Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Victor Filters Conquest of a
Farm.
HOW TO BEGIE.
BY PROF. j. ID. BUTLER.

LINCOLN, Nebraska, 1873,
St. Plat, ii We believe the legend, after
he was beheaded, took up his head in his
hand, and walked two leagues. Sceptics
say that if they could only sec him take
the first step they could have faith in all
the rest But it is the first step that
costs. They stumble. a
So, many a moneyless man is confident
he could pay for farm, if he only knew
how to begin, yet sees all doors OF ell
trance to real estate shut and without
even key-holes To encourage such de
spairing land lovers, let me show them
beardfess boy now doing what they might
long ago have Jone-see St, Plat take
his first step.
The 1,744th, purchaser of land FROM the
Burlington Il Missouri River Railroad
Co, in Nebraska, was Victor Filter on
June 2Sth, 1872. This purchase was 100
acres at So per acre, no part of the princi-
lsl payable for two years, and thence for
ward, one ninth of it annually. The first
years interest $27.60 he paid Oh the day
Of purchase.
Victor Fitzor is boy of sixteen
Within the last two seasons he has earned
enough chiefly by ''break :, that is, the
frs. blowing of the pr,ire, not only for
his first payment, but for buying ayoke of
two-year old steers. This yoke a year
hence, wall sell for more than enough to
make the payment then d e. With the
surplus thus obtained, the earnings for
two years of yoke of yearlings, which
he can now buy for trifle and the sale
of the same when they become three-year
olds he will have sufficient, in 1874 to pay
the first installment of principal as soon
As it becomes payable.
His purpose is to buy yoke of year
lings every year till his land is paid for,
selling them again whenever he cal, at a
profit. Doubtless, he will also, next sea
son plow some of his land and sell a crop
of sod-con for enough to defray his per-
sonaI expenses.
Should he be disappointedin these rea-
sonable expectations, he has a father on "a
homestead within mile, and a grand
father in Wisconsin, who, while proud to
see him self-supporting will not fail to
back him up. Besides, in case of unlock
ed for reverses, he has, in the Railroad
Company, creditor who can afford to
wait, and who will grant every indulgence
to boy VINO has begun so well.
What a beginning his Isl 1t is such as
insures good ending-even as Bunker
Hill so began the American Revolution
that nobody could doubt how that con-
test must end
The name Victor BELTS this hero-not
yet matchless. 1t Is alike descriptive of
his past, and prophetic of his future 1t
will prove trumpet voice, stimulating a
legion to follow in his foot steps.
You will find him in Saline county, as
frontiersmen say, in the thirteenth sec
ton of the sixth township, OF the first
range west OF the sixth principal mcudin
(13 S, St, r, W. Post Office Atlanta Ne
braska
Since Victor's purchase, the B. & NJ.
Rail road Company have made their
terms still more generous. They now
require no payment till the end of four
years after purchase. Only at the begin
ing of the fifth year is one seventh of the
principal payable, and the same proper
ton each year thereafter. This arrange
ment makes the shoe easy, just, where it
has oftepest been found to pincn, and
doubles the ease, while farmer can make
a farm by its produce pay for itself
Sales by the Burlington 81 Missouri River
Railroad in Iowa and Nebraska up to
January first 1873, 47S.983 acres to 4,525
purchases