Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — STATE ACQUIRES TURKEY RUN [ARTICLE]

STATE ACQUIRES TURKEY RUN

Famous Beauty Spot Passes to the Historical Commission. Turkey Run, nature’s fairyland of glens and rockbound gulches in Parke county, at last belor»s to the people of Indiana. The deed transferring ft to the state passed Saturday from Harry E. Daugherty, president of the Hoosier Veneer company of Indian- * apolis, to a committee representing the Indiana Historical commission. The Meyer-Kiser bank of Indianapolis will hold the property as trustee until the coming legislatuie can provide for a state park* commission to take formal possession of it in the name of the state. Negotiations which have been pending-since the veneer company bought the Turkey Run tract a| an auction sale May 18 culminated a month ago in the acceptance by Mr. Daugherty of a proposal to accept $40,200 for the tract; —$10,000 more flhan the price at which his company bought it in the exciting afternoon’s bidding at the old Salmon Lusk homestead overlooking Sugar creek, and a mile above the wonderful glens that make Turkey Run the most picturesque spot in the state. With the approval of the purchase price by piembers of the Indiana Historical commission, the members of the state park committee, with Richard ' Lieber as chairman, proceeded to consummate the purchase and the last step was taken Saturday, when Mr. Daugherty signed the deed. „