Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1901 — Squire Bussell Grows Enthueiastic. [ARTICLE]

Squire Bussell Grows Enthueiastic.

Editor Republican: I have just completed the job of moving a school house 25x30 on B. J. Gifford’s reclaimed lands from Rich Grove to the' little town of Newland a distance of one mile m 4 j days across land that ten years ago could only be crossed in a sportsman’s skift. I crossed over muck six feet deep passed through as fine a com as grows east of the Mississippi river, onions to a finish, potatoes by the acre, as high as fourteen acres in a field. Just think what this has cost to drain this vast amount of swamp lands and just see the good houses and good barns and everybody with a bountiful crop. And see that wide-awake T. M. Callahan, the general merchant at Newland, with his daily sales Jwith the general average from S4O to SSO per day. See the hundreds of good homes that Mr. Gifford has provided for the industrious farmersI think thia is the greatest good that was ever done by any one man or any ten men. Mr. Gifford’s name will go down in history as doing more good for his fellow man than any one man that ever lived in the state. ~ His name should be held in reverence for his great works. A. McCoy, or Uncle Mac as we all call hix comes next to providing the homeless with good homes. Other men that hold great tracts of fertile lands should take lessons from Mr. B. J. Gifford and Uncle Mac and everybody would then have good homes Let their good work go on.

C. W. BUSSELL.