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MARION COUNTY ILLINOIS.

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330 ms [written at the top left of the map on the railroad line heading north to Galena, Illinois]

59 ms [written on the left side of the map on the railroad line heading west to St. Louis, Missouri]

275 ms [written on the right side of the map on the railroad line heading east to Cincinnati and Greendale, Ohio]

116 ms [written at the bottom left of the map on the railroad line heading south to Cairo, Illinois]

The shaded tracts are timbered

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In 1850 Population 6760. Taxable Prop. $635.829

In 1856 Population 12000. Taxable Prop. $2.085.732

1st Marion County is 24 miles square centrally situated in southern Illinois. Lat 38° 40' N._
Midway between St. Louis and Vincennes Ia. _ 2nd, It is healthy, high table land, no sloughs, ponds
nor large river bottoms, nor any other peculiar local cause of disease. Of the streams taking their
rise here, part flow into the Mississippi on the west and part into the Wabash on the east._
3d The soil is fertile, being equal for the production of fall grains and grasses to the Genessee
Valley N. York. Fruit of all kinds is a sure crop. Peaches have failed but once in 30 years._
4th The new Lands are easily brought under Cultivation, about 1/2 is prairie and 1/2 timber
so well Distributed that there is no point in the Prairie more than 3 miles from Timber._ The surface
of the prairie is from gently undulating to high and rolling, the timber is of excellent quality
and embraces all the varieties common to western forests._ 5th The Railroad facilities are positively
--not--equalled-- by those of any of other Agricultural District in the world._The markets of Cincinati, Cairo, St. Louis,
Dunlith & Galena and Chicago are open to our Farmers without Reshipment!_ See the Map._
6th - Coal-- of good quality and -Stone--are abundant and cheap._ 7th, Farming Lands are Cheap, the Railroads
are but just completed and so large a quantity of good lands being thrown open to Settlement at once the
prices have not reached a high figure_ Improved Farms from $10 to $25 pr acre,_ unimproved
Lands, Timber & prairie $7 to $15 pr. acre.