RE: Re: [DL] Question

[Frempath2@netscape.net]

And of course if you were willing to live on govt. land for 5 years and didn't need to be in town the cost was free through the homestead act.

g'day
frempath

SteveL1979@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 10/23/2001 6:09:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>deepone@go2.pl writes:
>
><< Any idea how many could cost a home on the West?
> I mean generally cost of ground, tools, materials etc. >>
>
>    Difficult to say. The following is information gleaned from EVERYDAY LIFE 
>IN THE WILD WEST, by Candy Moulton:
>
>Land, in city/township, per lot         $400-1,200
>Land, farm, per acre                        $10-30 (or more)
>Land, unimproved, per acre              $3-10
>Land, building rental, per month            $500-1,700
>
>1856:  in Nebraska City, claims of 160 acres within 2.5 miles of the city 
>cost $500-800; an owner of a farm joining the city on the west refused an 
>offer of $6,000 in gold for it.
>1860:  a 25' x 100' house in San Francisco within a few minutes of City Hall 
>costs $800-1,000.
>1867:  in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, city lots are $400-1,200.
>1870:  near Ft. Scott, Kansas, farmland costs $12-20 per acre, and unimproved 
>land within 12 miles is $3-7 per acre.
>1870:  during the development of Greeley, Colorado Territory, land sells for 
>$1 per acre.
>1873:  in Nebraska, improved land (farmland) sells for $10-30 per acre, and 
>unimproved land $4-10 per acre.
>1874:  in Sutter County, California, land costs $20-80.
>
>Steve Long
>
>
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