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Page 119
... land led many large landholders to let portions of their land to tenants in return for improving it and paying the taxes . Tenants hoped to make enough from their crops to advance to landholding status , an expensive proposition , as it ...
... land led many large landholders to let portions of their land to tenants in return for improving it and paying the taxes . Tenants hoped to make enough from their crops to advance to landholding status , an expensive proposition , as it ...
Page 121
... land values in the nineteenth century . " 17 Many speculators found their land purchases unprofitable and their mortgages and taxes impossible to meet . However , " if the expected profits did not materialize within a short period ...
... land values in the nineteenth century . " 17 Many speculators found their land purchases unprofitable and their mortgages and taxes impossible to meet . However , " if the expected profits did not materialize within a short period ...
Page 123
... land was improved in 1890 -with very little unimproved land existing in the north and central divisions . Land values had also risen , for by 1900 over 90 percent of the land area of the section with the richest soil ( east ) central ...
... land was improved in 1890 -with very little unimproved land existing in the north and central divisions . Land values had also risen , for by 1900 over 90 percent of the land area of the section with the richest soil ( east ) central ...
Contents
Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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| Title | Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 Volume 4 of Sesquicentennial history of Illinois |
| Author | John Howard Keiser |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252006178, 9780252006173 |
| Length | 386 pages |
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