The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-06-25
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Akron, Colorado, has probably
within the past three years experience
ell the most rapid as well as the most
healthy growth of any city in the
west. II is surrounded by a country
unsurpassed by any on earth for the
richness and fertility Of its soil and
the beauties Of its climate. Any, and
everything that can be raised in
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana or. Ohio can
here be grown in the greatest profu-
sion. Wheat grown in the near vi,
nifty, Of Akron, tooka diploma for
being the best grain Of the kind ex~
hibited at the Nebraska State fair,
held at Lincoln, in September. 1889.
And all crops grown 10 this latitude
can be raised here as successfully as
anywhere on earth.
GOVERNMENT LAND. #
There are vet thousands of acres of
government land vacant, which can
be taken under the homestead. pre-.
emption and timber culture acts,
which a person can have for the tak>
ing. A bountiful government will
make you independent. il a few years
II you will but act now. The sur.
lace of the country is nearly per-
feet level, but still sloplng enough
to afford good drainage. No breaks
or draws such as ruin or deface so
many western farms. No protracted
struggle with rocks. Your first glance
at the country would remind you of
one vast meadow, only waiting the
pillow of the husbandman to trans.
form it into an Eden OF beauty and
producliveness.
The citizens advertising committee
Of Akron have placed in the hands
OF the West Side Improvement Cons
papy, one thousand city lots that are
to be given away for advertising
purposes. and any person who will
aid them in advertising their adyan-
tages can have one Of these lots FREE
OF CHARGE by directing a commune
cation to j. FAEHSDBIcH, Sec'y at
Akron, Colorado, and sending him
the names of ter people who are inc
terested in the west, and liable to be
looking for a western location and
sending four cents in stamps for re-.
turn of deed. These lots are now
worth from $50 TO SIPS, and will,
in the course Of a year, if the pre-.
dictions of knowing ones prove true,
be worth four times what is now ask
ed for them. 1t is an opportunity
never before offered to secure an
ABSOLUTE TITLE to piece of pros
perry in an enterprising and grove
ing western city.
The lots referred TO are 25x132
feet IN size and all the streets upon
which they abut are GO and so feet
wide. They are in what is known
as "GlenSood," an Akron, Colorado,
suburb, aud the citizens commi tee
through Mr.. Faehndrich. It's Seer,
guarantees them TO be smooth, level
and upon slightly elevation, over
looking the town of Akron. The
title is also guaranteed to be ABso-
LUTELY PERFECT
Akron contains q set of business
men who are aliYe to her advantages
as well rs her interests, and this year
$4,000 is being expended by them
10 induce people looking for a vests
ern loca ion 10 settle amongst them.
They want and are determined to
have $4,000 people in this city by
1895.
They want laborers in their coal
mines, they want capitalists to de-
yelope their silver and gold mines.
Akron is today the largest and
most prosperous city In the state
east Of Denver. Il is q division sta
ton Of the b. 4 N. R'y ami is the
southern terminus Of the Akron 4
Holyoke Ry, which will, in all pro
liability, be built 10 Colorado Springs
in the near future. Akron is in the
line ofthe Northwestern X. X. build.
ing into Denver, and il Is sure to
catch il, and the Beaver Valley
branch Of the B. Il NJ. will also be
built 10 Akron. The B l. NJ. shops
are there and material is now on the
ground to greatly enlarge them.
Toe railroad employ $50 men at that
point now. The city is and will be
the railroad center Of that portion
Of the state. The population Is now
/ nearly two thousand aud by January
FIRST next, they believe il will lie s..
600. A United States land Office
was recently located at that point
which means much 10 that city. IL
will bring every settler upon the
public domain in that section 10 that
city. Il will be. and is, head. quarters
for land seekeTa for that entire pors
ton Of the state.
COLORADO EXCURSIONS.
On May Goth. and in June ex.