The Government gets $2.50 an acre. the land perhaps being worth ten times its cost to the speculators. Agricultural lands in Dakota have also received marked attention. "The persons concerned. directly or indirectly. embrace English peers. Eastern capitalists. adventurous spirits who emigrate to the booming Territory to grow up with the country. and enterprising land agents and attorneys. Preemption. commutedhmtnestead. and timberculture entries are the favorite instrumentalities of fraud in this region. No sooner is a township of land surveyed than it is plastered over with entries and filings. more or less bogus. but generally more. and the actual settler who goes to stay. the farmer who is to roducc the subsistence of the nation. must buy off these pretended claims at igh rates before he can obtain the privilege of making an honest entry of the land.
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