Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-29

Ia the past three years experienced the
most rapid as well as the most healthy
growth Of any city in the west. 1t 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 Ia Iowa, Illinois, In
diana or Ohio can here be grown In
the greatest profusion. Wheat grown
in the near vicinity of Akron, took a
diploma for being the best grain OF the
kind exhibited at tie Nebraska State
fair, held at Lincoln, In September
1889. And all crops grown In this
latitude can be raised here as success
fully as anywhere on earth.
GOVERNMENT LAND.
There are yet thousands of acres OF
government land vacant, which can
be titken under the homestead, pre-
empiion and timber culture acts,
which person can have for the tax
ing. A bonntiful government will
make you Independent in a few years
IL 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 as
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 husbandman
to transform it into an 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 communication to j.
FAEHNDRICH, Sec'y at Akron, Col
orado, and sending him the names of
ten people who are interested in the
west, and liable to be looking for u
western location and sending four
cents in stamps for return of deed.
These lots are now worth from sou to
Sl25, and will, in the course of year.
if the predictions of knowing ones
prove true, be worth four times what
is now asked for them. 1t is an op-
portunlty never before offered to
secure an Absolute Title to piece
OF property in ali enterpising and
growing western city.
The lots referred to are each 25 1872
feet in size and all the streets upon
which they abut are 60 and so feet
wide. They are in what is known as
"Glenwood," an Akron, Colorado,
suburb, and the citizens committee
thE2nglhl sa Me-. tE.aeAadEgIsA, it, Ssc'y.
guarantess'them to be smooth, level
and upon u slightly elevation, over
looking the town of Akron. The title
is also guaranteed to be absolutely
perfect.
Akron contains a set OF business men
who are alive to her advantages as
we'll as her interests, aud this year
$50, 900 is being expeneed by them to
induce people looking for a western
location to settle amongst them. They
want and are determined to have so,
900 people in this city by. 1895.
They want laborers in their coal
mines, they want capitalists to develop
their silver aud COLL mines.
Akron is to-day the largest and most
prosperous city in the state east OF
Denver. 1t is division station Of the
b. s. NJ. R'y and is the southern ter
minus of the Akron & Ilolyoke Ry,
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 it il
sure to catch it, and tho Beaver Val.
ley branch of the Il. s. NJ. will also be
built to Akron. The Is. e. NJ. shops
are there and material is now on tue
ground to greatly enlarge them. The
railroad employ $50 men at that point
now. The city is and will be the rail
road centre of that portion OF tbs
, state. The population is now nearly
two thousand and by January fire.
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 ever,
settler upon the public domain in tina
section to that city. 1t will be, and is
headquarters for land seekers for tina
: entire portion of the state.
COLORADO EXCURSIONS.
On May Goth, and in June excursion
. will be run from all points of the cas-
|, and south to Akron. The rate will b
:, one fare for the round trip. over tn
. Chicago. Rock Island e. Pacific fror
!, Chicago and intermediate points, an,
over the Missouri Pacific from st. Loui
and the South, to Omaha, Nebraska
From Omaha take the b. &. M. X.
z TO Akron.