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Ki:!lt;:k.vTiix to Iowa—A Grant* | Stiikmk on tub Taitk.—Our readers ( trill remember that a few works since, i we called attention to the fact that the j American Emigration Company had \ pent an agent to Iowa for the purpose of c examining the several Land Grants c made to the Slate. We arc happy to j learn through F. C. I). McKay, theiT Iowa agent, who is now in the east, that the Company are about to submit a proposition to one of the principal railroad companies for a purchase j ^ of their entire Land Grant, paying a t large amount down, and agreeing in the t purchase to sell the lands only to actual settlers, in quantities not to exceed one section, and hind each settler to improvea certain amount yearly, and put out ( 2 five acres of trees the first year. If this c transaction is made, the Railroad Com- tpany will get a large amount of ready i monsy to push 011 their road. Thejc Emigrant Company buy the lands at a low figure, but the State secures the greater benefit.We have often expressed our surprise that our State should have so long neglected to offer inducements to some ofh those Emigrant Companies which otherj Slates around us have so liberally bestowed, and which in return have received that increase of population to 1 which we Were so justly entitled. The [ aide repoit of ex-Lieut. Gov. Rush— who has been in New York for the past two years, and who probably, from his opportunities, is better acquainted with the history and laws of emigration than any man in the State—dwells at soras length upon this branch of the subject. —Dti Moines Rtgitter.
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The Iowa Transcript
Toledo, Iowa, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1862
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