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Daily Iowa State Democrat
Davenport, Scott County, Iowa
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In the Ft. Dodge district, all available land has been applied for, with far more applications than supply; daily arrivals with warrants face slim chances of acquiring any, per Ft. Dodge Sentinel.
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All the land in this District now in market, has been applied for, every acre, and applications for hundreds of thousands more than there is land to satisfy, are now on file in the Register's Office.
Still, day after day, men come loaded down with land warrants. They come via Osage hungry for land. They reach Ft. Dodge where the land is sold, though their hope of getting any is ever so remote. They remind us of the Dutchman who enquired for sour krout, and when told that there was none in the house, requested the privilege of licking the stone that had been formerly used in pressing it. There is no more chance for a new comer to get an acre of land by application at the Government Land Office, than there is to get struck by lightning in snow storm.
Ft. Dodge Sentinel.
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Ft. Dodge
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all land in the district applied for; applications exceed available land; no chance for newcomers to acquire land
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All land in the district now in market has been applied for, every acre, with applications for hundreds of thousands more on file in the Register's Office. Men continue to arrive daily with land warrants via Osage, reaching Ft. Dodge where land is sold, though hopes of obtaining any are remote. Newcomers have no chance of getting land at the Government Land Office.