The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-11
wAsHINGToN SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY IL,
sa5 ONLY For A HOMESTEAD.

1 TWENTY-FIVE FARMS, WORTH OVER
i $500, AND FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUN
DRED LOTS TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG
EIGHT HUNDRED SUBSCRIBERS.-Each-s cub
scriber is entitled to eight lots, twenty five by
hundred feet, lying together, or PRIZE FARM,
OF from four to twenty acres. The shares are lin
/ tied at 1925, payable 3 5 when subscribed for, 5 D
on the day Of distribution, and the balance in
monthly instalments of 5 g. About seven hundred
| shares are now subscribed
] The lots are situated in the village of HERMAN
VILE, the Long Island railroad, county of Suf-
folk, and fifty miles from the city OF New y iork.
car and engine house is now being built near this
village, and the last train leaving Brooklyn, late
in the afternoon stops near this station and returns
| early in the morning II is one of the healtbiest
places in lhe United States, within one mile of
! Ronkonkoma lake, which is about three miles in
circumference, of singular transparency, and Of
great depth, with abundance of fish. The viii
lage is but four miles distant from the great South
Bay, which is five miles wide and forty miles long
abundantly supplied with oysters, clans, and fish
| of various kinds
These lands will produce much per acre, with
the same cultivation, any land within fifty miles
of New York The Suffolk County Agricultural
Society, at meeting on Gath September, 1850,
awarded premiums for the production of these
lands, as may be seen by the following letter;
LAKE ROAD, Der 2s, 1850.
! certify that have raised during the past sea
son the very best of and potatoes $50 bushels
per acre; egg plants, and variety Of garden vege-
tables, on land near the Long Island railroad at
|
Suffolk County Agricultural Fair, held September
! "a, 1850.
Also peas, beans, onions, squashes, pumpkins,
' Yours. IRA L'HoMMEDIEU.
| To CHARLES Woop, III John ST. n. Y.
| Hermanve station is located on the borders OF
] the Long Island railroad, where several
! times a day to Brooklyn and New York The sur
face of the land ia smooth and level, and the sur
rounding country is perfectly healthy, and within
few miles of this place highly cultivated and val
uable having been settled for more than ono hun
dred and fifty years, and where similar lands sell
| from S so to 5000 per acre.
The distribution will take place in a fe,o days by
committee to be selected by the subscribers from
choice will be entitled for Ss25 only. to a 20 acre
farm worth S ,000 the second to an Is acre farm,
worth $780, the third l6 acre farm, $500; the
| 4th a ii acre farm worth S7OO; the 5h a IL acre
farm, worth s 600; the 9th 10 acre farm, worth
| s 500; the 7th and Sth each an farm worth
$400; the 9th, 10th and llth each acre farm,
worth 800; the 18th, 18th, l4th and 10th each a
acre farm, worth $3.50; the 10TH 18th, 18th, 18th
and goth each a acre farm, worth 5000; and all
the others will be entitled TO village lots each %
by 100 feet, lying together. There are no blanks;
this Is not lottery; every person gets Tor $40 a
handsome lot of ground equal to city lots,
Manner Of Distribution Of Hamannrue Lots and
Prize FWms-The manner distribution will be as
follows: All the numbers the Map, from to
500, will be put into wheel, and the first number
drawn from the wheel will be entitled to the
first prize; and, if the fret number 30 drawn Oh
taken out OF the wheel happens 10 De Zoo or Eio
then the person on the subscription list who holds
or the subscription number OF $50 or 275 oi
whatever the corresponding number may be, VII
be entitled TO the first Prize Farm and 80 proceed
ling until all the numbers are drawn out
The lands are good as represented, and al
good as any new land on the Island, and when cul-
tivaed, will produce in the highest degree.
The land was once heavily timbered; some por
tions covered with thrifty growth o
young wood, oak and pine. Wood is plenty an'
generally cheap in that part OF the Island. Fire
III =, LAT k,~
cord wood for the New York market is of uniform
. price, and has fer great many years been Away
! considered cash article on the Island.
There is material on the land for common fenc
> ing-good chesnut rails can be had within fey
miles of these lands in abundance. All building
materials can be had at the depots of Brooklyn an
Greenport, and at many intermediate places, at tn
) usual market prices There numerous stream
/, of water rising in these new lands, and running
n into the Great South Bay, which are remarkable
for their purity, and never fail; indeed, dry wea
ther makes very little change In them they ar
: untaing, and wells OF various depths, probabl,
. over these lands, in the middle region of tn
island, the average depth will be about twenty tiv
feet; at Hermannville, the ground higher, the,
: are deeper
There now churches and schools within tw'
three miles of the village; and within four miles
mills, factories, and villages. All the priyi
leges of an old settled country to be had here
and the people of Suffolk county pride thcmselve
i on being highly moral, ordely, and religious peo
. pie. All of my subscribers are pcrsonsof respecta
: binty.
The land can be very easily cleared, and th
cost of settlement will depend almost entirely upoI
the settler. He can lay out as much or as little a
e he chooses. do not know of any objections to th
place. or to the land for settlement, and the sam,
labor and industry which make successful anS
prosperous settlements in other parts of the coun
try, bestowed upon these lands, cannot fail to pro
( duce favorable results.
The climate Is in every particular healthy anc
pleasant; the roads are good and always passable
at all seasons of the year; the winters are shor
afnd Jtr,fn hn
the north of the Highlands; there is seldom seigh
ing more than two or three weeks on the island.
What is remarkable crop is seldom injured BY
drought-there part of the country where there
is so little injury from drought on Long leland
nor is there any injury from wet-there is no we
or cold land on the leland. All the land along the
margin of the streams be made highly valuable
at small cost for there is no such thing as tiooe
or freshet, in the interior part Of the country
by which often very great damage Is dope-sucf
an event as the carrying off bridge, or the break
ing of mill dam, with great damage, is almos
unheard of on Long Island. The streams and bays
abound in ish and wild fowl in great abundance
and every variety.
Rs- In consequence of the great number of letters
from all parts OF the country, desiring information
as to these lands it has been found necessary TO an
swer them in this form.
Apply to Thos Wood Stationer II John street
near Pearl, N. Y, or Charles Wood, at the same
place, either of whom will receive remittances and
forward receipts therefor by return OF mail They
will also gratuitously furnish maps and pamphlets
OF the property, and checrfuy give such other in
formation may be desired.
CHARLES WOOD, III John st N. Y.
References can be made to Hon. Henry Meigs
and General Chandler, of the American Institute
35l broadway, N Y; Sandiords, Porter, & Striker
IS Broadway, n. " Levy Dodge, of Dodge s. Cos
Express, 'ls West at. n. NJ; +. f. Peck, 300 State
ST.; and Alden ]. Spooner, Front at. Brooklyn
n. Y; o. Holman, Stationer, Boston, Mass; +. Ii
Pease Bookseller, Albany, N. Y; V. b. Palmer
| Philadelphia, Pa Jan l-2aw4w
J. IL. CLAY MUDD,
| Attorney Mt Law and Land Agent,
FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,
| viii give prompt attention TO any business en-
| trusted to him.