For thousands of miles they pay not a dollar of tax into the treasuries of the Territories fbr their immense property. worth millions of dollars. I have received no light upon that subject. I asked if in 1879 the Northern Pacific Railroad Company did not encourage immigration into the country near their line by resolving that the price for land west of the Missouri should be $2.60 an acre. and I have received no information onl that point. Their road was extended. and then they turned around and said the lands should be paid for at $5 or $10 an acre. I am merely showing the character of this hightoned road that gentlemen think no question is to be made about.
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