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THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAIL-ROAD COMPANY OFFERS FOR SALE OVER 200000 ACRES SELECTED FARMING AND WOOD LANDS IN TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS TO SUIT PURCHASERS ON LONG CREDITS AND AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST SITUATED ON EACH SIDE OF THEIR RAIL-ROAD EXTENDING ALL THE WAY FROM THE EXTREME NORTH TO THE SOUTH OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
185638108New York: John W. Amerman Printer 1856. 1856. 9" x 5-1/2" tan printed wrappers. 64pp. Two black and white frontispiece maps. The first map is 9" x 5-1/2" and is entitled "OUTLINE MAP OF ILLINOIS." The second map covers 2 pages 10-1/2" x 6-3/4" and is entitled "RAILWAY GUIDE TO THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAIL ROAD LANDS." Everything you would want to know about settling down in Illinois is in this booklet to include railroad routes value of land for farming value of crops towns and villages. The Company owns valuable tracts of iron and lead ores also coal beds of immense richness. "Illinois Is now in the start of its great advance towards becoming the first producing State in the Union. Having Lake Michigan on one side furnishing a constant outlet for its produce the Mississippi to the west with its tributaries the Illinois and Rock Rivers both navigable streams running far into its interior the Wabash on its eastern borders and Ohio on the south the natural facilities would seem unequaled in the world." Several letters from successful farmers telling of the advantages and prospects of Illinois. Other subjects discussed are the climate soil health coal Illinois Central Railroad Lands the cost of opening a farm the population agriculture statistics of towns et. al. Light wear to the extremities along with chipping to spine lower fore-corner of front wrapper creased wrappers discolored else a good copy. John W. Amerman, Printer, 1856. unknown
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