Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1914 — LETTERS FROM OUR READERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Matt Moosmiller Not Pleased With Michigan. Wellston, Mich., Sept. 8, 1914. Dear Editor:^—l hope that a few lines from here will not go Into the waste basket. There has been a number of people around Rensselaer that have talked of coming up here and buying land, and all the information I can give them is to let some of the land that is advertised for sale alone, as ll is not as represented. What is not absolutely worthless to farm is so poor that a person can hardly make a living on it. They advise a person to not try and farm any of it, until paid for, and then when they try it, they soon find out what they have got and leave for parts unknown. Every other person you meet is giving one of these land dealers h—and if he gets all that people wish him he will sure have a warm time. 1 do not wish him any bad luck, but I do hope he gets what I would expect If 1 were doing as lie' is. They will not let the excursionists stop and make inquiries about the land from anyone that lias lived here a short time and found out what it is. They say it is all good and a person never knows the difference until he trys it. There is some good land here but the old “lumber jacks” have got. all of it. They take their excursionists around through it. and then take them out in the jack pines and tell them that the land Is just as good, and all they have to do is to grub it and plant. Rome stop and harvest and others dig out before harvest. The ground is very frosty, and some years it freezes every month. It missed July this year. Last year it did not. I hope if any of my friends are thinking of buying up here that they will investigate a little on their own hook and find out what they are getting before they buy and those that have bought find out what they have before they undertake to move on it. Last June, when we had our hard frost here, they told us that there was a man on their excursion that said it froze the corn down to the ground as far sciuth as two hundred miles below Chicago. 1 could not find out who the man was or where he was from. When I saw the next paper and learned that 39 was as low as it dropped there, I thought'.of that old song, “Somebody lied to me.” It is next to impossible to sell this land after you get. 1 It. I have learned that there is some homesteads here yet and people come here and get land for sl7 an acre right alongside of land that the government is a trying to get rid of. 1 hope that this will put people on their guard, about this land. Yours truly MATT MOOSEMJLLER.