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sas ONLY FOR A HOMESTEAD.

S25 ONLY FOR A HOMESTEAD.
TWENTY TWO FARMS, WORTH OVER l
i SIS. 500. AND FIVE THO USAND FOUR HUN
! DRED LOTS TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG
1 EIGHT HUNDRED sUBSCRlBERS.-Eac sub
scriber is entitled to egh. lots, twenty five by one
| hundred feet, lying together, or q PRIZE FARM,
of from four to twenty The shares lin
tied at $685. payable S 5 when subscribed for, So
on the day Of distribution, and the balance in
monthly instalments of SO. About seven hundred
shares are now subscribed
The lots situated in the village of HERMAN
VILE, on the Long Island railroad, county of Suf
folk, and fifty miles from the city Of New York. A
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 healthiest
places in the United States, within one mile OF
Ronkon koma lake. which Is about three miles In
circumference, of singular transparency, and OF
great depth, with abundance of fish. The vii
age Ia bat four miles distant from the great South
Bay, which is five miles wide and forty miles long
abundantly supplied with oysters, CLAIMS, and fish
of various kinds.
These lands will produce as much per acre, with
the same cultivation, as any land within fifty miles
of New York. The Suffolk County Agricultural
society, at meeting on oath September, 1880
awarded premiums for the production OF these
lands, as may be seen by the following letter;
LAKE RoAD, Ger 2s, 1850.
| certify that have raised during the past
son the very best of corn and potatoes 90 bushels
per acre; egg plants, and variety OF garden vege-
tables, on land near the Long Island railroad at
Lake Road, from which | receiveda premium at the
Suffolk County Agricultural Fair, held September
"a, 1850.
Also peas. beans, onions, squashes, pumpkins,
Yours. IRA L'HoMMEDIEU.
To CHARLES WooD, III John ST., n. Y
Hernanville station is located the borders Of
! the Long Island railroad, where cars run several
times a day to Brooklyn and New York. The sur
face of the land is smooth and level, and the eur
| rounding country is perfectly healthy, and within
| n few m O highly
liable, having been settled for more than one hun
dred and fifty years, and where similar lands sell
from 3 80 to $500 per acre.
/ The distribution will take place in fec days by
| a committee to be selected by the Subscribers from
among their number The person having the first
choice will be entitled for $25 only, to ~ acre
farm worth S 900; the second to an Is acre farm,
worth 5000; the third 10 acre farm, $500; the
4th IA acre farm, worth 800; the 9TH IL acre
farm, worth S60O the 9th 10 acre farm, worth
3 800; the 7th and Sth each an acre farm, worth
s 400; the 9th, 10th and llth each acre farm,
worth $500; the l2th 18th, l4th and 10Th each
5 acre farm, worth $780, the 10TH nth, 18th, 10Th
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 . 20
handsome lot of ground equal to city lots.
Manner Of Distribution Of Hermannuiile Lots and
Prize Furms.-The manner distribution Will be as
follows: All the numbers on the Map, from tc
500, will be put into a wheel, and the first number
drawn from the wheel will be entitled to the
first prize and, if the first number so drawn or
taken out of the wheel happens TO be $50 or - .
then the person on the subscription list, who holds
or the subscription number OF 2oO or 20, or
whatever the corresponding number may be- VII
be entitled to the first Prize Farm, and 30 proceed
. ing until all the numbers are drawn out.
. The lands good as represented, and rs
good as any new land on the Island, and when cul
tivated, will produce in the highest degree.
The land was once heavily unbercd; some por
/. tons are covered with thrifty growth o
young wood, oak and pine Wood is plenty ant
n generally cheap in that part OF the Island. FIRE
wood is cheap, that which is suitable to be cut int
i cord wood for the New York market is of uniform
n price, and has fer a great many years been Away
, considered a cash article on the Island.
. There is material on the land for common fenc
. ing-gvod chesnut rails can be had within a few
miles of these lands in abundance. All building
ma crals can be had at the dcpos of Brooklyn ant
Greenport, and at many intermediate places. at th
usual market prices. There are numerous streams
of water rising in these new lands, and running
into the Great South Bay, which remarkable
for their purity, and never fail; indeed, dry wca
c ther makes very little change in them; they arr
# unfang, and wells OF various depths, probably
over these new lands, in the middle region Of th
$ island the average depth will be about twenty tiv
feet; Hcrnannville, the ground ishigher, the,
h are deeper
o There are now churches and schools within tw'
or three miles of the village; and within four miles
mills factories, stores and villages. All the pfivi
. leges Of old settled country to be had here
: and the people of Suffolk county pride themselve
: on being highly moral, ordely, and religious peo
r Billy. biG - my ''Os' ''''s 49, , : =
The land can be very easily cleared and th
i cost Of settlement will depend almost entirely upoI
= the settler. He lay out much or little
. hc chooses do not know OF any objections TO tn
place, to the land for settlement and the SAM
q labor and industry which make successful ant
- pros porous settlements in other parts OF the coun
try, bestowed upon these lands, cannot fail 10 pro
Il duce favorable results.
= The climate is in every particular healthy an
pleasant; the roads are good and always passable
at all seasons OF the year; the winters are shor
: and mild, compared to the winters on the main t
= the north of the highlands; there is seldom sleigh
= ing more than two three weeks on the island.
:, What is remarkable crop is seldom injured b.
drought-there is part Of the country where thcr
. nor is there any injury from wet-therc is no we
or cold land on the leland. All the land along tn
= margin of the streams can be made highly valuabi
u small cost for there ia no such thing as iioo
or freshet as in the interior part Of the country
- by which often very great damage Ia done-suc
- an event the carrying oil bridge, or the break
Z ing of mill dam, with great damage, Is almos
= unhcard of on Long Island. The strean and bay
{ abound in fish and wild fowl in great abundance
= ! and every variety.
~ In cons auence of the great number of letter
from all parts oil the country, desiring informauo
as to these lands, has been found necessary to al
. swer them III this form.
u Apply to Thos. w ood, Stationcr, III John stree
near Pearl, n Y. or Charles Wood. at the sam
place, either of whom will receive remttanccs an
= forward receipts therefor by return OF mail The
will also gratuitously furnish maps and pamphlet
of the property and cheerfuliy give such other in
formation as may be desired.
CHARLES WOOD, III John ST. n. Y
References can be made to Hon, Henry Aleig
and General Chandler, of the American Institute
35l roadway, n Y; Sandtords, Porter, & Striker
. rs Broadway, n Y; Levy Dodge, of Dodge Co
Express, rs West st. n. N; f. r Peck $40 Stat
l. st.; and Alden J. Spooner, Front st. Brooklyn
n. Y; O. Holman, Stationcr, Boston Mass; T. ii
> Peasc, Bookseller, Albany, n. y; " B Palmer
Philadclpha, Pa Jan l-2awfw
j. III. CLAY MUDD,
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