The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
POSTPONEMENT.

In and adjoining tue Town of CanneIton, will DO
offered at Auction on the premises.
SALE LEABSULUTE-TERAIS EXTREMELY EASY
Cahnclton and Tell City are only enc and a half
miles apart The property here offered for sale is in
the lower portion of CANNELTON, and lying be-
tween that Town aud TELL CITY, so that it must
participate in the growth of both and either
Cannelton, since 1851 has grown up to be town of
1000 or 5000 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 quarries and numerous workshops,
give generous support to a large population which
must increase as its works enlarged. The loca-
tion is one Of the most healthy in the West witha
population of 5000 5000 in town and vicinity,
physician has been able to sustain himself by his
profession. 1t has good system of Schools the
buildings for which are not surpassed in the State
It has seven or eight Chrnehcs, belonging te the
Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Unitarians
German Reformed, and German Methodsts The
Catholics are now erecting another elegant church
at cost of $4,000 or $4,000. The citizens of the
county have recently voted five to to make Can
melton the county seat Of Perry county. The
ports of the products Of the labor of this commun-
Hy OF 4,0OO men, women and children, in the form
of coal and manufactured goods, is over S500,00O
1er annum, more than the entire exports of agri-
cultural produce of any county on the river.
The site of Tell City in April last solitary
farm and forest and it has population of
1000. There are 5000 youug genterprsing, and
geticInep4 with more or less means, owners of lots
who iiaszkacqHired an interest in the city with
the view of becoming inhabitants of it. If but a
fourth of them fulfil their intentions, it will
tend Tell City TO Cannelton, and they will become
large city, and cover all the intervening lands.
Rut, independent of the fate of Tell City, the
tablished prosperity Of Cannelon is enough to give
great future value 10 the property here offered for
sale. 1t has been plotted into large house lots, the
, most remote OF which are 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 will be made absolute. Every lot of
fered 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 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 $780, have been sold
Gently for $1,000. Land bought years ago for S1j
per acre, has been sldt 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
seme substantial improvements to his lots in build
ngs within year, the credit the notes will be
eXteded to four years.
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