The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.
POSTPONEMENT.

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In and adjoining the Town of Cannelton, will be
offered at Auction on the premises.
SALEADSOLUTE-TER EXTREMELY EASY
Cannelton and Tell City are only enc and n half
miles apart. The property here offered for sale is in
the lower portion of CANNELTON and lying be-
tween that Town and TELL CITY, so that it must
participate in the growth of both and either
CaDnelton, since 1851 has grown up to be town of
1000 5000 inhabitants and is increasing rs rap
idly as any town ON the river. Her Coal Mines
now the most extensive below Pittshurg. Her Cot
ton Factory. mwiel establishment for the West ;
its extensive quarries and numerous workshops,
give gener"n' support to large population which
must increase as its works enlarged. The loca-
tion is of the most healthy in the West with
population of 5000 G,0O0 in town and vicinity, no
physician has been able TO sustain himself hy his
profession. 1t has good system OF schools, the
buildings for which not surpassed in the State
1t las seven or eight Chruches, belonging to the
Methodists, Preslytcrians Catholics, Unitariaps,
German Reformed. and German Methodsts The
Catholics are now erecting another elegant church
at cost of S25,OUO $4,000 The citizens of the
county have recently voted five to 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 4,500 men, women and children, in the form
Of coal and manufactured goods, is S500,00O
annum, more than the entire exports of agri-
cultural iroduce of any county on the river.
The site of Tell City in April last a solitary
farm and forest; and it has now a population of
1000. There 400 Young ,cnterprising and
getic men, with more ar less means, of lots
who have acquired an interest in the city with
the view of becoming inhabitants of it. Ii but
fourth of them fulfil their intentions it will ex-
tend Tell City to C;tnnetun and they will become
one large city, and cover all the intervening lands
Rat. independent of the fate of Tell City, the
tahished prosperity of Cannelton is enough to give
great future value TO the property here offered for
sale. 1t has been plotted into large house lots, the
most remote of which not 1900 yards distant
from the factory, and the of the of Can
melton.
The sale is made to close the affairs of the owner
an'l therefore will he made absolute Every lot of
trred wifi lie sold to the highest bidder.
There will not bc another opportunity so
favorable to make investments III that vicinity as
the property is nearly all held by companies who
will not sell except single lots actual settlers, and
at high prices. The advance in property i'll that
vicinity has been steady and Unprecedented. Lots
that six years ago sold for SlO, have been sold re-
cantly for 81 900. Land bought ten years ago for Sl5
per acre. has been s-dt his year for $500 per acre.
TERMS OF SALE:
One fourth in cash the balance in one, two,
three and four years. If the purchaser shall make
some substantial improvements to his lots in build
ngs within year, the credit the notes will be
exteded to four years.
TGIETIEART & ANTHES