Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — LETTERS FROM OUR READERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

A LETTER FROM MICHIGAN Buchanan, Mich., Feb. 20, 1917. Editor Jasper County Democrat: We are having some warm, spring-like weather this week, after three months of steady zero weather, and the snow, which has been line sleighing all winter, is most all gone. The ground is scarcely frozen any, only where the wind blew off the snow, and wheat looks green, so do the meadows. Peach crop and other fruits have come through in fine condition, and we have had an ideal winter. Some of our people, who are spending the winter in Florida, report the orange crop killed by cold so we think there is no place quite so dependable as southwestern Michigan. Farms have been selling all winter and prices are raising. Some of the leading farmers of Jasper county have been buying farms here sftnee last spring and have recently bought some of the best located and highly improved farms in Buchanan township. Buchanan

has on her boosting clothes and has secured two more factories, the Chicago Transmission company and the Illinois Steel company. These companies have selected their sites and surveyed them and will begin work as soon as the weather will permit. The Pere Marquette railroad company has selected a site and will build a large new depot as soon as the weather permits. When these new factories are built it will give Buchanan seven large factories and five small ones. With her splendid water power and electric light dams furnishing cheap light, heat and power Buchanan will, without doubt, be a manufacturing center in the near future. JOHN W. CLOUSE.