[May, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
1872.] 
MAY 
INVESTMENTS. 
To those who have funds to invest, and to those 
who wish to increase their income from funds 
already invested in other securities, we recommend 
Northern Pacific Seven-Thirties. Bearing Seven 
and Three-tenths (7 3-10) gold interest, and secured 
by a First Mortgage on both the Road and Land 
Grant of great extent and value, they combine un¬ 
usual Profitableness with unquestionable Security. 
The proceeds of all sales of Land are required to 
be devoted by the Trustees of f lie Bondholders as 
a Sinking Fund to tlie purchase and cancellation of 
the First Mortgage Bonds, or temporarily to the 
payment of interest thereon, if necessary. This 
provision will make the Railroad Company itself a 
large purchaser of its own securities in the open 
market after the road is completed, and until the 
Bonds mature or are all bought in. 
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company are 
now offering for sale and settlement about Two 
Million Acres of its Lands in Minnesota, and many 
thousand acres arc already taken and applied for. 
Thus the immense landed estate of the Company 
begins at once to be available. 
The issue of Bonds is limited to $50,000 per mile 
of road; holders arc exempt from United States 
tax; the principal and interest are payable in Gold 
—the principal in thirty years, and the interest (at 
the Banking House of Jay Cooke & Co., New York) 
semi-annually, first of January and Juljq at the 
rate of 7 3 10 per cent per annum—nearly S 1-4 per 
font currency. Denominations: Coupon, $100, 
$500, and $1,000; Registered, $100, $500, $1,000, 
$5,000, and $10,000. Present sell ing price, Par and 
Accrued Interest in Currency. 
EXCHANGING UNITED STATES 5-20s. 
In view of the ability and fixed policy of the 
Government to call in all its 5-20s, and substitute a 
low interest bond, many holders of 5-20s arc ex¬ 
changing them for Northern Pacifies, thus adding 
to their principal the present premium on Govern¬ 
ment Bonds, and increasing their yearly interest 
income nearly one third. 
All marketable stocks and bonds will be received 
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