The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
POSTpOMEMENT.


On Monday, the sth November, 1883,
BETWEEN
HOO 90 200 Lots 2
IN and adjoining the Town Of Cannelton, will be
offered at Auction the premises
SALE LEABSOLUTE-TERbIS EXTREMELY EASY
Cannelton and Tell City are only enc and a half
miles apart. The property here offered for sale is in
tween that Town and TELL CITY, so that it must
participate in the growth of both and either.
Cannetnn since lS5l, has grown up to be a town of
4OCO or 1000 Inhabitants, and is increasing rap
idly as any town ON the river Her Coal Mines
now the most extensive below Pittsburg. Her Cot
ton Factory--a model establishment for the West :;
its extensive qUarTieS and numerous workshops,
give generous support to large population which
must increase as It's works enlarged The loca-
tion is one Of the most healthy in the West with
population OF 5,oOo or GOO in town and vicinity,
physician has been able to sustain himself by his
profession. 1t has a good system Of schools the
buildings for which are not surpassed in the State
1t has seven or eight Ghruchcs, belonging to the
Methodists. Presbyterians, Catholics, Unitarians
German Reformed, and German Methodsts The
Cath"ics are now erecting another elegant church
1T cost OF S25,OO0 or $4,000. The citizens Of the
county have recently voted i've one to make Cam
melton the county seat Of Perry county. The ex-
ports of the products Of the labor of this cOmmun-
ity OF 1900 men, women and children, in the form
of coal aud manufactured goods, is over $5O0,0O0
'er annum, than the entire exports of agri-
cultural produce Of any county on the river.
The site of Tell City was in April last n solitary
farm and a forest; and it has now population Of
1000. There 5000 young, g,enterprising and cner-
getic men, with or less means, owners of lots.
who have acquired an interest in the city with
the view of becoming inhabitants of it. If but a
fourth of them fulfil their intentions, it will ex-
tend Tell City 10 Cannelton, and they will become
one large city, and cover all the intervening lands
llut Independent of the fate of Tell City, the
tabshed prosperity of Cannelton is enough to give
great future vane to the property here offered for
sale. 1t has been plotted into large house lots, the
most remote OF which not 5000 yards distant
from the factory, and the centre Of the town of Cam
melton.
The sale is made to close the affairs of the owner,
and therefore viii he made absolute. Every lot of
fcrcl wifi be sold TO the highest bidder.
There will not soon be another opportunity so
favorable to make Investments in that vicinity, as
the property is nearly all held by companies who
will not sell except single lots to actual tiers and
at high prices. The advance in property in that
vicinity has been steady and unprecedented. Lots
that six yeirs ago sold for $780, have been sold re-
ceuty for q 900. Land bought years ago for SIS
per acre, has been sdt his wear for $1,000 per acre
TERMS OF SALE:
One fourth in cash ; the balance in one, two,
thrr" AMI four years. If the purchaser shall make
some substantial Improvements to his lots i'll build
ings within year, the credit the notes will be
rXtcdcd to four years.
IGLEHEART & Antilles.