The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
POSTPONEMENT.
R.v EXTE.N-sET-E SAFE OF Cg.V-
az MELTON AND
TELL CITY PROPERTY,
AT AUCTION, is postponed until
On Monday, the Sth Nov yemDer, 1855
BETWEEN
100 GO 200 Lots :


offered at Auction on the premises.
SALEABSOLUTE-TERA EXTREMELY EASY
Cannelton and Tell City are only ono and a half
miles apart The property here offered for sale Is in
the lower portion of CANNELT0N, and lying be-
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 he town of
1000 or 5000 inhabiIants and is increasing rap
idly any town on the river. Her Coal Mines
the most extensive below PttsburC Her Cot
ton Factory--a model establishment for the West :;
its extensive quarries and numerous workshops,
give generous support to Il large population which
must increase as its works enlarged. The loca-
tioiI Is of the most healthy in the West with a
population of 5000 5000 in and vicinity, no
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 or eight Chruches, belonging to the
Methodists, Presby yterians, Catholics. Cnitariaps
German Reformed, and German Methodsts The
Catholics are now erecting another elegant church
at cost of S25,0O0 or 100000 The citizens of the
county have recently voted five to one make Can
Melton the county seat Of Perry county. The ex-
ports Of the products of the labor of this commun-
ity of $500 men, women and children, in the form
Of coal and manufactured goods, is SJO00OO
er annu, or more than the entire exports of agri-
cultural produce of any county the river.
The site of Tell City in April last a solitary
farm aud forest; and it has now population of
2OOo- There are ut0 young ,enterprising and
getc 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
tend Tell City to CanBelton, and they will become
one large city, and cover all the intervening lands
Rut, Independent of the fate of Tell City, the
tabished prosperity of Cannelton is enough to give
great future value to the property here offered for
sale II has been plotted into large house lots the
most remote Of which not 5000 yards distant
from the factory. and the centre of the of Can
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 tV the highest bidder.
bt another n
favorable to make investments in that vicinity as
the property is nearly all held by companies who
will not sell except single lots actual settlers, and
1T high prices. The advance in property in that
vicinity has been steady and unprecedented. Lots
that six years ago sold for 500, have been sold
Gently for 81 900 Land bought ten years az, for Sl5
er acre, has been soldt his year for $500 per acre
TERMS OF SALE:
One fourth in cash the balance in one, two
three AMI four years. If the purchaser shall make
some substantial improvements to his lots in buill-
ings within year the credit the notes will be
cXtcded to four years.
IGLEHEART & Antilles.