The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-06
MISCELLANEOUS.
H.T EXTEyv,sIp-R sale or C.fsN'-
9 Il 49,. MELTON AND --- -s--
TELL CITY PROPERTY,
At AUCTION.
On Monday, the 25th October, 1858,
BETWEEN Ell
100 6c 200 Lots 2
In and adjoining the Town of Cannelton, will be
aLEABsoIUTEITERMs EXTREMELY EASY


LEABSOLUTE-TERAIS EXTREMELY EASY
t'annelton and Tell City are only ono and 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
Cannelton, since 1851 has grown up to be town of
LOCO 5000 inhabitants, and is increasing as 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 qiarries and numerous workshops
give generous support to large population which
must increase as its works enlarged The loca-
tion is one of the most healthy in the West; with
population of 1000 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 not surpassed in the State.
1t has seven eight Chruches, belonging TO the
Alethodsts Presbyterians, Catholics, Cnitarians,
German Reformed and German Methodists. The
Catholics are now erecting another elegant church
at cost of $4,000 or $50 600. 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 the products of the labor of this commun-
ity of 1900 men, women and children, in the form
of coal and manufactured goods, is over $500, 900
annum, more than the entire exports of agri-
cultural produce OF any county on the river
The site of Tell City in pril last a solitary
farm and q forest and it has now population Of
1000. There are 5000 young enterprsing, and ener
getic men, with more 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
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
tablished prosperity Of Cannelton is enough give
great future value TO the property here offered for
SALE 1t has been plotted into large house ots, 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
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
ut high pric' s. The advance in property in that
vicinity has been steady and unprecedented. Lots
that six wears ago sold for $780, have been sold re-
Gently for 81 600 Land bought years ago for Sl5
per acre, has been soldt his year FOR $500 per
r TERMS OF SALE:
One fourth in cash the balance in one. two,
three and four years. If the purchaser shall make
substantial improvements to his lots in build
ings within year, the credit the notes win be
eXteded TO four years