Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1900 — POOR BOY NOW A MILLIONAIRE. [ARTICLE]

POOR BOY NOW A MILLIONAIRE.

Mr. Gifford started out as a poor boy. He served four years in the army and then entered the practice of law, but he saw in railroad building, which he followed for a time, and in swamp reclaiming greater future possibilities, and has made several fortunes. At the low estimate of S3O an.

acre, his Jasper County farm is worth §1,000,000. Many hundred acres are now held at over §IOO, and wou’d not be parted with f6r that price. The time is coming, Mr. Gifford is satisfied when every acre will be worth 8100. No part of Mr. Gifford’s farm is for sale. E. L. Lewis,