The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-17
TICToR FITZER's CONQUEST
OF A FARM.
How to Begin.
RY PROF. ]. d. BUTLER.

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LINCOLN, Nebraska. 1873.
| st. Plat, IL we believe the legend
| after he was beheaded, took up his
head in his hand and walked two lea
CUES. Sceptics say that If they could
only see him take the first step they
could have faith in all the rest But
1t is the first step that costs. They
stumble there.
So, many q moneyless man is con-
fident he could pay for farm, If he
only knew how to begin, yet sees all
the doors OF entrance to real estate
shut, and without even key-holes.
To encourage such departing land low
ers, let me show them beardless boy
now doing what they might long ago
have done. See st. Plat take his first
step!
The l,74ith purchaser Of land from
the Burlington & Missouri River Rail-
road Co., In Nebraska, was Victor
Filter, on June 2S, 1872. This pur-
chase was l60 acres at So per acre, no
part of the principal payable for two
years, and thence forward one ninth
of 1t annually. The first years inter-
est, S57 go, he paid on the day of pur-
chase.
Victor FitZer il boy Of sixteen.
Within the last two seasons he has
earned enough chiefly by breaking"
that is the first plowing of the prairie,
not only for his first payment. but for
buying yoke OF two-year old steers.
This yoke, year hence. will sell for
more than enough to make the pay
ment than due. 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 Arst installment
Of principal as soon as 1t becomes pay
able.
His purpose is to buy yoke ofyear-
lings every year till his land is paid
for, selling them again whenever he
can, at profit. Doubtless he will
also, next season, plow some OF his
land and sell crop Of sod corn for
enough to defray his personal expen.
ses.
Should he be disappointed In these
reasonable expectations, he has faith
er on homestead within mile, and
a grandfather in Wisconsin, who while
proud to see him self-supporting will
not fail to back him up. Besides, ia
case of unlocked for reverses, he has,
in the Railroad Company, creditor
who can afford to wait, and who will
grant every indulgence to u boy who
has begun so well.
What beginning his is! 1t Is such
as insures good etding-even az Bun
ker Hill so began the American Revo-
luton that nobody could doubt how
that contest must end.
The name Victor BELTS the farmer
hero-not yet mature but matchless.
1t is alike descriptive Of his past, and
prophetic Of his future. II will prove
trumpet-voi ce, stimulating a legion
to follow his footsteps.
You will find him in Saline county,
as frontiersmen say, on the thirteenth
section OF the sixth township, OF the
meridian l3 s, ct, r. W. Post Office,
Atlanta, Nebraska.
Since Victor's purchase the B. & NJ.
Railroad Company have made their
terms still more generous. They now
require no payments except six per
cent. interest till the end Of four years
after purchase. Only at the begin
ming of the fifth year is one seventh Of
the principal payable, and the same
each year thereafter. This
makes the shoe easy, just
where it has oftenest been found to
pinch, and doubles the ease with
which farmer can make farm by
Its produce pay for itself. Sales by
the Burlington & Missouri River Rail-
road in Iowa and Nebraska % to jan
nary first, 1873, 47s,oss acres to 4,525 !
purchasers.