The Dickinson press., 1915-06-12
STARK |'|| COUNTYS
BIG 1915
LAND SALE
HIGH PRICE is $30.5O PER ACRE
PAID BY ONE OF THE LIEF
ORS. SALE TOTALS
$224,640.4O.
Estimated that 500 People Attended
County's First State Land Sale.
Average Price About $40
Per Acre.

Per Acre.
The first sale of state and univer-
sity lands in Stark county, made in
Dickinson on Saturday, June 5, was
revelation to most people. It demon
strated most forcibly that our school
lands are wanted by resident people,
in most cases by men who have lived
in. the county from Is to 80 years.
These people are ready to take ad-
joining tracts when offered for sale
and at fair prices as was evidenced
last Saturday. Another noticeable
fact was that all had the necessary
one-fifth purchase price to pay down.
These buyers brought their check
books and as soon as the land was
struck off the successful bidder
stepped forward to the cashiers table
and left his money.
1t is believed that fully 500 people
witnessed the sale. All the seats in
the court room were taken long be-
fore 10 o'clock and people packed the
aisles, the hall way, sheriff's office
adjoining, and many people came in
side the rail and lined up alongside the
wall.
Eighty tracts were taken at the
sale, totaling in price $224,64O.40; or
an average of nearly $40 per acre.
The down payment left with Treas
urer. John Reuter- for the state
amounted to $44,92s.O8. The highest
price paid at the sale was $SO.5O per
acre given by Lefor Bros. for 100
acres in the Lefor country. Only
eight quarters out of total of 88
were passed. In all the other offers
there was a bidder ready as soon as
the description had been read; in
some cases there was sharp bidding
among the farmers of the locality; in
other neighborhoods the farmers
seemed to respect each others wishes
a little more and all got tract at
the appraised price.
Commissioner Frank Henry was
greatly pleased with the sale, saying.
that it was one of the best he had
ever conducted. He said he had been.
told that the farmers in Stark county
were well to do and now he knew it
of his own knowledge.
The sale contracts will be issued
within 60 or 70 days and will be for
warded to Auditor j. L. Hughes for
the various parties who bought land
on June 5. This years lease money
paid by any party on land sold will be
refunded and the few tracts passed
can now be leased from Treasurer
Reuter- for one year. Parties Will
have ample time in which to remove
fences or other improvements from
lands which they have heretofore con-
trolled by lease. : -
Not all of the lands appraised last
fall were offered for sale last week.
All coal lands were reserved. At
some future time another sale will be
held, and it is quite possible that par
ties will not have chance to buy as
cheaply as they did this spring.
In the list of 80 sales below it will
be noted that two sets of prices are
Indicated; the first is the appraised
figure per acre and the second the
price per acre at which the land was
sold.
Township 1877, Range SO
NE 36, $13.Ou-s13:00, Ed. Mottershead.
NV 36, $14.00-$17.50, Anton Lampl.
sW s1A &c; g, $1s.oo-s17.oo. Matthias Link.
Township 1877, Range ga
NE 16, $40. 0o-e 1000. Thos. Lefor. Lefor.
NV d6. s2o;oo.$26oo, 20 .s2 20 \, Adam I ~ Thsr. her
sW 81 Il; is, $asSo.oe-sssS 50, @ Frank i.efor
nv ~ g, $1soessS7s Pster Peter eeh Beehti
Sc 536, $1z0o-Passed;
SW 36, $20.00-Passed.
Township. 1877, Range e5
NE. 1s. ;oo-s2o;99, George Diers. =.
NW S fs 81 &l2SS1s Msx RenSria Gis
NV Sc. $i3. .6o-ss4:75. Frank. schank.
sE 5Sag JaaepS Jasab
Township 1877, Range se
NE g16, s12.00-$20.0 90, Adolph Dukhart.
NV IS, $16.00--S26:00, Jarolim CHA.
SW 16, $15.00-$19.00. Ludwig Stecka-
township 1877, Range 90
N 81 ssissosisSS sS 1ssa seo VIII Miise,
sM a Ia Il, SSIiS0Sj sis. .So@s1s.So. b Robert Holm.
Township 1888, Range 90
NE316, $12.00-$12.00, Carl Stieg.
NE l6 $14.00--$14.O0, Lorenz Dassinger.
I NV 16. $1,000 $500, Carl Iuth.
township 1873. Range "a
SE16. 2.OO-$1 q 100 adam "a. sLefor. Il i
SWS 16, $12.00-$.4.50, Peter Schiff.
NE 16, $26, Frank Dolajak,
NV 16. $12. .00$ 4.00s Vincent Jahner.
Township 1873, Range 96
SEs16 SIS 90, John Kubischa.
ssSW 16, $12.00-$13.00. Frank Hagel.
Township 1873, Range 81 IS
s3NF. 16., 200 81 400. John Dyorals.