The following advertisement appears in the Swedish Tribune, Chicago, for the 5th of July, 1882.

Red River Valley - 100 miles wide and 300 miles long, with a layer of black soil as thick as a man is tall, watered by the powerful Red River and its numerous small tributaries, its shores covered with large timber forest - can give 160 acre homes to 120,000 families. Would you like to be one of them? Think it over. It is an important question for you and your family. Our phamplets gives complete information regarding the new Scandinavia in the Red River Valley and will be mailed free to any one in America or in Europe.

A.E.Johnson,

Commissioner of Emigration,

St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba R.R.,

St. Paul, Minn.

James B. Power,

Land Commissioner