Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — Rise and Fall of a Boom Town. [ARTICLE]

Rise and Fall of a Boom Town.

JTrom t*i« Buffalo Express: Greeobnrg is one of those Kansas towns in which it should be a pleasure and a privilege not to live. Five Tears age it had 2500 inhabitants. Sew there are 123. It has a bonded debt of $45,000, with practically no valuation to pay it. The few people now there decline to pay their taxes, and k»ts imd buildings are being sold ►by the County Treasurer. Farmers come into town and buy tax certificates foe little or nothing. These they desire for the buildings, which they remove, earing nothing for the lots, five years ago a flouring mill was erected at a cost of $7,000, me city giving $9,000 in cash. Recently this building was purchased for a few dollars and removed to Colorado.