Loys-Chandieu, nee
Pourtales, with two hundred and thirty hectares of farm land and one
hundred and thirty hectares of forest.
The _Metzer Zeitung_ for the twentieth of October announced the
liquidation of twenty properties in the Moyeuvre Grande district, and
of eleven in that of Sierek.
Many people have obviously been covetous of these French possessions.
On this subject curious letters and unceasing polemics appeared in the
Alsatian newspapers.
Certain interested persons complained (_Strassburger Post_ for the
third of November) that the time was so short that only the
inhabitants of the country and their immediate neighbors had any
opportunity of profiting by these occasions. They remarked with all
justice that to get the highest prices for these sales there ought to
be a large number of bidders.
For the farm lands, the neighbors would suffice to bring up the bids
to a high enough sum, but when it was a matter of a magnificent
chateau, like that at Osthofen, with a garden and a park, bidders for
this luxury would scarcely be found among the peasants. The
speculators alone would step in and would acquire for a mere nothing
properties of great value. And the plaintiffs added, "Is that
desirable?"
The following considerations advanced by one of the plaintiffs are not
without interest.
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