Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — McCRAY PAYS $100,000 FOR 500 ACRES OF LAND. [ARTICLE]

McCRAY PAYS $100,000 FOR 500 ACRES OF LAND.

Warren T. McCray has bought a 500-acre faitm, known as the old Lilly place, fourteen miles southwest of the Indianapolis stockyards, from Albert and Ira Cox, farmer bankers of Darlington, Ind., for SIOO,IOO. Mr. McCray plans to operate the farm as a branch live stock farm to the lome farm of 4,300 acres at Kentand, where recently he sold at public auction cattle for approximately ! >500,000. Mr. McCray paid $175 an acre for the Lilly farm, and the live stock, crops, etc., were invoiced for As part payment he transferred, a farm of seventy-one acres in Lawrence township, at Apple crossing, to the Cox brothers, valued in the transaction at $24,000. The remainder of the consideration was cash. The Lilly farm is regarded as one of the best live stock and grain farms in the state. It is well improved .with silos, barns and buildings. Mr. McCray also has a farm of 860 acres in lowa, which he operates as a branch live stock farm, and a sheep ranch of 3,200 acres at Lake George, Mich. The negotiations were made through Luke W. Duffey, of the Duffey Farm Sales company. Mr. Duffey also reports the sale of a farm of 208 acres twenty-two miles west of Indianapolis, on the National road, by William Kreigh to John E. and Corrie Vestal, of Hendricks county, for a consideration of $31,200, which is $l5O an acre. The farm lies on both sides of the National road.