The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-01

SOILS NeuHeSud. WAS marked sue
cess, although the attendance was not
as large as expected, the result was
beyond the expectations of the proprie-
tors.
This sale was one of the largest
public sales of farm equipment in this
section, aggregating over $4,000 and
including variety of hogs, cattle
machinery and extra well bred draft
horses and colts.
Dean & Son of Fairmont were the
auctioneers and their rapid fire work
was highly satisfactory to both buy
ers and sellers. Cooperating with
them was Walter Neal, who did the
clerical work so efficiently as to en-
able them to complete this large sale
in four hours time.
Interest was manifested most Keen
ly during the sale of horses and bid
ders were not lacking. This bunch of
horses consisted mostly of draft mares
and colts of the Belgian type and
showed signs of years of painstaking
and careful breeding on the part of
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$500 per head. and although the bid
ding by local buyers was very crafty
ing. buyers from distance succeeded
in taking away some of the best of
the bunch Fifteen head were sold.
The cattle consisted mostly of
Aberdeen Angus and a few grade milk
ers. Twenty-Five head altogether were
sold. Mixers sold well and the An
gus sold at remunerative prices, yet
considering quality and breeding were
bargains.
seventy five head of hogs and pigs,
mostly of the Cheshire breed, went at
figures comparable with the market
prices, local feeders taking them all.
Ninety acres of corn in field sold at
prices as high as $685.. The average
price run around $23 per acre.
Hay sold in NOW at $7.75 to 1915.
This sale was the elimination of
an active and profitable farming ca
reer of Messrs. Coggeshall & Sons in
this community, coming here nine
years ago from eastern central Hi
nois and purchasing the old Ledbetter
farm of 267 acres at $50 per acre,
the sons occupying the farm and the
elder Coggeshall living in this city
most of the time. This summer Mr..
Coggeshal sold this farm at $ll7.50
per acre, retaining this years crop.
Desiring to farm on still larger
scale they spent some time in pros
pecting for desirable location and
finally purchased section of i'm
proved farm land in Blue Earth county
in southern Minnesota.
Mr.. Coggeshail has Travelled over
portions of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Michigan. Wisconsin,, Iowa and Min
nesota. looking at farm land and since
he spent thirty years in the heart OF
the Illinois corn belt he thinks he is
competent to judge corn soil. He says
there is at the present time greater
opportunity considering prices and
quality of soil in southern Minnesota
than any place of which lie knows.
He says lie believes he will meet with
as great success in southern Mime
sofa as lie has in the past nine years
in Grant county. Although Mr.. Cogge-
shall speaks in the highest terms OF
Grant county as pleasant place to
live. he SAYS better quality of land
can be purchased in Minnesota at $45
to $75 per acre and it is too strong
a temptation to withstand. He says
it is a land of a poor mans oppor-
tunity as we'll as a place for those
of means.
Mr.. Coggeshall and Samuel Balr
will leave. Saturday night for Mime
sofa where Mr.. Coggeshall owns land.
Mr. Bair also intends investing"
Mr.. -Coggeshall is the man who q
few weeks ago, bought the splendid
farms of John Gerlich, B. ii. Gerlich
and George H. Hoerr, in sections 10
and IL in Decoria, about eight miles
out of Mankato, through NJ. G. Will
lard's Real Estate agency of this city.
These sales were practically for cash,
at a low price, made on account OF Ill
health and to enable the sellers to JOIN
relatives on the Pacific coast.
The younger Coggeshalls with their
families will soon come to occupy
their new farms But the father is so
impressed with the special advantages
OF Mankato as commercial and ship
ping center and residence city and
with southern Minnesota as a superior
farming country that instead of imme-
diately coming to Mankato to reside,
as originally planned, he will for a
time remain in Indiana and cooperate
with Mr.. Willard in bringing as many
as possible of his Indiana and Illinois
friends and neighbors to choice farms
in this vicinity.
Mr.. Willard believes that the COM
ing of the Messrs. Coggeshall to Blue
Earth county will inaugurate sys-
tenn of farming here that will greatly
advance the material interests of the
farming community about us, and as
a corollary. those of Mankato. He is
today showing farms to Messrs. Cogge-
shall and Bair, and if one is found
to his liking, the latter will buy it
before returning to Mankato. MIR. Cog
geshall's good judgment and integrity
has led his fellow townsmen, against
his protests, to nominate him to rep
resent them on the board of aldermen
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