Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — ONLY A SMALL PART OF JORDAN TOWNSHIP. [ARTICLE]

ONLY A SMALL PART OF JORDAN TOWNSHIP.

Under the head of “Big Real Estate Deal,” an Indianapolis paper contained the following dispatch from Lafayette a few days ago: More than half of the land in one township of Jasper county changed owners yesterday, when certified checks amounting to $111,007.25 were paid to Trustee Chapman of the McCoy estates, of Rensselaer by William Hill of Madison, who purchased the Jordan lands at auction last week. Of this amount, $17,824.30 will go to Mrs. Alfred McCoy and Mrs. Tom McCoy as their share of the proceeds. This is the largest deal in real estate ever consummated in Jasper county. As a matter of fact the McCoys only owned some 2,300 acres of land in Jordan tp., and this deal did not include all of that, some of the land having been sold to other parties previously. It may be also stated that there are over 25,000 acres of land in Jordan township, and the McCoys’ leas than four sections is a small part of Jordan. Neither is it the largest real estate deal ever consummated in Jasper county, the sale of the Nelson Morris land, about one year ago being about $204,000 greater.