The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-02-17
jackson County Land for Sale"--
"VVhat's the Nlatter?'

FRIEND MACKLEY II have 400 acres Of land,
in one body, for sale, in section 16 of Jackson
township, in your county 1t is in good
neghborhood, is well timbcred and pretty we'll
watered. The tract could be subdivided, so as
| to make five ice farms for as many clever young
Jackson county boys. paid SO per acre, cash,
for that land, fifteen years ago, before the NJ. &
| G. railroad was built within two miles of ii,
where the ro ad now is, and before RaysYile was
made port Of entry on that road. l have ad-
VorIised those lands for sale, some three or four
years steadily, in your paper, offering them at
lower price, per acre, than any other lands in
the township have sold at, within that time
They are yet for sale.
Now, why do these lands, so eligible for many
purposes, and so well situated, drOg2 Since
purchased them, many lusty young man Jack
son county born, has gone to his long account,
among strangers, via. the IN iasmatlc plains and
valleys of THE West, turning his back on the
health-breathing and mineral-te eming hills of
his native shire. Since have advertised them,
thousands OF acres have changed hands, in the
county, and in their immediate neighborhood at
from $40 to $50 per acre. A great railroad has
been completed, with in half-hour's walk north
of them, gone into bankruptcy twice, and been
resuscitated q third time Since purchased
them the population Of the State and county
have more than doubled great rebellion has
been put down, and universal freedom estab-
lishcd throughout our Republic 1t must be
that, for Il salesman / was born In the wrong
time of the moon.
And now, new railway is projected to run
close to these lands Qrom South Point and the
Atlantic at Norfolk, to our State Cap ital,) for
the tielng of which possibly every stick of tim
Der on said tract may be needed. A hrst-clsss
blast furnace company have erected their char
ring kilns " lthiu less than three miles of the
tract, and want 10 purchase lt,though st lower
price than viii accept, for their use In the fu-
ture. No better lte for q new plg-iron charcoal
furnace can he ulnd in the State, than on the
NJ. & Q. road, 2 miles due northwnrd from my
land And yet with all these advantages and
prospects the lands have not sold County,
State and nelghborhood roads lead every way to
and from them. R0BERT MASON, ESQ.,, one of
the best farmers and citizens OF your cnterpris-
Ing county, owns the hnd on the north and east
Ofmy tract and will dispose OF his ut low l5-
ures, on account of Increasing ears anticipating
very old age, as constitutional result of living
so long In that locality
| Please take my advertisement therefore
| the 400 acres of section 49, jackson township
jackson county, out of your Want" column.
| for, as the Mary landers say, Nobody don't want
| it. fer no price nor nothing" The taxes are
all paid up, and believe on the tenth rein
! spectlon of the land, that II is good piece to
keep for retirement In my carly old age Un-
! like friend Mason, desire to live as long as
Nm allowed.
! Put this in your paper. and make up all my
advertising bill as low as you can afford to an
old editor and will honestly pay IL the first
! good turn make. As for the STANDARD"
must have that continued, as usual, to the ad-
dIess or Yours very truly,
FeG,11, 20. SENFCA w. ELY,
Box 5000, Cincinnati P o.
P.S. If any body should happen TO want tina t
land badly, / uOUH part with It, between now
and Aplll l. 1870, at IS per acre q cash, n In
one year, and Ii In two years--the last two paw
ments with per cent per Ounum interest. Tit 10
clear and indlsputable. S.W.E