The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-30

AND RURAL ENJOYMENTS
OF ALL KINDS.
COOPERATIVE HOMESTEAD AS
ISOLATION FOR WASHINGTON
CLERKS AND OTHERS.
We offer some of the finest locations for farms
Gnston Hall, within easy reach of Washing
ton The new steamb boat, "Mary Washington"
with capacity TO carry five hundred passengers,
will leave this point each morning and once
later in the day, returning here at night. BY
this arrangement parties doing business in the
city will be able to reach Washington before
business hours in the morning. Persons who
wish to visit the city can do SO twice daily at
very cheap rates. Milk, fresh fruit, and all
products of the farm will be promptly carried
to market
A COOPERATIVE HOMESTEAD Asso-
CITATION is being organized to meet the wants
of such as need aid in building homes especially
for those in the civil service.
A VILLA SITE IS LAID OUT ON THE
HIGHLANDS NEAR GUNsTON
HALL.
Lots are from one to five acres including every
variety of slope, situation, and soil. Many fine
old fruit and shade trees are scattered over it,
The streets are wide and can be easily i'm
proved. Ample reservations for parks and
public buildings have been made. These lots
are offered at low price TO only those who will
improve them.
NO SPECULATION BY NON-REsIDENTs,
BUT ALL ARE TO SHARE IN THE
GENERAL ADVANCE OF
PRICES BY IMPROVE
BY various cooperative expedients, such as
a laundry, bakery, dairy, woodward, &C., the
expense of living can be reduced one half, at
least to one-half below city rates. GOOD
SCHOOLS will be maintained. A LIBRARY
AND READING will be organized,
with access to all the new publications.
NO LIQUOR WILL BE SOLD ON THE
PREMISES, AND THAT'S A CON-
DITIoN IN EVERY DEED.
1t is designed to make IONA an attractive
place to intelligent and refined families who
would value its beautiful scenery, fruit, fishing,
boating. and especially the proximity and ready
access to the privileges ard enioyments of the
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
FARMS oFANY DESIRABLE SIZE FROM
30 TO 100 ACRES OR MORE, CAN
BE BOUGHT IN THE VICINITY
AT FROM $40 TO $50
PER ACRE
These farms are adapted 10 fruit-growing
trucking and dairying, and are well watered and
timbsred. The soils are various but good, and
where they are worn are readily restored by
the nse of lime and plaster. Glover or other
green crops plowed in, and the abundant beds
of mari near, furnish cheap means of fertlizing
Proximity to large bodies of water renders
this location unsurpassed for fruit.
THE PEACH CROP HAS NOT FAILED
FOR THIRTY YEARS.
The Apple, Pear, Peach. Ounce, Apricot.
Cherry, Grape, all the small fruits, and vegeta
bles of all kinds, succeed we'll.
Dairy ing, raising of Poultry, early Lambs,
and Truck Crops all prove remuneratiVe.
With such inducements we ask everybody to
come and see our location before going West
We confidently assert that
THE LANDS AROUND IONA ARE THE
CHEAPEST IN THE WORLD,
considering quality and location.
The climate is healthy and especially adapted
to consumptives Or other pulmonary invalids.
To all good men and women who would like
| to cooperate in building up community in
which the best education will be iostered, social
life in its best forms realized, with all limo
cent recreations possible in the country, where
rural pursuits and enioyments would have
their bestscope and opportunity, We extend @
| cordial welcome.