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within a few years command $75 to $100 per acre. 

 Such are some of the inducements to a settlement 

 in Delaware. If the reader has by this time learned 

 how to get a farm, it is very certain that here he 

 can find one. Population is scarce, land is abun 

 dant, and consequently cheap. There are hundreds 

 of owners who, insensible of the advantages they 

 possess, are overstocked with land, and desirous of 

 selling. 



The opening of railroads here, as elsewhere, at 

 tracted enterprising men from abroad. Among the 

 most active of these is Mr. Alfred T. Johnston, of 

 Milford, in Sussex county, on the Junction and 

 Breakwater Railroad, six miles from Delaware Bay, 

 a hundred from Philadelphia by rail, and at the 

 head of navigation on the Mispillion river. Here 

 the fisheries are very productive, and shipbuilding 

 is extensively carried on. In population Milford 

 ranks next to Wilmington, the second town in the 

 State. Mr. Johnston came from Pennsylvania and 

 settled, five years ago, in Milford. Being shrewd 

 and enterprising, he soon discovered the wants of 

 the region, and the numerous openings for settle 

 ment that it presented. He made himself thorough 

 ly acquainted with the land and with those owners 

 who desired to sell, then devoted himself to intro 

 ducing settlers by making the outside world ac 

 quainted with the capabilities of Delaware lands. 

 These were such as to attract hundreds from all 

 parts of the Union. He has introduced so large a 

 population as to change majorities at the polls. In 

 the summer of 1864 I went among some of the set- 



