Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1907 — THE GIFFORD DISTRICT BOOMING [ARTICLE]

THE GIFFORD DISTRICT BOOMING

T. M. Callahan, mayor of Newland, was in the city on business Thursday. He states that the Gifford district will be well filled up the coming season. All the farms about Newland are rented and there is not an empty bouse in the town, Tom went from here to Bloomington, 111., to attend a meeting of the directors of the Bloomington Pickle Co., which has been buying pickles at Newland for the past two years. This meeting is for the purpose of increasing the capital of the company from $25,000 to $50,000. The company wants to contract for 1000 acres of pickles and 300 acres of cabbage at Newland the coming season, and will put in a kraut factory there>\ There is nothing new regarding the pending negotiations of the sale of the Gifford railroad to the New York Central interests so far as Mr. Callahan knows, and the option given them by Gifford expired, he understood, Feb. 1. It is thought this road will be sold sometime in the near future by Mr. Gifford, and the New York Central people, who own the old 3-1, are the logical people to buy it, as it would be worth more to them than to any other road, no doubt/