property facts, page-15

Re: I bought one a few years back for not much more...it had a similar small town sized population....(which then tripled within about 3 years)
I bought it for a home for a family member...within 3 years, it had tripled in price....

Sounds like a small mining town attached to a gold mine that has been re-opened - the shares of the mining company probably went up six times.