Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1902 — Increased Farm Values. [ARTICLE]

Increased Farm Values.

From Postmaster General’s Report:—lt was claimed that rural delivery would increase the value of farm lands. Official reports indicate that in communities served by rural free delivery, isolated farms have been enhanoed in value beoause of that service at an average rate of at least 5 per cent in the older settled states, and in more remote states and territories, where postal facilities have heretofore been few end far between, the inorease of value has been much greater.