The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-05-18

information Abou, Clayvi,Ic.

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Information About C.ayvUIc.
by NOSE SKINNER.
Mr.. Editor In reply to numerous
inquiries as to the best locality for em:
grafton, the establishing of soldiers homes,
cheap farms for the laboring Classes, etc,
l am happy TO inform you that ClayviIle
Is the best place III the world. A com
pany has been formed on strictly religious
and mpral principles, called the "Puri-
tanlcai CtayvilIe Colony Association"
with a sole view of helping the poor, ard
providing them with homes, at immense
pecuniary loss to the company
The company is composed of twenty
of the highest toned ard most liberal
minded philanthropists on the continent
men who having by honesty and hard
labor accumulated fortune, propose 20
spend the remainder of their lives in be-
slowing it freely upon those who have not
been 50 fortunate themselves.
With this noble object in view, they
have laid out seventy thousand acres Of
land in Clayville, the oasis of America.
The fist proposition was to give this land
away III lots 10 suit the recipients; but it
was decided to sell it at nominal price
In order TO promote frugality amongst the
| laboring classes-the probability being,
that after man has paid for all his land
the money will be refunded TO him, with
the benediction of the twenty high toned
! gontiemen alluded to above. They have
I appointed sole agent for the sale of
those lands, which Is full guarantee of
the respectabiiity Of the company, and
which cannot fail TO impart to the entire
! community feeling Of the staunchest con
fiIence in the enterprise.
Tue following hastily prepared circular
may serve TO enIighten the public upon
what is destined to Le AN ali absorbing
! topic:
! Clayyille is located ON the outskirts Of
} Oregon, the garden spot of America.-
+ Over two hundred and twenty -srven men
have already bought farms there, and
one hundred and seventeen families are
( packed up ready TO move out there as
soon de the rent Of their present tenements
become due. Forty five lectorers, troupe
OF negro minstrels, and eleven boarding
houses will commence operations as soon
as Spring has fairly opened. There are
three good hotels, two churches, four
school houses, two post offices, five lager
! beer saloons, two sewing circles and a dol~
lar store, ali DOING good business.
A house Of seven rooms can be built
for eleven dollars aud forty couts inciud-
ing feather bed, four stuffed chairs in the
front room, scraper on the back door
step, and "a spitteon fer the use of guests.
Plenty of SOFT, untailing well water found
AT depth of six and three-tenth inches.
Plenty of wood can be cut without going
out of the front yard. Coal mines are
quite frequent. Barns and outhouses can
be built al cost Of one dollar and half
TO two dollars.
Climate delightful, air very bracing )
no fever and aSue, no boils, no delirium
lremcus. Moon Iises periodically, sets
regularly, and invariably matches out
something Winter short and warm :;
summers long and cool Game is abun-
dant, mostly deer and poker, Buffalo
grazing In back yard waiting to be killed.
Fruit abundant, turnips. bananas, sar-
dimes, etc, in Oriental prolusion. Roads
beautitul-just mud enough for comfort
soil seven toet deep, and rich and mellow.
a small boy aud mule can put in forty
acres of cora In one day needs no hocing
Oh lending. The boy can go of anywhere
he has mind TO, and rob birds nests, or
chew gum, or so fishing ey cry day, and
al The end Of the Fall there viii b. thirty
two bushels of nice corn ready te be
Knocked off the branches. a youth of
fourteen summers Can break up five acres
OF sward day, without holding the plow
at all, The soil is SO soft aud Welding
that the plow will travel through it Of It's
own accord; the boy can loaf round, or
slide down cellar, or do anything lie wants
to.
The yield of wheat is enormous one
man raised one hundred and ninetoep
bushels from "a single acre, and two hun
dred and thirty y-eight bushels from II mar
ried acre. Tue soil here is very produc'
tive. Where the potatoes have grown
with weak eyes, Eyeglasses have grown
beside them; and squash vines that are
too weak 10 climb, always get boosted.
Hens lay twice a day, with the ex-
ception Ot holidays and Sundays, and
ruosters are not as independent as IN Ne"
=, England they are willing to give the
old hen rest by sitting on the eggs hal
the time.
There is no sickness here of any kind
Such thing AS a graveyard is unknown
The only disease that has made It's ap
pearance is the potato rot; hui ii Is sas
: being exterminated by vaccination. Tbs
: cool breezes of evening invite refreshin.
sleep or small game of high ow-jack
in the kitchen. Vegetation needs m
e care. A fellow can plant his farm, an,
then 90 off and sit with his girl for 81:
months if he wants TO.
e Manhood develops early boy @
= sixteen has wiiskers all over his face