Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1908 — Congressman Buys Property. [ARTICLE]

Congressman Buys Property.

Congressman E. D. Crumpacker, of i Valparaiso, has become the owner of 1 a valuable piece of Chicago real ea- ; tate. W. K. Young & Bros., Chi- , cago real estate brokers, sold an apartment building belonging to I Sam Brown, Jr., to Edgar D. Crum- , packer for 327,000. The flat building is located on Leland avenue, and lis a six apartment building. It is numbered 1538 and IMO Leland avenue and is in a good neighborhood. Mr. Brown took in part payment 400 feet of vacant frontage on Princeton and Fifth avenues , and othgr streets near Forty-eighth place. Mr. Crumpacker’s purchase was one of several which enlivened th« ( real estate market in Chicago this Week. An oil well, four miles southeast of Oakland City, resembles a geyser at times, throwing oil to a ’height of 175 feet This is said Io be the strongest oil we)l in Indiana. The oil sand was entered at depth, of 1,140 feet and the drill was sent forty-one feet into the gand before operations were discontinued. The full thickness of the oil-bearing sand is not known. The well/has a natural flow of about 200 barrels a day.