The state-line herald. (North Lemmon, Adams County, N.D.) 1907-1912, 1909-07-16

Three Days of Spirited Bidding
with Uncle Sam as AuctiOneer
engage the attention of Land
Office officials and big represen-
tation of Buyers. The land
brings big Prices = splendid
Guarantee of the High Esteem
in which State-Line Realty is
held.
This week quite a bunch of iso-
lated tracts were sold at the land
office, andso great is the interest
taken in the sale that for an hour
or two after opening of the office
it is we'll nigh impossible to get
to the counter. Very few tracts
were passed on to private owner
ship for the traditional lone and
two bits" Instead a great mum.
Der went to the successful bidder
at prices ranging about $8 and$9
one sale bringing not less than
$3.50. No better index Of the
rising valuation of state-line re-
atty can be found than this spiri-
ted competition for the isolated
pieces. Few competitors go to
the sale in the expectation OF
paying market value for them;
everyone wants to get them at a
bargain, and no matter what the
final price of the bargain be at
which Register Carpenter smil-
ingly knocks it off to the highest
bidder, the purchaser, if facial
expression be a criterion, invari-
ably appears tickled to death at
his success in landing the covet-
ed material for a backyard to his
farm.
| The forty which went for $13.
so was secured by Harry Hartzell
latter a spirited skirmish with
Harry Hamlin, the piece lying
adjoining the quarters OF these
wellknown farmers. The other
piece was a forty situated near
Reeder, Jacob Uhler getting it
for the tidy little sum $160.
The land Office is now placing
dates for another big batch Of
isolated sales, and beginning with
Sebtember 1st, there will be sold
an average of some eight tracts
daily, until that part of the work
some of which has had to wait
for some time, shall have been
cleaned up. This should be good
news to quite few who have
been rather anxious of late.
Beginning with next week it will
be we'll for the parties interested
to watch the newspapers for the
legal advertisements of sale.
| A feature of some Importance
to a number of commutants in
certain localities has been the
wholesale protesting of commu-
tation proofs in certain localities.
This action on the part Of the
government inconvenient though it
be to a rather large number Of
bona fed commutants, should not
be regarded seriously, and every
man so protested should make it
a point to hang" on. The
peculiar position of the govern
ment was actuated by the occa-
sional coal land entries here or
there, and because Of these the
general land Office reasons that if
there is coal at a certain point,
there must also be coal through
out that vicinity. As soon as can
be, government inspector will ex-
anime the neighboring lands and
thus establish the governments s
point or release the land. And
even if coal of some value is found
on such lands, the recent action
of Congress anent the matter
: will guard the intrests of the
settlers, assuring him undisputed
title to the surface of the land
and in nine cases out of ten, the
place will never be disturbed in
search for what coal may be un-
der the surface.
The land office has just entered
upon the era Of contests, which
will be to it as we'll as the interest
ed public season Of unending
delight. Strange to say the batch
that was turned over a few days
600 falI b,- parlanf of nearly oil