Of rainfall makes this
one of the most excellent grazing and
ranch countries in the northwest.
Braddock, the point most accessible to
this territory, is one of the wide awake
business centers of North Dakota. 1t of
fers great opportunities for the business
man, the mercantile and in fact all classes
Of retail trade is growing and as the coun-
try develops will certainly compare with
any locality in the northwest. Any one
desirous Of locating or buying land i'll
these counties will find Messrs. Junge and
Semple straight. upright. conscientious
business men whose regulations are un-
questioned.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02

North Dakota is essentially Sprairie |
state. vet with great variety and asfVersity |
of surface. 1t has the fiat plains of the
Red river valley i'll the cast. the hills in
the CoteauX regions west of the first bench
land above the valley, the higher prairies
that descend to the Missouri river on the
west and south, the rolling country west
of the Missouri, with the rough Bad Lands
still further west. and the bold hilly coun
try of the northwest The state abounds
in lakes and rivers, many of which are
bordered by timber and in the Turtle
mountains in the north boasts some con-
siderable attitudes.
Deposits of Coal. i:
Many counties Of the state, including
Ward Mclean, Burleigh, Oliver. Morton.
Billings, Dunn, are fortunate in the pos
session of inexhaustible strata of Ignite
coal underlying the surface at such shall
low depth that it is easily mined. This
coal affords a very cheap fuel and many
farmers are their own coal miners At
Washburn and other places it is being
mined on a very extensive scale. p
North Dakota has a total land area OF
about 10000 square miles, and a rapidly
increasing population, which, however, by
the! census of 1900, was only 9,O40. It
has 200 miles Of railway. 200 newspapers,
spends $1,50O.00O a year its public
schools, of which 1t has over 5000. with
more Jn1n 4,UUU IcctcueIS ltS SCilOOl plOp-
erty is worth $4,000, 900; the state is as
sessed at about s120.000.00O and the school
lands endowment is worth $5O000, 600.
On 100000 acres Of land the state
raised 60,0O0,000 bushels Of oats, and on
less than 300, 900 acres Of land it raised
nearly 100000 bushels of barley. Those
| were the principal cereal crops. The total
value Of the crop Of the state for 1899,
the year in which agricultural statistics
were gathered for the 1900 census, was
! $54.040.S17. The principal crops were
valued as follows: ~~ -.s.
| Wheat Sa1 .733. 1853. :,-.' = -.
| Flaxsced, $I.735,6 $40. ~. -
| Oats. $5,sy2.615. ..,..' f-.- ..-.f - +
Hay and forage $5,1S2.917.
| Barley, $1,996,0S2.
Live Stock. 81.
Live stock raising IS a very important
! feature of farming in North Dakota. The
| number of head of live stock in the state
| increa sed AZ per cent during the last dec
ade. It includes 900 dairy COWS, 532,-
| 600 other neat cattle. 100000 horses. 451,-
600 sheep. 1872. 900 swine. The total value
| of this live stock is over 1000 900. The
! farmers of North Dakota derived in 1899
| an income of $10,211.67 from animal prod
| ucts. Of this amount 53.6 per cent rep
| resents the value Of animals sold and
| slaughtered on the farms; 27.9 per cent
| that Of dairy productsj 1876 per cent that
| of poultry and eggs.
| North Dakota, is declared to be the rich
| est state in the union in proportion to
l popula ton.