In December 1912, the City Club of Chicago staged a competition for the design of a quarter-section of the Chicago grid. ❋ Charles R. Wolfe (2011)
If you take a healthy quarter-section of good native grass and just let it sit with no grazing, no fire and no disturbance then I promise you in 15 years or so you'll have 160 acres of cedar. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Eventually I learned it was equivalent to 160 acres, but why was it a quarter-section? ❋ Ewillett (2008)
The landscape scale is the quarter-section (160 acres) Midwestern farmstead. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The quarter-section between 15th and 21st, Utica and Lewis, is already hard-pressed by the expansion of St. John Medical Center. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Thus he was able to buy a quarter-section of land for one hundred and fifty dollars an acre, and to sell it in a year or two, after installing a cement floor in the barn and running water in the house, for one hundred and eighty or even two hundred. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Now, illegal fireworks were going off on all three sides of the empty field (which is about a quarter-section, or so). ❋ Grouse (2004)
The Homestead Act, giving a quarter-section of land to each settler, was a magnet. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)
Since railroads have penetrated the great prairies and made them habitable, the demand for pine lumber has greatly increased both for building and fencing; and it has been estimated, that, if every quarter-section of land in Iowa and Illinois were surrounded with a "three-board" fence, it would consume every foot of pine-timber in Michigan. ❋ Various (N/A)
If it has been surveyed, give me the township, range, section and quarter-section. ❋ William Thompson (N/A)
When your father settled down here, an 'entered his quarter-section, he jest made a mistake an' put his improvements on the wrong quarter. ❋ Various (N/A)
The dreary drive through the wilderness lent an added charm to the little oasis of civilized comfort thus encountered in the lonely backwoods of a Western quarter-section. ❋ Various (N/A)
So at last he acquired a quarter-section of Hudson Bay ❋ Hopkins Moorhouse (N/A)
American Fork, above his fort at New Helvetia, for the general benefit of the settlers in that vicinity; that he had incurred considerable expense, and wanted a "preemption" to the quarter-section of land on which the mill was located, embracing the tail-race in which this particular gold had been found. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
Yet, as it might add value to the location, he dispatched to our headquarters at Monterey, as I have already related, the two men with a written application for a preemption to the quarter-section of land at Coloma. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
