Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-05-30
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healthy growth Of any city in the
west, 1t is surrounded by coun,
try unsurpassed by any OH earth for
the richness aud fertility of it's soil
aud the beaties of its climate. Any,
and everything that oan be raised In
lowa, Illinois, Indiana or Ohio can
here be grown in the greatest pro
fusion. Wheat grown in the near
vicinity of Akron, took diploma for
being the best grain of the kind ex-
hibited ut the Nebraska State fair,
held at Lincoln, in September, 1889.
And'all crops grown III this latitude
can be raised here as successfully as
anywhere on earth.
GOVERNMENT LAND.
There IRE yet thousands of acres
of government land vacant, which
can be taken under the homestead,
presumption and timber culture acts,
which a person can have for the TAX
ing. A hountiful government will
make you independent in few years
if you will but act now. Tue surfnoe
of the country is nearly perfect
level, but still sloping enough to af.
ford good drainage. No breaks or
draws such as ruin or deface SO many
western farms. No protractcd strug
gle with rocks. Your first glnnce at
the country would remind you of one
vast meadow, only whiting the plow
of the husbandrnan to transform it
into an Eden OF beauty and product
iveness.
The citizens advertising commit.
tee of Akron have placed in the hands
OF the West Side Improvement Com
pany, one thousand city lots that are
to be given away for advertising pur-
poses, and any person who will aid
them in advertising their advantages
can have ono of these lots FREE OF
CHARGE by directing communication
to j. FAEIINDRICH, Sec'y. at
Akron, Colorado, and sending him
the-names of ten people who are in
terestcd III the west, aud liable to be
looking for western location and
sending four cents in stamps for re.
turn of deed. These lots nro now
worth from $50 to Sl25, and will, in
the course of year, if tho predic,
tions of knowing ones prove true be
worth four times what is now asked
for them. 1t is OIL opportunity never
before offered to secure an absolute
title to piece OF property in an ell
terprising md growing western city.
The lots referred to are each 25x
1872 feet in size and oil 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 committee,
through Mr.. Faehndrich, its Sec'y.
guarantees them to be smooth, level
and upon slight elevation. over
10 'king the town of Akron. The ii
tie is also guarateed to be absolutely
perfect.
Akron contains set of business
men who are alive TO her advantages
as we'll as her interests, and this year
$4,000 is being expended by them
to induce people looking for west
ern location to settle amongst them.
They want and are determined to
have 10000 people in this city by
1895.
They want laborers in their coal
mines, they want capitalists to devel
op their silver and gold mines.
Akron is today the largest and
most prosperous city in the State
east of Denver. 1t il n division sta
lion of the b. " M. R'y and is the
southern terminus of the Akron &
Holyoke' R'y, which will, in all prob
ability, be built to Colorado Springs
in the hear future. Akron is in the
line of the Northwestern r. r., build
ing into Denver, and it is sure to
catch it,and the Beaver Valley branch
OF The B. II NJ. will also be built to
Akron, rho b. e. NJ. shops are there
aud materialis now on the ground
to greatly enlarge them. The rail
road employs $50 men Mt 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 Jannary first,
next, they believe it will be 5000. A
United States land office was recent
ly located at that point which means
much to that city 1t will bring
every settler upon the public do
main in that section to that city. 1t
will be, and is, headquarters for land
seekers for that entire portion of the
State. a
COLORADO EXCURSIONS.
! On May Goth, and in June, excur
sions will be run from all points of
the east and south to Akron. The
rate will be one fare for the round
trip, over the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific from Chicago and ipterme.
diste points, and over the Missouri
Pacific from st. Louis aud the south,
to Omaha. Nebraska. From Omaha
take the j g. M. r. n. to Akron.
The,aboye offer of free lot mp
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