The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
na- EXTENSIVE s.aEE OF c.sJ,-
SE MELTON AND -.z-i-=-i..
TELL CITY PROPERTY,
at AUCTION.
On Monday, the 25th October, 1855,
HOO &c. 200. Lots 2


offered at Auction on the premises
SALE LEABSoLUTE-TERMs EXTREMELY EASY
Cannelton and Tell City are only ono and half
miles apart The property here offered for sale is in
the lower portion Of fsCANNEI.T0N, and lying be-
tween that Town and TELL CITY, SO that II must
participate in the growth of both and either.
Canelton, since 1851, has grown up to be town of
A, ,eoU 5000 habitants, aud s increasing as rap
idly as any town on the river. Her Coal Mines
now the most extensive below Pittsburg. Her Cot
ton FactoTy--a model establishment fer the West I;
its extensive quarries and numerous workshops,
give generous 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 1000 600O in and vicinity, no
physician has been able TO sustain himself by his
professions. 1t has good system of schools, the
buildings for which not surpassed in the State.
1t has seven or eight Chruches, belonging to the
Mcthodists, Presby terians, Catholics. Unftarians,
German Reformed, and German Mctbodists. The
Catholics are now erecting another elegant church
at cost Of S25,0 900 $500 The citizens of the
county have recently voted five to to make Cam
melton the county seat OF Perry county. The ex-
ports of the products Of the labor of this commun-
ity OF I. 800 iuen, women and children, in the form
Of coal and manufactured goods, is $4,000
er annun, or more than the entire exports of agri-
cultural produce of any county the river. -
The site of Tell City was in April last a solitary
farm and forest; and it has now population Of
1000 There are 5000 Young enterprising and ener-
getic men, with more or less means, owners of lots
who have acquired an interest in the city with
the view Uf becoming Inhabitants Of it. If but a
AouItn ot thein IuHl their lntentions 1t Will eX-
tend Tell City 10 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 Cannelton is enough give
great future value to the property here offered for
sale. II 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 Can
melton.
The sale Is made to close the affairs Of the owner
and therefore yll be made absolute. Every lot of
fered wifi be sold to the highest bidder.
There Will not soon be another opportunity so
favorable tn 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 pri' 5. The advance in property in that
vicinity has been steady and unprecedented Lots
that six years ago sold for SIo0 have been sold re-
Gently for SlooO. Land bought years ago for SIS
por acre, has been sodt his year fer $500 per acre
TERMS OF SALE:
One fourth in cash 4; the balance in one, two
three and four years. If the purchaser shall make
some substantial improvements to his lots in build
iuSs within one year, the credit the will be
eNteicd 70 four years