Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-04-02
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Press nd D.sota,sn: We VIII begin,
as people generally do, ny a few wejehty
observations "a the weather March
has averaged mnoh colder mere than
either OF the winter months, yet has lot
had o frost. Nav and then d coot,
bracing north Wind makes peo,Yle put
on extra wraps for u day or two, and the
mercury gets down to fifty or soyty-fve
degrees, but no v getation is ii.juted.
Tue flower Rarieup ers in their glory all
these months, while the most nnexpect-
ed numbers of norsherners have filled
the state. would just like to lint at
the names CT cores of choice flowers
thas bi..nied freely oil through, but it
is not best. 10 regard to roses alone /
mey say that the magnificent varieties
and tho constant heavy blooming of
hundreds OF sorts, in the common GER
dens of this town for several months
past EXCEL ell / ever before saw in the
rose line elsewhere. Tuberoses have
been shipped to Boston by hundreds,
the grand heads OF flowers being cut and
packed in these gardens in January OF
whenever thsy bloom.
The markets are we'll filed with fresh
Notwithstanding, onions, swset pota-
toes, cabbage, &c. The orange groves
began blooming in January, two months
ahead If the usual time. and while an
immense crop of fruit has set. there are
hosts of later trees still loaded with
flowers and buds The crop of next
season will greatly exceed q y previous
crop in the state. All the other re.
sources OF the people promise excellent
success.
The sudden change here from depres-
sion and a general lack of confidence to
the present exhilsrated feeling, amounts
to q regular boom. Only last fall the
yellow fever scare, the short orange
crop, the dullness OF real estate and the
lying prophecies of general stagnation
beeause We voted prohibition, all were
used by the croakers to destroy COAT.
dence and repsl prosperity. But it
came in spite of them oil.
Six manthss ago, for instance, many
were saying: They won't venture t aopen
the Seminole hotsi at Winter Park thie
season. Times are too hard. No tour
lists coming TO SPEAK of. If prohibition
is carried the hotel-mansgars will throw
up their lease" Bat the honse opened
its $50 rooms at the usual high rates
and they were soon ali taken. About
4OO guests constantly have enjoyed the
beauties OF that famous new resort, and
from ten to thirty telegraphic appliea.
tions Tor rooms are daily refused. When
the long train of coaches arrives cpd the
brakeman shouts Winter Park more
than half the occupants in each Cur rise
and swarm ont to 60 to the Seminole,
while an equal number are OF the plat.
form, luss leaving for Kissimmes, Or
lando. Tampa, Cnba or their northsrn
homes.
All other to wns with itst class hotels
have been like over run beyond expec-
tatlon. Ono or two new hotels will
be built at Einter Park probably sur
passing the five story Seminole. to pre-
pare for the boom of next winter; for a
boom it will be, as we Judge from a. hos
Of favorable signs. The bitter complaints
OF those who suffered cold weather in
CALIFORNIA, WILDWOOD aud coal SIX times
as dear as here the delight and s~atisfac
tiop expressed by all these visitors while
here, the rapid extension OF railroads
and promised erection Of immense new
hotels. and the terrible sf1iction of the
winter throughout every part of the
union except here, these things assure
as that the best times this state has eve,
seen will be far excelied this next year,
Winter park is q new village OF beau
tiful homes among pine woods and lakes
four miles from Orlando, with u great
hotel and an excellent college under New
England management. The place I have
bought for q home and to-day secured q
deed for, is q mile this side OF that town
and has so many advantages. of school
LAKE front, good soil, fine grove OF young
orange trees, two railroads very near,
nominal taxation, and excellent neigh
bors, that after eight months time to
deliberate, | am satisfied that it is q
good purchase at six hundred dollars
per acre. bad hardly closed the trade
verbally, when a tourist at the Seminole
tried to secure Owe three acres OF it at
the rate OF seven hundred. There is
heavy hard wood and pine forest within
two minutes walk Of my place, held at
LOCO dollars per acre. 1t is impossible
to explain such prices to distant friends
but the one learns OF all the facts
by living here, the more these prices are
justified.
There are nj buildings on my place
and for the present we rent an attractive
home in this city ct a low figure. All the
household articles shipped from Yanktor
came in good order and are now in use.
ne week Q my family arrived here
from Denver. Mrs. B. went thither Jan,
llth to visit her parents and eight
brothers and sisters. During her viei.
she was Frustrated by q dangerous attack
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