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Bull & Co.'s will be glad to learn that
it will be in operation in couple of
weeks.
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DISTRICT OF NEwToWN,s SIS. Probate Cou1

DISTRICT OF NEWTOWN,S IS. Probate Court
II April Is. 1901.
Estate OF Horace Gilbert, late of New
town. in said district deceased.
The administrator on said estate having
died before the complete settlement with said
estate upon application of Levi G. Gilbert
praying that an administrator de bonis non be
appointed on said estate as per application on
ale more fully appears it is
Ordered, That said application be heard
and determined at the Probate Office in said
Newtown on the 25th day of April, AID, 1901,
at O'Clock in the afternoon and that notice
and the time and place Of hearing thereon by
publishing the same one time in some newspa-
per having a circulation in said district be-
NJ. J. Bradley, Judge.
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John Lynch has left Passaic, N. ]
and secured work at Bridgeport.
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Alta COURT OF PROBATE holden at Red
n ding, within and for the district of Red
ding on the 18th day OF April, A. D. 1901.
senior Jo nf MARI SdrE Es9 ~
port, Connecticut, Administratrix on the SOL
vent estate oflEliiah Grammar, late Of Red
ding, within said district, deceased. This
Court doth decree that six months be allowed
and limited for the creditors of said estate TIC
Administrative and directs that public notice
be given OF this order by advertising in news
paper having circulation in said district, and
by posting copy thereof on the public sign
post in said town OF Reddinfi nearest the place
where the deceased last dwelt. Certified from
Record. John n NickerSOn, Judge,
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Mrs w. l.. Terrill has returned from
sojourn in Nineland, N. J.
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Patrick Mccarthy of the Glen NOV
ed his household goods to Bridgeport,
this week.
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Mrs Patrick Crotty of Sandy Hook is
to take up her residence in Bridgeport.
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DARN .FOR SALE-Pursuant to an order
II from the Probate Court for the District Of
Woodbury.. shall sell at Public A net on
Saturday, the 9th day Of April, 1901. at
tate Of the estate of Josephine NJ Flower, late
Of Bethlehem, deceased. Being the homestead ga.
ated on the Bethlehem and Morris road and
the east side OF Long Meadow Pond, it has fine
facilities for boating and fishing, making 1T
mile from the churches, school and postoffice
OF Bethlehem and miles from Morris Center,
containing 60 acres more or less, with dwelling
house. barns, a new ice house and all other
buildings thereon. 1t has large orchardlng
and other small fruit. Sale to take place at
the late residence OF Charles. N. Flower In sa1d
Bethlehem. Terms made known at time OF
sale. Josephine G.. Flower. Administering.
g. P. Crane, Auctioneer. Bethlehem, April 3D.
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The marriage of George E. Lynch Of
Danbury and Miss Mamie Haugh,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Michael
Haugh, will take place at ST Roses
church on Saturday.
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Vegetable Liver Pills

