Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — A BIG LAND DEAL. [ARTICLE]

A BIG LAND DEAL.

Au English syndicate is after 30,000 acres of land in Lake county along the Kankakee river. * The deal will probably be closed soon in Chicago. The purchase will be pure speculation On the part of the Englishmen. They will divide it into about two hundred farms and will import English farmers here to operate them.