Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1914 — HUSTLE AND BUSTLE IN ONION FIELDS [ARTICLE]

HUSTLE AND BUSTLE IN ONION FIELDS

Many New Houses Being Erected at Newland and Able Men Are j; Planning Development.

There is hustle and bustle at Newland, the hub of the new onion fields, and families* are coming in every diay and houses, many of 'them, are being erected and others will be as fast as carpenters can be procured. Newland, which was hanging on to the map by its eyebrows for many years, is to be a thriving town of from three to five hundred people and is to become one of the most important onion and truck centers near Chicago. The men and women who are coming to Newland are the kind that do thing®. Many of them are wealthy and will carry into execution a number of plans that will help materially in the development of that country. Among the new comers are E. G. Burley, W. H. Borch'ers and W. K. Spain. Each has bought considerable land and they are working together on a number of propositions. One day this week they shipped in a carload Of large draft mares. Fine animals that will do eiedit to Jasper county. These three men have employed J. P. Dooley, who has had 18 yearn’ experience in thje onion business in Michigan fields, and who understand® other classes of speciality farming that is to be employed iif the Newland country. It is planned to put out five acres of asparagus and to cover the entire acreage with glass, so that it can be propogated for early market. It is also planned to raise mint, which is a paying product wherever it can be grown. Other things for the development of the country are under consideration and Mayor Ed Oliver is giving of his energy to make Newland fulfill the bright promises which, the successes of tire past few years have made plausible.