Connecticut western news., 1873-07-11
VICTOR FITZER's CONQUEST OF A
 FARM.
How to BeRlM.
BY PROF. J. D. BUTLER.
LINCOLN, Nebraska, 1873,

LINCOLN, Nebraska, 1873.
 St. Plat, if we believe the legend, after he was beheaded, took up his head in his hand, and walked two leagues. Sceptic 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 moneyless man is confident he could pay for farm, if he only knew how to begin, yet sees all doors of entrance to real estate shut, and without even key holes. To encourage such despairing land lovers, let me show them a beardless boy now doing what they might long ago have done-5ee St. Plat take his first step! The ,744th purchaser of land from the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad O., in Nebraska, was Victor Fitzer, on June 2S, 1872. This purchase was 160 acres at $6 per acre, no part of the principal payable for two years, and thence forward one ninth of it annually. The first years in terest, $57. 60,' he paid on the day of pur- chase.
 Victor Fitzer is boy of sixteen. With in the last two seasons he has earned enough chiefly by ''breaking," that is, the first blowing of the prairie, not only for his first payment, but for buying yoke of | two-year old steers. This yoke, year
 
 make the payment then due. With the surplus thus obtained, the earnings for two years of a yoke of yearlings, which he can How buy for tritle, and the sale of the same when they become three-year olds he will have sufficient in 1874 to pay the first nstallment of principal as soon as it becomes payable.
 His purpose is to buy yoke of year lngs every year till his land is paid fdf, sell ing them again whenever he can, at profit Doubtless, he will also, next season, blow some of his laud and sell a crop of sod corn for enough to pay his personal ex- penses.
 Should he be disappointed in these req sonable expectations, he has father on q homestead within mile, and grandfather in Wisconsin, who, while proud to see him self-supporting will not fail to back him up. Besides, in case of unlocked for re verses, he has, in the railroad company, a creditor who can afford to wait, and who will grant every indulgence to boy who has begun so we'll
 What beginning his IS! It is such as insures good ending-even as Bunker Hill so began the American Revolution that no- body could doubt how that contest must end.
 The name Victor befits this farmer-hero | -uOt JCt UuI hdtSulCoS IL IS alike descriptive of his past, and the pro- phetic of his future. It will prove trum- petvoice. stimulating a legion to follow in his footsteps.
 You will find him in Saline county, as frontiersman say, in the thirteenth section of the sixth township; of the first range west of the sixth principal meridian. Post office, Atlanta, Nebraska.
 Since Victor's purchase the B. & M. R. R. Co., 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-seven:h of the principal payable, and the same pro portion each year thereafter. This arrange ment makes the shoe easy, just where it has oftenest been found to pinch, and doubles the ease with which farmer can make farm by it's produce pay for itself Sales by the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Iowa and Nebraska up to Jan uary first, 1873, 4ES,9s8 acres to 4,525 pur- chasers.