Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1899 — RICH LAND FOR A RAILROAD. [ARTICLE]

RICH LAND FOR A RAILROAD.

Court Awards 1,000,000 Acres to the Northern Pacific Railway. In deciding that Ashland, is the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Judge Sanborn of the United States Circuit Court* confirmed the road’a- title to 1,000,000 acres of valuable land along the.shore of Lake Superior between Ashland and Dulnth. The Federal Government was plaintiff in the case. Sait was' brought to void a patent issued to the Northern Pacific Railroad by the land department of a previous administration.