Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1909 — O. P. Tabor Favorably Impressed With Northwest. [ARTICLE]

O. P. Tabor Favorably Impressed With Northwest.

O. P. Tabor, the Remington stone road contractor, returned Sunday afternoon from a prospecting trip to Minnesota and North Dakota. He was so favorably impressed that it is not improbable that he will later invest in that country. The oats and wheat crop there is the finest Mr. Tabor ever saw, the mammoth straw bending under its weight of well headed grain. Land prices have greatly increased within the past five years and good farms there are not for sale now for less than from S4O to S6O per acre, but persons who bought a few years ago struck it very rich. Mr. Tabor was within a mile of “Bud” Hammond’s great wheat farm, and states that our former Jasperite has a $15,000 crop this year. Much of the wheat there will make from 25 to 40 bushels to the acre, and the harvesting season is now at hand. Many who visited that section of the country a few years ago and were tempted to invest but did not are compelled to swallow a big lump of regret if they revisit the country and see how marvelously it has developed.