The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-11-26
SALE OF STATE LAND
Big Attendance at State Land Sale
and Nearly $4,000 Acres Sold
at So to SI2.
Some Lively Bidding for Best Land,
And About all Desirable Land
Was Taken.

The sale of State lands in Mile Laos
county was held at the court house
Tuesday forenoon. S. E. Atkins,
land clerk in State auditors office,
conducting the sale. There was a big
attendance and the court room where
the sale was held was well filled with
buyers. There were many settlers
present to secure few pieces, but
most of the buyers were spectators,
one syndicate of buyers securing over
1000 acres Of land, which will be
placed on the market.
The land sold at good prices, aver
aigng about $500. The bulk of the
land sold at So to ST, it's appraised
value though there was some spirited
bidding when it came to the disposal
of some of the State land, which was
coveted by those owning lands ad-
Joining State lands who knew the real
value of the land In the town of
East Side some land was sold as high
as $l2 per acre, John Haggberg pay
ing this sum for a piece of land in
section 36, after some very spirited
bidding by buyers. This was the
highest any of the land sold at, but
there were several tracts that sold con-
siderably over their appraised value.
The land in East Side caused the live
lest contests, especially for the lots
in section which sold as high as $40
per acre, this sum being paid by
Chas. Rines for lot II. A lady from
Minneapolis who was present at the
sale failed to get what she bid for and
it must be said that the men who bid
against her did not consider that sex
entered into the cold proposition of
buying land, for every time she made
a bid for any pieces the price was run
beyond her reach. In the sale of one
of the lots in section of East Side
she bid up to So and then fell out. At
forwards the party who was bidding
against her withdrew his bid that she
might have a show for the land, but
it was a piece that several parties
wanted. and she failed to secure it.
Several times afterwards during the
sale she was lively bidder and went
as high as SlO.25, when she would be
Overbid and she remarked that if she
bid any higher that she would not
have money enough to get ba.k home.
One party who bid against her was
she wanted the land for a home and
the party who was running the land
up knew pretty we'll what he wanted
and he got the land.
) There was a settler down from East
Side who made plea for a show for
chance to get a tract of land adjOin-
inc his own small farm. He said that
he had large family and was a new
settler and that he was poor man,
but he had to go in with the crowd Of
buyers and take his chances. Geo.
F. Thompson and j. A. Rush bought
quite a lot of land adjoining their
ranches, and for some pieces they paid
a pretty fair price, but not any more
than the land was worth, at least to
them.
In town 4l-25 the land sold at ST to
500 per acre and George Nicely
bought several pieces in that town.
ship. In the town of Onamia most of
the land was sold in quarter sections
and the price ranged at Sc to 1925. In
1927 the principal buyers were, Geo.
F. Thompson, j. A. Rush, D. A. Kali
iher, H. e. Barnum, L. A. Reed of
Minneapolis, and I. G. Patterson. In
4l-27 the price ranged from SIS to $1,000
and l. c. Patterson and M. S. Farm
ham were the principal buyers. In
Hayland township there was some
lively bidding for a few pieces of land
and the highest price paid was SO. In
township 1925 land sold at Sc to $3.50.
In 1926 the land sold at it's appraised
value. Sc and in 1927 the land sold at
So to 1926.
The total number of acres sold was
14.6SO which shows that Mile Laos
county land is in good demand, and
the prices at which the land was sold
would indicate that wild land in this
county ranks we'll up with the best wild
lands Of the State.
Small Sections.
The sale closed at 1890 at which
time all the land that buyers wanted
was Sold