Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1917 — Land Prospectors Are Enjoying Fine Mississippi Weather. [ARTICLE]

Land Prospectors Are Enjoying Fine Mississippi Weather.

A letter received from one of the land prospectors in Mississippi, who left Rensselaer last week, states that the party is enjoying the foie climate .of the south. The weather is wonderful and the party has been on the go ever since they arrived m~MissTSSippi. In the morning they start out in automobiles and look at farms, both in Mississippi and Louisiana. Some of them will probably buy in Mississippi and it is a certainty that some of them will purchase Louisiana land. - . . "T - TV" The trees in Mississippi are now all inrtjloom and honeysuckle is growing all through the woods. Land is cheap in the south and practically all of the farmers have big farms. One of the party from near Fair Oaks will buy a farm of 1300 acres and Joe Norman is figuring on one of 500 acres. Farms of this size are spoken of as “small ones.” Farm laborers are paid from sl2 to sls a month and board themselves. Women for housework are S - curedfdr'sla week. A good many northerners arc found in Mississippi and their places always look the best, for they are workers and make good. If they want a new house all they have to do is to get the pine logs on their own land and put up a fine house. Fine large trees are cut down to make fence posts, which seems such a waste, considering the price of lum-ber-in the other parts of the country. The party will probably reach home some time today or tomorrow, as it was their intention to leave for the north Monday evening.