The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1910-05-20
BIG SALE Of REAL
ESTATE LAST FRIDAY
John De Young Farm of 1000
Acres Divided and Sold.
Price Averages $63 Per Acre for
Entire Tract Large Attendance
and Everybody Happy Be
ForsrunneF OF Other Like Events.

Probably no event in the real estate
line hereabOuts has attracted so much
attention as the sale last Friday OF the
John De Young farm Of 1000 acres near
Thornton. The land was divided into
Ii tracts and sold at public auction to
the highest bidder. There was large
attendance at the sale, coming, appar-
emily, from the four corners of the COM
pass. They came on foot, on horseback,
in carriages and wagons, by automobile,
and the crowd was cosmopolitan and in
the best of humor. As the cavalcade
stretched out going from one tract to
another it had the appearance of circus
day, such was the extent of the move
ment. Probably 200 people attended
the sale, there being two or more score
OF vehicles in line.
The sale of each piece of land took
place on the land itself, the boundaries
being plainly marked by plowed burrows
or monuments, and ranged from 10
acres in extent to one large tract OF 32O
acres. The last named contained the
De Young homestead proper, where rests
a comfortable farm house, two barns,
family orchard, and the usual improve
ments going with a well regulated home
to be seen in the Palouse. Every loot
of the land sold is tillable, no richer soil,
no more beautiful pastoral scene being
found insthes Inland Empire. The day
was perfect.
At the noOnkhour lunch was served at
the De Young house on the 32O-acre
tract, people being seen for hours pre-
vious roaming over the broad domain,
examining the rich soil and enjoying the
quiet lOveliness of nature spread out on
every side After lunch the cavalcade
started, the sale commencing on the 10.
acre tracts and continuing until the last
tract was sold, which was after o'clock
Following is the result OF the sale in FULL
Tract No. 1, George W. Larue, Colfax,
so acres,I$65 per acre.
No. 2, l. NJ. Baker, Thornton, lob
acres, $72 per acre.
No. 3, o. f. Bensel, Colfax, 1877 acres,
$71 so per acre.
No. 4, s. Y. Evans, Calgary, Alberta,
800 acres, $101 per acre.
No. 5, E. b. Hughes, Thornton, 36
acres, $1O1 80 per acre.
No 6, C. F. Bensel, Colfax, 1872 acres,
500 per acre.
No. 7,sBen d. White, Colfax, AZ acres,
$40 per acre.
No. s, z. 0. Shugert, Thornton, 55
acres, $40 per acre.
No 8, S. Y. Evans, Calgary, Alberta.
% acres, SIT so per acre.
No 10, Ben D. White, Colfax, IA acres,
$50 per acre.
No. IL, T. 0. Watson, Thornton, 10
acres. $95 per acre.
No. u, H. d. Hughes, Thornton, 10
acres. 800 so per acre.
No. 13, II. D. Hughes, Thornton, 10
acres, $91 per acre.
No. IA, 81. D. Hughes, Thornton, 10
acres, S95 80 per acre.
This makes an average of $S3 per
acre for the 1000 acres embraced in the
farIn Ii shows the average value OF
land in the Palouse and what it will
bring under the hammer. George W.
Larue & Co , who had charge of the sale,
are reasonably satisfied with the result,
7 the average coming up to their expecta-
tions. This sale may lead to other large
estates being divided and sold in the
same manner. If not, why not.
l.. Strobel acted as auctioneer at the
sale Friday.