Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-10
TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS
LONG CREDIT AND AT LOw~PHTcES

MECHANICS, FARMERS AND WORKING HEN.
The attention psng and industrious portion Of
the community is directed the following statements and lib
eral inducements offered them by the
ILLIEOIs CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY,
which as they will perceive will enable them, by proper
gy and industry provide comfortable and
speaking, EssY Ettle capital
LANES CT ILLINOIS.
No Stats the Valley Of the Mississippi osyB 60 great
the settler the State Of illinois fhErs IL
soil SO admirably combine to produce two great staples
Coax and WHRAT, as the Pr2iries Of Illinois.
RICH ROLLING PRAIRIE LANDS.
lean the praes is cultivated with such won
deru facility that the e Of the Eastern and Middle States
it will support twenty millions Of people.
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS.
These contiguous railroad 700 miles in length
which with other Eosds and naYigbie lakes and NV
er afordng unbroken pnicaton with The Eastern
and Southern markets
APPLICATION OF CAPITAL
Thus far capita labor hsys been applied to developing the
uptouched The nvaEabe rule that the MECHANIC flourish
where food and fuel cheapest will follow Ct early
raj necessities OF the warrant the bsliaf that
hundred thousand people will engaged in the State
OF Illinois in the various manufacturing employnents
RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS.
Over SIoO @ GO Of private capital have been expended
come iron sesera Of these For5 With valuable public fund
lands 20 to dnis the stas ETPsnss' the TAXES ARE
THE STATE DEBT.
The State Debt is only sluo5 :6 81 a. and within the Ia
ably rx,sCt tat ten years it will become extinct
PRESENT POPULATION.
The State rasdy nrg up With population e6s O26 per
sons having been snee sO SAn we present PoPua
ton l,?I9, ,i9S-a ratio Of lO2 per cent in lOye4rs
AGRIOULTURAL PROJECTS.
The Agricultural Products Of Illinois ere greater than those
exceeded I5OOUO0 The wheat crop Of 1860 approaches
Of bushels, while the corn crop yields not less than
FERTILITY OF SOIL.
Nowhere can industrious such immediseFe
suits for his labor as upon prairie Soils they being
posed deep c5 Oam the fertility Of which is unsurpassed
By any the globe.
TO ACTUAL oULTIvAToRs.
- Since 1884 tie company hare sold 100000 deres
They Se only actual igdsOr8. and ecey contract con
cd through these lands Of sspesS af $4,000 OOO
"a 1880, tie DopuLat0a Of L9ggaiHs e4t.sI<s .IyS12s
hdUs been added making Ihe sOhOe population SI4,S91-
a gain Of l43 per coHt
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY.
Agsn Evidence Of he thrift the peoPs, may be stated tha
600 tuns OF freight incglrg s6OOOO bushels ef grain
and barrels OF four were forwarded GVr ne line last
year. -
Mechanics and Eorngmsn will Gnd the free school system
ENCOURAGED y the State and endowed large for
the support Ct schools Therchdren live in sgt Of the
church and sehoohouse and gro" up with he prosperity eths
leading State in the Great Western Empire.
PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT.
Ine PI sus c FiSstc1sss fsrmins lands
sell for about sl0or S9 Fr acre. and the relative expense
Fubdung Wooa
10 10 IN favor Of the former The tyS Of sse for the bulk
Of the lEadR will be
one YAAB's INTEREST IN ADVANCE
AT nix per anpuH aHd notes st six per cent,
payable respectively in two, ee four hVe ana SIX years
from date sale and four notes fer principal payable in four
ave- six snd seven years from date o sae me spu
ang tenth Of the tract purchased shall be fenced and
cultivated each and every er for i've years from the dse o
sale at the end Of Eve yssTs kouldb fenced and
under cultivation.
TWENTY PER CENT WILL BE DEDUCTED
the valuation for cash. except the should be at SIX
when the cash price will be hTe dollars
Pamphlets scrptive Of the lAnds soil climate productions,
pric-s enc terms payment be had sppcationo
J. ". FOSTER, Land Commissioner
Illinois Central Railroad,
Chicago Illinois
For the Of the towns Villages G3 Cities situated upon
the Illinois Central Railroad pages 1885, l5S, l, Apple
ton g Railway Guide.
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