Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
A Chance for Enterprising Men.

There has been no period in the history of our
country when capital could be more advantage
ously invested in the South than now The
whole South needs capital, intellect, energy and
persistent effort. We shall speak more particu-
arly OF Florida, as we are better acquainted there
than in any OF the so-called gulf states
In Florida a fortune awaits the man Of capital
who will introduce fine breed of cattle. We be-
lieve there is no better grazing country in the
Union. Cattle live there the year round without
feeding and do remarkably we'll. 1t is true, many
feed their cows the year through with a few ears
Of corn daily, more for the purpose OF getting and
keeping them in the habit Of coming home for
milking than any necessity for feeding them.
Even II they are kept up all the time In ten or
twenty acre lot and fed night and morning. a
large fortune will be the result in few years, as
milk sells readily at t,oenty cents per quart By
locating at Orange Park, only twelve miles from
Jacksonville, directly on the st Johns River. hav-
ing the finest wharf in Florida, with many steam
ers going up and down the river daily, arrange
ments could be made to send the milk to Jack
sonville at an early hour in the morning daily,
which at the above prices would prove very prof
liable as an investment
Again, any one could establish very profitable
business by raising poultry There is no place
like Florida for raising it. The genial climate is
well adapted to the raising OF fowls. The Jack
sonyille market would consume all that could be
raised there for number of years to come.
There are some thirty or forty thousand strangers
every winter boarding in that city, and of course
the demand for poultry is very great. That city
consumes an enormous amount Of meats, poultry,
etc. during the year. Orange Park will, without
doubt, in the not very distant future, become the
Saratoga of the South, it being the only place
that can be reached by carriage road or steamer
within reasonable distance Of the city.
The boulevard now being built Immediately
on the banks OF the St Johns from the city to the
Park will be one of the finest drives in America
the magnificent scenery OF the St. Johns on the
one side and the villas and the long panorama OF
orange groves and vineyards on the other, This
is to be shell road will be as level as floor
and will never be muddy or dusty and every
year, for long time to come, will add to the en-
chanting splendors that environ the road from
the city to the Park.
The magnetic or roaring spring, situated on the
Park, will soon have sanitarium and bathing
rooms and all the appliances OF a rst-cass water
ing place, and the travel between the city and the
Park, on the boulevard, will be simply enormous.
large and nourishing town will rapidly grow
up on the Park, rs large manufacturing estab-
lishment on the place is even now doing thriv-
ing aud lucrative business, and others will be
started in short time.
As fine land, situated on Orange Park on the
St. Johns River, as can be found in Florida, only
twelve miles from Jacksonville, can now be
bought for four dollars per acre, some of it stu
ated about four miles back from the river. At the
Park has been built the finest wharf tho etaie
thirteen hundred and seventy-tive feet into the
river. The roads the Park are level and not
sandy enough TO interfere with travel. Maps
and description OF this property can be seen al
the Office OF this paper, aud all needed informa.
| ton given by the subscriber.
There are also in the state seven million acres
of state lands at seventy cents per acre six hun
| dred thousand school lands at one dollar and a
quarter per acre, and seventeen million acres OF
| United States lands at fourteen dollars for one
hundred and sixty acres, subject to entry only by
| homestead and actual settlement.
JOSHUA BUTTS,
Montpelier, January 49, 1879.