OF PENNSYLVANIA. 25 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO EX AMINE "SITES. 



General James Irvin had offered any one of three farms 

 of two hundred acres of good limestone land, with the pre- 

 emption right to two hundred additional acres, adjoining 

 any one of them within five years. 



The two hundred acres offered by James Miles, were 

 situated about eighteen miles west of the city of Erie, be- 

 tween the railroad which bounds it on the south, and the 

 lake shore. The land was a sandy loam, highly fertile, 

 with about one hundred acres of cleared land, and the rest 

 with heavy timber; he would also give the pre-emption 

 right to any additional quantity of land, which may be 

 desired, at $60,00 per acre. 



The estate of George Ai Bayard was situated on the 

 Youghiogheny River, about three miles from its mouth, and 

 eighteen miles from Pittsburgh. It consisted of 600 acres 

 of well-watered freestone land, worth $35.00 per acre. 

 Very extensive improvements had been made upon the 

 estate, including several dwelling-houses, and two large 

 barns. Mr. Bayard would sell on reasonable terms. 



The two hundred acres offered by Elias Baker, were 

 situated in Blair County, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 

 about two miles southwest of Altoona; all the land, ex- 

 cept about forty acres, was cleared and fenced, about sixty 

 acres (south of the Railroad) was of good freestone land, 

 and the balance (north of the Railroad) good slate land. 

 There were upwards of two hundred acres more in the. 

 tract that could be purchased at about $25.00 per acre. All 

 the land was finely watered. 



The committee further stated, that they had just re- 

 ceived an offer of 200 acres of land, worth $60.00 per 

 acre, from Wm. H. Easton of Franklin County; also, that 

 in their examination of the land, they had been accompa- 

 nied by several members of the Board, of whose opinion 

 they had availed themselves, in viewing the several tracts 

 offered. 



The committee close their report by saying, that although 

 any one of the several sites they had viewed would be eli- 

 gible, yet in view of the importance of the subject, and the 

 fact that the people of the state were not yet sufficiently 



