But the mass of the early settlers were too poor to afford such an outlay, and were either squatters within a little clearing, or owners of eighty acres, which they hoped to increase by subsequent purchase.
The cost of an Indiana farm of eighty acres of land, with two horses, two or three cows, a few hogs and sheep, and farming utensils, was estimated at about four hundred dollars.
For this date are also recorded the purchases of Thorsten Olson Bjaaland, eighty acres, Nels Thompson, one hundred and sixty acres, in what later became Miller Township.
In addition to his business in Walla Walla he is the owner of eighty acres of valuable fruit land in California which is now in bearing and he has recently sold six hundred and forty acres of land in Walla Walla county.
In the meantime congress had passed the railroad bill, cutting the homestead down to eighty acres.
Mr. Clague has sold his homestead and the land adjoining and has also disposed of the equity of the five hundred acre tract but retains his interest in the farm of eighty acres, where he and Mr. Dice reside.
The father was an agriculturist, owning and cultivating two hundred and eighty acres of valuable corn land in Vermilion county.
He has a farm of eighty acres, and apart from this is engaged with the Empire Steel Company of Catasauqua, Penn.
Goshen village was originally laid out in four lots ofeighty acres each.
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