The republic., 1851-01-04
cas- ONLY FOR A HoMnsrpAn

FINWENTY TWO FARMS, WORTH OVER
l. S., 800. AND FIVETHOUSAND FOUR HUN.
DRED LOTS TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG
EIGHT HUNDRED SUBSCRIBERS Each sub
scriber ID 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 $25, payable 5 5 when subscribed for ! 8
the day of distribution. and the balance in
monthly instruments 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 Sui
folk, and fifty miles from the cityof New York.
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 1t a one Of the healthiest
places in the United States within one mile OF
Ronk onkoma lake, which is about three miles ia
circumference, OF singular transparency, and OF
great depth, with an abundance of fish. The vii
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 miee
of New York. The Suffolk County Agricultural
Society, at meeting on oath September, 1850,
awarded premiums for the production of these
lands, as may be seen by the following letter
(Copy)
LAKE ROAD, Ocr. 2s, 1850.
certify that have raised during the past
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
Lake Road from which received premium at the
Suffolk County Agricultural Fair, held September
"a, 1850
Also peas. beans, onions. squashe4. pumpkins.
beets, and tomatoes.
You're, IRA LHoMMEpIEU
To CHARLES Woop, M John at, N Y
Hermanville station is located the borders ot
the Long Island railroad, where several
times day to Brooklyn and New York The
face of the land is smooth and level, and the
rounding country Is perfectly healthy, and within
few miles of this place highly cultivated and val
been
dred and fifty years, and where similar lands sell
from so to $500 per acre
The distribution will take place in a feto dags by
a committee to be selected by the subscribers from
among their number, The person having the first
choice will be entitled for S25 only, a % acre
farm worth s 900; the second to an Is acre farm
worth $500; the third 10 farm, $500; the
4th a Ii acre farm worth D s700 the 9th IL acre
farm, worth 5000; the 9th 10 aero farm, worth
$500; the 7th and Sth each an farm, worth
$500; the 9Th, 10th and llth each acre farm,
worth S 300; the 18th, 18th, l4th and 10th each
acre farm, worth $3.50; the 10Th, l7th 18th, 18th
and goth each a acre farm, worth $500; and all
the others will be entitled to village lots, each %
by LOO feet, lying together. There no blanks;
this is not lottery; every person gets Tor S25
handsome lot OF ground equal to city lots.
Manner of Distribution Of Hermann Uile Lots and
Prize Fdrms.-The manner dstrbu ion will be as
follows: All the numbers the Map, from | TO
s00 will be put into wheel, and the frat number
drawn from the wheel will be entitled to the
fret prize; and, if the first number SO drawn or
taken out of the wheel happens to be go or 275,
then the person on the subscription list who holds
or owns the subscription number of $50 or 275 or
whatever the corresponding number may be. will
be entitled 10 the fret Prize Farm, and proceed
ing until all the numbers are drawn out.
The lands are as good as represented, and as
good any new land on the Island, and when cul-
tiyated, will produce in the highest degree.
The land was once heavily umbered; some por
tons are now covered with thrifty growth OF
| young wood, oak and pine. Wood ia plenty and
generally cheap in that part of the Island. Fire
wood is cheap that which is suitable to be into
cord wood for the New York market is OF uniform
! price, and has fer great many years been always
| considered cash article the Island.
| There is material on the land for common fenc-
! lng-good chesnut rails can be had within few
| miles of these lands in abundance All building
materials can be had al the depots OF Brooklyn and
Greenport, and at many Intermediate places mt the
usual market prices There are numerous streams
of water rising in these lands, and running
into the Great South Bay, which remarkable
for their purity, and never fail indeed, dry wea
! ther makes very little change in them they
untailing, and wells OF various depths probably
over these new ands, in the middle region OF the
island the average depth viii be about twenty hve
feet; at Hermannvlle as the ground ia higher, they
are deeper.
three miles OF the village; and within four mles
mills, factories stores and villages. Ill the priv
leges of an old-setted country to be had here,
and the people OF Suffolk county pride themselves
on being highly moral, ordey, and religious peo
Pile All my subscribers are persons OF gespecta-
bility.
cost of settlement will depend almost entirely upon
the settler He can lay out much or little as
he chooses. do not know of any objections TO the
| place, to the land for u settlement, and the
| labor and industry which make successful and
| prosperous settlements IN other parts of the coun
try, bestowed upon these lands, cannot tai! to pro-
duce favorable results
The climate ia in every particular healthy and
| pleasant; the roads good and always passable
| at all OF the year; the winters short
and mild. compared 10 the winters on the main to
| -t, ia
| ing more than two three weeks the island
| What is remarkable, acrop is seldom injured by
droughthere ID no part OF the country where there
is 80 little injury from drought on Long Island.
nor is there any injury from wet--there IA no wet
or cold land on the island. All the land along the
gin of the streams can be made highly valuable
at small cost, for there is such thing a flood
or freshet, In the interior part oi the country,
| by which often very great damage - done-such
event the carr ying of bridge, or the break
ing of mill dam, with great damage, Is almost
! unheard of OH Long leland The streams and bays
abound in fsh and wild fowl ia great abundance,
and every variety.
Or In consequence of the great number Oi letters
| from all parts of the country, desiring information
as to these lands il has been found necessary to
swer them in this form.
| Apply to Thos. Wood, Stationer. III John street
| near Pearl, n. Y. or Charles Wood, Mt the same
place, either of whom will receive remitances ana
| forward receipts therefor by return of mail They
will also gratuitously furnish maps and pamphlets
of the property, and cheerfully give such other in
| formation may be desired.
CHARLES WOOD, liz John st, \
References can be made to Hon Henry Meigs
and eneral Chandler, of the American Institute.
35i broadway, y. Y; Sandiurds Porter, Il Striker.
7S Broadway, N Y. Levy Dodge, OF Dodge & Cos
Express, Is West at. n. N; +. r. Peck, 300 State
ST. and Alden j. Spooner, Front st. Brooklyn,
n. Y; o. Holman, Stationer, Boston, Mass., + h
Pease Bookseller, Albany, Y; V. b. Palmer
Philadelphia, Pa. Jan l--2aw+w
N,INGLE AND DOUBLE BARREL FOWL
- ing pieces &c.--J. w. Baden & Brother
Hardware Merchants sign OF the golden saw.
Pennsylvania avenue near Sixth street, have Just
received by late arrivals from England, fine
sortmcnt of Sporting Goods consisting in part of
Fine Damascus Twist, and other Fowliug- pieces
at prices ranging from . l3 20 Sl25.
Dixon x Sons patent safety and oiher Flasks
Shot Pouches aud Belts, Of English and French