Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-21
IOWALAND GOES
AT HIGH FIGURE
FARMS IN HARDIN COUNTY
BRING FROM 500 TO stao
PER ACRE.
MANY CHANGE HANDS
Past Sixty Days Mark Number o
Sales at Exceptionally Good
Priees--Profit Per Year
Ia Great.


land sales for the last sixty days
have exceeded anything in the history
of the county for similar length of
time, both as to amount of land sold
and the price for which 1t was sold.
The prosperous condition of the farm
ers of this county. in part, accounts
for these sales. Almost every farmer
in Hardin county has a telephone in
his house and his mail Is delivered at
his door every day.
Some of the Changes.
Fred Mossman has bought the Lin
coin farm, paying Sis an acre. Will
lam Busch bought the Evergreen
farm in Ellis township, paying S125 an
acre. c. e. Albrook bought the Baxter
farm in Ellis township, paying S125 an
acre. George Aldrich purchased the
Bump eighty acres in Ellis township,
paying $105 per acre. Chas. o. Ryan
bought the Helemn M. Nichols farm,
one and one-half miles from Iowa
Falls and containing $50 acres, paying
$4,000. President G. Mckeen Duren,
of the Hardin County National bank
sold farm east of Eldora to G. J.
Wartchow at S106.25 per acre. Will
lam Walker sold to Charles O., Ryan
and G. E. Albrook his 100 acres farm
located three miles east of Eldora, at
$3.50 per acre. Mr.. Walker purchased
this farm about fifteen years ago at
$50 per acre, thus making him a net
profit of $4,000 on the leo acres.
Mile Mcconnell of New Providence,
purchased the Walter Harmed farm in
Pleasant township at $3.50 per acre.
Allen e. Riley, all Eldora barber pur-
chased the S. B. Hubbard farm, paying
$50 per acre. John Fromm bought the
Robert Higgenbotham homestead
which is located two miles north of
Eldora, paying $125 per acre. William
Arrasmith purchased 240 acres OF
Charles o. Ryan in Eldora township,
paying $110 per acre. Fred Dole
bought the Sam Walker place, east
of Eldora, containing 120 acres, at
s125 per acre.
Profit of $3.50 Year.
Harry Nelson bought 200 acres of
the Martin estate, two miles east of
Eldora, paying 500 per acre. The
Martins purchased this farm about
four years ago at sos per acre. C. H.
Hess bought 100 acres two miles from
Steamboat Rocks from Illinois parties,
paying SIP per acre, and Mr.. Hess al
so bought 100 acres from Robert Hig-
ginbotham, paying $122 per acre.
Agnes McMurchy, of Iowa Falls,
bought the Burch farm located three
miles north of Eldora at s110 per acre.
F. E. Bunce sold eighty acres in
Ellis township at S110 per acre. Ole
Harris bought eighty acres of pasture
land in Upton township ct $50 per
acre. Fred Witthuhn sold 500 acres
In Grant township at s105 an acre.
Charles 0. Ryan sold 100 acres in
Concord township at sos per acre.
Johnson Brothers sold 172 acres five
miles north of Hubbard at S11O per
acre. Elmer Hubbard bought $50
acres in Alden township at $11O per
acre. F. D. Peet bought 100 acres OF
A. |. Powers, two miles from Iowa
Falls, at 500 per acre. Neal Lake
bought eighty acres, four miles south
west of Iowa Falls, a. $40 an acre.
and this is only a small part of the
land that has changed hands in Hardin
county this season.