Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-05-06
GREAT SALE OF LOTS IN
PACIFIC CITYIi

Mills county, iowa.
RdiIrodd.
TINE Propretors of Pacific City will offer for sale
l. Public Auction, the ground,
On Thursday the 2SM day Of Auy 1857,
Two HUNDRED LOlS!!
Sale to commence at IL o'clock and continue from
day to day until the same are sold.
Pacific City is situated in Mills County, Iowa, on a
beautiful plateau of ground in the Great Valley Of the
Missouri three miles east of the moath of Platte or Ne
braska river four miles east of Plattsmouth the Nebras
ka terminus of the b. NJ. r. r., thirty miles north
east of Nebraska City, twenty five miles south Of Coun
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha City in Nebraska ad.
joining the bluffs of the Missouri River the
of POney creek into the bottom. 1t extends into the
bottom two miles and within miles of the Channel
OF the Missouri river the bottom gradually descending
tothe river. The uncertainty Of the river banks for
mile east Of the river dsapproves Of the proprey Of
building within that distance of the river.
The locality is a healthy, romantic and beautiful one,
being backed by bluffs three hundred feet high,
upon tho top of which be seen the great Missouri
bottom for thirty miles south and twenty miles north.
The site has long been looked upon of the
most beautiful sites in Western Iowa for large and
thriving City, and has been held by the first settlers In
Western Iowa for that purpose, only awaiting the i'm
provement of the country, the demands for such town
and the Railroad facilities which to be
pietnd.
branch of the Burlington and Missouri River Rail-
road will be built both north and south Of this pl'cc
will undoubtedly run Immediately through the town site.
stone Of the best quality and most extensive in West
ern Iowa, lies mile south and four miles north of the
town.
Four steam mills within Ave miles Of the town In
successful operation saving from three to five thousand
Feet per day, besides number Of water mills.
Another steam mill is the way be put in the town
Newspaper will be published there by the first Of
June next.
20 Lumber is now on the ground and being sawed to
erect fifteen or twenty houses.
Contracts have been made to burn two and half mil
lion brick this season.
The advantages which this place has all others
In Western Iowa-the Railroad facilities watch Pacific
CITY cannot miss having, together with being supplied
with the best water in the world with timber, and the
pest agricultural counties Western Iowa and Sebras-
ka ying east and west Of 1t, is indication that
long ere the Railroad is completed Pacific City will be
the largest city west of Burlington.
Terms OF sale will be oue-third down; or -thrd 10
four, AID one-third in eight months This will be the
last and only chance to procure lots Of the Company
the remaining lots after the sale will be divided among
the members OF the Company, and hence, will become
the property OF private individuals, aud prices, Us
matter of course, be advanced.
J. W. COOLIDGE, WV. ARMSTRONG,
WH srsEEIE, NJ. W. GREECE,
G. NUcKoILs, t-f 8. H. MoEn
d. Y. CAKES, g. and others, Pre- prietors.
J. W. COOLIDGE, Pres't.
c. NucKoLIs, Sec'y. (apr 20-dwtd.