Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-07-02
VICTOR FITZER's CONQEST OF
A FARM.
How to Begin.
BY PROF. ]. D. BUTLER.
LINCOLN, Nebraska, 1873

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LINCOLN, Nebraska, 1873.
st. Plat, five believe the legend
after he was beheaded, took up hi:
head in his hand, and walked two
leagues. Sceptics say that If they
could only see him take the first stel
they could have faith in all the rest.
But 1t is the first step that costs. They
stumble there.
So, many a moneyless man is con-
fident he could pay for farm, IL be
only knew how to begin, yet sees al
doors of entrance to real estate shut,
and without even key holes. To en-.
courage such despairing land-lovers,
let me show them a beardless boy
now doing what they might long ago
have done-see st. Plat take his first
stepl
The 1,S44th purchaser Of land from
the Burlington & Missouri River
Railroad Co., in Nebraska. was Vic
tor Filter, on June q, 1872. This
purchase was 160 acres st So per acre,
no part of the principal payable for
two years, and thence forward one
ninth Of it annually. The first years
interest, S57, 80 he paid on the day Of
purchase.
Victor Filter is boy Of sixteen
Within the last two seasons he has
earned enough chiefly by breaking"
that is, the first blowing of the prair-
lie, not only for his first payment, but
for buying q yoke of twO-year old
steers. This yoke, a year hence, will
sell for more than enough to make
the payment then due. With the
surplus thus obtained, the earnings
for two years Of a yoke Of yearlings,
which he can now buy for q trihe
and the sale of the same when they
become three-year olds he will have
sufficient in 1874 to pay the first in
stallment Of principal as soon as it
becomes payable.
His purpose is to buy a yoke of
yearlings every year till his land is
paid for, selling them again whenev-
er he can, at a profit. Doubtless, he
Will also, next season, plOw some Of
his land and sell crop of sod-corn
for enough to defray his personal ex-
penses.
Should he be disappointed in these
reasonable expectations, he has 3
father on a homestead within mile,
and grandfather in Wisconsin, who,
while proud to see him self-support-
ing will not fail to back him up. Be
sides, in case of unlocked for reverses,
he has, in the Railroad Company, q
creditor who can afford to wait, and
who will grant every indulgence to
boy who has begun so well.
What beginning his is /! 1t Is
such as insures q good ending-even
as Bunker Hill so began the Ameri-
can Revolution that nobody could
doubt how that contest must end.
The name Victor BELTS this farmer
hero-not yet mature, but matchless.
1t is alike descriptive Of his past, and |
prophetic of his future. 1t will prove |
a trumpet-voice, stimulating legion |
to follow in his footsteps.
You will find him in Saline coun-
ty, as frontiersmen say in the thir-
teenth section Of the sixth township, |
of the first range west Of the sixth |
principal meridian Q3 s, 8 {, r, wy
Post Office, Atlanta, Nebraska.
Since Victor's purchase the b. & NJ.
Railroad Company have made their
terms still more generous. They now
require no payment except six per
cent. interest till the end Of four
years after purchase. Only at the be-
ginning Of the fifth year is one-sev.
enth of the principal payable, and
the same proportion each year there
after. This arrangement makes the
shoe easy, just where 1t has oftenest
been found to pinch, and doubles the
ease with which q farmer can make a
farm by lis produce pay for ITSELF
Sales by the Burlington d Missouri
River Railroad in Iowa and Nebras-
ka up to January first, 1873, 47S, ,9SS
acres to 4, ,525 purchasers.