The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-28
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Akron, Colorado, has probably
within the past three years experience.
ed the most rapid as well as tho most
healthy growth of any city in the
west. 1t is surrounded by q coa.try
unsurpassed by any on earth for tho
richness and fertility of it's sol aud
the beauties Of its climate. ANY, md
everything that can be raised in
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana or Ohio Gun
here be grown in the greatest ptofu-
sion. Wheat grown in the near vi.
cinity of Akron, took 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 in this latitude
can be raised here as successfully as
on earth.
GOVERNMENT LAND.
There are vet thousands of acres of
government land vacant, which eau
be taken under the homestead, pre-.
and timber culture acts,
which a person can have for the tax,
ing. A bountiful government will
make you independent in few y, ars
il you will but act now. The SUR
face of the country is nearly q per.
feet level, but still sloping enough
to afford good drainage. No breaks
or draws such an ruin or dsfac. so
many western farms. No protracted
struggle with rocks. Your first glance
at the country would remind you Vi
one vast meadow, only waiting the
pillow of the husbandman to trans.
form it into an Eden Of beauty and
productiveness.
The citizens advertising commute
of Akron have placed in tho hands
of the West Side Improvement CONS
pany, 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 commun.
cation to j. FAEHNDRIcH, Ssc'y ut
Akron, Colorado, and sending him
the names of ten people who are il.
terested in the west, and liable TO be
looking for western location and
sending four cents in stamps for le
turn of deed. These lots are now
worth from $50 TO 1925, and will,
in the course of a year, if the pre-.
dictions of knowing ones prove tue,
be worth four times what Is now ask.
ed for them. II is an opportunity
never before offered to secure an
ABSOLUTE TITLE to a piece of PRO.
perry in an enterprising and grows
ing western city.
The lots referred to are 25A 1872
feet In size and all the streets UPON
which they abut are 60 and 80 feet
wide. They are In what is known
as "Glenwood," an Akron, Colorado,
suburb, and the citizens COMM tee
through Mr.. Faehndrich. It's S,c'y,
guarantees them to be smooth, level
and upon slightly elevation, over
looking the town of Akron. The
title is also guaranteed to be LBso-
LUTELY PERFECT.
Akron contains q set Of business
men who are aliye to her advantages
as we'll as her interests, and this year
$4,000 is being expended by them
to induce people looking for q west.
ern location to settle amongst th, M.
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 DO.
velope their silver and gold mines.
Akron is TO day the largest aud
meet prosperous city in the stats
east of Denver. Il is q division Eta.
ton Of the B. l. NJ. R'y and Is the
southern terminus Of the Akron 4
Holyoke R'y, which will, in all pro
liability, be built 10 Colorado Springs
in the near future. Akron Is 10 the
line ofthe Northwestern r. r. build.
ing into Denver, and IL il sure to
catch il, and the Beaver Valley
branch Of the B. 4 NJ. will also DO
built TO Akron. The B. & N. slo,.s
are there and material is now on the
ground to greatly enlarge them.
The 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 and by January
iirst next, they believe il will tc g..
900. A United States land tffice
was recently located at that point
which means much TO that city. IL
will bring every settler upon the
public domsin in that section TO that
city. 1t will be, and is, headquarters
for land seekera for that entire l.or.
ton Of the state.
COLORADO EXCURSIONS.
On May Goth, and In June or.
cursions will be run from all points
Of the east and south 10 Akron. The
rate will be one fare for the ruud
trip, over the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific from Chicago and inte' me.
date points, and over the Miss, uti
Pacific from st. Louis and the s, 9TH,