Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-06-27
Lands i'm Grant County much
Cheaper than in Northern lowe
and MinnesOta--the Cause.-The
end of Speculation.

founded and combined rascality to account
lfor the price of land being lower IN Grant
County, lower by 25 per cent, than IL
the new and unsettled counties Of North
lorn Iowa. and in Minnesota and North
Western Wisconsin. It is a strange pre-
dicameht, caused BY swarms Of spectators
at work without helmsmen or syssetn.-
Those among them who possess reason,
common sense and intelligence must see
their error-yet seeing, dishonesty drag
Others along with them into dark and un.
settled regions for victims; it is vast con-
spiracy 10 rob people. Lands, bought on
lily few weeks or months ago III Iowa al
Congress price, are held at Sl2 to $50 pei
acre, and there are any amount OF tool'
paying such prices, being told that such
lands are selling at $50 per acre, just over
the Mississippi in Wisconsin! To show nF
the terrible delusion Of those who pay
such prices for land in northern Iowa
where there are few settlements, no schools
no roads nor bridges, no mills, and scarcel,
IA store, shop, church nor market in 20 o.
80 miles of anywhere, we will state fairly
case for illustration:
Grant County, which is the southwest
ern county of Wisconsin, has been settled
for over 20 years; it is a large county, and
the assessed valuation is over $4,000, 0Oo
with population exceeding 10000; the
county is surrounded by railroads and riv
ers, has the best soil to be found in the
west---best because it is limestone land
and will wear for centuries, 20 years cultiva
tion not perceptibly reducing its producing
powers; timber is plenty, and it Is the bes
watered region in the United States al
most every farm has one or more springs
of the purest water and there are enough
mill seats to supply "a State. Our Amerl-
can, English, German and Scotch citizens
consider this region the most healthful in
the world of their knowledge; being dry
atmosphere and bracing climate, consump-
ton is unknown except from abuse, and
bilious diseases are of the mildest form
almost every District of two miles square
has school house, and roads, bridges,
churches, public buildings, mills, shops,
&c., are supplied in every neigh5orhood-
all paid for md to BE- enjoyed gratis by
those who purchase property and reside in
Grant County.
The price of unimproved land in Grant
County is $40 per acre-seldom exceeding
sl5, the latter being an average price for
improved farms, with good houses. barns,
crops, orchards and Enclosures. Quite a
difference, the reader will see, between
lands of like quality in Iowa, outside Of
railroads, civilization and Improvements,
and in Grant County! Yet such is true
10 the letter, as any man can find out b.
visiting both regions and Judging for him.
self. All these ready made improvements
railroads, schools, roads, mills and shops,
are at work by steam and animal locomo-
ton in Grant County; in northern Iowa
all such Improvements are in the air and
yet to be paid for. Yet lands, by the
force Of lying spectators. are run up to
higher prices in nosthern Iowa and Wis
consin and Minnesota than in Grant Coun-
ty! 1t is an outrage that eastern papers
and honest men everywhere ought to ex-
pose. "a
| Tho lands of northern Iowa will come
down to little over Congress prices in .
few months; no mathematical problem Is
elearer-it is an axiom that '.things Of a
like must find a level;" that level in land
prices is down in the scale to Congress,
price in all unsettled and unimproved re-
eions-in settled and improved regions, il
lis up in proportion to commercial aIyan-
tages and public and local Improvements.
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