Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-09-23
The BIG FARMS ]
Movement to Divide Large Land
Holdings il i the Red & Il River ! Y
Valley. Land Sales.

4 Il BLANCHARD, Traill county, Sept.
10th. This part of tile Red river
valley has long been noted for It's
large farms. Ownership Of the lands
has remained practically the same
for the last quarter Of century.
\ The owners were either eastern peo-
ples Who came out In tie summer to
live On their BONANZA farms, Or we're
residents Of the state who spent part
81 their time elsewhere. These lands l
which have remained under practt-
callys the same management and have nay
been farmed continuously for grains
I Tor thirty years II, many cases are q At aa
last being divided. Not until Il last
\ year we're there any ns Of dislnt-e e-s
s grafton OF these large farms. and dur l,l;
4 Ing the present year he sales OF
smaller tracts have become q matter
of much comment. II is hoped to p Pc
the beginning Of the new order q
things. In the vicinity Of Blanchard ,lr
within the last twelve months hall
dozen large farms haSe been sold or
partly sold to outside purchasers. t
The MERCHANTS In the towns, the le'
!. people who live on the farms, the
blacksmiths, the elevator people. the.
school ma 'ams, III fact all classes Of 'a
residents hail with pleasure the.
movement which looks toward the
rapid breaking up the big farms into
smaller ones.
The owners Of the large farms p y
spent little Of their money IN the
towns nearby. They bought their
groceries, drygoods, lumber and near-t
II every article Of use elsewhere,
generally from outside the state.
Even the village blacksmith had lit
tie to do, for nearly every one Of the.
large farms had Its own blacksmit ).
! The population of suchf districts Sis3 -
necessarily small. The money that
was spent in labor usually went out
Of the state In the fall of the year
with the threshers and haryesters.
It has always been question wheth-5
er the large farms operated some
times In an extravagant and waste
full manner, and even carefully, paid
the owner. 55;
The majority OF these farms were
bought when land was low in price,
and the sales now being made are
claimed to be the real source Of
profit. 7s s. u
Some years it's known that the
big farms have run behind and other
years barely paid expenses. So with
the coming Of the smaller farm and
the more careful cultivation Of it
will come new era for this portion
! Of the state, which has been one Of.
the representative large farmregions.
Within the last year in the vicin-,3i 4
ity Of Blanchard there have come 3
number Of Illinois and Indiana farm
ers and they have been buying these
lands from quarter secti to section
tracts and paying from $40 to $50 an
acre and in q few cases even more.
The Preston Brothers farms have:
been practically. All sold to various
parties who win farm them in smal-s
sler tracts Two sof the purchasers
we're 5 foreman and an employee Of
the farm, the other buyers are east.
ernsmen. NJ. 58
The Thomas Harrison farm near
tie town has been sold, and also the
farm of his son Will Harrison both toi
outside parties, one .sof them being
III. 4. B. Barnett, an Illinois man; { 2
The Blanchard farm, one of the
sGrandin properties, Is also being
broken up and one and three quar-
I ten sections have been sold. The Thl'
Sd. Reeds farm, one Of the old land 70 q /
marks has been sold and the owner,
who IS IL poor 18th, has gone 7. TO
Minneapolis 10 Il IKE.
Among the purc,nas sersiso of land IL
this vicinity Az as y man from one Sof
the best counties ~ Illinois WI sre--|
Gently purchased ! j AShal1 sect Ion md
rave III q his opinion Tint there was
not loot 81 land s. Illinels intrinsi 81
scaily worth more money tlan land
sthisstiis now being bought - sorth,
DAKOTA atH from ssz4O To- 90 ans acre.
me Ashes arm sof three quarter Ssec-3
Sstions has been sold sto " William |! g ugel,S
sSs,ll sp,ns of Il the substa antial farmers $nearg1
sBlanchard who wAas obliged buy
S|fhe land which the hAd lbeen renting
s1uI ton Il shiss own ffof eyeraIlIs
y, sy,esr HID slhe not Dopgh the land
sitz would hays been sold III otheH.5
33Ds enSi haI u sold hAif eec-sIil sIi
3tioii md other 4 sales are sl1s
si,s asprosp % ION ,l M lmita farna
!Ths III a l. Z II i liall