The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-14

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method of replying to all which may |
be of interest to other readers of The |
| News, who have not taken the trouble
TO ask personally
TO begin with / will state that we
| have had snug winter weather for the
last five or six weeks, snow from ten
! to fifteen inches deep ON the level |
| While the weather has been quite
| frosty, the thermometer having regis.
| tered as low as Is below zero about
| three weeks ago, we have not had a
particle of wind. There is not a snow
| drift in this whole country and never
saw better seighing in my life. There
is not bare spot of ground in Ly
man county that know of. not even
on the wagon bridges, though they
have not been so fortunate further
east in South Dakota and other places
However, as | stated, it has been crisp
frosty weather, but there being no
wind at all it is the most delightful
winter | have experienced in a long
time. There is no chill whatever in
the air In the fall | purchased three
fur coats for the accommodation of
| land seekers who might come unpre.
pared and we have not used one of
them for several weeks, not even to
drive in the country five or ten miles.
1t thawed some few days ago for
the first time in several weeks still
| there has not been a single day but
what a person could drive most any.
where. 1t will be noticed that the
| weather is not so severe at Denver
as it is a few hundred miles east of
| there and the same is true in this
country, also of Nebraska. OF course
since winter set in and the ground be.
came covered with snow we have not
had many land seekers and hope that
we will not have any more until the
snow is gone, and we have notified
several parties in Iowa and Illinois
and few in Nebraska to postpone
their trip to Lyman county for the
present, however, we are expecting
the biggest rush of land buyers the
coming spring and summer that this
country west of the Missouri river
} has ever experienced. | have within
the last six weeks made two trips
through the eastern border of Ne.
braska and western Iowa and it seems
to be Presho and Lyman county every.
where. The fast is the confidence of
the investors and home-seekers has
, become so we'll established in this
country that nothing could stop them
now ] am firm in the belief that any
person investing i'm this country at
prices now, say $500 to $4,000 per
acre 1--WE have cheaper land though
not so we'll located) can realize profit
of at least $500 per acre before the
: first day of July or August because
| the May and June business is going
to be enormous. | purchased, during
October and November, thirteen quart.
er sections of land in the vicinity of
Presho and Vivian and knowing at
the time that | would be unable to
handle all of them ! sold, at a reason.
able profit all but seven quarters, six
of which are not on the market and
when am confident they will sell for
at least 100000 to 100000 per quart
er more than they would have sold
for last fall or will sell for in the early
spring. OF course what | purchased
were real bargains but there are many
such bargains here and | am not pre-
pared to handle all or even one tenth
of the land that is for sale at from
$4,000 to 100000 per quarter less
than it will bring next summer
| hope than any person who cares
to know more about this country will
not hesitate to write to me for in
i formation which | will gladly give with
as much accuracy as it is possible for
me to do.
l have for sale two elegant half sec
' lions, both we'll located, wherein a
person can buy one or two quarters
by paying from one third to one half
- cash, the balance on good time at
six per cent. These terms will enable
a person who could ordinarily handle
- only one quarter section to handle two
quarters. There is from forty to sixty
acres under pillow on each quarter, with
fair Improvements on one half Sec
! ton. have other opportunities where
= a person can buy ridiculously cheap
! any time now before spring by pay
, ing the cash.
l hope the weather is as pleasant
down there in dear old Norfolk and
n eastern Nebraska as it is up this way.
J., | shall always have a warm spot in
o my heart for Norfolk and my num-
n erous friends in that part of the coun-
:. try, but it is Lyman county for bust
ness and Presho is the SWEETEST little
city of four years existence that |
, ever saw.
Sincerely yours,
i. j. II. Conley.
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