Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1907 — A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. [ARTICLE]

A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.

J. F. Warren of Oklahoma City, Okla., stopped off here awhile last Friday while on his way to Wabash on business. Mr. Warren did net speak very favorably of the new town of Hallet, which is being boomed by a syndicate, two or three of the representatives of whioh have been in Rensselaer for the past few weeks selling lots there. Frank says the town’s prospect for a future is not very flattering. Quite a number of lots have been sold here, several of the purchasers being from amongthose who invested in Canadian lands a few years ago, and perhaps the alluring free round-trip transportation which includes the Pullman accommodations with a wellstocked buffet, and the grand entertainment to be provided for them while their Pullmans lie on the. side-tracks and can be used for sleeping and eating headquarters during the whole week of the “opening,” which is to occur some time next spring, may have bad something to do again with causing them to part with their dollars. One ticket is to be given with each twelve lots sold at S4O per lot. Both oil and gas are alleged to be within a very few miles of Hallet, which now has two railroads, and contract is asserted to have been let to a firm who own gas to pipe the same into Hallet very shortly. Frank’s description of the prospects were so unfavorable that the men who were here selling lots agreed to pay the expenses of any man the local investors might name to go out and make a personal investigation. Accordingly J. F. Brunner was started Sunday and on reaching there telegraphed backathat Hallet was O. K. and conditions had not been misrepresented. The future of the town, of course, depends upon whether it booms or not. At present there lis about 100 population in the place and the lots are of comparatively little value.