Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Wagler Says He Will Put Good Men On Springer Ranch. [ARTICLE]

Wagler Says He Will Put Good Men On Springer Ranch.

Eli R. Wagler, of Peoria, 111., who last summer took over the Springer ranch, was in Rensselaer this Saturday morning and discussed the Springer ranch land selling plans with the editor of The Republican. Mr. Wagler is, we believe, determined to conduct the land sales there on a perfectly honest basis and to avoid any of the criticism which was made against those whose methods aroused much complaint during the past few months. Mr. Wagler bought the land and holds the deed for it. He will see that all who purchased on the contract plan are given a square deal and will bring many good men there to buy the land. Part of it will be syndicated and farmed, but the greater part will be sold in 40 to 80 acre tracts. Mr. Wagler has met somt obstacles because of the methods employed by former salesmen, who were unable to carry out their pledges to the boyers. Of the men who bought small tracts there last spring and whose crops were an almost total failure owing to the high water, some fifteen will continue to live there and will proceed with there contract purchase plan. Eight families are spending the winter there and others who went to Chicago to spend the winter will return in the spring. Mr. Wagler -has sold to about fifteen others who will return in the spring and some of the purchasers are Illinois men who know how to fanta. He says that he will spend all the money necessary to clean out the ditches and establish drainage and says that he does not want a dollar that he does not get in an honorable manner and that no schemes of deception will be used to secure purchasers. Mr. Wagler sold about 8,000 acres of land, he says, at LaiCrosse and he invites any who care to do so to inquire into his methods there. He impresses one with candor and ability and it seems possible now that honest means of selling the Springer land are to be employed and that the occupants will be a credit to the county.