The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-10-11
Buy texas LAND TO RAISE DBRBh
WHEAT

A syndicate of northwestern land
and grain men has purchased from
the Southern Pacific railroad 10000
acres of land in Texas and will put
the entire acreage into durum or
macaroni wheat. Minneapolis men
are said to be interested, but their
names are Withheld. Grant Robinson
of St. Paul, who lives at White Bear
lake and is president of the American
Canadian Land Co., put thru the deal.
The price paid for the land is not
stated, bat as it lies near Valentine,
a station on the Southern Pacific in
Presidio county, in extreme south
western Texas, about one hundred
miles east and south of Ell Paso and
near the Mexican line, in a country
where there is little agriculture and
which was once classed as "desert," it
is supposed that it was acquired at
low price.
This purchase has no connection
with the Minneapolis holdings OF
Texas lands which lie near Plainview
in Hale county on the new Wellington
Albuquerque extension OF the Santa
Fe road, and were acquired some
eighteen months ago by G. r. Piper,
E. G. Warner and Walter Douglas.
Big Factor in Trade
Relative to grain production, the
Robinson deal is the most important
development in the American grain
trade since the opening of the Cana
dian west. In a sense it is exper-
mental. There would seem no reason |
why macaroni wheat could not be |
raised in western Texas. II it can a
new factor will have entered che trade. |
First, and perhaps, the most impor-
tant effect, considered in the broader
economic view, will be the enhance
ment of land values. If twenty to /
thirty bushels of durum wheat can be
produced on land that is now given
over to grazing or not used at all, q
new basis for the measurement Of land
values will exist. This influence has
operated for increased valuation in the
northwest and would probably have
the same effect southwest.
Durum to Cut More Figure
Another consideration is the prob
ability of an increase in the produc-
ton OF durum wheat in the next few
years that will make the crop of great
mated to be $4,000, 900 bushels of
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Dakota, the production having jumped
from Is, 000, 900 or 10000, 900 bushels
last year, and from less than 5000, 900
only five years ago.
Farmers have gone into it nearly
everywhere. There is overproduction
as later possibility. The northwest,
SO far, has found profitable sale for all
of it. The tendency toward increased
acreage is still Oh here, and should
the southwest find it successful the
production five years hence might be
very much larger, The question Of
finding market for it and of the
possibility of its greater use by Ameri-
can millers would then become vital.
Minneapolis Journal.
NOTE: The above article speaks
for itself inregard to what the capital
lists of our state thinks of land specula-
tions in Texas as good investment.
The land that Wilson & Hughes of
Sank Centre, have for sale is around
Plainview, and their company has
sold $50, 900 acres since January LIST,
all in one tract, and have just closed
deal for SOC, 900 acres more with an
advance of So to S. an acre. They say
that the excursion trains out of the
twin cities for Texas are loaded to the
guards, and the railroad companies
are making preparations for heavy
traffic this fall and winter.