Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-18
Garden state Of the West.
TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARD.
LONG CREDIT AND AT Low PRICES

MECHANICS, FARMERS AND WORKING MEN.
The attention Of the prisng and industrious portion
the Community Is directed 70 the following staments and ms
srsl Inducements offered them BY the
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY,
which they peTceive will enable them BIZ proper ener
o. and Industry provide cofortabs and per
nHnent homes for themselves and families, with, comparatively
speaking, very little espitaI.
LANDS OF HLIEoIs.
No State in the Valley Of the Mississippi Offers great
inducement to the settler the State Of Illinois There
portion Of the world where all Ofthe conditions Of climate
ooRN and WHEAT, as the Prares Of Illinois.
RIoH ROLLING PRAIRIE LANDS.
The deep rich lean OF the prares cultivated with won
moving to Illinois plumbers The area Of Illinois
about equal to that Of England, and the soil rich thai
1t viii support twenty millions Of people.
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS.
These lands contiguous raIroad 700 miles in length
which with other reads and naygsbe lakes nv
thus aordingan unbrOken communication with he Eastern
APPLICATION OF CAPITAL .l
Thus capital and labor lave sppied developing
soil the great Of the Ssen almost
untouche The nvarabe the mechanic arts flourish
best where food and fuel cheapest follow at an early
day in illinois, and in the Of the years nsu-
raj laws and necessities Of the warrant the belief that
thousand people engaged in the
OF Illinois in the various manufacturing enploynents.
RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS.
Over 500 0OO Of private capital expended on
come from several Of these works with valuable public und
lands, 90 diminish the State Expenses the TAXES RE-
LIGHT and must, consequently. every day decrease
THE STATE DEBT.
three years hss been reduced co. and we nav
ably sTlsct that in ten years will become extinct
PRESENT POPULATION.
The State rapidly hEg with PopuatisR S63 96 per
sons having s5 making present pOpuls
ton l,7I9, ,4O6-S ratio Of lo2 per cent in 10 years
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
The Agricultural Products Of Illinois greater tha2 those
any other The Products during past yesr
sIcaed OOO09 tuns The wheat crop Of 1850 approaches
900 sf bushels while the crop yields eE than
FERTILITY OF SOIL. l-
Nowhere the industrious farmer such immeaere
us for his labor upon these prairie soils they being
posed Of deep, rich los the fertility Of which unsurpassed
By any on the globe.
TO ACTUAL oULTIvAroRs.
SRoe 1854 tie SOngpGny haze sold 100000 acres.
agrasezs cataats Zs road as been construed
cd hiroEg6 these Ian4s Of an espse Of $4,000 O00.
iOAsc passes toGs ong 9s since t0Iis6 479,2SS
AGUs been added mating tAs anhOIs population sI4,se1-
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY.
s9'S ,S,s & ne thrift dfsSa Fl Rsy 9ss! si 's 81 s
barrels Of fOur, forwarded the line
year.
Mechanics and Workngmen will and the free school system
encouraged By the State and endowed with large
church md and grow M with the prositv ofths
lsading State in the Great Western Empire.
PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT.
The prices Of these lands from Sc to $25
cordng location, quality, &c Frstelass farming lands
sell for about SO S2 per and the relative expense Of
subdung prairie SBd compared with wood land h in ratio Of
to 10 favor Of the fsnsr The terms Of Sals for the bulk
Of the lands will be
ONE YEARS INTEREST IN ADVANoN
A SIX per and int crest notes six per cent
payable respectively in three four ave, years
from date Of sale and four notes for principal psyase in four
ave- six and from date Of sale; the contract spu
lsng that tenth Of the tract purchased shall be fenced and
cultivated each and every year. for Eve years from the date Of
sale that a. the end Of Eve years half should be fenced and
under cultivation.
TWENTY PER CENT WILL BIZ DEDUCTED
from the valuation for cash, except the should be at dx
dollars per acre, when the cash price will behye dollars.
Pamphlets descriptive OF the lands SOIL climate productions
prices, and terms Of payment be had spp eaon
J. W. FOSTER, Land Commissioner,
Illinois Central Railrosd,
Chicago, illinois,
Tor the Of the towns Villages Cities situated upon
the Illinois Central Railroad pages 49, lS9 lgO Apple
toni Railway Guide.
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