Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1909 — Land Near Rensselaer. Selling For One Hundred Per Acre. [ARTICLE]

Land Near Rensselaer. Selling For One Hundred Per Acre.

Land in the neighborhood of Rensselaer is the best investment that can be made in farming lands, we believe, and it will be surprising if a lot of keen Illinois farmers who own or have sold farms in Illinois at prices ranging from $175 to S3OO per acre, do not invade Jasper county, where there are better roads, equally good towns and equally good schools and snap up this land that is almost if not quite as good as any in Illinois. Sixty bushel corn is the rule this year. Illinois is not doing any better. The fame money will buy twice or three times as much land in this county. There are a lot of land bargains in Jasper county and some of them near Rensselaer. The writer has always believed that land owners should hold up the prices. Your investment is good here and unless you can get a good price don’t sell. The cost of the roads, the cost of the ditches, the cost of the bridges over the streams and the proportionate cost of the court house, iff addition to the cost of the building and tiling improvements should be added to the farms that are offered for sale. Few counties have made greater improvements than Jasper has. Recently several farms have sold for SIOO or more. W. R. Shesler received that price for his; G. L. Thornton recently sold his Surrey farm for $102.50 and now George W. Ketchum has sold his 160 acre farm near Pleasant Ridge for SIOO per acre. He bought the farm nine years ago, paying $45 per acre for it. Now John Q. Puffer, of, Chattsworth,. buys. it for SIOO per acre. Thus, George makei SB,BOO on the deal, besides getting nine crops from it. Of course, he has been to some Improvement expense, but the farm is cheap at the price Mr. Puffer pays for it. G. L. Thornton’s trade illustrates the increase of land prices. His father entered the land from the government and after his death Green heired part of the estate. He moved to Kansas and struck the sunflower state at a bad time, when hot winds combined with the deffibcratic party to make about everybody in Kansas wonder whether life was worth living. Green came back to Rensselaer during Cleveland’s administration with $2 in his pockets, but he had traded a 160 acre farm and all the stock he had on it for 20 acres more -of she Surrey land. He later bought the balance of the 86 acres. He then sold it for S6O an acre and regretting the sale bought it back for $65. He thought then that he would never part with it again but later he sold it for $Bl per acre and before he had removed off he bought it back for $75 per acre. He kept the farm then until about two weeks ago when be sold it for $102.50 per acre. There are lots of real land bargains in Jasper county awaiting buyers and the buyers are almost sure to come.