Vicksburg Evening Post clipping
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Sanderlin, Samuel A.; Mollison, Willis Elbert; Issaquena County (Miss.)
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APPRECIATION OF DELTA LAND VALUES
$3,600 PAID BY MR. JOEL MYRES FOR 80 ACRES NEAR BOOTH, ONLY HALF OF TRACT BEING IN CULTIVATION AT PRESENT
A sale of land in this city yesterday indicates the value put upon the black soil in the Delta by people who live on it and near it.
Mr. Joel Myres, a prominent planter and formerly a member of the Board of Supervisors of Issaquena county, paid Samuel A. Sanderlin, a well-known colored man three thousand and six hundred dollars cash for 80 acres of land near Booths Mill in Issaquena county. Only about one-half of the tract is in cultivation and on this basis the sale was close to $90 an acre. There is no store nor station on the land and it is a clear sale to a man who already owns one of the most beautiful farms in the Valley. With a splendid mansion overlooking Lake Lafayette.
The sale was negotiated by W. E. Mollison for Sanderlin while Smith, Hirsh & Landau represented the purchaser.
$3,600 PAID BY MR. JOEL MYRES FOR 80 ACRES NEAR BOOTH, ONLY HALF OF TRACT BEING IN CULTIVATION AT PRESENT
A sale of land in this city yesterday indicates the value put upon the black soil in the Delta by people who live on it and near it.
Mr. Joel Myres, a prominent planter and formerly a member of the Board of Supervisors of Issaquena county, paid Samuel A. Sanderlin, a well-known colored man three thousand and six hundred dollars cash for 80 acres of land near Booths Mill in Issaquena county. Only about one-half of the tract is in cultivation and on this basis the sale was close to $90 an acre. There is no store nor station on the land and it is a clear sale to a man who already owns one of the most beautiful farms in the Valley. With a splendid mansion overlooking Lake Lafayette.
The sale was negotiated by W. E. Mollison for Sanderlin while Smith, Hirsh & Landau represented the purchaser.
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Vicksburg Evening Post, “Vicksburg Evening Post clipping,” Mississippi State University Libraries, accessed April 20, 2024, https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/items/show/899.
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