Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-11-18

just opened to travel by railway and steamboat.
PIcruREsQuE portion Of Florida. Highland crys-
tai lakes teeming with fish; grand natural wood
ed parks, where deer, wild turkey and other
game abound. Winged game in great variety
on land and water.
The Tarpon Springs Hotel is one of the best
furnished and appointed houses eouth Of Jack
sonville, and in oil respects will be kept In first
class style. The prices per day will be 500
and $3.50. Special rates will be made BY the
month or season. The Tropical Hotel and the
Fernald House are well and comfortably kept at
rates by the month or season. Camp life At
Tarpon Springs and Seville costs about $500 per
week.
These lands being below the killing frost lines
on the Gulf coast Of fernando and Hillsboro
counties, with direct steam transportation to all
points Of the U. g., make them especially valua~
bic for the production OF vegetables for ship
ment, from December until May, to Northern
markets, when the highest prices are obtained.
Tomatoes ranged the past winter from IS to IS
equally profitable. Tobacco. rice. sugar cane.
oil vegetables, the cereals and grass produce
largely.
It requires but six to eight weeks from plant
ing to market tomatoes and other vegetables.
We have cheaper lands back from the Gulf coast,
and still cheaper lands in the various counties
north Of the Goth parallel, where winter vegetar
bles cannot be grown successfully, and where
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
Springs, on the Gulf of Mexico, having water
front on the ocean. The land adjoining and in the
rear is high and rolling, having IN elevation Of
about fifty feet above the ocean within one and
one-half miles. A vessel is owned and used ex-
preesly for the trade of this settlement. Ar
hotel In Ocean Park, wharves and other Va
rions improve ments in Seville. The new steam
er finished in Pittsburg, Pa, September Is, 1885,
hy the Cult 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 durable fertility, as
will be eeen from the large size Of the trees and
the rank growth Of grass in the timber.
Water soft, pure and abundant.
Gov BloA ham says that Florida has DOUBLED
its resources in FOUR YEARS.
40 000 settlers have located perma-
lfl,VUU nently in Florida the past TWO.
years.
1874 000 tourists and winter bo.rders
1Of,UOV registered at the Florida hotels
the past winter, and invested in the state over
$4,000, 900 In four months.
Great inducements in desirable town lots and
Ave and ten acre plats; Also any size tract up to
10000 acres, adapted to colonization; Is NILES
NEARLY SOLID OCEAN FRONT.
Several charming town rites and thousands Of
acres Of desirable land adjoining.
~ Special inducements to men of means
and tact, to organize colonies.
100000 1 1sEs' well "''e''o stock lands
$4,000 acres best sugar lands In America.
10 acres In Florida productions yield more net
cash th:n 100 sores In the north. sown in grain.
Free transportation by our rebate land tickets
Offices, Tarpon Springs and Jacksonville, Fla;
Philadelphia, New York and other points.
We are the exclusive agents and managers, not
only in Florida, but everywhere, OF the Gu;f
Coast Reserve, the Lake Butler Villa Co., the
Cootie Land and improvement Co.: also agents
for the Florida Land and Improvement Co., and
Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal and Okecchobee
Land Co. The stock Of the latter company is
one OF the bert and most secure Investments in
America-eccured by broad acres. Information
regarding this stock furnished on application.
Send for map and new prospectus; also state
exactly what you want and whether you can in
Auence capital or emigration.
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