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truly elegant, such only as would be built by men 

 possessing means and taste. When the whole tract 

 has been disposed of, the population of Vineland 

 will be 15,000. Now, the population of the entire 

 county of Cumberland in 1860 was only 22,605 ; so 

 that in a few years more it will have been nearly 

 doubled by the energy and enterprise of a single in 

 dividual. Whichever way you turn, progress and 

 improvement of some kind are visible here a new 

 house is going up, there a new farm is being clear 

 ed. The settlement must become in the end an im 

 mense fruit garden. Its products reach the two 

 great cities over cheap and rapid railroads, and 

 command cash at generous prices. Its history 

 shows the great public benefit that can be realized 

 from the ownership of a vast tract by one man, 

 when that man uses it and handles it as this tract 

 has been managed. Such wholesale colonization 

 may have been attempted by others, but it has 

 nowhere been so successful as here. 



No ducal owner of hereditary acres, either in 

 England or on the Continent, with an annual in 

 come greater than the value of the fee of all Vine- 

 land, has ever undertaken a similar scheme of colo 

 nization. Such men devote their enormous wealth 

 to acquiring more land, not to sharing their acquisi 

 tions with their less fortunate neighbors. Instead 

 of clearing up forests and letting in population to 

 improve, and beautify, and acquire permanent and 

 happy homes, they plant the already cleared ground 

 with trees, and shut population out, increasing the 

 difficulty of the masses for acquiring even the small- 



