Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — FIVE DOLLARS PER ACRE [ARTICLE]

FIVE DOLLARS PER ACRE

Each Year Was the Advance in Value of This Farm. M. A. Gray and daughter fjleta and Miss Mabel Detrick of Remington were in the city Thursday a few hours. He was over in Illinois last week and brought his aged mother home with him from Saunemin for a few weeks visit. She is 80 year? of age. Mr. Gray has just sold his 160 acre farm in Gilboa tp., Benton county, to Roy Atkinson for $125 per acre. He bought it fifteen years ago for SSO per acre, so the increase in value has averaged precisely $5 per acre each year since he owned it, besides he has had thousands of dollars income from th/ farm. He has now bought the Karah L. McKillip farm in Milroy tp., consisting of 320 acres.