The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-22
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fenced the most rapid as well as the
most healthy growth Of any city il
the west. It is surrounded by q
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 great,
est profusion. Wheat grown in the
near vicinity Of Akron, took q di,
pIoma for being the best grain of the
kind exhibited at the Nebraska
State fair, held at Lincoln, in Sep
TENDER, 1889. And all crops grown
in this latitude can be raised here as
successfully as anywhere on earth.
GOyEENMENT LAND.
There are yet thousands Of acres
Of government land vacant, which
can be taken under the homestead,
prc-cmption and timber culture acts,
which a person can have for the
taking A bOuntiful government
VIII make you Independent in a few
years if YOU vii! bat act now, The
sarluce OF the country 10 nearly s
perfect level, bat still slopirg enough
TO afford good drainage. Nc 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
tie rInw Ct the husbandman to
transform it into an Eden Of beauty
and productjecness.
The citizens advertising commit
tee Of Akron have placed in the
hands oC The West Side Improvement
Company, one thousand city lots
that arc TO be given away for adver.
Using purposes, and any person who
viii aiG them in advertising Their
advantages can have one of these
lots free Of charge by directing q
communication to j. FaCnudrich.
Scc'y st Akron. Colorado, ard send
Ing Mm the names Of ten people who
are interested in the west, and liable
to be locking for & western location
and sending four cents in stamps for
return Of deed. These lots are now
worth from so to SI2J, and will, in
the course of year, if the predic-
tons OF knowing ones prove true, be
worth four times what is now asked
for them. 1t is an opportunity naver
before offered to secure an absolute
title to piece of property in an
enterprising and growing western
city.
The lots referred to are each
40Xl32 feet in size and all the streets
upon which they ab1t ere 90 and 80
FEET vide. They are in what is
known as "Glenwood," an Akron,
Colorado, suburb, and the citizens
committee through Mr.. Faehndrich.
its Scc'y, guarantees them to be
smooth, level and upon slightly
elevation, overlooking the town of
Akron. TIE title is also guaranteed
to be absolutely perfect.
AkrOn contains a set OF business
men who are alive to her adyaDtag
as we'll as her interests, and this
year $4,000 is being expended by
them to induce people looking for q
western location to settle amongst
them. They want and are determined
to have $4,000 in this city by 1895.
They want laborers in 5heir coal
mines, they want capitalists to
develop their silver and gold mines.
Akron IS to-day the largest and
most prosperous city in the state
east of Denver. 1t is q division
station of the b. Il. NJ. R'y and is
The southern terminus Of the Akron
< Holyokc R'y, which will, in all
probability, be built to Colorado
Springs in the near future. Akron
IS in the line of the Northwestern r
Il. building into Denver, and 1T is
sure to catch It, and tue Beaver
Valley branch of the Is. & NJ. will
also be built to Akron. The Is. & NJ.
shops are there and material is now
on the ground to greatly enlarge
them. The railroad employ 250 men
at that point now. The city is and
will ho the railroad centre of that
portion of the state. The population
IS now nearly two thousand and bv
January first next, they believe It
will be 5000. A United States land
office was recently locsted at that
point which means mu-h to that citv
1t Will bring every settler upon the
pnouc domain in that section to that
CITY IT uiIl fo c,l 80 L1