Evening times-Republican., 1911-06-12
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oLD.sETTLED REGIONS NOTED
Four Farms Recently Sold to &en
Who Leave Section Where Lands
Arc cheaper-Tendency to Combine
Farms-some Representative Iowa
Sales.

or the men had purchased farms.
Such deals AS this are 10 ne expect
ed in undeveloped, cheap land coun-
tries but one would think that at
prices above the hundred dollar mark
in the midst of the busiest season OF
the wear so far as the farmer is con-
cerned and with a region doomed ana
developed nearly seventy years ago.
as the objective point, they are cer-
tainly remarkable.
l of the present year there was little
doing in the Iowa land market. Men
began to say that the farm sales OF
the next year or two would be conf1n-
ed principally to cases in which the
purchaser had only a small equity IN
his farm and finding himself unable to
meet coming payments would be conf
PEELED to sell out t. the man or con-
Germ which furnished him credit at
the outset. These predictions, how
ever, have not been verified. Farm
sales by the hundreds have been neso-
tiated in Iowa during the past three
months at prices invariably in advance
Of those Of last year In the report OF
recent sale one newspaper states
this farm was bought by Mr.. Frahm or
Clint Roth some seven years ago ana
in that time It has easily doubled N
value But that IS almos. If not alb
solutely true OF every farm in south
Tama and north Poweshiek.
Some Representative Sales.
The following are a few representa-
tive farm sales reported from various
parts Of the state within the past ten
days:
A farm about six miles northwest Of
Pomeroy. which was bought five years
ago by Joseph Stewart for $50 per acre
was recently sold to George Madden
for $3.50 per acre. Mr.. Stuart made
some valuable improvements on the
place and made it look so good to the
other fellow that he paid a record price
for the Pocahontas county land
Near Ida Grove the old Luke Walsh
HON mestead in Grant township compris-
ing 32o acres. was. sold to Gotlteb Lenz
Of Logan township for $3.50 an acre
IN the vicinity OF Manson, A. Hakes
and VIII Ries bought ]. L. Browns
eighty acre farm. northeast OF town.
paying 800 per acre for 1t. 1t is the
old homestead of George Scott. now
deceased, and Mr.. Brown has owned II
for about thirty five years.
From Fonda comes the report that
Mr. Newcomb sold his farm for 5i00
per acre.
The s. NJ. Bender eighty. five miles
southwest OF Clarion. was sold by G. G.
Covert to J. McConb. of near Holmes.
the purchase price being s1o6 per acre
Will and Ferdinand Ellerbrock have
sold their land they purchased this
spring near Sac City to Gus Clockner
crop this year.
The 12o-acre farm located in section
20. Wall Lake township. Sac county
known as the Forsyth place. has been
sold to Hans Kluver OF the vicinity OF
Carnarvon. The consideration was
s111 per acre.
r. s. Young recently purchased the
II. D. johnson farm in the north part
81 Grant township near Clear Lake.
and more recently sold 1t again to
George Winter Of Mason City. for
consideration Of $40 per acre.
The advance OF land in the vicinity
Of Goldoe!d IN Wright county is shown
by a recent sale there in which man
purchased an eighty acre place several
miles north of town last fall for s75
per acre. He sold the same place for
s11o per acre. without expending a
cent on improvements.
The AL Shilling eighty acre farm
southeast OF Algona. was sold n few
days ago to w. II. Ketcham at $40
per acre. $500 down was paid to bind
| the bargain. This is the farm former
ly known as the Lafe Griffin place. It
lies three miles east and two miles
t.
| it Is well improved.
A farm about six miles northwest OF
Pomerov. which was bought five years
. 90 by Joseph Stuart for $50 per acre,
| was recently sold to George Madden
for $50 per acre.
w n. Hood sold eighty acres OF
land west Of Greene to A. J. Merrick
| last week for s125 per acre. This farm
| was purchased two years ago for far
| less slm and has been q moneymaker
} for Mr.. Hood.
Near Usage occurred the sale Of
John Bucknan's 120 acre farm near
Little Cedar to Eugene Barker. who is
q nearby neighbor. The price paid was
500 per acre.
Henry c. Gerdes sold his farm Of 100
acres five miles northeast of Steam: :
boat Rock to John Gerdes. his brother,
| for S163.50 per acre. This is fine farm
and close to three markets. Wellsburg,
four miles, and Cleves four and oiic-
half miles. This is record price but
there are many in this locality that
would refuse 5000 per acre for their
farm.
The Peters farm, which Is one of
the best in German township. Grundy
county, was sold at public auction and
brought the unusually high figures OF
$3.50 per acre. Altho there is little or
no 800 an acre land in the northwest
part Of Grundy county-in this neigh
borhood-ths is the highest price that
has been paid for land up to this time
in this community. This particular
farm has been in possession OF the
Peters family all Of forty years. A
part of 1t was sold about twenty years
( ago for $22 an acre.
4 = I1oin ~ Go 1En.