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Thomas C. Durant's personal property records including some correspondence, 1855-1876

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Report of Examination of T.C. Durant Iowa Co. lands [1865?] E 1/2 of SE 28. 80. 12. This tract is rough, being divided by two Sloughs more like ravines running from N to S. with tributary sloughs coming in from either side, yet as for Stock farm it would make very good one should the whole 1/4 be sold together, but men not likely to buy while other and better land can be had. A never failing stream of water passing through South of it leaving about 20 acres on south side, very steep. Value $5. W 1/2 of SE 28. 80 12 This 80 is very much like the former, however preferable, not quite so many acres on South side of Creek, and it does not have quite as many sub-Sloughs in it. Think it would sell for $5.75 as whole quarter, probably at $5.50 NE 33. 80. 12 This is your $1600. quarter but I cannot see it and it is difficult to get any one else to see it. I can get persons to see more money in any piece of land than I can myself, yet this is a big swallow, especially when I sold SE 32. much better for $5. True, NE 1/4 has a stream of water near it, but it only increases its Bluffs in magnitude, but yet the South 1/2 is a gentle slope southward about 40 rods, then inclines about same, leaving a basin, what might be called Slough, but it is not a Slough, but less land upon high prairie.
 
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