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Howard (1907), Clay Township chapter; 1875 county atlas; Wenger v. Clay Township, 112 N.E. 402 (Ind. App. 1916)
Clay Township farmed light ground well, and the county books say what it was good for. Howard's soil account for the county puts the oak-openings' light sandy soil as "excellently suited to small fruits and vegetables," the prairies the richest ground, and wheat apt to winter-kill on the lowest lands; the 1875 atlas, for its part, notes the township ground's high silica and concludes that "wheat consequently has always been an abundant crop." The township the town was cut from was, in short, grain-and-garden ground at the county's northern edge, two miles of it in every direction from the corridor. Its character at law is preserved in a gravel case: in Wenger v. Clay Township the appellate court read a 1903 contract under which the township took "gravel, sand and soil" from Susana Wenger's Clay Township land at ten cents a cubic yard, in perpetuity — the sandy township literally sold its roadbed out of its farms. The town itself contributes no farm acreage to the story: 348.7 acres incorporated out of farm sections in 1916, and built on the corridor pattern from the start. Everything that follows is therefore the township's and the county's record, carried at the sizes the sibling builds use, because the ground Roseland stands in farmed as one piece with both.