Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1900 — Lumber Yards Sell Quick. [ARTICLE]

Lumber Yards Sell Quick.

A Whole Regiment of People Going- to Colorado. It is a dull day thtese days, whera there is not a new and big deal in lumber yards in Rensselaer, and new candidates for Colorado heard of. The last deal in lumber yards was a three or four cornered transaction which has pretty nearly shaken the town off its foundations by its magnitude. The sale of J. W. Paxton’s yard and real-estate therewith connect•ed, to Geo. O. Bales, for about $12,000 has already been mentioned. Now Mr. Bales has sold the

same property to Jesse 0. Gwin, our ex cpunty treasurer, and has bought of the Nowels-Sayler Luiiber Company their entire lumber and coal business an I all buildings and lots connected, j The value of the real-estate is ■ about $5,000 ' but the value of the stock is not stated. jThus counting the two sales of i the Paxton yard and the one sale ■of the Nowels-Sayler yard, this i makes transactions in Rensselaer lumber yards amounting to way up in the tens of thousands. The sequel to all these sales is interesting but not wholly agreeable. It means the departure of so many of our best citizens to another state. If present intentions are carried out, all these men and their families will soon remove to Lamar, Colorado: Wallace Robinson, D. B. Nowels, T. J. Sayler ai.d J. W. Paxton. In addition to these Charley and Joe Paxton, of Albany, are also going there. And some precincts still to hear from.