I IE OPPORTUNITY!!
The 460 acre farm known as the "E. M. Cooke" place, now owned by William I. Better read that description of location again. Remember this land is divided into
Ward of Graham and located three miles from Graham, and just across the river from small desirable tracts within three miles of Graham and just across the river from
gg Swepsonville, has been sub divided into small desirable tracts and will be sold by us at Swepsonville.
jm Public Auction on easy terms, Tuesday, March 26th, at 10:30 A. M. , . ~ , ~ , „ •, . „ _
xS Could there be a more desirable location for a small truck farm ? The school avail-
Sg The sale will positively take place, ram or shine, and on your own terms. You can able to your children, the big mill town always ready to buy your products, and Gra
buy a piece of land that is already developed, well watered and perhaps just to your ham and Burlington right at hand; this means always a market, and it means that land
g liking. located like this must increase in value. & . •" '*
1 Remember That Every Year Land
| " Near Graham and Swepsonville
I Goes Higher and Higher
There was a time when a land sale didn't mean much, when people talked about bacco, fine wheat, corn and oats and is admirably situated for truck raising. If you
I old fields, but in the last few years the farmer and truck grower has come into his own grow truck the mill town is your market, if you grow tobacco, corn, oats and wheat |
and the prices are not going to be any lower for many years. Two strong reasons pre- * Graham and Burlington are your markets. You don't have to pay any freight, you don't
sent themselves. The first is, the land is within a stone's throw of Swepsonville; a mill have to give up a day going to market. Just three miles one way, or walking distance
town that is growing and must expand. Land close to a prosperous mill town is more the other, according to the market you select.
valuable than land lost in a swamp many miles from any where. ' _ ... . , ~ VT „ , , /i i
_ _ _ _ _ . , , . ~ A . On this farm is located a handsome ten-room residence, a No. 1 roomy barn, good -1
The mill town must eat and does eat, and, therefore,, a market for the trucker is out-houses, three tenant houses and plenty of water. To get right down to bed rock !
within walking distance. If the mill town does not take the product the large town of and talk business, this is a proposition that must appeal to every man who has a few
Graham, only three miles away, will—therefore you have a city price for alj you ra S3. dollars, and who has concluded to invest in something that will be secure and that will
Lots of difference in raising truck away out in the country and spending a half day in perhaps double his money in a short time and pay interest while the property is en- S
getting it to market and perhaps the market is a poor one. hancing. * _• •
Because of the location the man who raisesproduce on_ the; Cooke I""" Think again of that location-but %ee miles from Graham, a stones throw from
will get practically New York prices for it. In fact New York sets the price of produce Swepsonville. Compare that location with say ten miles out irom Graham, and yet
sddinGrahani, Burlington and Swepsonville. These items give value to the land we people ten miles out make money and their land is enhancing all the time. Tke terms
are tauung aoout. of this sale are such that no energetic man can say he is unable to seeure a tract of
The "E. M. Cooke place" which we are going to sell at auction Tuesday, March land, may be the foundation of his fortune. Planting your money in real estate, if the I
26th, will bear the closest inspection. It is a combination farm—it will grow fine to- location is right, is the first step to fortune which all men know.
1 Every Man Who Has A Few Dollars A Possible Customer
I In This Bargain Sale 1
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{§ Every man who has a few dollars is a [Hissiblo customer in this important sale, Bat especial There are 400 acres in this "E. M. Cooke Farm," and, of course, everybody can't bay it. >j
ly the mill men living in the vicinity of this land—the man who iB earning h sidary and can spare There will not be enough to go around, but every man can have a hid on it—it is going at the
a few dollars from it each w»ok, is the one to whom this rare opportunity should most strongly bidder's own price—no matter what it is. Remember you can make a living on this farm, one of
appeal. Wo nil know that in tjie north land nround mill towns is very valuable and we know it the small tracts, or two of them if you are lucky enough to buy two; you can send your children
will be the same here. „ to school and you have a market, and you are dose to three growing towns.
/ We haven't booii in a mill town couutry in many yrars—the industry is just starting in the And remember in this sale, as in no other, the thing not to forget is : The same REASON
South. True it has made wonderful progress, but a few years more and business will be trebled. THAT INDUCED YOU TO BUY WILL INDUCE THE OTHER FELLOW IF YOU WANT
K§ Therefore, wo say that the man living close to this land, wher.> ho can watch it and look after it, TO SELL. The school is going to be there always; the mill is going to be there always but grow- „
jtf ~H n buy it and rent it and still make big money. ing bigger all the time—Graham and Burlington are located for good and growing all the time.
There is a feeling of independence if you own a small farm—more than if you have the same You are WHERE THE LAND MUST INCREASE IN VALUE. You don't have
amount of money in an automobile. You feel tlmt your waalth is increasing—you get busy sav- to wait for all these things to come, they have arrived and values are increasing each year,
ing more money and before you know it you have started 011 the road to fortune and nothing but Young men especially should get busy on some of these valuable bargains and start on the road
deathc ah head you off, to independence.
I Tuesday, March 26,1918, at 10:30 A. M.
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I IS THE DATE
1 The Famous Penny Brothers, thej World's Original Twin Auctioneers,
I - WILL CRY THE SALE |
I Free Transportation—Music by Live-Wire Band—Free Lunch on the
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grounds. Be on hand, don't wait until it is over and then regret it.
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I American Land Company, Agent
I J. M. MILLIKAN, General Manager,
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The Alamance Gleaner, March £l, 1918