Excerpt from Fifty Years in Iowa: Being Personal Reminiscences of J. M. D. Burrows, Concerning the Men and Events, Social Life, Industrial Interests, Physical Development, and Commercial Progress of Davenport and Scott County, During the Period From 1838 to 1888An Unparalleled Wheat Crop in Iowa, Buying It All In at Seemingly Exorbitant Prices, Luck Favors the S peou lator, t e Investment of Sebastopol Causes Enormous Profits, in Sixty Days, Even Disaster Makes Money for Me, Beginning of the End.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.