Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1914 — Many Remington People Getting the “York State" Fever. [ARTICLE]

Many Remington People Getting the “York State" Fever.

Quite a number of Remington people are getting the “York state” fever. Ex-Postmaster W. E. Peck, Clyde Reeve and William Broadie have already bought farms there, and Mr. Peck and Mr. Reeve and families will probably leave this week with their families and household goods for that state. Mr. Broadie will not leave until spring, we understand. Those who have bought farms there so far have bought in the vicinity of Binghamton. Quite a number of other Remington people have the fever quite strong and it is probable that there will be more emigration from there. Being used to land that readily sells now from S2OO to $225 per acre. Remington people cannot understand the comparatively low prices tor land in the east, where many farms can be bought for about what the improvements are worth. But tills i§ a condition that is found in practically all of the older settled states of the east, and is caused more from the emigration of the young men to the west, where they have been attracted by free homestead lands, or their going to the cities or entering the professions, and not because the land is so much less productive than in years gone by. it is a dairying, fruit and potato growing section where these people are locating. Oats, barley and other small grains do well there, as also does clover and timothy, but it is not a corn growing country, and only small fields of this cereal are grown there. The markets are of the best, and everything raised commands a good price. Mr. Peck has premised The Democrat to write us a :or the benefit of its readers, his impressions of the country as soon as • gets acclimated.