Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1910 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FARM MORTGAGES INCREASE.

Statistics Compiled From the Annual Reports of County Recorders of State. The annual report from the county recorders of the state for 1909, compiled by the state statistician. j. L. Teetz, show a total of 113.860 mortgage instruments of all kinds filed during the year. Included in this numebr is a tqtaj of 50.860 instruments, including sc'hbol fund mortgages, chattel mortgages, liens and all other miscellaneuos papers which had never been reported in previous years. In the last annual meeting of the county recorders these officials asked the state statistician to call for such data in order that the actual work done by the recorders might be shown. Since these figures were not compiled in 1908, the statistician finds it impossible to make an accurate comparison of 1909 with 1908. In the number of farm mortgages reported, however, there was an increase of 366. or 1.4 per cent. The mortgages for citv and town lots showed an increase of 3.131. or 9.6 per cent. The total for which all papers recorded during the year amounted to $136054.140. Of this, sum $12,986,057 was on instruments of classes never before reported. The increased mortgage values on the class of property formerly reported amounted to approximately $35,000,000. Total mortgage satisfactions on all papers amounted to $60,705,527. In the matter of deeds recorded,