Ok, I wonder....did any of our grandparents/great aunts/uncles.....go? and did they have any luck? or did they come back broken hearted? Anyone have any stories to this? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancee Seifert" <iggy29@grm.net> To: <IADECATU@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: [IADECATU] 'WANTED'........ > Decatur County Journal > Leon, Iowa > Thursday, March 25, 1920 > > (This is a very interesting land advertisement. Nancee) > > 'WANTED' to get in touch with every farmer in this community who has > recently sold his farm or who is thinking of buying or locating on a farm. > We want to write you particulars of the GREAT WESTERN LAND BOOM which is > just starting in the Black Hills -- which is considered the richest > hundred > miles square on earth. Land can be purchased from $7 per acre up. A big > profit can be made by investing in this land which is mostly all improved, > including land of all descriptions, as follows: Farm land, Irrigated > land, > Grazing land, Dairy farms, Ranch land, Alfalfa land and land with > prospects > of oil (wells being drilled at present.) Great wealth has already been > produced in this territory and more is yet to come from its rich, > productive > soil. > > Black Hills land is selling for one-fiftieth to one-tenth as much as > over-crowded eastern farm lands and this land produces crops of better > yield > and market value. No where close can farming be made to show as high a > profit per acre. On these low-cost lands, all crops grow bounteously. > The > Bell Fourche Valley exceeds even the history-famed Nile Valley in the > fertility of its rich, black soil. A single crop has frequently paid the > entire purchase cost of these lands. All the advantages that you enjoy in > your present locality are offered you here, with other opportunities > vastly > greater. Any farmer can easily make a lot of money from wheat in 1920. > South American crops can't be shipped on account of lack of boats. > Russian > fields are unplanted while Australian crops are killed by drouth; and less > than one-half the usual acreage is planted in the U.S. Spring wheat > recently > sold for $3 in Minneapolis. These facts insure wheat being higher than > ever > before (in 1920, $3 to $3.50 certain.) > > Come now and look these lands over in time to get in a spring wheat crop. > We will meet you at the train and take you over these lands free of > charge. > Write now for complete information. Every fact will be placed before > you -- > every question answered without cost or obligation. > > Fill out the attached coupon and mail today. > > THE GREAT WESTERN LAND BUREAU, > Bell Fourche, So. Dak. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert > May 18, 2010 > iggy29@grm.net > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message