The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-21

United States is there so fertile a soil
adapted for farm and stock purposes,
yet uncultivated and waiting to be
taken up as in Ransom county. 1t is
open for-settlement within a few miles
of railroads and Ransom county offers
some of the best farm lands in the
state for the new conner.
Good farm land is becoming very
scarce and prices must advance faster
in the coming five years than they
have in any ten years past. Good
government land is a thing of the past.
If you want land you must buy 1t and
there is no place on the map where
you can buy as good land with so
many advantages and at as low price
as in Ransom county. No better place
to buy good land cheap, to make a
home, to rear family, to enjoy good
health, to make money, to save money,
than in Ransom county. You can buy
good farm land in Ransom county
from $40 to $50 per acre. This same
land in five years time will be selling
at $40 to $50 per acre. Come now and
get choice farm on terms SO easy
that the annual payments are no
greater than you would pay as rent.
The writer will mention a few rea-
sons why the homeseeker should come
to Ransom county and the ones that
should come:
Persons of no means but willing to
work.
Persons of small means and lots of
energy.
Persons who want to get the best
and cheapest land in the union.
Persons who want to live in the
healthiest country in America.
Persons who want land that will
produce as much to the acre as any in
the north temperate zone.
Persons who want to escape con-
sumption-the most fatal disease in
the union-catarrh and other throat
and lung diseases.
Persons who have no home of their
own in the east, but have courage and
are willing to make self denials until
they get a start.
Persons who are young and can't
make a start before old age where they
are had better come and grow up with
the country. Growing up with the
country means wealth on your part.
Persons who want to find a country
where horses and cattle are not trou
bled with fevers, sheep with foot rot
and scab-where all kinds of animals
are free from disease.
Persons who make a scanty living
on rented farms back east should come
and get farm of their own, and by
saving rent become independent with
half of the labor expended in making
money for landlords.
Ransom County
Has first class railroad facilities.
Has good markets.
Has excellent trading points and
good stocks of goods.
Has fine roads.
Has many good bridges.
Has a good court house.
Has first class schools and plenty of
them.
Has churches of all denominations.
Has a thrifty and progressive popu-
lation.
Has its permanent improvements
made and paid for.
Come and live where these things are
and do not so where they must be ac-
quired and where you st-help bear
the burden and expense. Come to
Ransom county and buy a farm.
Join the throng in the spring and
buy a ticket over the Northern Pacific
railroad from st. Paul to Lisbon, n. D.,
and see for yourself.
Lisbon
Lisbon, the county seat of Ransom
county. is an enterprising Incorporated
city of 1000 people, advantageously To-
Gated on the Sheyenne river and on
the Fargo and Southwestern branch of
the Northern Pacific railway, fifty-six
miles southwest of Fargo. 1t was set
tied in 1880. incorporated as a city in
1888.
No words can truly describe the nat
ural location OF Lisbon, the county seat
Of Ransom county.
Its location on the banks of the
Sheyenne river, with bluffs rising on
each side to a height of $50 feet, with
natural oak. elm and ash timber skirt
ing the banks Of the stream. makes it
0f Mo
town sites in the state.
The first settlement was made in
1880, and until 1883 1t was little ham