The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-06-18
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that you will conduct your paper so.
Tell the people facts. Your items
about the prosperity of settlers is
what they want to know. 1t is for.
tunate IN our makeup we are in
clined to reason: "What man has
done man can do" Another thing,
don't encourage families coming here
from the north without anything.
We don't want a class of paupers
here with nothing to help themselves
with, and it is running too large
chance to land in a community with
a family and not dollar to buy even
what they have got to have IN the
next few hours, else starve, therefore,
are obliged to accept charity from
the community. If men want to
come here without money advise
them, by all means, to leave their
families, if it need be, in the county
houses of the north, rather than
make them burden on few in our
newly-settled towns. The settlers
in all new countries are poor in mon
ey and generally every family has all
of its resources taxed to keep above
debt. / have advised hundreds who
have written about coming to Orange
Park to settle, "don't come to Florida,
or any other new country unless you
scan land here with from $500 TO 5000
ito help you get started in your new
nome" No doubt many think they
can struggle through, but it is
hard struggle to go into the wild
woods and reduce new sand to cult
vation and nothing to help you buy
tools, seed, etc. 1t is done, but men
want to understand it is not telegraph
operators, dentists, jewelers., or any
other class of light mechanics OF
professional men that can do it sue.
.cessfully. There is one thing in
favor of new settlers coming to
Florida; little money can be 50
judiciously used as to go a great
ways in starting home.
want your readers to fully under
stand / am not frowning on those
who are poor, but / am giving them
advice, and every new conner to this
State will assent to its truth fulness,
and we, who have cast in our lot
as Floridians, feel we would much
rather not have new corners or adj
venturers who are gong, in too many
cases. to make failures, and, in time,
90 out of the State on a charity
ticket or on foot, cursing Florida.
While no state III the Union stands
ready to-day to welcome new settlers
with more cordiality and interest
than the present progressive old
8 new =" settlers of this State, and we
fully appreciate that the success OF
this State as we have mapped out 1or
it's future, will be due almost entirely
to the influx of northern capital, en-
terprise and progressive ideas, the
best evidence of the chance Of sue
cess in this new field is to look over
the State, I say over the State, not
any so-called belt or section, and see
the homes that are being developed
and many of them already are
yielding a permanent competency for
life, and from reliable information
through our transportation compa-
MES, county assessors, ETC., find the
per centage of back.outs is very
small when we see the numbers who
are coming into the State. With
such paying field crops as sugar cane,
tobacco, sea-island cotton and rice
for the substantials; garden vegeta-
bles, strawberries, etc. for pin money
and extras then comes what all may
have that is better than a life insur-
ance policY-an orange grove to fall
back on for the future. We cannot
help but feel this State has many in
ducements to offer all who are seek
ing new homes, especially in mild