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determining the relative price. Atascosa: Farming lands that could have been bought 
in 1860 for $3, are now worth $5 to $10 per acre. Titus: The uncertainty of labor of 
late years has done{much to decrease the value of farm-lands ; but this uncertainty is now 
tosome extent giving way, and they are again increasing, and prices now. range about 
the same as in 1860. Lampasas: Average price of good arable unimproved lands, $1.50 
per acre; improved tracts, $4 to $5. ort Bend: Farm-lands that now command $10 
per acre, in 1860 commanded $50. Many plantations which then changed hands at 
$40 to $60 per acre, have within the last three years changed hands at $3 to $10 per 
acre. <A plantation purchased in 1859, at $50 per acre, was sold by the administrator 
of the purchaser in 1867, and bought by myself, at $4.50 per acre: its value now is about 
$10 per acre. Grimes: Prices in 1865~66~67~’68 went down to as low as 30 per cent. 
of the price in 1860, and since then have been improving; now about 75 per cent. 
Williamson : Good improved farms are selling at $8 to $15 per acre; unimproved, at $1 
to $5; all depending on the amount of timber. The State is fast settling up with a 
better class of immigrants, and lands have advanced more in the last year than in the 
ten previous. Coryell: Good farming lands are increasing in value greatly. Good 
lands that could have been purchased in 1860 for 50 cents per acre, now command $15 
to $20 in gold. Lands of the best quality, the river-bottoms, are worth from $5 to $12 
per acre in their wild state. Good prairie lands can be purchased for $2 per acre. 
ARKANSAS.— Prairie: Lands in farms, worth before the war $50 to $80 per acre, are 
scarcely now worth more than $20 to $30. Wild lands that sold in 1862 for $30 in gold 
are now offered for $5. Columbia: Many tracts have sold at less than $2 per acre within 
the last few years. Every man who depends upon hiring or renting wants to sell. 
In 1860, lands with improvements on them would sell at $5 to $7 per acre; land unim- 
roved, at $3. Our best farms could now be bought in tracts of 400 to 1,000 acres at 
bo50 to $4 per acre, on one or two years’ time. Smaller tracts a little more. Marion: 
Farm-lands are increasing in value; they are worth now what they were in 1860; 
they had decreased largely during the war. Lands that were worth $5 per acre in 
1866 are now worth $20 per acre. Montgomery: Farm-lands are increasing in value, 
owing to emigration, but not largely; say 10 to15 percent... 
TENNESSEE.—Campbell: Increasing. From15 to 25percent. higher. Rhea: Increas- 
ing. A farm was sold in 1862 for $5,000; resold in 1872 for $13,500. Blount: Good 
lands are one-third higher now than in 1860; poor lands have changed but little, ex- 
cept near Maryville and along the railroad. MJentress: At the close of the war, lands 
were worth nothing in money. Within the last three years vast tracts of wild lands 
have changed ownership at 5 to 30 cents per acre, going mainly to Pennsylvania 
speculators, and will not be on the market again at less than about as many dollars 
per acre as they cost cents. Henry: In 1860, $20 per acre was an average price; in 
1866 and 1867 $10 per acre; now, $15. Knox; The best lands are increasing in pro- 
ductiveness and value. The third and fourth rate lands are decreasing for want of 
system and proper rotation of crops. Average increase of value about 3U per cent. 
West Virernia.— Berkeley: Limestone lands throughout the entire county are now 
worth $50 per acre ; along the more public roads and in to market, $80. Slate lands of 
good quality, $30 to $35, owing to location and improvements. Preston : Since the close 
of the war till within the last year or eighteen months, lands have advanced 33} per 
cent. in value, but are now depreciating owing to the cramped condition of the finances. 
Tucker: Land is decreasing in value. Fayette: Improved lands rate from $5 to $20 
per acre; land in the woods, from $1 to $3.50; before the war it rated from $2 to 
$5. Randolph: Farm-lands are worth about $5 per acre more than in 1860. 
Ou10.— Tuscarawas: Farm-lands have increased in value since 1860 materially, in 
consequence of the mineral deposits, such as heavy deposits of black band and other 
varieties of iron ore, and extensive coal deposits, which are being developed by the 
location of new railroads. We also have the best of clay and limestone in abundance. 
Champaign: Farm-lands are not increasing in value at present. . They have already 
come to be rated above what they are worth for farming purposes. Medina: Farm- 
lands are decreasing in value at present, both intrinsically and actually. Trumbull: 
The value of lands is continually on the increase, and are worth on the average $15 
per acre more than in 1860. 
MIcHIGAN.—hent: The average value compared with 1860 is from 75 to 100 per cent. 
higher, owing in part to increased railroad facilities, and in part to the general in- 
crease of values, and in part to the*better standing and appreciation of our State as a 
farming State. 
InpIANA.—Scoti: Farm-lands are increasing in value. The increase will average 
about $5 per acre since 1860. Decatur: Good land is worth about $8 per acre more 
than in 1860. Hamilion: Lands have been about stationary for the last ten years. 
Timber-lands are nearer equal with cleared. The advance since 1860 has been from 
$10 to $15 peracre. Jennings: Farms are lower here than in 1860, on account of the fact 
that so many railroads have been built west and have opened up so much wild cheap 
fertile land. 
Intinois.— Cass: Decreasing. Now down almost to the price in 1860. In 1869 and 
