Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-11-15
miscellaneous.
EVARM LANDS FOR SALE.-THE ILL
y N0Is CENTRAL R. R. COMPANY is now pre-
pared to sell about
Two Millions of Acres
F.Fg.TEES'G ERN'DN.


In tracts Of 30 Acres and upward on long Credits and
at Low Rates Of Interest.
these lands We're granted by the Government to aid in
the construction of this Railroad. and are among the
richest and most fertile in the State They extend with
the Road FROM Chicago the North East to Cairo on
the South and from thence 10 alena and Duneh in the
extreme Forth part of the State Most of these
lands lie Immediately and within six miles Of the
Road and none are than fifteen miles distant from
il; henc ready and cheap facilities furnished for
transporting their products to of the Eastern south
ern markets. The great increase of population by
grafton, c and the consequent raid growth OF flourish
ing towns ard villages the line of the Road and
throughout the State furnishes substantial growing
home demand for every kid of farm and garden produce
Ia the Northern aud Central parts the State prairie
lands predomt ate. ntersp with magnificent
of X and other TIMBER in the southern tho timber is
more abundant AMI exceedingly valuable.
The soil is dark, rich mould. from to Ave feet in
depth, is gently rolling, AMI peculiarly fitted FOR grazing
cattle and sheep, the cul:va Of wheat Indian corn
etc The air is pure and bracing, The cma'e
healthy mild, aud equabe. than that of other part
Of the Unions while living streams and springs of excel
lent water abound,
Economy in cutivating, and great produc veness are
the wei known characteristics Illinois land Trees
not required to be cut down, grabbed,
picked Of, AS is generally the in cultvatng
land in the Older States The first crop of Indian
planted on tie newly broken sod usually repays the cost
Cf plo siI gand eneing
Wheat the newly turned sol, is sure to yield
very large profits. man with pillow and two yoke of
oxen. wilt break one and hli to two per day.
Coutrac be made Tor reaking, ready for
wheat, from 50 So per acre. BY iudicious man
agement the land may he plowei and fenced h- first,
and undtr nigh state of cUiUati the second year
Corn grain. cattle, etc Will be fnrw rded At reasuna
BILE rates to Chic for the Eastern aud to Caro- FIR the
Southern market
Buuminous al is exte, sively mined alo the Road
and supplies cheap and .sirahle uei ing furnished
at many points at S so $500 per ton, Wood be
has at the same rate pr cord Extensive gu res have
been owned in the Southern Of the Stare the
line of this Road Of Baling Stone of excellent quail
ity, UGH white and blue limestone and white and
red Sandstone,-whch be had fer lte thsn
the expense If transpCrtauon.
The government lands, an the and States. bdUulg
/ generally been Withdrawn from mark't emiaraRts
from The Ea>t tern States and Euro IecGn be
dated By thiS Ulh Uaiuab farms, at the old
prices and terms, uhich, in all probability, viii double
in value with tw vc months.
When those lands restored to market persons who
think of settling them, MINES os, should bear in
mind hat the lands If this Company, the prices for
which they Sold better investments than o in
other stat Territories remote from market,
Government prices for the that tie expensa of
transport ng the products of the latter market will al
ways be h,avy drawback them, and after few
years cultivation they quire manuring which not the
with Illinois lands
The remarks hold good in relation to the lands in
the territories of Ksnzas and Nebraska, for Though
cant lands may BE- found nearer the he dis
lance to market is far greater and every hundred miles
the products of those lands carried either in wagons
Interrupted er communications incr the expense of
transportation. which be borne by the settlers, in the
reduced price of their products and that pre-
annually and every year reduced
The great fertility Of the lands offered foI sale by
this Company and their consequent yield those OF the
Eastern and Middle States, much than suf lent
to pay the difference in the of transportation,
especially in view of the facilities furnished by this Road
whchare not interrupted by the low water oil summer
| the frost