Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1859 — LANDS AND RESOURCES OF JASPER COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

LANDS AND RESOURCES OF JASPER COUNTY.

We are promised a scries of articles on this subject, the first number of which appeura this week in the “Farmer’s Department.” We have full confidence in the writer’s ability to describe the present state o: our county and its prospects, and are only sorry that our paper does not circulate in the East, where land is high and almost beyond the reach of men of ordinary means. .That Jasper county on# day will be noted j tor her wealth and prosperity, there can be | no doubt—all that is needed is population. , We are almost cut off from the trading public by want of railroad facilities, but we believe that one road (the Logansport and Peoria) will be running through the county before the first of January n< v xt, and the pros pect is that two other roads will be constructed in time—pejhaps within three to five years. All that Jasper county needs is that iter 1 nds, shuuld he held by resident farmers, and when these roads are built the roun'y will fill up with amazing rapidity. Like many other counties, we have the best and the worst of lands. The latter (known as 6\vamp lands) are owned principally by speculators not living among us. These inferior lands are thrown into market and sotd*‘sight unseen,” often to innocent persons, at ten times their value. This practice of speculators aids, in a great measure, to depreciate J sper lands abroad, and to deter immigrants from settling among us. Our advice to all who want good farms in this county, (and they are as plenty as they are in any other part of the West.) is this: Come and see the land lor yourselves before you buy, and then you will Jioi be swindled by sharp speculators. •