Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11
WASHINGTON AN ADVERTISER.
Knew How to Show tho Advantages
OF the Land He Had to Lease.

Knew How to Show tho Advantages
Of the Land He Had to Lease.
The Baltimore American In celebrat-
ing the one hundred and thirtieth an
niversary Of the birth Of the Maryland
Journal and Baltimore Advertiser,
which was the precursor Of the Amer
lean, publishes a facsimile Of the first
issue. 1t bore date Friday, August 20,
1773. The Journal and Advertiser was
a small folio of three wide columns to
the page, and excellently printed. This
paper was the first to be published IN
Baltimore. OF course, there was then
no city Of Washington, and even the
name Washington had not yet reached
the great fame to which it afterward
attained. Yet one Of the most note
worthy things about this old-time
newspaper lis that Its largest adverti-
ser was George Washington.
He was then In his forty-first year,
and was In the real estate business on
very extensive scale. His advertise
ment was dated Mount Vernon. In
Virginia, July Is, 1773." and announced
that the subscribed. having obtained
patents for upwards of twenty thou
sand acres Of land on the Ohio and
Great Kanhawa (ten thousand OF
which are situated on the banks Of the
first mentioned river, between the
mouths of the two Kanhawa, and the
remainder on the Great Kanhawa, or
New river, from the mouth, or near 1t,
upward in one continued survey pro-
poses to divide the same into any
sized tenements that may be desired
and lease them upon moderate terms,
allowing a reasonable number Of years
rent free, provided, within the space
of two years from next October three
acres for every fifty contained in each
lot, and proportionably for lesser
quantity, shall be cleared, fenced, and
titled; and that, by or before the time
limited for the commencement OF the
first rent, five acres for every hun
dred, and proportionably, as above,
shall be inclosed and laid down in good
grass for meadow, and moreover, that
at least fifty good fruit trees for every
like quantity of land shall be planted
on the premises"
Would-be purchasers were told to
apply to George Washington, near
Alexandria" or in his absence to Mr..
Lund Washington. The later was Gen.
Washington's favorite cousin and the
great grandfather of the late Col. L.
@. Washington of this city.
General-then colonel-Washingto
was an excellent lad" writer, and his
style might be studied to advantage by
some real estate sellers of today. He
suggestively intimated that "any per-
son inclined to settle on these lands
would do well In communicating their
Intentions before the first of October
next in order that a sufficient number
Of lots may be laid off to answer the
demand" Then followed an ornate
description Of the good thing he had to
offer, which it would trouble any Of
the moderns to beat by way Of induce
ments. He said:
LAS these lands are among the first
which have been surveyed in the part
of the country they lie in, it is almost
needless to premise that none can ex-
ceed them in luxuriance Of soil, or
convenience Of situation, all Of them
lying upon the banks either Of the
Ohio or Kanhawa, and abounding
with fine fish and wild fowl Of various
kinds, as also in most excellent mead
ows many Of which (by the bountiful
hand Of nature) are, in their present
state almost fit for the scythe. From
every part Of these lands water car
riage Is now had to Fort Pitt, by an
easy communication, and from Fort
Pitt up the Monongahela to Redstone,
vessels of convenient burden, may and
do pass continually; from whence, by
means Of the Cheat river, and other
navigable branches Of the Mononga-
hela, 1t is thought the portage to Po-
tomac may, and will, be reduced with
in the compass of few miles to the
great ease and convenience Of the set
tiers in transporting the produce Of
their lands to market. To which may
be added that as patents have now ac-
tually passed the seals for the several
tracts here offered to be leased, set
tiers on them may cultivate and en-
joy the lands in peace and safety, not
withstanding the unsettled counsels
respecting a new colony on the Ohio;
and as no right money is to be paid
for these lands, and quitrent Of two
shillings sterling hundred, demanda-
BILE some years hence only, it Is highly
presumable that they will always be
held upon more desirable footing
than where both these are laid on with
a very heavy hand. And 1t may not
be amiss further to observe that II the
scheme for establishing a new gov
ernment on the Ohio, in the manner
talked Of. should ever be effected,
these must be among the most valua-
BILE lands in 1t. not only on account Of
the goodness of soil, and the other
advantages above enumerated, but
from their contiguity to the seat Of
government. which more than probable
will be fixed at the mouth Of the Great
Kanhawa." ."-Washington Star.
TILLMAN EXPLAINs.-W. E. King, a
Turkish Rath manager of Norfolk
Va, has given out a letter he has re-