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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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FRUIT FARMS AND TOWN LOTS FREE ! 
A CONCERN calling calling itself the Cali¬ 
fornia Land Company, and giving its ad¬ 
dress in Cincinnati, has of late been exten¬ 
sively advertising by circulars and the 
press, offering free gifts of 20,000 acres of 
land “divided into California fruit tracts 
of 5, 10, 20, and 40 acres each and selected 
residence or business lots.” A cablegram 
from London, England, the other day, an¬ 
nounced that the concern is also widely 
advertising the same in the London and 
provincial papers. After stating the na¬ 
ture of the offer substantially as it is stated 
in the American advertisements, the Eng¬ 
lish advertisements go on to say that “ the 
object in making this extraordinary offer 
is to secure a diversified interest and own¬ 
ership throughout the different countries 
of Europe in the lands owned and con¬ 
trolled by the above named company. 
When this is accomplished the com¬ 
pany will open branch offices in the 
various European cities and offer its 
large remaining proper ies for sale at the 
uniform price of £5 ($25) per acre for Cal¬ 
ifornia fruit tracts and £6 ($-10) per lot for 
residence or business lots.” Clap trap of 
precisely the same kind was sent widely 
abroad by the St. Andrews Bay Company 
of Florida, three years ago, and readers of 
this paper w T ere cautioned about the matter 
by the Eye Opener. He wrote to the con¬ 
cern from a country post-office expressing 
his r»adiuess to accept a free gift of a 40- 
acre tract suitable for an orange grove, and 
in answer, received a printed notification 
that a preliminary remittance of $2 must 
be made to pay for the deed, etc. The 
money was forwarded for the benefit of 
readers of this department, and a very 
nicely printed deed was received after a 
while, together with a request, or rather 
demand, for a further remittance for sur¬ 
veying the land, etc. The E.-O.’s eyes 
were opened wide enough by this time, 
however, and no more money went from 
him to fill the coffers of a gang of swind¬ 
ling land-sharks. Several complaints 
reached him later, however, from others 
who had been preyed upon by the humbugs, 
and he learnt that the modus operandi had 
been the same in all cases, though several 
had lost considerably more than he had 
paid for experience for the benefit of Rural 
readers. Less than two years ago, one sim¬ 
ilar concern offered free gifts of good land 
in southern California, and several others 
were anxious to donate town lots. After 
considerable investigation, these were also 
found to be frauds, and were accordingly 
denounced in this department. The Eye- 
Opeuer wasn’t at all surprised there¬ 
fore to learn that the English people 
who had answered the California Land 
Company’s advertisement had been in¬ 
formed from Cincinnati that a tract of land 
had been selected for each, and that the 
payment of 10s ($2) was necessary for the 
legal expenses of executing a warranty 
deed. Some of those who had forwarded 
the money had received a gorgeous deed, 
“on which,” the cable tells us, “there 
must be nine shillings and six pence profit 
to the concern.” This would make the cost 
of the California $2 deed about 12 cents, 
and that would have been a good price for 
the Florida $2 deed. L. A. Leonard and 
Guy Webber were the chief promoters of 
the Florida scheme, and proceedings were 
taken against both in the United States 
Court by the Postmaster of Cincinnati. 
They were indicted for fraudulent use of 
the mails, but have uever been tried. The 
Cincinnati City Directory now gives the 
name of Louis A. Leonard as president 
of “ The California Land Company,” and 
Guy Webber’s address is given at the same 
number in Maiu Street. Leonard, however, 
declares that his connection with the affair 
ceased a year ago. Is any word of caution 
needed in this case? 
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