Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-22

most rapid as well as the most healtb
growth of any city In the west. IL
surrounded by a country unsurpasse
by any on earth for the richness an
fertility OF it's soil and the beauties {
Its climate. Any, and everything tina
can be raised in Iowa, Illinois, Ii
diana or Ohio can here be grown 1
the greatest profusion. Wheat grow
IN the near vicinity of Akron, took
diploma for being the best grain OF til
kind exhibited at the Nebraska stat
fair, held at Lincoln, in Sepfembe
1889. And all crops grown in thi
latitude can be raised here MS success
fully as anywhere on earth.
GOVERNMENT LAND.
There are yet thousands of acres O
government land vacant, which car
be taken under the homestead. pre
emption and timber culture acts
which person can have for the TAX
lng. A bountiful government will
make you independent in few year,
II you will but act now. The surface
OF the country is nearly a perfect level
but still sloping enough to affond good
drainage. No breaks or draws such a.
ruin or deface so many western farms.
No protracted struggle with rocks.
Your first glance at the country re.
minds you Of one vast meadow, only
waiting the pillow of the husbandmaD
to transform it into mn Eden of beauty
and productiveness.
The citizens advertising committee
OF Akron have placed in the hands of
the West Side Improvement Company
one thousand city lots that are to be
given away for advertising purposes.
and any person who will aid them in
advertising their advantages can have
one OF these lots Free OF Charge by
directing a communication to j.
FAEHNDRICH, Sec'y at Axiom. Col
orado, and sending him the names of
ten people who ars interested in the
west, and liable to be looking for n
western location and sending four
cents in stamps for return of deed.
These lots are now worth from $50 TO
sl25, and will, in the course of a year.
Il the predictions of knowing ones
prove true, be worth four times what
IS now asked for them. 1t is an Old.
portunity never before offered TO
secure an Absolute Title to a piece
D property in an enterpising and
growing western city.
The lots referred to are each 25 x132
Get in size and all the streets upon
which they abut are 60 and so feet
vide. They are in what is known as
'Glenwood," an Akron, Colorado.
uburb, and the citizens committee !
trough Mr.. Faehndrich, its Sec'y.
them to be smooth, level
nd upon a slightly elevation. over
ooklng the town OF Akron. The title I
also guaranteed to be absolutely
'erfect.
Akron contains set of business men
rho are alive to her advantages as
'ell as her interests, and this year
30, 600 is being expeneed by them toi
lduce people looking for western
'cation to settle amongst them. They
ant and are determined to have go,
20 people in this city by 1895.
They want laborers in their coal
lines, they want capitalists to develop
Ieir silver and gol mines.
Akron is to-day the largest and most
rosperous city in the state east of
enver. 1t is a division station of the
(. & NJ. R'y and is the southern ter
inns OF the Akron & Bolyoke R'y,
hich will, in all probability, be built
Colorado Springs in the near future.
kron is in the line of the Northwestern
X. building into Denver, and II Is
ire to catch 1t, and the Beaver Val
Y branch of the r. e. NJ. will also be
iilt to Akron. The b. & NJ. shops
e there and material is now on the
'onnd TO greatly enlarge them. The
ilroad employ $50 men at that point
NV. The city Is and will be The rail-
ad centre of that portion of the
ate. The population is now nearly
10 thousand and by January first
'xt. they believe It will be 5000.
United States land office WINS recent
located at that point which means
uch to that city. 1t will bring every
ttler upon the public domain in that
ction to that city. 1t will be, and is. ,
'ad-quarters for land seekers for that
tire portion of the state. {
COLORADO EXCURSIONS.
On May goth, and in June excursions
ii be run from oil points of the east {
ID south to Akron. The rate will be n
e fare for the round trip, over the
licago. Rock Island e. Pacific from
licago and intermediate points, and
er the Missouri Pacific from st. Louis
d the South, to Omaha, Nebraska. Z
ON Omaha take the b. &. M. r. r.
Akron.
The above offer of a free lot applies
ly to those who will, prior to June r.
aid them in reasonable way. in