Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1919 — TEN MOROCCO MEN BUY BIG BROWN RANCH. [ARTICLE]

TEN MOROCCO MEN BUY BIG BROWN RANCH.

Morocco Courier— The James Brown ranch of 1,354 acres in McClellan township has been purchased by a company of ten Morocco citizens, who expect to still further improve the place and run it as a stock and grain farm. The ranch is already exceptionally well improved, the south section having twenty-five miles of tile thereon. There are also several first class horse and cattle barns, two houses, two silos, and the entire ranch is fenced with woven wire and cedar posts, all of which makes it one of the most desirable ranches in the central west. The soil is exceptionally good. At the present time there is no stone road into this locality, but this matter will doubtless be attended to within the next year. This is perhaps one of the largest real estate deals ever recorded in Newton county, and the most important part of it is the fact that the purchasers are all men of ability and energy who will not only improve their own holdings to the greatest extent possible, but will thereby bring about a corresponding improvement of the entire section. Those interested in the deal, all of whom are members of the company, are as follows: W. D. Martin, Ross B. H. Graves, A. J. Law, M.E. Graves, James Redden, A. J. Martin and Elmer Padgett. This land has been owned by Mr. Brown for aboqt nine or ten years and has been a paying proposition for him. He is head buyer for Armour & Co. in Chicago and has been unabß to give it the personal attention necessary for maximum profit, which was his reason for selling. The new owners will no doubt make a success of the venture. i Mrs. Dan Williams went to Remington today .