Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-03-10
Opinion of Florida after q Visit
over the State.
TheCulf C0aSt0f Florida

The C0aStofFl0rid
lands, salt and fresh water lakes, sponge, oyster
and other fisheries, mineral springs and
UNEQUALLED CLIMATE,
balmy breezes, charming scenery, tropical fruits,
winter vegetables and tropical fruits of all kinds,
paying $500 to 5000 per acre. No KILLING
FRosTs OR MALARIA.
TaTpon Springs and Seville,
just opened to travel by railway and steamboat.
P1cruREsQuE portion of Florida. Highland crys-
tai lakes teeming with fish; grand natural wood
cd parke, 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 south of Jack
sonville, and in all respects will be kept in first
class style. The prices per day will be $500
aud $26O. Special rates will be made by the
month or season. The Tropical Hotel and the
Fernald House are we'll and comfortably kept at
4 price per day Of $3.50 to $500, with special
rates by the month or season. Camp life ut
Tarpon Springs and Seville costs about 200 per
week.
These lands being below the killing frost lines
on the Gulf coast of fernando and Hllsboro
counties, with direct steam transportation to all
points of the U. S., make them especially vaua.
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 S. to $8
per crate Of three pecks, and other vegetables
equally profitable. Tobacco, rice. sugar cane.
ali 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 vegeta-
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 an elevation OF
about fifty feet above the ocean within one and
onc-half miles, A vessel is owned and used ex-
pressly for the trade of this settlement Ar
engagements are being made for the erection OF
hotel in Ocean Park, wharvcs and other va
riuua improve mcnts in Seville. The new steam
IT finished in Pittsburg, Pa, September Is, 1885,
by the Cult Steamship Co., expressly for the line
few miles south and north from Tarpon
S,,ugs, 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
WA he recn from the large size OF the trees and
the rank growth Of grass in the timber.
Wafer soft. pure and abundant.
Gov BloA ham says that Florida has DOUBLED
IT,,
40 000 settlers have located perma-
lfZ.UUV nentIy in Florida the past TWO
y..i.s
1ei nO0 tourists and winter boarde,'
lt-f.COV registered ut the Florida hotels
i!,r past winter. and invested in the state over
q shA,,'nO IL four months.
Great Inducements in desirable town lots and
y" ANA ten acre plats: also any siz" tract mp to
5000 acres, adapted to colonization; 1t MILES
>ti"il SOLID OCEAN FRONT.
e rr:,i charming town rites and thousands Of
,.r"~ 81 d. sirable land adjoining.
- Special Inducements to men OF means
tact, t. organize colonies.
100000 1""' well "''s's' stock lands
$4,000 ncrcs best sugar lands 10 America.
10 aclc- ia Florida productions yield more net
..n-t: ,i. 100 in the north sown In grain.
Free transportation by our rebate land tickets.
O'iccs, Tnrpou Springs and Jacksonville, Fla;
phi!adrlphiu, New York and other points.
VIZ are the exclusiv. agents and managers, not
only IN Florida. but everywhere. OF the Gulf
COAT Reserve, the Lake Butler Villa Co., the
Cootic Land and Improvement Co.: also agents
for the Florida Land and improvement Co., and
Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal and Okeechobee
Lard Co. The stock OF the latter company is
one Of the best and most secure Investments In
America-secured by broad acres. Information
regarding this stock furnished on application.
Send for map and new prospectus; also state
exartly what Won want and whether can In
nuencc capital or emigration.
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