Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1904 — Largest Land Deal Yet. [ARTICLE]

Largest Land Deal Yet.

Nelin Morris I ills His 22,000 Acre j Ranch to 1 Ligonier Company. Vbat is otftainiy the largest lam deal evr made in Jasper couty, in bofi acreage and value, ancbrobably lie largest ever made in Idiana pfue it was a state, is nowpartly ut record in the Recordr’s office here. Nison Mo ri=, whose big ranch on te KanktJ.ee river, and nearly all it Jasper icunty, was next to B. J Gifford i, the largest owned by ay one man in the state, has just sold it all, in a body, tojthe Norlern Inuana Land Company, of Lgonier, Jud., and of comisny theStriuss Brothers are uridiatjod to be the principal members.

S> far the deeds for tie laud been placed on record, butoniy the mortgages given by thepurchasers to Nelson Morris, andwhich were filed by one of his attoneys, this morning. The indexiig alone of these mortgages fills i&arly 8 pages of record. Thiamouni of land conveyed is 22.40bacres. The consideration is not yet known here, but the mortgges for deferred payments alone, i>ot up to $224,924, If Morris ;ot the price he has been asking, vhich was sl7 per acre, the entire cat of the ranch was $382,936. The laid is practically all pasture and iay land now, and considerable portion wet and swampy.