Ill capital, 900. Paid in, $4,000 Issue
S per cent Debenture Bonds OF 800, 500, $50.
$500. $1,000 and 5000 which are by statute law
full investments for Trust Funds in the state
L. p. SANFORD, Agent. II Bishop Block.
Bridgeport, Conn.
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Daniel Keane, employed by S. 2.
Glover, moves into the Middlebrooks
house on May l.
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OTATE OF CONNECTICUT, District OF
1901.
Estate Of Eliza beth T. johnson, late of the
The Court of Probate for the District of
Bridgeport, hath limited and allowed six
said estate to exhibit their claims for settle
ment. Those who neglect to present their &C
counts, properly attested, within said time
will be debarred recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment to
Morris B. Beardsley, Administrator.
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William Jillson and family of Haw.
leyville are occupying one of the cot
tageS opposite A. B. Fancher's store.
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DOR SALES pairs OF young working oxen
II well matched and good quality. Also one
Devon Bull. F. II. Reed, Tory Hill, STRAIT
ford, Conn.
QUICK LUNCH ROOM For Sale Cheap. Do
~ ing good business; good location. Address
H. s. W., % Middle ST.. Bridgeport, Conn.
NOR SALE stack OF good hay. Inquire o
+ Henry l.. Smith, Rox bury, Conn.
NOR SALE-5 good young new mich cows
r John j. Reynolds, Redding, Ct. Couch
Hill district.
VTANTED-A girl for general housework il
w family OF three. Address or apply T.
Allison P. Smith, NewtOwn. Conn.
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Thomas Hurley has secured work il
the Locomobile shop at Bridgeport.
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In the former harness shop Of Angus
tus Orgelman, Taylor, Curtis X Co.
have some fine harnesses on exhibition
and for sale. Also harness trimmings.
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J. A. Northrop of New Milford was
in town, Tuesday,
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Barney Heating, Jr., has returned
from New York City. John c.. keat-
ing, who has been in Bridgeport, is
also at home.
Michael Finucane, who has been
working in the Park City, has returned
to NewtOwn.
Michael Mcmahon has secured po-
SitiOn in BridgeDOrt.
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Mrs E. G. Hoyt Of Ridgefeld is visit.
ing her daughters, Mrs Frank Wright
and Mrs E. V. Haight.
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p. f. Heating was in New Milford,
Tuesday.
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Patrons Of the soda fountain at S G.
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Mrs Thomas Mcguire of Long Hill
was the guest on Sunday of her sister
and brothers on Walnut Tree hill.
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Probate Advertisements.

Horace Hoyt Of Bethel spent few
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Mrs E. j. Hall is little more COM
Portable, although her improvement is
not marked. Mrs Scharfenberg, a Dan
bury nurse, is assisting in caring for
hnr
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Dennis Quinlivan moved his house.
hold goods to the Park City, this week
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DOTATOES FOR SEED Direct from Maine:
I Green Mountain. American Wonder. Della
ware and other varieties at rate of 81 per BUSH
ell. See me quick. John J, NOrthrop. Newtown.
----~'- -
EARMERS. ATTENTION-For sale at my
L factory, horn shavings at SIG per ton. APP
ply keane's Button Factory. Box 33. Botsford
DEED POTATOES FOR SALE few bush
y els Bliss Early Triumph. two weeks earll-
er than any other variety; a3c buShel. A W..
Peck. Mount Pleasant, NewtOwn, CT.
DOR SALE OR RENT-My place in Hanover
district house. barnard = acres of land ;
terms reasonable. Call or address Mrs John
Finnell, X. f. d. No. "a, NewtOwn. Conn.
DOR SALE-,Two bed steds. sewing machine,
T baby carriage. childS crib etc, Will be
sold cheap. Mrs Edwards NJ. Smith. Newtown
DOR SALE, RIGHT-Onc Phacton carriage
| + in first class repair. DIR f. NJ. Smith, New
| town,
| 7 OST-A small white hound, speyed, black
| IL spots upon one side. Hamilton Gibson
Washington. Conn.
| VIIANTED-A hotse for farm work Homer
| w A. Hawley, Hawleyville, Conn.
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Misses Mamie and Maggie Finnell
passed Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs Patrick Finnell.
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Mrs Kate Blake of Sandy Hook hal
moved to Bridgeport.
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VIIARNING-Is hereby given to the taXpay-
w ers and electors Of the town of Newtown
that special town meeting will be held IN the
Town hall on Saturday, April y, 1901, at :
from the town treasury the sum of $1,000, one
thousand dollars, for each year, for the next
panfes deciding to operate, under certain re-
strctions and conditions laid down in the res
olution which will be presented for adoption
or plants lately vacated by. the New
York Betting and Packing Co.'S and; now
of Newtown. l.. c. Morris. T. J. Bradley,J F.;
Houlihan, Selectmen. Newtown. Ct, April
Is. 1901.
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Mrs John L. Hughes is visiting in
New York.
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Miss Ruth Bradley, who has been
passing 10 days at Taylor's hotel, goes
to Hartford on Saturday.
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NOTICE +!
l.. N. MALLETT, Long Hill.

