Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-30
Garden State OF the West.
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD
COMPANY
HAVE FOR SALE
100000 Acres
RICH FARMING LANDS,
TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS
LONG CREDIT AND AT Low PRICES.

| MECHANICS, FARMERS AND WORKING MEN
The prsng and industrious portion
the community following statements and lib
erSl inducements offered them by the
| ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY,
which, they will perceive, them, by proper ene
perseverance and industry to provide comfortable per
manent homes for themselves and families, with comparatively
| speaking, very little capital.
LANDS OF ILLINOIS,
No State in the Valley Of the Mississippi great an
to the settler as the State Of Illinois There
soil 90 admirably combine produce those two staples,
CORS and WHEAT, as the Pr2iries Of Illinois.
RICH BOILING PRAIRIE LANDS.
deru facility that tie Eastern and Middle Staes
are moving % limos n great numbers The area Of Illinois
il will support twenty millions Of people.
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS.
These lands contiguous railroad 700 in length
which connects with other roads, and nsvigAbe
es thus aHordngan unbroken with the Eastern
and Southern markets
APPLICATION OF CAPITAL.
Thus far capita and labor have been applied to developing the
soil the great resources Of the State iron are almost
untouched The nvsrabe mechanic arts flourish
best where food and fuel cheapest at an early
day Illinois, the next ten years the pat1
raj laws and necessities o. the that
least i've hundred thousand people will be engaged
Illinois in the various manufacturing empIoyElepts.
RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS
he Of Illinois as as part o @ Gn
conc from several Of these WORKS, With valuable public
lands go diminish the State Expenses the TAXES ARs
LIGHT, snd must, Consequently, every day decrease
THE STATE DEBT
Tss years has been reduced Sc and we nav 'PS 10 81
ably expect that In ten ysars it will become extinct.
PRESENT POPULATION.
sons having been added since 1850 making the present popGs
ton 1885, ratio Of lO2 per cent in 10 years.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
The Agricultural Products Of Illinois greater
OF any ether state The Products during pas year
exceeded j00Ug The wheat crop 1850
IS bushels while the crop yields less than
1'0''' DS- EEpTT1 r-v or sor1
Nowhere the industrious farmer such immediaere
suits for his labor these prairie Soils they being
By any on the globe.
TO ACTUAL oULTI7AToRs.
76ey SsV onig to Gctua ctrqsors and e1e cSatet CON
agreement euUas 7AeTOdd has been construct
h 1850 he population Of Tcrtp,siae co,St;ss roSS6
,Cic6 tOGs Olg 335,59s, since ,oisa, 479,29S
a gain Of I43 per cent.
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY
900 tuns of freight including 1000 bushels Of grain
and QUO barrels Of -four forwarded the line
EDUCATION
Mechanics and Workngmen will find the free school system
encouraged the State and endowed with large
the support Of schools Therchdren live in sight of the
leading State in the Great Western Empire
PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT.
The prices Of these lands vary from So $25 acre,
sell for about SIC or sa per- acre and the relative tEpsnse Of
ubsung prairie land compared with wood land ratio OF
Of the lands viii be
ONE YEARS INTEREST IN ADVANCE
snnum cent,
payable respectively one hree i've, years
from date of sale and eur notes for princps payable in four,
and years from date Of sale the stiDu
ang that tenth of the tract purchased shall he fenced and
cultivated each and for five years from the date Of
SALE that at the end Of Ave half should be fenced and
under cultivation.
TWENTY PER GENT WILL BE DEDUCTED
the valuation cash, except the should be
dollars per when the cash price will be dollars.
Pamphlets srPve of the lands SOIL climate productions,
prices, and Of payment, had application
J. W. FOSTER, Land Commissioner,
Illinois Central Railroad,
Chicago, Illinois
For the Of the towns Villages and Cities situated upon
the Illinois Central Railroad pages I66. lS9, $780, Apple
tons Railway Guide.
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