The independent., 1907-02-14

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Petersburg ........ 16 30 2S 6.25
The Hebron Journal of January 27,
1881, contained these items of some
present interest:
A sxteen-pound wildcat was killed
near Hardy. @'
Ponca has telcgIaphic communication
with the rest of the world
Under the new apportionment, Ne
braska will be entitled to at least
three and probably four members in
congress. We will also probably have
one or two more judicial districts be-
fore the present legislature finishes its
work
In the congressional race Van Wyck
was the lucky man, he having received
GS votes.
4 regular mail hack runs twice a
week from Chester to Belleville, Kan.
Senator c. B. Coon arrived home
from Lincoln on last Sunday evening
Mr.. Coon has been i'll ever since he
left and not being able to perform
his duties he was excused and advised
to return home, where he could have
careful and tender nursing. His all
ment is diphtheria, and it is believed
by his physician that he will soon be
able to be about, when he will return
to Lincoln.
Mr.. Drinkwatter of Prairie Star has
lost four (alD children by that dread
disease, diphtheria.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott, living at Belyi-
dere, lost their only child three years
old, last Friday night. Diphtheria was
the cause
Regarding the prices and prospects
for Buffalo county lands, the Kearney
Hub says: "If we are to judge by the
price that some individual pieces of
land have been sold for, there is good
ground for believing that it is close to
a hundred dollars an acre. But to say
that all the land is worth this at the
present time would be an inaccuracy,
as there are good farms on the market
with a variation in price from $50 to
$125 an acre, depending on location
and improvements.
Recently an exceptionally well To-
Gated alfalfa farm near Shelton sold
for $100, and one tract just south of
the Kearney city limits was valued in
a deal at $125, but this was all in al
falfa, and besides had other valuable
improvements that give it this high
valuation.
"Still it must be remembered with
the great possibilities of alfalfa grow
ing and sheep feeding, dairying and
hog raising, these lands can be made
to produce what is considered good
return on the investment, even though
the valuation should exceed $3.50 per
acre. Farm lands in Illinois in the
best districts are said to bring good
returns even valued at 5000 per acre.
In Germany lands that will not pro-
duce more than our lands will are val
ued as high as $500 per acre. This is
because Of the cOngeSted population.
This is only an indication that as the
population increases, prices Of such
lands as we have must inevitably go
upward"
A letter from Ulysses notes that pros
porous times and easy money are pref
ty well illustrated in Butler county by
some of the recent public sales. Ten
years ago, perhaps less 1t was very
unusual to receive more cash than
notes at sale. Al two sales last
month here the former condition was
reversed. At one sale amounting to
81 500 there was but one note given,
the balance cash, while at another sale
OI S-,OUU llltIt Ntia itPVl NNA FbN VA'N
note given; so that the banker who
figures on clerking a sale for the notes
at this rate would be disappointed
Farm land is selling at from $40 TO $40
per acre about Ulysses, one, unim-
proved eighty acres, having sold for
$500; a quarter section for $l7 600, and
400 acres, about four miles west OF
Ulysses. for $4,000.
Thayer county has its share of the
leap in land values Said a Carleton
item lately: "A deal was consummated
Monday whereby II. H. Fltzsimons be-
came the owner of -. M. Fixes farm
north of town at 500 per acre. Look
up 10 Carleton. Will you2 We well re-
member three years ago, when Mr.
Bass bought this farm for $50 per acre.
how the people ga2ed NJ him aud won-
dered III he was millionaire"
Harry Harrison, one of the prominent
business men of York county, speaking
of the county option nm and uf the
sentiment for II In York county. cited