Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — BUYS MISSISSIPPI LAND. [ARTICLE]

BUYS MISSISSIPPI LAND.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Garland returned Friday from a visit with relatives at Pine Village. From there Jerry went on a land prospecting trip through the delta region of Mississippi and Louisiana. He saw some fine country and was offered some attractive bargains, but most of the lands for sale were in tracts too large for him to handle. While in Louisiana he visited Omar Ritchie near Baton Rouge. Mr. Ritchie is a former Jasper county resident who has made good in the south and is a firm believer that the south, especially Louisiana, offers more opportunities to the farmer and land prospector than any other section of the country. Baton Rouge is a beautiful city and is making a wonderful growth, and land values are increasing rapidly since the Standard Oil company established its two million dollar plant there. Jerry was more favorably impressed with the delta region of Mississippi, where he made a deal for a tract of cut-over land. This land is the richest in the world, having been deposited by floods of the Mississippi river, and is now protected by a mamouth levee two hundred and sev-enty-five miles long, Corn, cotton and alfalfa are the main paying crops, but the land will grow anything and in the case of early maturity of crops, two can be grown in ’ a season. The first crop was being baled and the second crop was being cut. Mr. Garland is undecided as to when he will move there, but expects eventually to’make Mississippi his home. .