Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-06-06
FREE HOMES.
In the Great West-A Remarkable
Offer-Read It.

0ffer-Read It.
Akron, Colorado, has probably within
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 in Iowa, Illinois, Indi-
ana or Ohio can here be grown in the
greatest prOfusion. Wheat grown in
the near vicinity of Akron, took di-
ploma for being the best grain of the
kind exhibited at the 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 taken under the homestead, pre-
emptiOn and timber culture acts,
which person can have for the TAX
ing A bountiful government will
make you Independent in few years
If you will but act now. The surface
of the country is nearly perfect level,
but still sloping enough to afford good
drainage. No breaks or draws such as
ruin or deiace SO many western farms.
No protracted struggle with rocks.
Your first glance at the country would
remind you Of one vast meadow, only
waiting the plow 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 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 one of these lots FREE OF
CHARGE by directing communication
to j. FAEHNDRIcH, Sec'y., at Akron,
Colorado, and sending him the names
of ten people who are interested in the
west. and liable to be looking for o
western location and sending four cents
in stamps for return of deed. These
lots are now worth from $50 to 1925,
and will, in the course of a year, if the
predictions OF knowing ones prove
true, be worth four times what is now
asked for them. 1t is an opportunity
never before to secure an ABSOLUTE
TITLE to piece of property in an en-
terprising and growing western city.
The lots referred to are each 25xl32
feet in size and all the streets upon
which they abut are GO and 50 feet
wide. They are in what is known as
"Glenwood," an Akron, Colorado, sub
urb, aid the citizens committee
through Mr.. Faehndrich, its Sec'y,
guarantees them to be smooth, level
and upon q slightly elevation, over.
looking the town of Akron. The title
is also guaranteed to be ABSOLUTELY
PERFECT.
Akron contains set OF business
men who are alive to her advantages
as well as her interests. and this year
$4,000 is being expended by them to
induce people looking for western To-
cation to settle amongst them. They
want and are determined to have co.
600 people in this city by 1895.
They want laborers in their coal
mines, they want capitalists to de.
velope their silver and gold mines.
Akron is to-day the largest and
most prosperous city in the State east
OF Denver. 1t is division station of
the B. & NJ. R'y and is the southern
terminus of the Akron & Holyoke R'y,
which will, in oil probability, be built
to Colorado Springs il the near future.
Akron is in the line OF the North
western r. r. building into Denver,
and it is sure to catch it, and the
Beaver Valley branch of the B. & M.
will also be built to Akron. The B. &
M. shops 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 centre of that por-
ton of the State. The population is
now nearly two thousand and by JAM
uary first next, they believe it will be
5000. A United States Land Office
was recently located at that point
which means much to that city. It
will be, and is, headquarters for land
seekers for that entire portion OF the
State.
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 L Pa
cific from Chicago and intermediate
points, and over the Missouri Pacific
from st. Louis and the South, to
Omaha, Nebraska. From Omaha take
the B. & NJ. r. r. to Akron.
The above offer of free lot applies
only to those who will prior to June
20 aid them in q reasonable way, in
making these excursions a success.
A GAS ORGAN.-The pyrophone, of
English origin, is a musical apparatus
depending on gas jets burned in cor
responding number of glass tubes.
Each jet has its tinger-key, pressure ON
which causes the flame to contract,
when . musical sound is given out.
The tone varies with the arrangement
OF burners and size OF tubes, making it
possible to give all notes of the musi-