Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-01-06
TheCQlf CoaStof Florida
Tarpon Springs and Seville,

just opened to travel by railway and steamboat.
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 south OF Jack
soIville. and in ali respects will he kept In fret
claes etyle. The prices per day will be $500
aud $3.50. Special rates will be made by the
month or season. The Tropical Hotel and the
Fernald House are we'll aud comfortably kept at
price per day OF $3.50 to $500, with .pecta!
rates BY the month or eeaeon. Camp life at
Tsrpon Springs and Seville costs about $500 per
week.
These lands being below the killing froet lines
ON the Gulf coast Of fernando and Htllsboro
counties, with direct steam transportation to all
bic for the production Of vegetables for ship
ment, from December until May, to Northern
markets, when the highest prices ire obtained.
Tomatoes ranged the past winter from IS to g.
Dor crate Of three pecks, and other vegetables
equally profitable. Tobacco, rice. sugar cane,
oil vegetables, tho 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 vegets-
bles cannot be grown successfully. aHd where
the orange and other fruits occasionally are
Dinched BY the frost, but the people who have
examined our GULF COAST HiaHLANDs, consider
them preferable from every point Of view.
SEVILLE
lie we'll located, nine miles north OF Tarpon
Springs, on the Gulf Of Mexico, having water
front on the ocean. The land adjoining and In tho
rear IL high and rolling, having an elevation of
about 1rty feet above the ocesn within one and:
one-haN miles. A vesrel is owned and used tx
presely for the trade Of this eettlement Ar
hotel in Ocean Park, whnrves and other ~
RON. improve mcnts in Seville. The new steam
or finished In Pitssburg, Pa, Septe mber ID, 1885,
ny the Gulf Steamship Co., expressly for the line
a few miles south and north from Tsrpon
Springs, will connect with boats at Tsrpon
Springs for all points.
The soil varies from candy loan to humus,
muck and mari, and is Of durs 10 fertility, 40
will be reen from the large size Of the trees and
the rank growth of grass In the timber.
Wuter soft, pure ard abundant.
Gov. Blo>h says that Florida has DOUBLED
it, resources in FOUR YEARS.
40 000 settlers have located perus-
lfZ,UUU uently in Florida the past rwo
years.
ia ono tourists and winter bo.rde.s
lOf,VVV rr2irtered At the Florida hotels
the past wintrr. and invested In the state over
$e.N,0, 900 ~ four months.
Crest inducements In desirable town lots and
five and ten acre piats: aIso any size tract mp to
10000 acres, adapted To colonization; 10 NILES
NEARLY SOLID OCEAN FRONT.
se!cral charming town rites and Thousands Of
acres of deeirable land adjoining.
a. Special inducements to men Of means
ami tact, to organize colonies.
100000 is~: well "'''''' stock lands
10000 acres best sugar lands in America.
10 acres Ia Florida productions yield more net
cash th'n 100 acres In the north, sowu in grain.
Free transportation by our rebate LAID tickets.
Oitices, Tarpon Springs and Jacksonville, Fla;
Philadelphia, New York and other points.
We are the exrlusiv. agents and manayrrs, not
only IN Florida. but everywhere. Of the Gnif
C"art 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 Cosst Csnsl and Okeeehobee
Land Co. The stock OF the latter company 10
one Of the beet and most secure Investments In
America-eecured 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
Au~nce capital or emigration.
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