Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1919 — ALBERT BRANCH IS SUCCEEDING IN CALIFORNIA. [ARTICLE]

ALBERT BRANCH IS SUCCEEDING IN CALIFORNIA.

The following are extracts from a letter written by A,L.:B»anch, formerly a very successful business man of this city who is now located in Stockton, Calif.: Aetna and I, together with my brother and family spent a month at Santa Gruz, an ocean summer resort. lam feeling much better than before taking my vacation. You spoke of the progress of Rensselaer, of which I am glad to know. Coming west has been a great thing for me. The property I have bought here has doubled many times in value. A lot by the side of the one I bought for $3,500 is now worth $15,000. I built an apartment house on my lot and get a rental of over SSOO per month. I could tell you some great stories of the productive value of the land in this valley. A man who lives just across the street from me has ten acres in onions. He averaged four hundred sacks to the acre and got on an average of $4.00 per sack,' which netted him $16,000. There is river land here which rents for SSO per acre, cash. This land is planted in potatoes, onions, and asparagus. The opportunities in this country are great. lam glad Fred is out here, for I feel confident if he lives here a few years he will become a booster for California and will probably be the meansbf inf Iu - encing his parents to give up thecold winters of Indiana for tlje balmy air of California. _ Woodrow Wilson paid us a visit this morning for thirty or forty minutes at the statiOTZ“rrTr3ave=3iot fully decided whether he is right on the league of nations or not, but, of course, our next president will be Hiram Johnson, of California! Aetna and I have often spoken of the resemblance of -Hiram Johnson and L. H. Hamilton. He (of course Mr. Branch means Hiram) was a great man as governor of California, whether he ever becomes president or not. Sincerely, A. L. Branch and family.