The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1882-08-04

will pay him better ultimately than
TO start an orange grove, il he has
the patience, money or other means
to sustain him while he is patiently
and hopefully waiting. Do you
wish to do general tarmingi Go to
Middle or West Florida. The lands
are better in that section for the
purpose than in any other portion
OF the State. Sugar cane, Sea island
cotton, coru, potatoes and indeed
almost everything grown in the
South may be successfully grown
here. The country is sufficiently
undulating to drain it well. The
pastursge for stock is good. Fruit
is raised here to limited extent,
although it is thought that it cannot
I've so successfully grown as to make
II 3 speciality.
Vegetables have also been raised
here to a limited extent and encour-
aging prices obtained for them. Do
you wish to make truck farming a
specialityi Go to South Florida.
That part of the State is now be-
coming a net work of railroads,
which will enable the producer to
get his vegetables into market from
any locality. They can be placed
in northern market at least three
weeks earlier from South Florida
than they can from any other part
OF the State, and almost as early as
those shipped from the West India
islands. Also, for stock raising this
section has advantages over any
other. Extensive plains and
prairies, useless for any other pur-
pose, afford fine pasturage for stock
cattle.
Cuba, which is so near to that
portion OF the State, is now and
always will be an excellaut market
for beef cattle raised there. Large
shipments are made annually and
high prices obtained. Texas caunot
compete with South Florida in the
cattle market. Have you capital
that you wish to invest in Floridai
Put it in a hotel or in an orange
grove that is already hearing.
Either of these Investments have
heretofore paid well. Hotel men,
particularly Oh the st. Johns river,
reap an annual harvest from North.
ern visitors who flock to this State
every winter by the thousand to
escape .ra cold, dreary season at
the NORTH. The hotels are crowded
to overhowing and prices are
charged which admit of a fair
stretch of conscience. Are You n
day laborer, aud is bone, sinew aud
muscle your capitali South Florida,
where they are now building rail.
roads and making other improve.
meuts is the place for You. Good
hands command from one dollar to
one dollar and fifty cents per day /.
| do not think the chances are much
better in that State than they are
elsewhere for day laborers. Ne.
chanics and skilled workmen are
commanding good wages now.
From two to three dollars per day
are paid to such. Ii you are pro.
fessional man, or a man dependant
upon the exercise OF your intellect
for a subsistence would advise you
not to go to Florida at all to abide.
l know of no country where intelli-
gence has so little to do with sue
cess, aud where the demand for
muscle is 30 much greater than for
services that require chiefly the
exercise of the mind. For all such
q much higher estimate is held in
the older States, and the opportu.
mites IN consequence are much bet
ter. One who contemplates going
to new country to live would
naturally want to know, first,
whether it is healthy or mott I
have travelled over a great deal of
the country In South, East and Mid.
die Florida, and can speak from
personal observation. ! know Of no
locality in either Of these sections
that ! consider at all healthy. The
people who live there will tell you
that II is, but their faces, which il
the best evidence. contradict the