Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — Yonng Women Investing in Land. [ARTICLE]

Yonng Women Investing in Land.

Lisbon (Dak.) Star. A young widow who came to Lisbon took a preemption claim to 160 acres proved up and got a title to her land, then took another claim under the homestead law of 160 acres more, on which she is now living; and as the possessor of 320 acres of the richest soil on God’s footstool she is, of course, considered worth having, and several bachelors in the vicinity are glaring at each other with fire in their eyes and hatred in their hearts toward their rivals. In Lisbon not a few servant girls have taken up claims, and intend to cultivate them by contract; probably any one of them could realize from SSOO to $750 each for their land. One young lady, who is clerking in one of the stores in town is the possessor of a number of town lots in addition to several quarter-sections of land. The land is worth probably $25 an acre, but she came into posession of it by taking advantage of the pre-emption, homes tend and free claim laws. Her town lots were bought when prices were low, from the proceeds of her salary, and have now advanced to nearly ten times the price she paid for them. Another • young lady who took up a pre-emption olaim last fall has the satisfaction of knowing that a railroad survey has since been made across it, and it is not at all improbable that she may yet become the owner of a town site worth from $50,000 to 100,000. It is a very poor town site that is not worth the former sum, 250 lots at S2OO each making that amount; a quarter section of land will make about 600 ordinary town lots, allowing for streets and avenues. ,