Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1859 — Northern Indiana Lands. [ARTICLE]

Northern Indiana Lands.

We coppy the following article from the New AJbany Tribune. The Carpenter’s Creek -egion of which it speaks is in the southern part of this county, and the land is all the Trftiune claims for it: “The farming lands of Northern Indiana are.it is well known, unsurpassed by any in the United States, but even the best of our Indiana lands havfc been, until within to? past few years, alm'ost unnoticed by the wes- ' tern emigrant. The New Albany and Salem Railroad, stretching as it does through a range of country north of Lafayette on to Lake Michigan, has done much to develop the resources of the flue extent of country which it traverses; as, for instance, the fertile lands in the counties of White and Pulaski, and around Brookston and Francesville, and other towns on the road. A new Railroad, intersecting the New Albany and Salem road at Reynolds, in White county, and running from Logansport west to Middleport, Illinois, is now nearly completed. The cars will be running upon it in December next. The .oad, while it forms another connecting link between the East and West, will also do much to develop and expand the resources of Northern Indiana. It passes over a region of country not excelled anywhere in fertility and fittness lor farming ■ purposes. It must become the garden of Indiana. We allude to the scope of country west of Reynolds, and which is watered by Carpenter’s Creek. It is already rapidly rising in value. Since the completion of the railroad has been insured, the .armors in that vicinity have been seeking to purchase all the adjoining lands. Towns are springing up. Eligible sites near the railroad are sought after, and the spirit of improvement is pervading the entire country a.ound. Those of our citizens who have purchased lands around Carpenter’s Grove (and we understand there is quite a colony of settlers from New Albany in that vicinity,) will make a handsome profit upon their investments. If any man wants a good farm, good society and railroad facilities, he will do well to take the cars of the New Albany and Salem railroad, and look at the region of country we have described, before he starts for the unsettled Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He will find in our State of Indiana just what he wants.