Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — Another Farm “Ruined?” [ARTICLE]

Another Farm “Ruined?”

Issao Leavel, who lives on the former Bergman, later Brinley land, east of town, owned 80 acres, due northeast, about three quarters of a mile from the very northeast corner of the Rensselaer corporation. It coners with but across the road from B. J. Gifford’s 160 acres. The line of the Gifford railroad into Rensselaer will pass across this 80 acres, diagonally, leaving about one third on one side of the railroad and two thirds on the other. Mr. Leavel thought this would injure the farm badly, and therefore wanted big pay for the right of way. Mr. Gifford asked what he would sell the farm for, and Mr. Leavel said, $55 per acre. ‘’All right” says Mr. Gilford, ‘‘jupt make us out the deed.” Thus Mr. Leavel got his full price for the farm in spite of the faot that it will soon be “all cut up” by a railroad But Mr. Gifford knows what he is doing. He knows the value of the farm will be greater after another railroad is built and better markets scoured than it is now. The greatest line of overcoats ever shown in Jasper county at the Chicago Department Store, opposite court house.