Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1915 — Lawrence Baker Is Looking After His Business Interests Here. [ARTICLE]

Lawrence Baker Is Looking After His Business Interests Here.

Lawrence Baker, son of the late William p.\ Baker, who has been in the west for several years, is' here looking after his interests in his father’s estate. The land has been divided between the two heirs, Lawrence and his sister, Mrs. Vivian Boicourt, and he will sell his part and return to Arizona, where he is engaged in prospecting. He has been away from Rensselaer some eighteen years, but was home for a short time ten years ago. He is 48 years of age, and is a typical westerner in appearance, wearing long hair and a big cowboy hatr He is located at Miami, Ariz., and has accumulated quite a bit of real estate. He and his partner have 230 acres of undeveloped mining land in the Tonto Basin district, within four miles of the great Roosevelt dam. 90 acres of which is gold bearing and has tested SBOO to the ton. The other 140 acres is copper bearing. They located this find only last spring. It is yet undeveloped, but if it yields as w’ell as indicated, and they think it will, both are rich men. Mr. Baker’s share of his father’s estate,-north of Rensselaer, is 280 acres, all fine land, but the improvements are on the 240 his sister, Mrs. Bolcourt, gets. The North Dakota land has not yet been divided. Mr. Baker has never married.