Year: 1870

| tral Pacific Railroad lands for sale.p If the
| Company conld aud would sell all its lands
Tor the entire twenty miles on each side of
the track, from Sacramento to the State line,
so that they would go into the hands of pri-
vate ownership, and be improved and made
productive in whatever each particular tract
is best suited for, it would be great bless
ing to the country, and most undoubtedly
profitable to the Company 1t was great
error in the Government in the first place to
grant this vast body of land and timber to
the Company, as neither was available in
| the construction of the road, and did not
hasten its completion an hour, and now only
results in retardng the settlement and i'm


provement of the country. Bat of this we
do not propose to speak. The deed is done
and we must make the most of the situation
as we find it. As we desire the speedy sale
Of the lands of the Company, so that the
country may settle up and be developed, we
will here give the conditions upon which the
lands can be purchased, The Company pro
pose to sell farming, grazing, orchard, vine
yard, ETC. lands at 50 80 per acre, in coin,
and OH this class of land credit of five
years will be given If the purchaser so desires,
a. follows: The purchaser must pay twenty
per cent. of the principal down, and interest
in advance each year at ten per cent. per an
mum for the five years on the remainder,
with the privilege Of paying the whole amount
and taking his fee simple deed at any time,
but he cannot pay the principal in install


ments. The price is the same as the Gov
ernment land-the even sections but the
Government takes grcenblcks and must have
its pay at the time of entry, and the pre-


emptor must pay the Land Office expenses,
which are generally heavy, and if any differ
cncc, makes the even sections the dearest in
the end The Railroad Company sells any
quantity of land desired, while the Govern
ment restricts the pre-emptor to l6O acres,
and the Homestead claimant to 80 acres. To
a purchaser desiring bat 1G0 acres and hav


ing the money to pay down, the Government
and the Railroad Company offer about the
same inducement, but where the party de-
sires credit, or more than 100 acres, he
must apply to the Company. 1t will be OBJ
served that all non-timbered lands of the
Company are held at the above price and
conditions of sale, consequently the first ap-
plicants have first choice Of lands, which gives
early purchasers great advantages in obtain
ing good soil and favorable locations. Oak
wooded lands the Company holds at s. per
acre, and requires the money all to be paid
down. We suppose the term 'oak wood
means where the land is heavily enough tim
bered with oak to make the timber, itself,
valuable. In this class of lands, also, the
early purchaser will be able to secure the
more heavily timbered tracts and most con-
venient to market. first-class pine timbered
land is held at $40 per acre, and must also
be paid for in full at the time Of purchase


All applications for the purchase of Railroad
lands are to be made to b. b. Redding, the
Land agent of the Company, at Sacramento.


Our only object in referring to this matter
is to induce settlement and improvement Of
the country, and that by the owners of the
soil in fee, without which, we may look in
vain for permanent, prosperous and inde


pendent community. There is very large
proportion of these lands between Sacramento
and the pine timber line, say at about Col
fax, that are really valuable when in the
hands private individuals who understand
their characteristics and how to cultivate and
improve them There is scarcely valuable
fruit or nut-bearing tree in any portion of the
world, outside of the Torrd or Frigid Zones,
which will not thrive and flourish in this por-
ton of California, while the wine, small
fruits, berries and vegetables are success
at every point where tried. Every man
should be the head of family, have a home
and be the owner Of the soil, and this section
of California furnishes inducements for the
building up of such happy homes unsurpass


ed by any other portion Of the world. These
hills and vallies will, in the near future, be
dotted all over with happy, healthful homes,
and TEEN with an industrious, prosperous
and contented populations and why may not
the present generation be of these? Get a
home, buy piece of land and cease these
yearly stampedes to some God-forsaken
country for the benefit of sharpers and specu-
lators The Government offers You eighty
acres ofland, simply for settling upon it and
making it your home for five years, or it will
sell you 16O acres at $3.50 per acre, and the
Railroad viii sell you land at $3.50 per
acre-and none of this land will ever be
cheanor We homo neitber tho Government