Author(s):
W.G. Adkins, J.E. Frierson, R.H. Thompson
Publication Date
June 1960
Abstract
This report of the relationships between farm land values and quality of road service in Ellis County, Texas, is based upon the study of 214 farms which sold during 1955-58. Buyers of these farms were interviewed in the spring of 1959 for the purpose of verifying prices paid and obtaining detailed descriptions of the farms purchased and their road service. Buyers also were asked to estimate the influence on land values of various road type changes.|Simply stated, the study scheme was to observe the market value of land and to determine any variations in value which could be attributed to differences in type of road location. The study was restricted to bona fide sales of tracts which were located outside of corporate limits of towns, were 20 acres or larger in size, and were purchased by persons residing in Ellis County. (Price data were secured on 119 land purchases by out-of-county buyers. These buyers were not interviewed, however, and thus detailed information about the farms they bought was not developed.)
Report Number:
Bulletin No. 12
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