The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-04-17

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FINER CLIMATE THAN ITALY'S
Correspondence of the Courier Journal
TALLAHASSEE, FLA, March 27.-No
State in the Union is exciting at present
so widespread and lively interest as the
State of Florida. Every days mail pours
into the two Offices of the Bureau Of I'm
migration at Tallahassee and Jacksonville
a perfect flood of inquiries The great
majority of these letters are answered off.
hand by simply mailing copies of the Of
fetal pamphlet, " The Resources and Nat
nral Advantages of the State of Florida. :"
This pamphlet, which is bulky one, and
which contains, by the way, the largest
and most accurate map of the State
which have seen, is sent to all applicants
who inclose six cents for postage to the
Commissioner of Immigration at Tallahas-
see. What proportion these inquiries
form Of the total mass of correspondence
relative to the State addressed TO newspa-
per editors and private persons as well, it
is of course impossible to estimate.
Nor is there any State of the Union
about which there is greater conflict Of
opinions as to its character and prospects.
1t is not uncommon for the visitor, return
ing northward from his winter trip. to
hear in the same Car one man expressing
the most unbounded enthusiasm for the
State, its beauty, its salubrity and its GER
taintv of future wealth and another de-
claring with equal emphasis that $4,000
year would not hire him to live in a re-
gion so forlorn. The latter has seen moth
ing but everlasting stretches of sombre
pine forest and barren sand, fever-haunted
cypress swamps, mosquitoes, fleas and
snakes not flower or bttterfy, hardly
ever bird or beast, the very hunting
and fishing, for which so much is claimed,
being according to this disappointed skep-
tic, only humbug and sham. His
Deighbor across the aisle, on the contrary,
is voluble in praise Of the romantic and
bewitching scenery, the teeming fora and
fauna, and the sport, such as the votary
of rod and gun can find nowhere else in
the universe. He has not heard the hum
of a mosquito, and is prepsred to question
whether there are any more snakes in
Florida than in the island of ST. Patrick.
The only thing they can agree about is
the climate There is no discounting that.
The winter sunshine and the equable tenn
perature are as near
PERFECT AS THEY CAN BE MADE.
And both in a measure are right. Flor
ida is an immense State, filing as large a
space upon the map as all New England,
ami embracing a wide diversity of soil
and products. There are sections which
will grow in luxuriance corn and oats,
grass, cotton and tobacco; and others
whose soil is totally unfit for general ag-
riculture, and will, only with the help of
abundant commercial fertilizers, produce
sub-tropical fruits like the orange and
lemon. The picturesque chill country
Of Florida, from which / write, is as TO-
tally different in it's way from the sandy
"orange belt " of the Upper St. Johns,
or the hammock lands of the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts, where / have spent previous
winters, as the farming region along the
line of the New York Central Railroad is
from the alluvial bottoms of Mississippi
and Louisiana.
The opinion, moreover, which the
chance visitor will form of Florida is
very much matter of individual idiosyn-
Grassy. Going over with me the other
day in the stage to Thomasville, Ga,
was lively produce dealer of New York
city, who did not believe that State
could "amount to" anything where the
mercury was not below freezing about
half the year. "Inever feel 90 we'll, - said
he, as when am butting against . stiff
snow storm with my ulster over my ears. "
There are men of this temperament who
are completely Indifferent TO the weather.
They do not notice whether the sun
shines or not They may have sense
enough to come in when it rains, but il
they do so it is purely for utilitarian rea-
sons. There are others who are extreme
ly susceptible to the skiey influences. A
rainy day gives them ct of the blues.
When the sun bursts through the clouds
there is an acceleration Of the pulse, the
lungs draw deeper breathe, the spirits rise
and with them the vital force Of energy.
Such persons, under the bright sky Of
Florida, will be apt to see everything
" couleur de rose"
And after all is said shout the varied
attractions of the State, the climate is
certainly the great thing, and viii per
haps prove aprincipal source of its wealth.
It makes il, as II is often called, the It
ally Of America" As such, the State 1t
tracts and win continue 70 attract IN
ever-increasing ttreamof pleasure seekern,
OF fashionable loungers and Of invalids
But this expression dos not dc jnstfce 70
Florida. Ithas : climate fnf inose 1qun-
BILE and salnbrious than that o. ltaly. It
near enough 70 give keea Adfa .tp il
northern breexes 20 Desert 81 SAHARA
TO the south TO intensity tie snlantr lst
Forsthe delicate thf0at nna lnn e n II
winter the safest clielnte ii 80 Notl an0
- for the summers thsy ssy thoy age, il
possible,
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