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IMPORTANT 
TO 
FARMERS. 
RAILROAD 
V- AM) 
Real Estate Securities. 
A leading financial journal says : 
“ If we compare first-class railroad bonds with good 
real estate mortgages as an investment for the people 
generally, each will be found to have peculiar advantages 
of their Own. For example—a railroad bond is readily 
and always negotiable; its cash value is known by all 
bankers, and hence it can be used as collateral at bank 
for temporary loans ; the interest it bears is regularly and 
promptly paid, without trouble or expense to the holder; 
the investor in railroad bonds, unlike the owner of real 
estate mortgages, has no anxiety about the title to the 
property on which his bond is secured, insurance on 
buildings, the solvency'of insurance companies, or the 
annual payment of taxes, on which the continued sound¬ 
ness of that title depends. 
“Outlie other hand,, it is to be admitted that a first 
mortgage on valuable land is one of the best possible 
securities. The property can neither run away nor burn 
up. Its value is not affected by speculative combinations, 
nor by fluctuations in the amount of railroad traflic. The 
actual value of good land steadily increases with the 
steady growth of population. 
“ It is because the 1-30 bonds of the Northern Pacific 
Railroad are both a first-class railroad security, and a real 
estate mortgage pn lands worth twice the amount se¬ 
cured, that we commend them to those of our readers 
who desire an investment that is safe beyond question, 
while readily negotiable and bearing a good rate of in¬ 
terest. They are a first lien, not only on a great railroad 
and its traffic, but in addition are a first mortgage on val¬ 
uable lands at the rate of o0 acres to each $100 of indebt¬ 
edness. Add to this 'the fact that the rate of interest 
(13-10 per cent gold) is more than 8 per cent currency, 
and that the bonds are always exchangeable at 10 per 
cent premium for the lands on which they arc secured 
(practically giving the power of foreclosure at will), and 
it is easy to explain the high favor with which those se¬ 
curities are now regarded. Central Pacific Railroad 
bonds, secured only on the railroad itself, and bearing 
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Northern Pacifies, bearing seven and three-tenths per 
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S3,000 acres of land to each mile of track, and now sell¬ 
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Holders of U. S. Five-Twenties, who wish to convert 
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present profit of about 12 per cent, while increasing their 
interest income 38 per cent, by exchanging them for 
Northern Pacific 1-80’s. 
All marketable stocks and bonds will be received in 
exchange, free of express charges, at their highest cur¬ 
rent price. Full information, maps, pamphlets, etc., 
will be furnished on application to any agent for the 
Loan, or to 
JAY COOKE & CO., 
Hew York,^ Philadelphia, 
• ”1 1 and Washington, 
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