The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-28

men in New York, thinks this road will be soon
finished, not only to connect Tallahassee with
the Gnlf but will continue to Thomasvile
and the North. Captain Slusser owns ten acres
in the city limits, east, beautiful grassy slope
carpeted with green, shaded with oaks, and cir
cled with running water from perennial springs.
This lot he will present to anybody who will
sipulate to build thereon large hotel or other
public building. Hundreds who came to winter
here last season were turned back for want of
hotel. accommodations the comfortable St.
James and the Leon being full to overlooking.
RED, GREEN AND BLACK.
Such are the solid cOlOrs Leon county unfurls,
and will march under to great future. They
are the richest colOrs Of all the list 1t is mag
nificent picture, the dark, glossy green of trees
and grass the rich, red subsoil through which
the roads cut a hard, smooth surface, on which
hoof and wheel fairly ring as they go bowling
along and the heavy black alluvum, or
upper soil, which will produce anything
that grows, from pecan tree to Il potato
vine The contrast of the deep, red clay
highways with the green fields and rolling
meadows on either side, is landscape that can
not be surpassed. Some blink-eyed toad, croak-
ing from his mud hole in the boys, may say
these mountain ranges are too warmly drawn,
but no pencil can portray the loneliness OF these
landscapes. If in any case these feeble descrip-
tons do not agree with a tanner or more glow
ing view, the reader will recognize the fact that
siOns on different visitors. AS no two specta-
tors see the same rainbow, so must each traveller
walk in world OF his own.
Hon. II. b. German, Mayor of Tallahassee,
gentleman of taste and culture, who has visited
many States, awards this section the palm He
thinks the orange fever, which has long entced
immigration to South Florida exclusively, is
about subsldng and that Middle Florida will
hereafter welcome and hold the better class of
newcomers. The pear crop, he says, is more
certain and more valuable than oranges, since
the latter fail year in three or four while the
harder pear is certainty year after year, can
stand winter and summer, growing better as it
grows older, and is good for 5000 to $500 per
acre. He matches the pear groves of Middle
against the orange groves of South Florida,
satisfied that the former will win in the long run
with bonus of fifty per cent. left over The
one, he adds, comes to maturity earlier
at smaller outlay, the latter takes seven or
eight years to mature at cost OF $500 an acre.
There are certainly no handsomer groves than
the tall, graceful fruitful pear orchards all round
Tallahassee.
Tallahassee's population is about $500. The
State House is spacious building, the front
supported by immense white pillars, on the Gen.
trail crest OF one of many hills. Theee large
weekly newspapers supply the local need, to-
wit: the FLoRIDIAN by those sturdy Democrats,
J. w. Dorr and N NJ. Bowen the 1aUaaasseean,
by r. Don Mcleod, also Democratic Ito all of
whom / am under obligations for courteses),
and the Capital, a Republican organ on its first
legs. Leading Democrats here think it will ex-
ert but small influence, as hundreds of the col
ored people are satisfied with the Democratic
administrations, State and Federal. The great
majority of them look only to substantial results,
and care nothing for politics beyond such con-
sentative government as will insure them In
their rights. They are generally doing well,
and the races are on the best terms, number Of