NOTICE. lam nov prepared with be bet
Of wood saving and turning.
Feed ground at popular prices. Horseshoe
ing, Carriage making and ironing. Am adding
paint shop. Win be ready for painting car
riages middle of April. Charles NJ. Pinckney,
BrOOkfieid Center. Ct
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James Coles has been fixing up his
house in Hawleyville for his son, John,
who will work the farm.
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nor SALE-1O,OOO Berry plants, Cuthbert and
4 london red 81 per 100; Kansas, black, 81 80
per 100 at Highland Lawn, Shelton. Conn. q.
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EOR SALE-Fine hemlock timber of all kinds.
+ Cut to order when desired. Address II.
W. Kline, Bridgewater, CT.
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VIJANTED-A girl for general houSework.
w Apply at once Mrs II. G. Mcclellan. Eas-
ton, Conn. P. o. Address Fairfield, CT. r. F.
D. No TO-
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DASPBERRIES-Fo Sale. Cuthbert, strong
II plants 81 per 100. Turnips For Sale, best
Yellow Rutabagas. John H. Chautems, Bots
ford Hill.
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James Bakey of Hawleyville has been
putting large addition. on his barn,
which will be used for tobacco.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

from year to year. spreading into the
clearings, wintering and reproducing it.
self from year to year. Clover waist
high is not uncommon Deer and cat
tie find good addition to their pasture
from his chance growth.
The record made by red clover in
the timber country of Minnesota is al
most beyond belief A farmer named
Olson, living one mile west of Kimber-
ly, in Aitkin county, cut in 1903 from
10 acres, 65 tons of clover hay. max
ing three cuttings during the season..
This is quite beyond the ordinary and
its like cannot be expected every year,
but the country that will do this will
give good general results in clover.
This cut-over land of northern Mime
sofa is an empire of itself. The abund-
ant streams and lakes Of excellent wa
ter will always insure a we'll tempered
climate, cooling the extreme heat of
summer and taking the edge off the
extreme cold of winter. This is verv
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19

vital matter to the farmer, for it means
no crops burned by hot winds and no
winter grain and grasses killed by drv
freezing.
10 this country settlers are coming
from Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri
farmers who have decided to change
dry prairie for a wooded and watered
country. Reports from railroad pas-
senger agents show that preparations
are being made for great influx of set
tiers next spring from Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio.
The demand for these lands and the
value now recognized in them has sent
wild Cut-over land in Minnesota I'D
from S. two wears ago to 81 now. It
is not at all improbable that within the
next two years it will double again in
value A piece of wild land now adj
joining good farm, we'll opened, is
worth $40 to ST. per acre. It needs
but little effort to put good wild land
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19
Deforested Timber Lands as Farm
Investments.

1t has been generally believed that
the day of very cheap lands in our
country, in sections of assured value for
agricultural purposes has passed away
never to return. The land hungry peo-
pie that rush into newly opened Indian
reservations on the western prairies,
have been pointed to as evidence that
the supply of cheap land is short even
to the famine point.
While the supply of prairie land in
regions of even and certain rain fall
may be short to the hunger point, there
is yet an empire of land to be subdued
tor farms in the timber districts of the
northern states-the states Of Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and Michigan OF
these three states Minnesota offers the
greatest area Of such lands, and proba-
bly,, counting intrinsic value, this state
offers at the lowest prices. At the fig
ures at which these lands in Minnesota
may be had today, there is all the old
time incentive of quick doubling val
ues, to interest the investor.
1t is the common impression that a
tamarack or spruce swamp is one OF
the untamable spots on the earth's SUR
tacc. AS matter of fact no richer,
more valuable meadow and market gar
den land can be found than a subdued
tamarack swamp.
The higher lands are in large part
strong. In spite of the reputed associa-
ton Of pine and sand, there is but a
small percentage of these northern
Minnesota lands too light for profitable
farming. In fact the sand sections are
comparatively very limited. These lands
cannot be surpassed for stock The
lakes and streams of the state will al
ways exist to furnish water; and while
the country is settling. there will be
much open range for the stock on TN
occupied lands adjoining any occupied
farm. These lands can support stock
from the start and make the earning:
of good living by the settler 9
very easy problem.
Any point concerning new lands thai
is attractive to settlers is valuable te
the dealer in lands. There is still op
portunity for investors to buy tracts O
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judge Of probate: S. NJ. Byers. Justice
of the peace. The first term of court
was held in 1860, Judge Vanderburg
of Minneapolis presiding. The term
of court was short and there we're onlv
two cases and the judge dispatched the
business in half day. The first term
of court was held in the ''Od Quarters
Building"
Father Hennepin was the first white
man to ever penetrate this section and
passed up the Rum in 1880 and went to
Mile Laos lake and while there was
taken by the Indians and put out on
Rocky Island to starve to death, but
some friendly Indians came to his
rescue. 10 1913 Daniel Stanchfield of
St. Anthony Falls, came up the river
with others in bateau on a pine log
and lumber expedition. The first
white woman in the county was the
wife of David Day, who accompanied
her husband on a trip into the pineries
in the winter 1886. The first claim
was made by A. B. Damon, COW
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Mile Laos County
Brief Historical Sketch
+ ! of the County,
Some Statistics.

