The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-06-24
twenty Million Acres of Public
Free School Land on
the Market.
OKLAHOMA OUTDONE.
Now or Never! Now or Never.

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recently decided that all the vacant land
IN the State belongs to the Public Free
School Fund, and the School lands un-
der the law now can be bought for 81 90
and u Oh per acre, according to the
character OF the land, no matter where
located in the State, and thousands and
tens OF thousands of acres of land can
now be had at the prices mentioned
above. which will soon be worth from
80 w to S2o 20 per acre as homes for
agriculturists and stock raisers.
These lands will produce corn, cotton.
wheat, oats, rye and barley, and all for
age plants, as well as fruits and berries
OF every kind, and the prairie lands are
already covered with nutritious native
grasses and forage plants which support
horses and cattle, sheep and hogs both
summer and winter, without other feed.
and stock of all kinds do well on the
open range all the year round, and the
lands on the Texas Coast will produce as
tne rice and sugar as the best lands in
Louisiana and South Carolina.
One person, under the present law can
buy only four sections of this land of
90 acres each, and most of it can be had
at 81 % per acre, 40 cash and the bal
ance on 40 years time at per cent inter.
est per annum. No where else in the en-.
tire world can land be had at such a flo.
ure, and on such terms. II you want a
home in delightful climate. where Won
can raise the greatest diversity of agri.
cultural products and can engage in
stock raising with the greatest profit
then send 81 90 to the undersigned for
his new book, giving the full text of the
present State laws in regard to the pur
chase OF these lands, rate of taxation,
amount of Free School fund and Public
School facilities, with a list of all the
Counties in the State in which any of
this lard is located; with map of Tex
as showing each County, also full instruc-
tons how to proceed to purchase such
lands, and to legal formalities necessary
to acquire absolutely perfect titles direct
from the State.
These lands are being rapidly taken
up, and during the next II months the
choicest of them will be bought, and the
price OF the balance raised to a much
higher figure. II you want home al |
most for nothing, write at once. II Won
wish to farm or raise cattle. sheen or
hogs, come to Texas, the most prosper |
ous State in the Union.
Your 81 90 will procure you informa-
lion and give you instructions which will |
be worth $1,000 to you. and which as |
non resident you can get no where else
great expense and trouble.
The undersigned has been in large
majority of the Counties in which the |
Public Free School lands are located.
and is familiar with the character and |
Value OF the lands in the various sections
II the State, and if parties wish to secure
my of these lands, after having examined
nto all the details furnished by the book
IT information and instructions offered.
he will, for an additional So 90 Der sec.
ion, prepare all the necessary legal pa
'ers, and attend to the securing of the
title here through the proper Depart
nents of the Government.
Address,
Chas. p. Scrivener.
Late State Compiling Draughtsman,
Box 495, Austin Texas.
1on. Jno H. Reagan. Railroad Commissioner
ion- 8. Burleson, Congressman.
ION. Z. +. Wilmot. Pres. Austin Natl Bank
lon. Ashby s. James, Attorney at Law. Aust,n.
Ion. r. d. Ward. Assistant Attorney General.