Author: Canada. Lands DirectoratePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Lands Directorate Publications
Author: Canada. Lands DirectoratePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publications Issued by the General Land Office
Author: United States. General Land OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Homestead law
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Lands Department, 1938-1960
Author: Jamaica. Lands DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
List of Publications of the General Land Office
Author: United States. General Land OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Department of Conservation and Land Management Catalogue of Publications
Author: Bureau of Land Management Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Publications Issued by the General Land Office
Author: Public Domain, Government Publications Concerning Public Lands, Irrigation, Conservation, Homesteading, Etc., Sold by Superintendent of Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Public Domain, Government Publications Concerning Public Lands, Conservation, and Oil Leases, List of Publications for Sale by Superintendent of Documents
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Our Land and Land Policy, National and State
Author: Henry GeorgePublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230444703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... over estimated it, and for an obvious reason. A trne statement of the real value of the grant would tend to discredit the whole affair in the eyes of the cautious foreign capitalists, from whom the Company seeks to borrow money, for they would not believe that any Government could be extravagant enough to make such a donation. But it must be remembered that the line of the Northern Pacific passes for nearly its whole length through as fine an agricultural country as that of Illinois; that its grant consists, in large part, of immensely valuable timber and mineral land, and that it will build up town after town, one of them at least, a great commercial city, on its own soil. Furthermore, for reasons before stated, the increase in the value of land during the next twenty years must be much greater than it has been in the last twenty years. Taking these things into consideration, is it too much to say that in twenty years from now the lands of the Company will have sold for or will be worth an average of at least $20 per acre? At this rate the grant amounts to over half a million dollars per mile, or in the aggregate to the enormous sum of $1,160,000,000--a sum more than half the National debt. This donated absolutely to one corporation. And for what? For building a road which cannot cost more than eighty millions, and for building it for themselves! No keener satire upon our land grant policy could be written than that which is to be found in the published advertisement of this Northern Pacific Company. The Directors show that if they get an average of but $2 per acre for their land, they can pay the whole cost of building and equipping the road and have a surplus of some $20,000,000 left. That is to say, the Government might have built...