Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

BOUND FOR MICHIGAN.

MANY FARMERS from Indiana and the North and Central States are going to a district In Michigan where new towns are lapid.y growing . and a thriving community i s being established Tins is m Mason, Manistee and Lake Counties in a larse tract 0 land known as the Swigart Tract. Here « * agricuS ur . al development is going on that is more rapid than has ever been seen in the State. , -

ADVANTAGES that are drawing settlers to this are—that it lies in the center of Michigan’s Famous Fruit Belt and is especially adapted for fruit growing, the lands being just near enough to derive the greater benefit from Lake Michigan’s influence; adaptability of the land to growing good crops oi grains, grasses and everything that is raised in lowa and Illinois; mild, even climate; local markets, including Ludington and Manistee with over 30,000 combined population,' on the edge of the tract; surroundings of a well settled country; four lines of railroads; products delivered by steamships to Chicago and Milwaukee over night; schools and churches throughout the tract; home conditions ideal; one thousand 4 0-acre pieces to select from. THIS is the place for the renter to go who no longer w r ants to pay out the bulk of his earnings in rent where lands are so high priced that they can be owned by the wealthy alone. It is the place for the man to go who wants to w'ork for himseif. Nowhere can ,one find lands for sale at $lO to $35 per acre that >an t - made to so qu’ckly produce a living. DO ic OU \\ ANT a productive piece of farm land that will support you •in plenty while you build it up into a property becoming constantly more valuable, then buy in the Swigart 1 ract. There’s where your money will go the farthest. For to SSO down and $5 to $lO per month you can buy 40 acres. While you are buying the farm, if you should die, it will be

C- J' DEAN, Rensselaer, Indiana.

FARM BARGAINS. 60 acres—Near station and school, at heart 'Of dredge ditch, all level productive land, in cultivation except five acres in timber. Improvements are a good two-story fourroom house, good small barn and good well. Price *45. Terms, S7OO down. 80 acres—All black land In cultivation, near school and churches touches large ditch, a fine outlet lor drainage and is all in cultivation. Improvements are a good two-story six-room house, good barn for ten horses, steel tower windmill, with good well and 25 bearing fruit trees. Only *45. Terms, *I,OOO down.