The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-07-09
Valuable Property for Sale,

FENiE Gnde-.igued offers lor sale lis EcE-e Far ron
Il sstIng of near 1900 acres. besides ether lands in
L. Sale and Livingston county, IT,, whca vii sen
Ve-y low for cash onzb- term. on .ho-t or
long time, TO men who vii make homes CT The Iand
I for themselves.
Will eel IN any quantity from forty acres up 10 AL
have.
IS to the quality Of nv home farm there no, sin,
gle oflant no; ct for the plough on tn. va.e Oft,
is thero single - upon whc there not one or
frsm which almost every single foot of the res, Of
! the eighty may be seen AZ glance.
The oii consists mixture corng.ri o. r.va,,ht.
matter decompOsed marine substances, AWAY. light
and from 20 to - inehe. in debih the hgLes; paris
| OF the farm.
sITCATI8N.
Us situation i, in The midst 81 the great wheat
the gently undu'ang prairie sls miles east Of the
nexhaustible cosfeld.. The nearest portion OF The
| farm is within four miles Of them.
RAILROADS.
1t is off easy to she Island railroad and
the Chicago, Alton and St. railroad The A1.-
lean Central railroad is nov being completed which
has located depot within four miles OF the nearest
portion Of the farm.
The Peru and Fort Wayne +. Il. will locate a depo,
road will locate depot within two and half mil
the Gaena Branch OF the Ill. Central r r. is also with,
| Canal is reached 1T a distance OF thirteen miles.
STATE AND COUNTY ROADS.
The state Road leading from DAMN Ottawa runs
along two Sides OF it, The county leading from
lion coal fields, which high as seventy coal
teams in a single day, have been counted runs along
unit! T. Z. is built along this line will he
sure fortune TO entorpising man to keen public
/ house 70. the accommodation of the travel.
A beautiful elevation large enough for house barn
orchard lots, dc, &c, is situated an this road
Other laid and travelled feet wide are so
located that il should sell emily so acres to each man
public road would touch his snd at side nr ano-
ther, and yet may SELL 81 of section $50 acres
without any road going through it.
There are two steam Touring mills within ten miles
| and good water mill within six The latter has n
saw mill in connection with it.
| APPEARANCE OF TIE FARM AND GENERAL As
PfCc OF THE COUNTRY AROUND.
Being situated on the high prairie my ground, and
buildings can be seen from any point of the compass
from ten to thirty miles IA the beholder stands in
my front yard and takes survey of the horizoa ar
ound he will lock upon yne OF the most beautiful love
~ and even grand landscapes to be found upon the face
| of the earth
The vastndss of the view taking in more than mil
lion acres, composed mostly of rolling prairie dotted all
with farm houses, plated groves wayinr corr
and lowing herds inrumerable intersne,.ed re- ~,
there with long lines of timbsr dearling in the shade f
which the clear waters of the streams now moving in
| silent beauty over the bright pebbly bad and anon
dsehing its spray alo decends some rugged rand
on its way to the Illinois, all taken together lis Ike il
found nowhere slse.
| SOCIETY SETTLEMENT.
Mine the first Improvement begun upon the high
prairie ten years since, with only some half dozen rr
houses visible in the distance Now perhaps more than
va hundred farm houses, besides three four villages
! nestle in planted groves.
In our Immediate vicinity have good school with
upwards of sixty children Of age go to school n
church, organized some five since of the Conrre
gatienal petty, numbering ab, ut sixty membrrs
and having regular preaching by minister they love
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE FARM.
1t is now divided into about fifteen fields besides
small lots; has also some five miles of Usage Orange
hedge, of different and degree perectnes. some
six eight tenant houses some of them better than
most OF us we're born in, and all comfortable.
Ny dwelling, built nine years ago. OF good material
two stories, not large. barn built las year 40 fact
square, 16 feet posts and other stable room for sixty
| horses and cattle -
Two hundred apple trees of all ages from those co,
ont last spring to those bearing fruit
About 800 acres in cultivation and tame grass
Besides other lands in this and Livingston countv
would call particular attention the followny ,r.c;.
"A acres timber land, six miles below Ottaw, in ,h
town of Deer Park which Will sell in lots to suit pur
chasers.
100 land on the vornlion, upon one end of
which good farm of 120 acres might be made This
too will sell altogether in lots those who wi.b 10
buy This lot has nearly complete good fence around
it, 100 OF timber and brush and the coal
the county road leading from New Michigan to Ott.vs
and within 100 rods OF good water grst and
saw mill.
100 acres, upon which is located the depo. of the
American Central r. r., sixteen miles east of its un
tion with the l. c. r. r. 100 this land il laid
OF into village lots and portion them sold This
village located in Livingston co., half way between
the l. c. X. X. and the c., A. NJ. r. r. in the mJ.t
of a I, rifle and well settled region Of country
16O acres within one and quarter miles of another
depot. the A. c. r. r., and within six miles OF two !
stations on the c., A. & R.R. ~"
For further nforua tion apply tho premises to the
undersigned, or 70 = W. CHEEVER
Mp; Calm. 03'''a
J. W0LyERToNl
NJ. ID. COLLINS. \
Ottawa, on the r. l. X. H., and Pontiac on the c., A.
NJ T. R.. will be the most convenient places to stop
for those wishing to examine the land.
Bruce, July 0, 1889. WILLIAM STRAwN. !