Because of the failure of Isanti
county to ratify an act of the Mime
sofa legislature at the polls Mile Laos
county was placed on the map of the
State. In 1858 when the territory of
Minnesota became a State Hon. Jos. B.
Carpenter was chosen to represent
this district in the first State legisla-
ture, and assisted by J. l.. Cater and
others an act was approved on the 10th
of March, 1853, for the organization of
new county to be known as the
county of Monroe, comprising the old
county of Mile Laos, and small part
OF Benton and I>anti counties, fixing
the county seat at Princeton. The law
required that each of the counties af-
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values in rs years is tame story as
compared with what might be told
concerning these states and neighbour
ing states. A money loaner of Mime
apolis said to the writer this week: six
years ago I loaned two million dollars
OF English money in the west center of
Minnesota, principally through Cotton
wood, Redwood, Lyon, Yellow Medi-
cine, Chippewa and Lac qui Parle coun-
ties, loaning up to 60 per cent of the
value OF farms that then sold for $40
to SIS per acre. These were improved,
not wild farms. Today these farms sell
readily at SIS to $50 per acre. Farms
in northern Iowa that then sold at SIX
to $50 per acre now sell at $50 to $40
There has been a general doubling OF
values in the farm lands of that grade
in Minnesota and Iowa in only six
years.
Panics do not cut farm land values
as they do the values of city property.
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ering portion: of the present town
site of Princeton. The first town on
paper was Brottsburg, which was
plated by T. H. Barrett in 1857 and
the town site was located on the south
west quarter of section one and the
north west quarter of section twelve,
town thirty-eight, range twenty-seven:
No trace was ever found of the town.
though it is said that a large hotel
was built there and used to be a resort
for lum bermen.
Mile Laos county embraces a land
area of about $40 square miles, and
there is a water area of about lO2
square miles, about half of Mile Laos
lake dipping down into the northern
part Of the county. Rum river with
its east and west branches and the
several creeks and brooks that aow
into it drain the county, and in the
days OF logging millions of feet of pine
found their way down the brooks and
streams TO the saw mills. Rum has
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fected should ratify the act at the polls,
but Isanti failed to do so by two votes,
Samuel Ross and Joseph L. Cater went
to work and made a canvas and secured
the passage of a bill in the legislature
of $1,000 creating the present county
of Mile Laos. All that part of Mile
Laos county lying west of the west
branch of Rum River was part of
Benton county, organized by the ter
ritorial act Of the legi7IaSure in 1919,
but was detached and made a part of
Mile Laos on the Orga niZatiOn of the
latter That part lying east of the
above named branch was afterwards
embraced in the unorganized portion
Of Mile Laos. For the purpose of put
ting in force the act of the legislature
creating the new county, d special act
was passed appointing Dexter g.
Payne, B. F. Whitney and Geore e
BOckOven county commissioners of
Mile Laos county and they in turn ap-
pointed the county officers. All the
counties affected by the change con-
Cured in the acts of the legislature
and the new county was organized
with Princeton the county seat. The
first election was held in 1860 and the
first officers elected in this county
were as follows: Joseph L. Cater,
chairman: Samuel Orion and S. c..
Moses. county com missioners: William
W. Payne, auditor ana register Of
deeds: S. Nj. Byers, clerk of court:
William McCauley, sheriff: r. j.
Whitney, treasurer: Samuel Ross,
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been one of the busiest logging streams
in the history Of the logging industry
of Minnesota. The time is not far dis
tant when the last log will have come
down the historic river and it will in
the future traverse an agricultural and
stock raising section.
The county is rapidly settling up in
the middle and northern portion. In
1860 the county had population of 70
souls, 33l in 1865, LOO in 1870, 1900
in 1879, 1901 in 1880, 1897 in 1885,
2,S45 in 1890, 5,723 in 1895, and S,O66 in
1900. In 1885 the county only had
three organized towns, Princeton,
GreenbuSh and Milo, while at the
present time there are twelve organ
lied townships. Milaca was the fourth
township to be organized. The towns
OF Bogus Brook, Borgholm, Isle Har-
Dor, Robins and South Harbor were
organized between 1880 and 1885,
while Page, Onamia and East Side
we're only organized last spring. AS
the northern part of the county be-
comes settled up the unorganized ter
ritory is fast being converted into civil
! divisions. In 1885 there were only ten
school districts in the county, while
now there are twenty-eight.
The school districts of the county
represent an enrolment of 2, 131 school
children, and the taxes raised for
school purposes in the county the last
year amount to over $4,000. The
graded schools compare we'll with those
of much older communities.
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CORN AND GRASS.
Mile Laos and Adjoining Sections
Great for Grass and Corn.

