Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
Elowery Florida.

We are allowed to publish the following ex
 tracts from letter written by Preston Hunt,
 son oi Rev. R. Hunt, to Willard Underwood
 ot this place:
 I have wished nigh. ins.uenes yon 1 to come to klorida and make t your home
 doubt not but you have heard much of Florida. l came down in November last
 The principal business is orange culture, which ls very nrotitahle but other fruits are
 raised which hiring as much, such as lemons, i Hines, figs pine apples, pears, citron, cassavs
 etc. All kinds of seui-tropical fruits can be
 raised successfully here, and all of them
 bring big income Naw ityou come here and take up a homestead, or tuv state or
 school laud at Sl % or Sl 25 al. acre, it would
 oe very good investme nt A person has to
 be 2l years ot age ta take up a homestead,
 which IS ldo acres of lsn!, pay SIG to ge, your homestead papers, and live upon the
 lend five years, and then it is yours to do as
 you please with. Now If your father should
 come down here and put up saw mill, plan.
 ing mill, sash and blind factory, any one of
 theIa IS sure success. 1t don cost any
 thing 10 live here; you can raise vegetables
 all the year round, but it costs more to live
 the first year; after hat you are all right
 Ihe natives don't work more tban one day oi the Weck, apd 'u't and fish the rest
 The cilmat" is delightful. I. IS not sJ hot as you would think, berause there is always q
 breeze bowng from the Atlantic or the Gulf
 man came down month after we dld and bought tive acres at $50. an acre; a week ago he was offered S55. more an acre. A man was offered S25O,OOO for 75 acre bearing or. ange grove, Father has bought him two places, aud have homesteaded Gene. is here wlIi, me. I have only one fault to lind, and that is. the lack of good society. The country is filled with class of people who are an indolent lazy, shiitless class, who don't know anything buE snot gun and deer, and they don't care to know any more. They would net have any schoole here lf they eaai.l helol It, We do'.'' aava sn ything to do with
 '!n, and it Is better not to. hey don't like us Yankees" "d-d Yankees" as they call ! us, The better class of the South are tho ! most hospltanle people in the world Nop need not be afraid ot your lite, no one will trouble you.
 Some that come here wish to buy an i'm. proved place, which saves them much labor and expense. There are two improved home- steads fronting on the lake, V hich are of ex telient quality of land. They are owned by two men. Gus can be bought the improve ment for from S20o to $500, which is cheap l u Las three acres of hammock cleared. and one of piue land, has good house and crib , he other has house and two acres or ham, mock, and small deadening. fhis can be bought for S100 The former has 7U acres ii, Ill, the latter lG0. Both places are good. a~d 1 VIII be bought ont soon, l think, tor paonl re coming into the State ;.ll the tine t
 1 could help to locate a hundred families ear me five could form settle rent here would be the means of bringing others to ! am situated on one of the most beauti Il lakes in Florida, everyone savs so that ees it. We have got some of the best ouali. y of land here. The prices of improved land re rising every year because the demand is | creasing Improved lands which have ater fruits bring the highest price,
 Now you may stay in Canaan as long as 'u please, earn $I a day, pay your expens. / ! for society. clothes and "fodder," md \ hat have you left at the end of the year !? re ere the rich and poor dress just alike; you W mt nesdtine clothes Here there is no n,