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tiers thus introduced. Some are mechanics, but 

 most of them are farmers. I saw their improve 

 ments, their crops, and questioned them as to their 

 prospects. As most were from a colder climate, 

 they spoke strongly in favor of this. I found none 

 of these recent comers desirous of selling and re 

 moving. On the contrary, they were writing let 

 ters to former neighbors to invite them to settle be- 



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side them. The cheap lands they had bought a few 

 years ago had in all cases risen in value, some 

 double, some treble. 



It did not appear that any of these settlers were 

 mere speculators they came to cultivate the soil. 

 But while doing so, it rose enormously in value. A 

 farmer from Bucks county, Pennsylvania, purchased 

 in 1858 a tract of 475 acres, at $12.50 per acre, 

 within two miles of Milford. It had good buildings 

 and fences, and much of it was cleared. He made 

 payment in a house in Philadelphia, with a mort 

 gage on the farm for the remainder. He has sold 

 off three farms containing 355 acres, in the three, 

 for 12,600, and reserved, during a period of fifteen 

 years, the fruit from 3,000 peach trees he had 

 planted, besides having a farm of 120 acres, now 

 worth $6,000. The peach crop thus reserved is 

 worth 3,000 per annum. Other instances of rapid 

 increase of values were pointed out, some of them 

 quite as remarkable. 



Mr. Johnston showed me a long list of properties 

 which he controlled, and was offering to settlers. 

 Many of these were large enough to cut up into half 

 a dozen farms. Others would divide handsomely 



