Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1910 — Fee That Looked Small 18 Years Ago Has Grown Some. [ARTICLE]

Fee That Looked Small 18 Years Ago Has Grown Some.

Congressman E. D. Crumpacker, of Valparaiso, who is id Gary today calling upon friends, has come to the .conclusion that he was the recipient 18 years ago of one of the biggest fees ever paid a lawyer in the Tenth district for one case, says the Gary Tribune. It was 18 years ago when Judge Crumpacker took for payment of his legal services 20 acres in section 18. It was-a good ways from anywhere at the time and while the man who paid him the fee said the property was worth SSOO, or $25 an acre, Mr. Crumpacker had his doubts about it. Nevertheless he accepted the deed to the land and it has belonged to him ever since. The other day he received an ofTer of $7,000 for the 20 acres. This made him rather curious as to what ths land was really worth out in section 18, and so today when he was making calls upon political friends, he interjected a question about what 20 acres of land in that locality was worth. The land lies between Twenty-first and Twenty-second avenues extended, and is about one-quarter of a mile west of Chicago avenue. It lies directly south of the jAmerican Bridge works in Tolleston, and when Chicago Avenue is opened through will be exceedingly well located. “I have never seen the land nor been anywhere near it,” said Judge Crumpacker. “I did not know much about it until I received this offer of $7,000. Some time this summer when I am in Gary I will have to go out and look at it. When a man finds that he has $7,000 worth of property lying around loose this way it causes him to sit up and take notice, as it were.”