The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-01-21
ONLY S25 FOR A
HOMESTEAD.

5000 Lots, to be distributed among
800 Subscribers.
To suppl, the demand for the lots and farms,
have laid out another tract, adjoining the Long
Island Railroad and the land already sold at Her
MEANWHILE, TO be Of the same size, and disposed |
of and divided among the purchasersin the same
manner as those recently sold there, with 5Oiarms
instead Of 22.
have been induced to do this from the great
number Of persons wishing purchase these Lots
and Farms, ms the improvements in that part Of
the Island are constantly increasing, aud large
numbers Of persons hive now become interested
in those lands This additional tract is in every
respect eqralto The other, anh nj the rate they
now being taken they will all be sold in II few
weeks About 700 shares are now subscribed.
Each subscriber is entitled to 8 Lots, 25 by 100
feet, lying together, or FARM of from to 20
acres. The shares limited at S25-payabe,
s. when subscribed for, = 8 on ~ before the day
Of distribution, and the balance in moTthly install
menis Of SO.
The lots are situated in the village Of LAKE
LAND, on the Long Island Railroad, County Of
Suffolk, and 4S miles f. I'm the city Of New York,
where handsome buildings are erected, and the
Railroad Company contemplate making II arg.
depot for the termination of the early and Ia
trains between that place and BROOKLYN. II is
one of the healihiest places in the United States,
and within one mile Of Ronkonk, ma Lake, ~ bcau-
tfu sheet of water, about three miles in circum-
ference, Of singular transparency, and Of great
depth with abundance of fish. The village is
but4 miles distant from the great South Bay,
| which is miles wide and 40 miles long, album
dainty supplied with oysters, clans, and fish Of
various kinds.
add the following letter from Mr.. L'hom-
medi,u, who resides al Lakeland
LAKELAND llorEL, Nov. lS, 1851
CnAs. WooD, ESQ:
DEAR SIR. Ilving personal kncwl-
| edege Of the same, il gives me pleasure 10 an
swer your inquiry about the productions here,
by stating that during the past season there
have been raised $50 bushels of the best corn
and potatoes To the acre, besides excellent yields
OF gard n vegetables, as peas, beans, onions,
squashes, pumpkins, beciS, tomatoes egg
plants, &C.
IRA L'HOMMEDIEU,
Deputy Postmaster
These lands will produce 8 mucn per acre, with
the same cultivation, ms an, land within fifty miles
Of tho city Of New York.
Several gentlemen Of the first respectabiity WHO
have lately visited Lakeland and examined the
crops non growing there, declare that the wheat,
rye, potatoes and garden vegetables are equal TO
any they have seen in any part Of the country,
proving conclasivey that the soil is capable Of pro-
ducing, and that in the highest perfection, all that
| the asriculturist can wish desire.
Wheat of the same quality, which grows here
uxuriantly. was by Mr. Samuel Thompson
OF Setauket, last season (abuui 8 miles from th
pace,) who received for the product Of little
more than two acres, $500
| I.akean Station IS located on the borders of
the Long Island Railroad, whence cars run sever
al times day to brooklyn and New York. The
surface Of toe land is smooth and level, and sur.
rounding ccnntry is perfectly healthy, and with n
few miles Of this place, highly cultivated and
valuable having been settled for more than hun
dred aud fifty years, and where similar lands sell
at ron 4 so to S200per acre.
The lands good as represented. and as
good any new land IN the Island, aud when cul-
tiyaied, will produce in the highest deg,ee
The land was oncsheavily timbered some por-
tiuns are now covered with "A thrifty growth si
young wood, oak and pine. Wood is pIeni, aud
generally cheap in that part Of Island. Fire
wood is cheap that which is suitable to be cut
iuto cord-woud. for The New York market, is oil
uniform price, and has for great many years,
been always considered sh article on the =.
land. There is a brick kn within two miles o
Lakeland-cosi ofbrck 81, so to s5 90 per 1000
There is material Oh the land Tor common fcnc.
ing ,od chestnu, rails can I've had within few
miles ofthcse lands in abundance. All building
materials can be had at the depois Of Brooklyn
nd Greenport, and al many Intermediate places
al the usual marke, prices. There are numeron,
streams of water rising in those new lands, and
running into the great South Bay, which are re-
markable for Their purity and never iail-indeed
dry weather makes very little change in Them
they are unfailing: land wells are Ofvarous depth,
probably over these new lands, in the middle re-
eion Of the Island, the average depth will be abou
25 feet ~ Lakeland, as the ground is higher the,
arc deeper. Subscribers are not compelled Il
build
There are now churches and schools within two
or three miles Of the village; and within foni
miles mills. factories, stores, and villages. Al
the p,v leges Of an old settled country are TO be
had there and The people Of Suffolk County pride
ihemrcl,es IN being highly moral, orderly and
reli gious people. All Of my subscribers are per.
son, Of rcspectability
IL consequence OF tile great number of letters
from all parts ofthe country. desiring information
Of these lands i, has been found necessary to an
| swcr them in this form
| F-E5s Apply to CHARLES WOOn, Stationcr III
John street Pea n. v. no will receive remit
tances aud forward receipts therefor by return Of mail
lie will al,o gratnitou.iy furnish maps aud pam
phles nf the property and chceruly give such other
informa ion as may be desired.
| also desire Say that have good FARMING
LANDS west Of my Village Lands, which will sell in
5acre lots upwards nj 500 per acre, on reasonabie
term. Thee lands well situated for farming
dnsins purposes, in every respect having the adVan
tHge AID privilege of Railroad, when cleared and cu
t,aied, they will he equal land ~ the Island
and equal that which, in the vicinity OF all the cd
villages and settlements Of Long Island, ,elis for $50 to
5000 per acre.
CHARLES WoOn, III Johnsireci, Ny.
References As to to the quality Of the lands can be
made To Hon. Henry Mess aud Gen. Chandef. of the
| American Institute Rooms ISL. Broadway, Il. v. e.
VI. Saxton, Publisher, Funn,treei, n. Y. u. J,
Brown Esq, flee Of the American Agricultural, lel
| W d"r.srect, NY Dr. f.. =. Peck 800 State It.
Brooklyn Alden J Spooner 3 Frontsi, Brooklyn
q n Striker Jr ~ Broad Aav, Y. Liberty Gil
bert, 10 Bonr'mnn Building, Troy. N. Y Thoma'
Nissan aud George u. LYMAN. Jersey CIV ! Lew
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c Roeckei 90 Esses'st, N. vi c Ea,ion, Editor OF
the Nnrihern Journal, Lowell. NJ. q. Squires, I'd
ior r IIer kimer journal. Rocktnn, N. Chandler
Foster Albany, N V; v. -, Palmer, Philadelphia aud
Boston. and many others See Pamphlet II IS m