River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-02-25
TarpOn Springs ana Seville,

Just opened to travel by Railway and Steam
ooat. PICTURESQUE portion OF Florida
highland crystal Lakes, teeming with fish;
Grand Natural Wooded Parks, where deer,
wild turkey ana other game abound Wing
ed game IA great variety on land and water.
Inc IarPOn Springs Hotel is one Of the
best furnished and appointed houses south
Of Jacksonville, and III all respects will he
kept III hrst-class style. The price psr day
viii be y 90 to 81 80 Special rates will he
made by the month or season. The Tropical
Hotel and the FeTnald House are well and
comfortably kept at price per day OF 81 SO
to - W, with special rates by the month or
season Camp life at TarpOn Springs and
Seville costs about -. 90 per week
These lands berg below the killing frost
lines on the Cult Coast OF uerDauQo and
HlllsbOFO Counties, with direct steam trans
pOTtati0n to all points OF the u. s. make
them especially valuable Tor the production
oi vegetables Tor shipment, from December
until May, to Northern markets, when the
highest prices are obtained. Tomatoes rang
ed the past winter from 81 TO IS per crate Of
three pecks, and other vegetables equally
profitable. Tobacco, rice, sugar cane. All
vegetables, the cereals and grass produces
largely.
II requires but six to eight weeks from
planting TO market tomatoes and other veg
eLables. We have cheaper lands back from
the Gull Coast, aud still cheaper lands IN the
various counties north OF the 2Sth parallel.
where winter vegetables cannot be grown
successfully, and where the orange and 9TH
er fruits occasionally are pinched by the
frost, but the people who Eaye examined our
GULF COAST HIGHLANDS consider them
preferable from every point OF view.
SEVILLE,
is well located, nine miles north OF Taroon
Springs, on the Gull OF Mexico, having a wa
ter front on the Ocean. The land adjoining
and in rear Is high and rolling, having am
elevation OF about hity feet above the ocean
within one and One-half miles. A vessel is
owned and used exclusively for the trade Of
this settlement. Arrangements are being
made Tor the erection OF a hotel in Ocean
Park, Wharves and various other IMPROVE
ments in Seville. The new steamer. finished
III Pittsburgh, Pa, September To- leA5 by
the Gulf Steamship Co, expressly Tor tie
line few miles South and North from Tar
pom Springs, will connect with boats At Tar
pom Springs tor all points.
The soil varies from sandy loan to Lumug.
muck and mari, and is OF durable fertility. as
Will be seen from the large size Of the trees
and the rank growth OF grass in the tim Der.
Water, soft, pure and abundant
Gov. Bioxham says that Florida has DoUB-
LID its resources in FOUR YEARS
I42, 900 settlers have located perrnane.,f1v
in Florida the past TWO YEARS
1884, tourists and winter boaTders regis
tered at the Florida hotels the past winter,
and invested IN the State over 5000, geo dol
lars in four months.
Great inducements in desirable town lots
and and ~ acre plats; also, any size tract
up 10 lO,OOO acres, adapted to colonization:
10 MILES NEARLY SOLID OCEAN FRONT
Several charming town sites, and them
sands OF acres desirable land adjoining.
LlB special inducements TO men Of rneans
and tact, TO organize colonies.
,OOO Acres WelI-watered stock lands
low.
$4,000 Acres best sugar lands in America.
10 acres IN Florida productions yield more
net cash than 100 acres in the North, sown III
grain.
Free transportation by our relate land
tickets.
Offices, Tarpon Springs and Jacksonville
Florida Philadelphia. New York, and ether
points.
We are the exclusive agents and managers
not only IN Florida, but everyw here, of the
6uH coast Reserve, The Lake Butler villa
Co. The CoOtie Land and IMPROVEMENT Co:
also agents tor the Florida Land and Iprrove
ment Co, and Atlantic and Cult Coast Canal
and OkeechObee Land Co. The stock offIe
latter Go. is one Of the best and most secure
investments in AmeTica-secured bv broad
acres Information regarding this stock fur-
nished on application.
send Tor map and new prospectus: also
state exactly what you want, and whether
you can influence capital or emigration.
GULF COAST LAKD COMPANY,
"a Washington st., CHICAGO