Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-12
Nebraska.


LINCOLN, July 1st, 1873.
St. Plat, if we believe the legend, after
he was beAeadet, took up his head in
his hand and walked two leagues. Scep-
ties say that if they could only see him
take the first step, they could have faith
in all the rest. But it is the first step
that costs. They stumble there.
So many Il moneyless man is confident
he could pay for farm, if he only
knew how to begin; yet he sees all doors
of entrance to real estate shut, and with
out even keyholes. To encourage such
despairinS land lovers, let ME show
them beardless boy, now doing what
they might have done long ago-see st.
Piatt take his first stepi
The 1,774th purchaser of land from
the Burlington & Missouri River Rail
Road Company, in Nebraska, was Vic
tor Fitzer, on June %, 1872. This pur-
chase was 16O acres, at Sc per acre, no
part of the principal payable for two
wears, aud thenceforward one-ninth of
| it annually. The first years interest,
$57. so, he paid on the day of purchase.
| Victor F'itzer is a boy of sixteen.
Within the last two seasons he has earn-
fed enough, chiefly by breaking, that
IL, LbC III ~ pAO" OA i'A~ ''S.
only for his first payment, but for buy
ing yoke of two year old steers. This
woke. 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 4
trifle, and the sale of the same When
they become three years old, he viii
have sufficient in 17!4 TO pay the first
installment of principal as soon as il
becomes payable.
His purpose is to buy yoke of year
lings every year till his land is paid for
selling them again whenever he can a
a profit. Doubtless he will also mex
season plow some of his land, and sell :
crop of sod corn for enough to pay hi
personal expenses.
Should he be disappointed in thes'
reasonable expectations, he has a fathe
on a homestead within mile, and .
grandfather in WISCONSIN, who will b.
proud TO see him self-supporting, ant
will not fail to back him up. Besides
in case of unlocked for reverses, he ha
in the Railroad Company creditor WHIT
can afford to wait, and who will gran
every Indulgence to a boy who has be
) gun so we'll.
! What beginning his is! 1t is sucl
, as insures a good endlng--eyen as Bun
ker Hill so began the American Revoln
ton that nobody could doubt how til
contest must end.
The name Victor BELTS this farmer
hero--not yet mature, but matchless.
is alike descriptive of his past and pre-
phetfc of his future. 1t will prove
trumpet voice, stimulating q legion
follow in his footsteps.
y You will find him in Saline county
as frontiersmen say, on the thirteent
section of the sixth township of the frs
range west of the sixth principal mer
s dian (l3 s, ct. j r, W. Post-ofiice, Al
, lanta, Nebraska.
Since Victor's puI chase the b. & N
+ Railroad Company have made the
: terms still more generous. They no
: require no payment except six per cen
= interest till the end of four years afte
= purchase. Only at the beginning of I'll
> fifth year is one-seventh of the prime
pal payable, and the same proportio
It each year thereafter. This arrangemeI
e makes the shoe easy, just where it h;
= oftenest been found to pinch, and dor
bles the ease with which farmer ca
If make farm by it's produce pay ft
n itself. Sales by the Burlington u Mi
4 souri, River Railroad in Iowa and n
!. braska up to January 1st. 1888, AIS 81
n acres to 4 4,525 purchasers.
!; j. d. BUTLER.