Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-08-06
TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS
LONG CREDIT AND. ar Low PRICES.
MEoHAN1cs, FARMRRs AND WORKING MEN.

MECHANICS, FARMERS AND WORKING MEN.
The attention OF the enerprsing and industrious portion Of
the directed to the following statements and Hb
eral inducements offered them by the ~. t-- s-.r
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY,
which, they will perceive, will enable them, BY proper sner.
perseverance, and industry to provide comfortable and per
speaking, very little capital.
LANDS OF ILLINOIS.
No State in the Valley Mississippi offers great
inducement the settler the State Of Illinois There
portion Of the world where all Ofthe conditions climate
soil admirably combine produce those two great staples,
oORH and RHkkT, the Pr2iries OF Illinois.
RICH ROLLING PRAIRIE LANDS
The deep rich loan the prsire cultivated with such
derful facility that the farmers Of the Eastern End Middle States
moving to Illinois in great Dqnbs.s The area Of Illinois
It will support twenty millions Of people.
r EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS.
These lands contiguous railroad 700 miles in length
which with other roads, and navgabe lakes and y
es AGordngsn unbroken Communication with the Eastern
and Southern markets.
APPLICATION OF CAPITAL
Thus capita have applied to developing the
untouched The nvariabe that the mechanic flourish
best where food and fuel cheapest will follow at early
raj laws OF the warrant the belief that at
hundred thousand people will be engaged in the State
OF Illinois in the various manufacturing empoynsnts'
RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS.
Over Of private capital have been expended on
come from several Of these works With valuable public fund
lands, 20 diminish the State Expenses the TA4Es ARE
Tar
THE STATE DEBT.
The State Debt only SIO05 393 A. and within the Ia q
three years m been reduced SO and We msy reason
ably expect hat in ten years will become extinct
PRESENT POPULATION.
The State Is rapidly hlEg up with RoPoistOE sCO per
gon 495-s ratio Of lO2 per cent in 10 years.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
The Agricultural Of Illinois greater than those
Sed tuns The wheat crop Of 1860 spproacAes
900 bushels while the crop yields not less than
l4O,OOO'OOO bushels vvvr1, 1rv ov SON.
Nowhere can the industrious such immediate
posed deep rich loa the fertility of whiehis unsurpassed
BY any on the globe
TO ACTUAL oULTIvAToRs.
Since 1854 the fompdsy haze sold 100000 acres,
They sell only TO actual c0GOrs and eoeTy contract con
dgssesto cirate zhe road has oeSH e0astrges
cd Through taese lands Of an eSpense % 10000 O0O;
In 1850, the population Of yo1tynfae eotasfes tTot9A
hdOe added, making tie sOhOSs population s14,s91-
gain Of l43 per cent.
EyIDENCRso or PROSPERITY
sO9O0O tuns Of freight including eOo6O bushels Of grain
and barrels Of -four were forwarded over the line last
year.
Mechanic. workngmen will find the free school system
the support Their children live in sight Of the
church and and grow up with the prosperity efh'
leading State in the Great Western Empire
PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT.
The prices Of these lands vary from 50 to s25 per acre &C.
OoEdng to location 9Taty &c s Sc aslnS ~
subdung prairie land compared with wood land IN ratio o
10 in favor Of the former The terms Of sale for the bulk
Of the lands will be
ONE YEARS INTEREST IN ADVANCE
At six per annum crest notes at six per cent
payable respectively in three, four hVe and six yart
from date of and four fer principal payable in four
Eve six and years from date of sae the contract spu
sng tenth of the tract purchased shall be fenced and
cultivated every year. i've from the date Of
SALE that at the end Of i've one half fenced and
under cultivation.
TWENTY PER CENT WILL BE DEDUCTED
the valuation for cash. except the sane should be at 1
dollars per acre when the cash price will dollars.
Pamphlets scrptve Of the lands soil, climate productions
prices and terms OF payment be had pplicaont
J. W. FOSTER, Land Commissioner
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago, Illinois,
For the the towns Villages and Cities situated
the Illinois Central Railroad pages 49, le9, 100, Apple
toms Railway Guide
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