Show IOWA WAS WoL AS BOUGHT nOUGHT CHEAP CHEAl I Gut Government GO Acquired l ci 1 It for EI Eight ht Cents an all Aero cre I From Indians Des Moines Ia la I Feb eh 12 lowas lowa's Iowa's fertile ferUle soil soli now worth orth an av average raco of oC 70 an nn acre W was I bought hl for or el eight ht cents an aero acre acrea a lIttle more marc than a i half century ago True there was as an additional con consideration consideration consider consider- of forty kegs of tobacco and forty pounds of ot sit salt annually for tor thirty years but this constituted but a fraction of or a cent cecil an acre The deal to whIch reference is made was that In which tho ac acquired ac- ac title from the time Indians Indiana An n In interesting chapter of the report of at the census of or U 5 deals with this subject Tho rho various purchases lH between tween the they y years ars of ot 1831 1111 and 1831 1851 embracing the territory territory ter ter- ter- ter of ot Iowa lown cost tho the government an aggregate of or or might an acre The Tho Sac and ox I and Sioux Indians Indiana and subsidiary were the tho benefi benefi- |