We learn from private correspondence . . .

. . . from Northern Iowa, that Pitt Cook, of Sandusky, Ohio, is at Fort Dodge, and has bid off all the delinquent non-resident lands in Webster county. He has bought up all the lands delinquent for taxes in most of the adjoining counties to the amout of about $100,000. – {State Register.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 2