Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1909 — Geo. W. Infield Sells the McCoy McCoysburg Land. [ARTICLE]

Geo. W. Infield Sells the McCoy McCoysburg Land.

Geo. W. Infield, who purchased the McCoy and Rinehart land several months ago, has now sold it all but fifty acres, at a substantial increase in price, in fact, it is probably the biggest land deal ever pulled off in Jasper county, and while we are not at liberty to give the figures, we can say that the land was purchased of the Connecticut Insurance Co. on such favorable terms that Mr. Infield’s profit is measured by five figures.

The land south of the track consists of 1,300 acres, and the purchaser is John Herr, a German and extensive land owner near Marion, Ohio. He has eleven sons and five daughters, and will move on the place, bringing a considerable part of his family with him, and thus will help - to populate that part of the county, as well as bringing a good family of practical farmers to the county. The land north of the track, consisting of 340 acres, is being purchased by a man named Sheetz, of Benton county, who is now in Texas. Mr. Infield states that he also has a big land deal on near Denver, Ind., and from that source he expects to make another large sum. Mr. Infield states that he is so confident of the opportunities of the projected Lafayette to Chicago interurban railroad that he will have it built if he has to build it himself, and*he expects to do his full share.