Excerpt from Homestead Patent #513589
by Susie Parks Ostness
(transcribed due to weak image)
Acres cultivatable: 145

Acres timbered: None

In 1910 I broke 8 acres, which I sowed to wheat and truck.

In 1911 I broke 17 acres, part of which I laid over and the rest to flax. Old ground I sowed to wheat and garden truck.

25 acres under cultivation.

Subdivision: N 1/2 SE 1/4 Section 26

Character of improvements:

Frame house, 16x16, sod addition 14x20 board, paper and sod roof; sod barn, 16x18, board and sod roof; three wells; about 3 acres fenced with wire and post; 25 acres broken.

Total valuation $600.00