What Prof. Shaw has said about the
natural adaptability of the soil in this
section to the successful production of
all kinds Of grasses and corn will apply
to Mile Laos county and contiguous
territory where farmers who have
raised these crops for many years will
testify. In speech at the Mile Laos
county lair last fall Gov. Van SAINT
said when he came to Minnesota it was
on a steamboat that pulled two large
barges loaded with corn for the people
OF Minnesota, but he pointed to the big
stalks and the large plump ears of corn
that were on exhibition to demonstrate
that even in Mile Laos county fifty
miles north Of St. Paul, corn could be
raised that will compare favorably with
the best corn raised in Iowa and Hi
nols. This last season some of the fin
est corn that ever grew was raised in
the neighborhood of Princeton and the
farmers from Illinois and Iowa and
other corn states who have seen this
corn can hardly believe it.
Only few miles below Princeton
IN Sherburne county which is divided
from Mile Laos by an imaginary line
some OF the finest corn-fed cattle in
the country are finished for market and
bring as good prices as Iowa corn-fed
beet. What is better yet, Minnesota
water and Minnesota air is pure and are
prominent factors in making good beef
he weather is not changeable and is
steady and lnvigorating alike for beast
as we'll as man. AS noted elsewhere in
this edition of the Union hundreds o.
heads OF cattle are being fattened on
Mile Laos county corn and the
strengthening and meat producing
grasses in the new country north Of
Mllaca where but few years ago the
lumberman's ak was resounding in the
forests.
The adaptability of the soil for the
production of grasses is indeed remark.
able and is commented upon by the
people of other states when they frs
come here. Farmers from the famou:
dairy sections Of New York have testi
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-19
Fertile Land a Safe Security.

III one will take the trouble to look
up the figures representing farm land
values in the older farming states, COW
ering the transactions for the past fiji
teen years he will be impressed by the
fact that in established farming COM
munities, however rich or however
poor the lands may be. the values once
advanced, have never depreclated,' says
the Commercial West. This is not to
say that items cannot be found contra
dictory to this statement, but the fact is
easily proven that this is the rule with
no more than enough exceptions to
prove the rule.
Such condition could not obtain
were it not that the land has an evident
earning value consistent with the range
of prices at any given time. Once let
it be known to the farming public that
seed time and harvest are sure in any
section and minimum values even of
the widest Jungle land, marsh or rock,
land become fixed. twenty-five years
ago farm lands in southern Wisconsin,
southern Minnesota and Iowa that were
rated at SIS to $50 now sell at about
$1oo. A corresponding advance has
been SO general throughout the older
farming states that it has made ma
ton of well-to-do or wealthy men of
people who really had not the genius to
make money. If the farmer had sense
enough to sit on his farm and let it
rise under him he found himself pos
sessed of snug fortune for the mere
waiting
This advance of 200 per cent in land