Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-05-10
PURCHASES FROM z. b. HERMAN
AND OTHERS $50 ACRES.
PRICE PAID is $4,000
VIII Build Handsome Bungalow
Home and Established Highly
Improved Estate.

AS an ideal place of residence
Josephine county has been chosen
by a wealthy young Scot, a member
of the largest thread corporation on
two continents.
X. NJ. c. Neil, aged 2S years,
whose home is now on an estate near
Glasgow, Scotland, has purchased
from p B. Herman, of Grants Pass;
d. H. Feynn, of st. Paul, Mimi, and
j. A. Pearson, of Westbrook, Mimi,
Joint owners, $50 acres of land out
of what was known as the A. NJ.
Jess ranch on the Applegate river
near the bridge on the Kerby road.
The purchase price was $4,000, of
which $4,000 was paid in cash, the
remainder to be paid at an early
date, as native Scot, when he has
the wealth, does not relish the idea
of deferred payments. Mr., Neill will
make his home, for the large part
of each year, on the property, and
will improve it to the extent of con-
siderable money.
Local interest attaches to the per-
sonality of the new resident, as he
is brother4in-law of the Metschan
brothers of the Hotel Josephine.
and it was due to the solicitation of
the Metschan brothers that Mr.. Neil
came to look this region over He
wanted a home on this side of the
Atlantic, so he travelled over Can
ada, then over western America CIV
ing California a thorough inspection.
Finally he came here, and the result
is he has purchased a tract of land
which he will improve to the promi-
nence of a rich estate.
The deal was made by the Riggs
Lucas Land company, and Mr.. Riggs
stated Saturday that Mr. Neil in
tended to construct a modern bunga-
low on the property, facing the
county road, which would be built
on a plan to cost several thousand
dollars. In other ways the place will
be adorned until It has reached
point of comfort and beauty satisfac-
tory to the new owner.
Mr.. Neil married Miss Pansy
Sweetser, a half sister of the Met
schan brothers. The two met in
Scotland while Miss Sweetser was on
a tour of Europe. The young man
is intensely practical. While pos
sessed of large wealth, he drawing
royalty on every spool of 20. N. T."
thread sold in the world, yet he has
prepared himself for a lord of the
soil" being a graduate of an agri-
cultural college in Scotland. Before
closing the deal for the land on the
Applegate, he took samples of the
soil to one of the leading soil ex-
perts of the country and had 1t an
alyzed, and then knew to the last
technical point what he was buying.
The ranch is irrigated by water
from the Applegate river, and is
sown principally to alfalfa 1t is the
intention of the purchaser to grow
alfalfa and breed fancy swine, he
realizing that strong demand will
soon set in over the northwest for a
blooded product suitable to be used
in founding breeding farms
Mr. Neil will 90 to Scotland, stat
ed Dr. Metschan today, for three
months, when he will return and
with Mrs. Neil take up life on the
silvery Applegate.
p b Herman. speaking Saturday
of the entry here Of the young
scotchman. said he was much pleased
TO welcome men Of such financial
standing as number Of men Of
this Kind are needed "a this region,
ard with The coming OF one such, It
msaut the attraction of others.
THE general scenic beauty Of