Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-09-30
w. j. BRENT OF KANSAS CITY
SELLS RECENT PURCHASE
INCREASE OF so PER CENT
Pittsburg Contractors VIII Devote
Some Time to Rogue River
Spitzenbergs.

BY the closing of the deal this
morning for the sale of five acres of
bearing orchard land five miles west
of Grants Pass for a consideration of
4 $500 per acre, a new record was es-
4 tablished in the price of land in the
n Grants Pass country, and the profit
u ableness Of real estate investments
in This country demonstrated in a
striking way, for the seller of the
land bought it for $1,000 an acre a
4 little more than a month ago
The discerning few have main
3 tanned right along that there was no
place in the Pacific northwest where
4 there was such opportunity for quick
and large profits to be made in land
investments as in the country tribu-
tary to Grants Pass With fruit that
is without a superior as far as quail
s ity is concerned and a bountiful soil
& that yields at a rate that no other
4 section can equal, and climate un-
n surpassed, investors and homeseek-
& ers are turning toward this section
q in ever increasing numbers and this
4 fall the influx of new people with
"A money bids fair to assume the pro-
y portions of stampede.
The purchasers are Eldridge P,
q McCann and ]. f. Anderson, of Pitts
n burg, where they were engaged in
Fl the building and contracting busi-
ness, being connected with one of
the largest concerns in that line of
8 business in the smoky city. The sell
d Ter of the land is w. j. Brent, of
Kansas City.
The land has three and one-half
acres of 14-year-old Spitzenbergs on
81 it, the remainder being in young
Spitz and pear trees. The pur-
chasers thoroughly investigated the
matter before investing their money
in the land. They We're taken to il
by w. B. Sherman, who made the
sale and they carefully went through
the orchard, which was in process of
being picked They selected what
they considered an average tree and
the pickers were hired to pick the
Sstree after supper This tree yielded
thirty-two and one-half boxes of
fancy Spitz. From this the gentle
men figured that there was $4,000
worth of apples on the place.
\ The seller of the land, W J.
y Brent, purchased it something over
a month ago from II. 7. Hull, OF
Grants Pass, and NJ. Foger, Of New
York for $1,000 an acre, with the
expectation that he would be able
to close ont his business affairs in
Kansas City and move out here A
few DAYS ago he found that this
would be impossible, so he wired the
real estate man TO sell for $500
thus taking profit of fifty per cent
in a short time.
Messrs. Mccain and Anderson
this morning also purchased siN
acres adjoining this tract of fiv,
acres on the north from Hull and
Foleer for $1,000 an acre This land
Is about half I'm bearing Spitz. They
added TO their holding four acres to
the south, which has siX-year-olJ
trees on IT, paying therefore $3.50 40
acre.
VA These geutemnt have been read
ing publicity literature for the past
three years as issued hy the various
commercial clubs. They finally De-
cided 10 come TO southern Oregon
and shipped their household good.
and came with their families They
investigated Bosehurg Ashland and
Medford. spending two weeks doin'
SO. Then they reached Grants Pas
and It took them Just two days 70
reach the conclusion that they had
found what they had been soarchIn'
for. Today they are actively en