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      To the capitalist, the lands of this Company offer a safe and paying investment. A rapid enhancement in their value is inevitable, and large profits are certain to be realized. It is a well established fact that the wealth of this country is largely due to the rise in the value of real estate. Many persons have acquired fortunes within the course of a few years by judicious investments in Western lands. No former period was ever more favorable for such investments. The Union Pacific and branch railroads already intersect these lands and other railroads are projected and in progress of construction. Emigration from the Eastern states and from Europe is largely in advance of any previous year, and is steadily increasing in numbers and improving in the character of the emigrants. Money invested in lands at the present low rates can not fail to produce, in the course of three or four years, a profit of from one hundred to five hundred per cent. To the mechanic or laboring man, who by a careful economy is able to lay by a small annual saving, the long credit system presents a rare opportunity to secure a home and make provision for the future support of himself and family. The money placed in land is not affected by "revulsions" nor liable to the fluctuations of "stocks." The credit system gives the man of limited means an equal chance with the capitalist to avail himself of the present low prices, and by the payment of a small annual sum to become in five years the owner of a farm and the possessor of a competence and independence for all future time.

      Among the advantages of settling upon the lands now offered for sale by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, it may be stated that the climate is healthful and temperate, the Winters short, the atmos-

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      phere pure and salubrious, the soil deep, rich and productive, with a retentive subsoil, containing the most fertilizing properties. Springs and streams are numerous, the rolling surface secures drainage and prevents stagnation. The greater part of the land is prairie, and ready at once for the plow, requiring but one year to open a farm. Wood is found in quantities sufficient for the purpose of fuel, and timber grows with great rapidity. Efficient herd laws render fencing unnecessary. Osage Orange is easily grown, and in three years forms a hedge sufficient to turn stock. All the productions of the Middle and Eastern states are raised in abundance. By soil and climate these lands are admirably adapted to wheat growing, producing a greater average yield per acre than any other State. For STOCK-RAISINIG, in all its branches, this section is unsurpassed. The Union Pacific Railroad, extending through the State, connecting these lands with the great mineral districts of Colorado, Idaho and Montana, and with markets of the East, furnishes unprecedented facilities for the shipment of stock and the disposal of the productions of the farm at home and abroad. The liberal provision made for education, the freedom from State debt, the rapidity with which this section is settling, the numerous towns and villages springing up along the line of the railway, offering inducements to the merchant and mechanic, render this country a most desirable location for the industrious man of limited means to secure a comfortable home and acquire competence, independence and position.