BobbyBarnhart
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin 29 Nov 2014 03:02:04pm | re: Confirmation of a land contract from St Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.
Sounds to me like the RR was selling off some of its owned real estate which it had no further use for. Railroads were often granted huge parcels of public land which they could use as right of ways or sell to finance construction of lines. Kind of a government subsidy.
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