NoliTII DAKOTA. 



colligate course. Iis revenue is derived fn.iu 

 tuition It-f. mill viiliiniiiry subscription-. 



The Valley City Normal School will have a 

 new building in the spring t<> cost $20,000. In- 

 creased attendance is reported. The Mayvillo 

 normal School also received an appropriation. 



Charities. One hundred and liftrrn tln>u>- 

 aiid iiic hundred and lifly dollars was appro- 

 printed I iy I he Legislature for the insane asy him ; 

 SH'i.tiiii |,.r iiiaiiitenance of the deaf and duinli 

 .srhi.nl, and $10,000 for a building; $10,000 to 

 the Soldiers' Home, at Lisbon. 



Militia. The sum of $11,000 a year for two 

 years was appropriated for the State militia. 



Agriculture. I nusually large, crops were 

 raised this year. Following are the figures pub- 

 lished by the State Commissioner of Agriculture 

 and Labor : 



Ninety-seven thousand five hundred and eight 

 acres of millet and Hungarian yielded 225,459 

 tons, and 16,702 acres of other tame grasses ;J7,- 

 972 tons. The average yield of wheat per acre 

 was 22i bushels. In 1887 it was 17. 



Attention has been directed for the past two 

 years to the production of sugar beets. During 

 the year the State Department of Agriculture 

 furnished seed to more than 200 localities, cover- 

 ing practically every variety of soil and climate 

 within the State, and from all these localities 

 beets were furnished for analysis. The average 

 of crystallizable sugar from the crop of 1890 in 

 the lied river valley was 13-80 per cent., and in 

 1891 12-83 per cent ; the difference is attributed 

 to the greater rainfall of 1891. This compares 

 very favorably with the average- sugar content 

 of the beets grown in Germany in 1890, which 

 was 12*2 percent. It is believed, however, that 

 other parts of the State have a soil better adapt- 

 ed to the production of suga* beets than that of 

 the Red river valley, the soils farther west being 

 lighter and dryer, 



Ot the 45,000,000 acres of land in the State, 

 about three fourths is susceptible of profitable 

 t illage,. while less than 4,000,000 acres are under 

 cultivation. 



Live Stock. The assessors' returns show the 

 total number of horses to be 134.538; cattle, 

 2GO,6G3; mules and asses. 7,410 ; sheep. 231, 355; 

 hogs, 39,783 ; total. 673,794. The sheep indust ry 

 has increased 430 per cent, in the past two 

 years. The prices paid for sheep by farmers 

 average $3.50 to $4 a head. The people of 

 Stark and Morton Counties, according to a local 

 paper, are offering free fuel and building .sites 

 for woolen mills. 



Labor. It is expected that the demand for 

 farm laborers in 1SJC2 will be unpre< edentedly 

 large. The President of the Slate Farmers' Al- 

 liance has issued a circular giving the prices 

 that have been paid for farm work: Farm 

 hands, $20 to $25 a month; day hands, $1 to 

 $2.25 a day; thrashing, $2 to $2.25 a day; 



thrn-hing wheat in the -ho<-k, 1C to 12 CfllU per 

 bii-hcl. everything furnished by the machine; 

 thrashing wheat in the Mark, li to T'-ni- per 

 l>ii-hel ; team-. . $3 U> $4 jx-r da\ : 



plowing, per wre, $1.50 to $2. 



Sale or School LandH. These lands aggre- 

 gate alx.nl ^'..VMi.OOO aeiv-. and aie forbidden by 

 the Constitution to In- sold at le*h than ten dol- 

 lars an acre. About 30.000 mi. ,,)<! jn 



1891, at an average of more than $19.50. ghing 

 to the permanent M-hool fund nearly $ttMt,iXHi. 

 of which $115,000 was naid in cash, and li 

 is to be paid in installments, and drawn 6 per 

 cent, interest. Seventy thou>and acre- will be 

 offered for s>ale in March. They are in li 

 river valley counties and contiguous to lands 

 that yielded 25 bushels of wheat to the acre at 

 the last harvest. 



Land Titles. A Supreme Court decision of 

 great importance to some of the settlers of the 

 northeastern part of the State was reported in 

 Washington dispatch of March 2, 



The St. Vincent extension of the St. Paul, Minneap- 

 olis and Manitoba Railway, by the tenim of it* grant, 

 laid claims to the hinds mi both sides of it* construct- 

 ed road between St. Cloud and St. Vincent. Thin 

 extension, however, runs north from Fergus Falls, 

 often at a distance of less than ten miles allowed by 

 the grant, from the Keel River of the North, the 

 boundary line between Minnesota and North Dakota. 

 Nevertheless, the company claimed the right to the 

 full ten miles, notwithstanding the fact that it would 

 include large tracts of land across the river and 

 within North Dakota. This claim wus disallowed 

 by the Interior Department on the ground that, as the 

 railroad was built wholly within the limits of Min- 

 nesota, it could not properly claim lands lying within 

 11 neighboring State. The Supreme Court, however, 

 MiliM'qucntly, in the case of this company against 

 Phillips, wholly disregarded the boundary limits of 

 the State, and thus recognized the riirht in the com- 

 pany to such lands within North Dakota as lie within 

 tin- 'extended limits, free from claim, at the date of 

 the definite locution of the road Dec. 19, 1871. The 

 ruling in that case will govern in the present case. 

 No grant, up to the time of the Phillips decision, has 

 been recognized in North Dakota, the Government 

 has disposed of and patented large tracts of these 

 lands which, under tnis decision, must be held to 

 have inured to the company. These lands include 

 parts of Fargo and Grand Forks and other important 

 towns and settlements. The court, in the decision 

 referred to, further held that it WHS no defense to the 

 action that the lands involved would include thriv- 

 ing towns and villages, and that the company was 

 not in lache in not bringing suit earlier. Application 

 had been made by the railroad to secure adjustment 

 limits of its grunt within North Dakota, and, until 

 such adjustment lias been mode, no reliable otiumtc 

 of the amount of land involved can be made. In 

 cases where patents have been issued, the matter is 

 now beyond the jurisdiction of tlie Government, aud 

 the company must assert its claim through courts, 

 The Senate' resolution adopted Saturday directs the 

 Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the railroad 

 Company with i view of sccurinir its eoiofiii to make 

 sclcetions of other public lands in lieu of tht.se lands 

 in North Dakota. The decision rendered to-day by 

 the Supreme Court in the matter <>f overlapping 

 the granted lands between this company and the 

 Northern 1'ncitic company, has practically rviidctv'. 

 it im|M>.s.-ihle t >atiM'y tin- irnmt to the Manitoba 

 company within its lim'it.s. It' negotiation and settle- 

 ment is']M>ssil<le, therefore, it will likely be in line of 

 the Semite resolution, namely, by agreement with 

 the compiin v by which it would take hinds outsu'c 

 it.s limits. It lias been suggested Uiut Ui coiupuny 



