Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1888 — PURCHASED A PRINCIPALITY. [ARTICLE]

PURCHASED A PRINCIPALITY.

German and New York Capitalists Buy 700,000 Acres of Dakota Land. [Bismarck (Dak.) special.] During the conference between the officials of the Northern Pacific Itoad and the Territorial officials with regard to the payment of the Northern Pacific tax.it was learned that the company has recently negotiated a sale of 700,000 acres of its land grant. Fifty thousand acres of this land will be selected this fall and the remainder next year. It is the largest land deal ever made in the Territory.