Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1917 — Value of Drainage Shown in Price Paid For Farm. [ARTICLE]

Value of Drainage Shown in Price Paid For Farm.

$l3O an acre, Which the Monon News says is a record breaking price for land in that township, was paid for the Kentnich farm of 200 acres, northwest of Monon. When the farm was first occupied by Mr. Kentnich sixteen years ago it corresponded perfectly to the ratio of water and land on earth, there being more of the former visible than the latter. But since then the dredge has passed ahang with the result that the land is now the most productive m the county; ~