The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
A PREMIER REGION
What Ransom County, N. D., and
Adjoining Territory Offer Men
of Moderate Means.
w. L. Williamson of Lisbon Carries
- "a List, of Low-P Priced Landssen ...s
Easy Terms. -'Ts"' .-- r. z

RANSOM county anu dUJOlllllS pOIIiOllS
of Cass, Barnes, La Moure, Sargent. and |
ments to-day to the farmer Of moderate
means who seeks to change his location,
and increase his holdings than almost any |
other section Of North Dakota.
The lands are reasonable in price, i'm
proved or partly improved farms running
from $12 to $50 acre. The soil is equal
in fertility to that of the lands only twen-
ty miles distant which are selling for
twice the price. Water is abundant and
obtainable almost any place at depths OF
from twenty to fifty feet The rainfall
averages about twenty-five inches or 80
per cent more than small grains require
to produce their maximum yield, and am
pie to produce heavy corn crops.
Ransom county is situated In south
eastern North Dakota just outside the
Red River valley, in the agricultural
sense, though it drains into that river. 1t
is the first benchland region above the
Red river valley. These benchlands have
shown themselves to be almost equal as
wheat producers to the Red River valley
itself In 1890 Omitted States census)
Ransom county produced of wheat 1,o67,-
| 100 bushels, of rye, 26,170; of oats, of
| wild hay, 43,616 tons; of flax, 35S,84 bush
els; it's cattle were valued at $1,Oi6,2 2Ol.
and its dairy products at $4,000. 1t also
raised 35, 900 bushels of potatoes. All this
WIFI d. pOPulillOIl VI OAiy ',Ooo'
Cream and Cheese.
Creameries and cheese factories are
| being rapidly introduced, and the first
earnest efforts to raise corn made only
| during the past two years, resulted in
Yields of 30 to 70 bushels an acre, and
this by farmers wholly unaccustomed to
the cutiva tion of this cereal.
The creeks and rivers traversing the
district are deep in their banks, providing
/ ample drainage and precluding the posi-
| bility Of overflow in the spring. Five
RAILWAYS and their branches, each with
good live towns five to eight miles apart,
| make If impossble for the new settler to
locate more than eight or ten miles at the
farthest from railway and market 1aclll-
ties. while so per cent Of the land IS With
in half Of that distance.
One of the heaviest and best known
4 land dealers in this favored section Is w.
T. Williamson of Lisbon, N. D., who
makes an important announcement else
where in this issue. He vouches for Ran-
som county as a premier region for mixed
and general farming and has large list
8: az land bargains which the homeseekel
and investor cannot afford to overlook
+ Benchlands Easily Farmed
, Tn 1899 Ransom county had clever
bushels of wheat to the acre as COM
pared with fifteen in Cass county In the
Red River valley. This year was hardly
fair test for in most years the differ
tenc will not exceed two bushels.
; Taking into consideration that tht
tighter benchlands are easier ploWed
: easier farmed in most every way, ant
can be more readily and easily worked
after hard rains in the spring, which
, frequently occur there is a point of diff
, ference in favor Of the lighter lands as
/ | farming proposition. With the sam
eouipment man can farm a greater ares
+ and relatively do the work as we'll. Tha
he will not receive for his. work the sam
returns one year with another Is demon
/. strated by the figures quoted above How
ever, in his favor there Is the difference
in investment in. the purchase price Q
t the acres themselves. Take the ffteel
dollars an acre land, based upon 6 pc
a cent per annum, the carrying Of interes
charge would be 80 cents per acre pc
s annum, whereas on the lands in the val
LEV which are now conceded to be wort
Q $50 per acre on a conservative basis Q
s values, the annual cost would be SIS
+ an acre, or the sum of 80 cents an acre i
r favor Of the fellow who farms the lighte
soil.
5 More Diversified
81 Then again, there is "a slight differenc
3 i'm the srnatter Of taxes In his favor, an