River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-05-12
lIl,OOO ACRES GO
At PUBLIC SALE
State Will Sell Land in Fourteen
Counties.
STARTS AT GRANTSBURG
Civil War Veteran Contests Sale Of
Tract Originally Granted to Oma-
ha Rroad-Largest Acreage
in Price County.

Wisconsin in July will
offer at public sale III, 900 acres of
timber, grazing and agricultural land
in IA counties in the northern part
of the state which is expected to
bring about it's appraised value of
100000.
Some of this land is considered ex-
cellent for grazing and tilling pur-
poses, and most of it, being virgin
soil, is expected to produce large
crops of grasses and grains. This
land is appraised at from 81 to $25 an
acre, but will average about four dol
lars an acre. Inquiries have come
from the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska,
and other purely agricultural states.
The largest acreage of these lands
lies in Price county, $1,000 acres;
Burnett county, 10000 acres, and Saw
yer county, $4,000. Large tracts lie
In other counties near these three.
State Treasurer A. H. Dahl, one of
the state land commissioners, will
start the sales at Grantsburg, Burnett
county, on July 5, and continue them
in the several counties as rapidly as
possible. He expects that the work
will take all of July.
None of the land will be sold below
the appraised value which in most
cases is considered exceedingly rea-
sonable. The lands that remain I'M
sold will be added to the state land
reserves. 1t is expected that these
sales will practically clean up all I'M
settled lands which the state desires
to dispose of.
In arranging for these sales the
state land commissioners ran on to
peculiar case affecting a veteran of
the Civil war named Sol HayWorth,
who occupies and claims to hold title
to 40 acres of good farm land in the
town of Cedar Lake, Barron county.
After an investigation commissioners
discovered that the state in the early
'70s granted this land with other
tracts to the Omaha road which later
sold the 40-acre tract to one, j. A.
Harris, but deed did not issue. Har-
ris died intestate and no lawful heirs
could be found. The court in due
time entered a judgment declaring
that the land had escheated to the
state Mr.. Hayworth claims he holds
it under a conveyance made by Har-
ris before his death. The railway
company has issued a quitclaim deed
to the state and the latter will sell the
land notwithstanding the claim of
HayWorth. This 40 is appraised at
$25 an acre There are some small
improvements on it.
The state land commissioners have
seized and offered for sale about
$4,000 worth of logs, railroad ties, tele-
graph poles and fence posts at the
city of Shawano which are claimed to
be owned by one Gus Anderson, who
declares he bought them as standing
timber from Indians on their lands in
the reservation in Shawano county.
The state contends that the timber
was cut on state lands within the In
dian reservation, and that the owner
ship is in it and never was in any OF
the red men. The state will accept
the highest bid for the timber and
will guarantee to protect the buyer
against damage or loss resulting from
any litigation that may be brought by
Anderson The Wittenberg Cedar
company and other firms in Shawano
county have made offers for the tim
Der, but no bid has yet been accept
ed The state has agents at Shawano
watching the timber to see that no
one carries it away.