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In South Dakota, the average value in 1900 was $2,901, and in 1910 it was $15,018. In Minnesota the average value in 1900 was $3,549, increasing in 1910 to $9,456. It is interesting to compare here the average value of the holdings of the 138 THE FARMER AND THE RAILROAD owners of the securities representing the Northern Pacific road, $423 ,000,000, owned by nearly 25,000 people, ^16,290 to the individual owner, — not very much more than the value of the average farm in North and South Dakota. (...A recent governmental valuation fixed the value of the road at $488,000,000, or $65,000,000 more than the capital outstand- ing.) The value of North Dakota's farms and buildings in igiowas $822,035,ooo,.an increase of 3 14 per cent in ten years. In South Dakota the total was $1,005,080,807, an increase of 356 per cent in a decade. In Minnesota farm land and buildings were worth $1,259,510,000, an increase in the same period of 88 per cent. These figures show how rapidly farm values have advanced as a result of energetic farm development and improvement, coupled with cheap rail transportation, permitting distribu- tion of farm products to many markets.
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