The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-29
LAND AGENTS ARE
GUESTS OF LUND
oDIN CLUB SCENE OF Represent
TATIVE GATHERING.
Former Governor s. r. Van SAINT, Speak
er Of the Evening, Pays High Trib-
ute to t'the Land King and Traces
Development of the Great Northwest
Many Interesting Addresses.


evening for the seventeenth annual
meeting and banquet.
The banquet hall was. well filled with
a thoroly representative crowd, ana
agents had become well acquainted and
were competing in telling stories of the
western prairies., The guests came
and Nebraska, and two guests, one Of
them the speaker Of the evening". are
not connected with the agency. They
were former Governor s. r. Van SAINT
and Rev. G.. L. Morrill,.
Q. M. Peabody acted as toastmaster
and John G. -Lund, "the land king,
sat at his left. After several of the
agents. had given short addresses Mr..
greeted with prolonged cheering. His
subject was Retrospective, and he
told in an interesting manner how the
great agency had grown up since he
sold his first piece Of land eighteen
years ago.
Due to Advertising.
The success of the agency during all
these years, he said, was due almost
entirely to persistent advertising, which
had never failed to bring its returns.
He said he was glad to be in posi-
ton to entertain his faithful agents
and eo,work 3s Captain 4. Van 1Sa SAINT san
a au " he 81 sa ID Ht6at it must be be big
job feeding all these fellows. I replied
that the opposite was true. That these
fellows were working hard to feed me; -
In speaking Of the past, he said ne
had gone into the land business by
accident. A man in his old home asked
him to purchase a piece OF Land Tor
ID hn r.
chase, tho only a boy, and cleared 5000
by the transaction. He thereupon de-
cided to go into the land business for
good, even tho at that time the term
land dealer was synonym for the
word thief It was just at the close
of the great boom and nearly every
one had met and eordially hated tn th :
been successful, he said, because his
agents had been faithfu and honest,
and he had no regrets to offer for any
Of his dealings.
MIR. Van SAINTS Address. -..
Former Governor Van SAINT followed
Mr.. Lund with a stirring speech on the
development of the northwest. In In
Producing the speaker Of the evening,
Mr.. Peabody said that he was progress
ing rapidly, having risen within the
past year from governor to a land
man. -.-
Captain Van SAINT s speech was re.
plete with pleasant anecdotes, which
were especially interesting to the land
men. He congratulated the agents on
having So progressive an employer, who
always stood for square deal in what
ever he did. A land man must dc
three things in order to be success
from non-partisan standpoint, he said
He must be benefit to the country
He does this by moving the people
from the congested districts to the
broad free prairies, where they make
the soil give a hundred fold. He must
| make money for every customer, and he
must make a just profit for himself
This was undoubtedly hard thing to
agency showed that John G. Lund had
filed these important requirements. He
more than any other one man had been
responsible for the development Of the
great northwest, a territory larger
than the German empire and which if
as thickly populated as Belgium would
have more Inhabitants than Germany
Holland and the Scandinavian coun,
tries together. .-
Nothing Too Good.
Turning to Mr.. Lund, Captain Van
| SAINT said 81 don It know what Mr.
Lund s ambitions are outside the land
business, but I do know that nothing is
too good for him. He may want to oc
| cupy the chair that I have recently va
Gated and if he does I offer toast tc
his success. He deserves the best the
state can offer. t.
Rev. g. L. Morrill, was assigned tc
| the toast, s'Will Religion and the LanG
Business Mkt He told the story OF
small amount Of money he had saved
| from his salary as pastor and how he
invested it with Mr. Lund. In short
| time the money was doubled and he
took an extended trip thru Europe. ct
! certainly mixed in that case,' he said
"and asa matter of fact religion viii
mix with any business that is conduct
ed on an honest basis.' -~..
Mr.. Lund asked for another moment
and in an appropriate speech spoke OF
the high qualities of B. s. Potter, ont
of his employees, who will have t.
leave the work and go away for hi
health. He presented Mr.. Potter will
a cash present to make his journey t,
(, the south easier.
In South Dakota. ID 49,. "a.
Q. P. Kemp, manager Of the offic,
at Watertown, s. D., spoke Of LAM
values there, and of how the patron
were turning the land into money. H
read a sample letter from custome
who had recently purchased farm a
| $47 an acre and now held it for 500
The land there, he said. was much bet
ter than the high-priced land of tn
states farther east, and in time woul
yield as much or more than some of tn
greatest agricultural states. Th
schools were excellent, the market
! good and the climate ideal.
Sophus Richard was asked to tell O
the domestic side of land agent IS life
and his address kept the gathering i
an uproar. He was followed by ofhe
speakers, some of them from Kansa
and Nebraska, who spoke of the wor
derful development there. At the clos
of the program Mr.. Lund arose an
wishing his employees a happy Ne,
Year, proposed toast for success i
1906.
Mr.. Lund's Guests.
Mr.. Lund's guests were as follows
, Charles Hanson, Omaha; G. w. Dodg,
Candy, Mimi; G. E. Carpenter. Me-
Hampton, Iowa; II. f. Bierkamp, Low
den, Iowa; NJ. Mann, Woodstock. III
j. r. Crystal Tracy, Mimi.