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ADVANCE OF PROPERTY. 



Any one familiar with the history and growth of the West, is 

 well aware that the rise of property based on the healthy 

 growth and development of a town or community, is one of the 

 surest and easiest sources of profits, and has alone brought in- 

 dependence to thousands. Careful examination and deliberate 

 iudo-ment, will enable a person to perceive the natural advan- 

 tao-es of a location, and the tendency of events and improve- 

 ments, which must make it an important point, and thus sagacious 

 men are careful to locate where they will participate in the 

 wonderful growth and prosperity which is sure to follow such 



signs. 



iFruitport and vicinity, is not surpassed, in indications of future 

 prosperity. At St. Joseph, wild lands sell from $100 to $500, 

 and orchards from $300 to $1200 an acre, according to location 

 and improvements, and this without a railroad, and with a poor 

 harbor, which renders navigation dangerous, and in rough 

 weather impossible. At Fruitport, with a splendid harbor, a 

 railroad soon to be completed, more certainty of crops, and treble 

 the natural advantages, choice lands can be obtained for one- 

 third of St. Joseph prices. This can not long be the case. These 

 lands now offered from $25 to $50 per acre, will soon be worth 

 at least as much as St. Joseph lands. 



THE CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE. 



Most of the people at Fruitport and vicinity, are from the East, 

 but Western pluck and go-aheaditiveness has also many excellent 

 representatives. They are thoroughly imbued with the great 

 ideas of the age, and the institutions of education and religion 

 are supported and appreciated with genuine Eastern zeal. It is 

 the pride and ambition of the originators of this movement, to 

 found a community, whose refinement, virtue and intelligence 

 shall be as remarkable as their material prosperity, and they are 

 directing their efforts accordingly. By the course they are pur- 

 suino-, and will pursue in the future, they will succeed m bringing 

 to<^ether, what they most earnessly desire— the most select 

 people, and thus secure those invaluable blessings which refined 

 and cultivated society alone can confer. The sale of intoxicating 

 beverao-es are expressly forbidden, and their exclusion becomes 

 a part 'of the contract of every deed. 



PRICES. 



Town lots in Fruitport, of i acre each, commanding a mag- 

 nificent view of the harbor, from $150 to $200, and a limited 

 number to those who will build the present season, $100 each. 

 Choice parcels near Fruitport of 6 acres each, for orchards and 

 vineyards, from $150 to $260 each, and ten-acre lots from $260 to 



