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want—anywhere from forty acres up—for a low 
price and a very small payment down, and the bal- 
ance on such long time that any man can pay for it 
out of the crops and scarcely feel it. And now, 
while the government lands are generally taken for 
from ten to twenty miles back from the railroads 
and towns, you can get choice tracts of railroad land 
very convenient to good towns. Then you have from 
the start, and always will have, a good market. Of 
course if you take government land, and in a year or 
two a railroad comes along somewhere near you, 
_ then you are all right and have saved the cost of the 
railroad land. I say this to you solely in your own 
interest, and not in that of any railroad company.” 
“Would you recommend to me any particular 
location ?” 
“No, there is not much difference. Get as near 
some good railroad town as youcan. Generally the 
county seats are the best, but not always, for capital 
and energy sometimes do more for a town than the 
location of the county offices in it.” 
CHOICE OF LAND. 
‘Ts there much difference in the quality of the 
land?” 
“Not much, but of course there is some. You 
either want to select your land by seeing it yourself, 
or by having some friend in whom you have confi- 
dence, see it. But as this is to be your home, I 
would adyise you strongly to see it yourself. You 
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