Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-11-11
Tarpon Springs and Seville,

inst opened to travel by railway and steamboat
PICTURESQUE portion Of Florida. Highland crys-
tul hikes teeming with fish; grand natural wood
ed pnrka, where deer, wild turkey and other
game abound. Winged game in great variety
on land and water.
The Turpon Springs Hotel is one Of the best
furnished and appointed houses south OF Jark.
vile. and in all respects will be kept in fret
class style. The prices per day will be $2.OO
and 80 50. Special rates will be made by the
month or srason. The Tropical Hotel and the
FernaIh Nru4e are well and comfortably kept al
. price per day OF 81 to $500, with special
rates b. the month or fearon. Camp life q,
Tarpon Springs and Seville costs about 100 pei
week.
These lands being below the killing frost lines
on the Gulf coast OF fernando and IIillsboro
counties, with direct steam transportation to all
points Of the u $ make them especially valna
Bile for the production Of vegetables for ship.
ment, from De- ember until May, to Northern
markets, when the highest prices nre obtained.
Tomatoes ranged the past winter from SO to SIS
per crate Of three pecks and other vegetables
equally profitable. Tobacco, rice, sugar cane,
all vegetables, the cereals and grass produce
largely.
1t requires but six to eight weeks from plant
ing to market tomatoes and other vegetables.
We have cheaper land. back from the Gulf coast,
and still cheaper lands In the various counties
north Of the Goth parallel, where winter vegeta-
the orange and other fruits occasionally are
pinched by the frost, but the people who have
examined our GULF COAST HIGHLANDS, consider
them preferable from every point Of view.
SEVILLE
is we'll located, nine miles north Of Tarpon
Springs, on the Gulf Of Mexico, having water
front on the The land ad Looming and In the
rrur il high and rolling, having an elevation of
about nifty feet above the ocean within one and
onc-haif miles. vessel is owned and used ex-
prcssy for the trade Of this settlement. Ar
Judgements are being made for the erection OF a
hotel in Ocean Park, wh"rves and other va
rions improve mcnts in Seville. The new steam.
tr finished In Pit,sburg, Pa, September IS, 1885,
hy the Gnif Steamship Co., expressly for the line
few miles south and north from Tarpon
Springs, will connect with boats at Tarpon
Springs for all points.
The soil varies from sandy loan to humus,
muck and mari, and Is Of dura le fertility, as
VIII he seen from the large size OF the trees and
the rank growth Of grass in the timber.
Wafer soft, pnrc aud abundant.
Gov Bio han sny- that Florida has DOUBLED
IT. r sources in FOUR YEARS.
142 600 s.tt . have 1,,,, located cate perm ma
100000 tourists ted and ,s wI T.d Ses sc's
the p"-t wut, T. and invested in the state over
IS. O''uOrO H. four months.
Great inducements in desirable town lots and
five ami ten acre platS: aso any size tract up t"
10 ono ncrcs, adapted to colOnizatiOn; Is MILES
NEARLY SOLID OCEAN FRONT.
&C era! charming town sites and thousands OF
If desirable land adjoining.
-" Special Inducements to men Of means
,mt, ~ 0-yauiZr colonies.
500, 600 i Asts' we'll ""'e's' stock lands
3',tOn acres beat sugar lands In America.
10 in Fori'In productions. yield more net
cash IN IN 100 acres III thu north, sown in grain.
Free IRA sp"rtation by our rebate laad tickets.
Nrrs, Tar,",G Springs and jacksonville, Fla.
Philsd,,hn, New York aud other points.
We the OK, lusiv. agents and managers. not
only In Florida. hut every where. OF the Gull
Cast Reserve, the Lake Butler Villa Co., the
Cn'tic Land and Improvement Co.: also agents
for the Fl"rila Land and improvement Co., and
Atlantic and Gnlf Coast Canal and Okeechobee
Lar Co. Th. stock OF the latter company IL
one IL the best and most secure Investments IN
Amcrira--srcurcd by broad acres. Informati..n
Regarding this stock furnished on application.
Send for map and new prospectus: also state
exactly What you want, and whether you can in
lu-nrr rari;al or emigration.
Addr. IS:
GIII,R C0AST LAND Company