The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-03-23

white and 3,2l3 were black. Judg.
ing from the number OF Immigrants
that have gone into the county this
past fall and winter, the white popu.
lation must now be about 5000.
The Circuit Court calender tor
1880 had sixty criminal, thirty.eight
civil and forty.nine chancery cases on
docket.
Live Oak, the county seat, is at
the junction of the Savannah, Florida
& Western, and the Jacksonville,
Pensacola 81 Mobile Railroads, and
at the half way point between Talla-
hassee aud Jacksonville. The sur.
rounding county is pine woods, with
sandy soil. Clay crops out in many
places, and could be made very valu-
able for grading the streets and
roads. The soil looks to be poor;
but with a little manure and good
cultivation prodaces excellent crops.
There are a number.of market gar.
dens in the vicinity and great quan.
titles Of vegetables are shipped from
this point to northern markets. Itis
claimed that Live Oak has popula.
tior OF 800. There are thirteen gen
eral stores, two drug stores, one bill
Hard saloons, one newspaper, The
Bulletin, all printed at home, seven
lawyers, two physicians, two hotels,
two saw and griSt mills, two cotton
gins, one turpentine distillery, three
churches-Baptist, Methodist and
Presbyterian; good school house and
schools, two blacksmith one wagon,
two boot and shoe, aud one gun
shops, a two story framed court
house, a jail, several respectable store
buildings and a numb, rot nice resi-
dences. The town Is spread over a
good deal of ground. The inhabi-
tants are kind and courteous, and
seem determined to lhake Live Oak
a nice little city.
Houston is six miles east OF Live
/ Oak. on the, raSr1s g s.sI r. isas sr',s
rounded by gOod (some say the
best in the country farming country.
There are some beautiful lakes in the
vicinity containing an abundance of
excellent fish. There are some fine
springs near town. 1t contains a
good depot bnilding, two stores, a
drug store, church, school house and
a physician. No liquor is sold in
the place it is a real temperance
! town.
Welborn is twelve miles east of
Live Oak. IUcontains four stores,
one drug store, two physicians, two
churches-Methodist and Baptist-a
grist mill and cotton gin and good
school house and school. There is
rather a nice country around the
town and some line hammock lands.
There are several beautiful lakes in
the vicinity that afford excellent fish
ing. Quite number OF people from
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, have set
tied at and near the town.
Rixford four miles north of Live
Oak, contains two large turpentine
distilleries, a store and post oficd.
Paddock j. fiva m;les south ol Live
Oak, and connected with a ''Ian
road" or wooden railroad. 1t con-
tains a general store, two turpentine
distilleries, a grist mill and cotton
gin.
Twelve miles west OF Live Oak, on
the banks of the Suwannee river, is
the site OF the once grand little city
of Columbia. 1t was once a stirring
little place, put on Metropolitan airs,
and wanted to be the territorial and
State Capitol OF Florida. Being at
the head of navigation on the Suwan-
nee river, its citizens considered that
it must become the commercial en-
porium tor large section of country
Her people neglected to improve
the advantages that nature had given
them, erected no manufactures, gave
no encouragement to industries and
educated mechanics and laboring
men, consequently had nothing to
sustain her when the hand OF the de-
stroyer came, and she fell beneath
the blows. A big sweet orange tree,
said to be the largest in the State
an old building or two, and some
earth works is all there is to mark
the spot where once stood the grand
little city.