437

Return to J. H. Moores,
Lansing, Mich.,
If not delivered within 10 days.

Lansing
Jan
3
4 PM
Mich.

U. S. Postage
Three Cents

Prof. C. E. Bessey.
Ames:
Iowa.

J. H. Moores,
Dealer in
Real Estate,

Lumber, Logs,
and
Pine Timber.

Lansing, Mich., Jan 3rd 1880

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey
Ames Iowa

Dear Sir:

Yours of
a late date received. While
I admit that good farming
land should bring 10.00 per
acre, same time I realize
that the sale for it is very slow,
& while we are waiting often
for our ideal, interest & [?]
comes along & marches off
so much that it would have
been better to have accepted
a real offer. This man
is a relative of some of the
neighbors & now lives in N. Y.
State. He proposes to buy this