The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
H.T ExTE.y-sxp-E S.aLE OF C.s.S--
9A MELTON AND - .f @-T
TELL CITY PROPERTY,
At AUCTION.
On Monday, the 25fh OctoDer, IS5 g.,
100 C&c 200 Lots 2
In and adjoining the Town of Cannelton, will be
offered at Auction on the premises
SALE EAl5SOLUTE-TERAIS EXTREMELY EASY

Cannelton and Tell City are only ono and a half
miles apart The property here offered for sale is in
tween that Town and TELL CITY, so that it must
partieipate in the growth Of both and either.
CanEelton, since 1851, has grown mp to be town of
1000 or 5000 inhabitants and is increasing rap
idly any town on the river. Her CoaI Mines
now the most extensive below Pittsburg.- Her Got
ton Factory-a laodel establishment for the West !;
its extensive quarries and numerous workshops,
give generous support to largo population which
must ihcrtstse its works enlarged The loca-
tiea i one of the nest healthy in the West with
population Of 5000 5000 in town and vicinity, no
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 Churches, belonging to tho
Nethodists, Presby yterians, Catholics, Cnitarans,
German Reformed, and German Metbodists. The
Catholics are now erecting another elegant church
at acost OF $4,000 or $4,000 The citizens Of the
county have recently voted five to one to make Can
melton the county seat Of Perry county. The ex-
ports of tho products Of the labor Of this commun
uy OF 4,5U0 men, women and children, in the form
of coal and manufactured goods, is over S5nO.OOO
annum, more than the entire exports of agri-
cultural produce Of any comfy on the river.
The site of Tell City was in April last q solitary
farm and forest and it has now a population Of
Z0Ju H. ere are 5000 young ,enterprisng aud ener
getic men, with more less means, owners of lots
who have acquired an interest in the city with
the view OF becoming inhabitants Of if. If but
fourth of them fulfil their intentions, 1t will cx-
tend Tell City to Cannelton, and they will become
one large city, and cover all the intervening lands
Rut, Independent of the fate of Tell City, the es-
tablished prosperity Of Canneton 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 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
fcred wifi be sold to the highest bidder.
There will not soon be another opportunity so
favorable To make investments in that vicinity, az
the property is nearly all held by companies who
will not sell except single lots TO actual settlers, and
at high pric $ The advance in property in that
vicinity has been steady and unprecedented. Lots
that six years ago solfor $780, have been sold re-
Gently Tor 100U Land bought years ago for Sl5
per acre, has been soldt his year for $500 per acre
TERMS OF SALE:
One fourth in cash the balance in one, two,
three and four years. II the purchaser shall make
some substantial improvements 10 his lots in build
ings within one year, the credit tue will be
exteaeA to four venrs