Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-08-21
TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS
LONG CuEDIT AND AT Low PRICES.
MECHANICS. FARMERS AND WORKING ME

MECHANICS, FARMERS AND WORKING MEN.
the Community directed to the following statements and b
ersl Inducements offered them by the
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY,
which, they will perceive, will enable them, by proper
gy and industry provide comfortable per
manent homes for themselves and families, with, comparatively
speaking, very little capital.
LANDS OF ILLINOIS.
State Valley Of Mississippi offers 80 great an
inducement the settler the State of Illinois There
soil 80 admirably combine to produce those two cre stpeS
CORH and WExAT, as the Prairies Of Illinois
RICH ROLLING PRAIRIE LANDS.
The deep rich lean Of the praiies cultivated with such
deru facility that Eastern and Middle States
moving to Illinois in great nunbers The Of Illinois
ii viii support twenty millions Of people.
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS.
These contiguous railroad 700 miles in length
which with other roads, and navgabe lakes and
e thus sOrng unbroksn communication wi the Eastern
and southern markets.
APPLICATION OF CAPITAL
Thus far csPia and labor have been applied developing
soil The great Of the State in ceal and
untouched The invabe rule that the mechanic dours
best where food and fuel cheapest will follow at early
raj laws and necessities OF the warrant the belief that
least Eve hundred thousand people will be engaged the State
Of Illinois in the various manufacturing employments.
RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS.
Over Of private capital have been expended
the railroad system Of Illinois InAsmuch part Of the in
lands 20 diminish the Expenses, the TAXES ARE
LIGHT, and must cVnseque ntly every day decrease.
THE STATE DEBT.
The Stats only aO,IG539s A. within the Ia
hres years reduced may reason.
ably expect that in ten years it will become extinct.
PRESENT POPULATION.
ne STATE s5 rd s5s AEs & g5 Ea PGPq1n . Pi5
ton 1885, ratio Of le2 per cent in 10 years.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
The Agricultural Products Of Illinois greater than those
e4 tuna TSe wheat crop Of $50 approseSes
Of bushels while the corn crop yields not less than
l4o'Oc'OOO bushels vrRr111rv or soT1.
Nowhere the industrious farmer such mmediaere
posed deep, loam the fertility of which unsurpassed
by any on the globe.
TO ACTUAL oULTIvAToRs.
a. aco 1854 the 5ompdRy hGVe sold I,3OOs Os0CO
They sell only to actual clUaOys and eUe'Y contract
tGtns agreement to egde The road has been construct
ed t4roEgA these tands or an eSpeHSe ~ S3O!OO0 600;
In 1850, the population Of oreyiSe co1Eties through
1ost I = FaSSss J y0s ~ Sos gs,
gain Of l43 per cent
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY.
As evidence OF the thrift OF the people, may be stated hA
coo 900 tuns Of freight including s6O00 bushels grain
and barrels Of four forwarded over the line last
year -..
Mechanics and Workingmen will fnd NE free school system
the support Of schools Their children live in night Of the
church and shoo houses and grow up with the prosperity efths
lesding State in the Great Western Empire.
PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT.
The prices Of these lands from Sc to S25 per acre, a
cording location, quality, &c Frscaas farming lands
s for about $40 per acre. the relative expense Of
subduing prairie land compared with wood land is IN ratio OF
70 10 in favor OF formr The OF sale for the bulk
Of the lands viii be
ONE YEARS INTEREST IN ADVANCE
per and six inter notes at six per eeut,
payable respectively in one, two, three, four fve and
from Of sale and four fer principal payable in four,
Ave- six and years from date Of sae the contract spu
ang Of the purchased shall be fenced and
cultivated every year. years from the date Of
sale that at cf five shouldbe fenced and
under cultivation.
TWENTY PER GENT WILL BE DEDUCTED
from the valuation for cash. except the same shoud be at SIX
Pamphlets descriptive Of the lands climate productions
prices and terms OF payment be had application
J. ". FOSTER, Land Commissioner,
Illinois Central Railroad,
Chicago, Illinois,
For the the towns Villages and Cities situated upon
the Illinois Central Railroad pages IS5. IS9, $780, Apple
ton Railway Guide
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