There are Ninety-eight Depots on the Company's Railway, giving about one every seven miles. Cities, Towns and Villages are situated at convenient distances throughout the whole route, where every desirable commodity may be found as readily as in the oldest cities of the Union, and where buyers are to be met for all kinds of farm produce.
EDUCATION.
Mechanics and working-men will find the free school system encouraged by the State, and endowed with a large revenue for the support of the schools. Children can live in sight of the school, the college, the church, and grow up with the prosperity of the leading State in the Great Western Empire.
PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT—ON LONG CREDIT.
80 acres at $10 per acre, with interest at 6 per ct. annually on the following terms:
| Cash payment | $48 00 | |
| Payment | in one year | 48 00 |
| " | in two years | 48 00 |
| " | in three years | 48 00 |
| " | in four years | 236 00 |
| " | in five years | 224 00 |
| " | in six years | 212 00 |
40 acres, at $10 00 per acre:
| Cash payment | $24 00 | |
| Payment | in one year | 24 00 |
| " | in two years | 24 00 |
| " | in three years | 24 00 |
| " | in four years | 118 00 |
| " | in five years | 112 00 |
| " | in six years | 106 00 |
Address Land Commissioner, Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill.