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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07
PALM ETTO.
important Shipping Centre on North
Side of Manatee River.

The first stop the Seaboard Air Line
town of Palmetto, situated on the north
side of the river. Palmetto has always
been doing a smafl trucking business, but
mas been dependent upon the river steam
ers making. connection at Tampa, break
ink bulk twice and finally delivering the
produce north after long and disastrous
trips. When the railroad entered the
town new life was awakened and now
the soil under cultivation is many times
what it was only few years ago and the
net receipts of the trucker are more to
the acre than ever before. This difference
in income is due to the fact that the
railroads vegetable trains deliver truck
in New York from one to five DAYS
quicker than the boat lines and conse-
quently the best prices are obtainable
for the freshest produce.
FIRST POUND OF COFFEE.
From Palmetto drives may be taken to
scenes Of rarest beauty. Terra Cela
(Hcavenly Land) cannot be excelied in
natural beauty by any section of this
country. Every one wants to visit Terra
Cea to see the site of the first home OF
Madame Joe-Madame Joe of Coffee fame
for she it was who came all the way
from Bavaria to settle in this heavenly
land and raised the first pound of coffee
ever produced in the United States. The
Secretary of Agriculture gave her $40 fol
that pound of coffee and it has always
been one of the greatest treasures of the
government. Every form of tropical life
is to be found flourishing on this island.
From end to end it is rich enough to
make all those who settle here well-to-do
and it Us a fact that these people live
elegantly without spending more than an
occasional dollar for food frCp the out
side world. They raise nearly everything
they eat.
Orange groves are plentiful, fields of
celery beds and lettuce, 'of potatoes, to-
matoes and egg plant stretch out miles
before ones view and then the farms are
separated by jungles of cactus and palm
and aged oak with the moss of a century
trailing from tho topmost branches to the
ground beneath. It is the land for the
artist. There are colors that will try
the master hand and the picture cannot
be overdone. When one walks through
these jungles treading down the palmetto
and the cactus thriving meath the shade
of the sheltering palm,' the stories of
African jungle and of Stanley's explora-
tons are vividly impressed on the mind
1t requires but feeble imagination for one
to feel the presence near of the panther
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eads all North Carolina Daiies i'm News -@ireuation

the fertile sections of Florida by the In
dians. Live oak, hickory, palm trees and
kindred woods grow on the hammock"
lands, but no pine. The name is some
times confused with 'hummock,' but the
soil is not to be mistaken. These lands
are very rich and are considered the most
valuable in Florida. Small bodies of
hammock" lands are found all over the
State. but large ''hammocks'' are found
only in Manatee county near the Manatee
river. This division of soil is peculiar
to that section of the Land of Flowers.
One may have a piece of land divided
only by fence; on one side the land is
worth $50 an acre, while on the other it
is not worth 81. A hard pan underlies
great deal of the flat pine lands and rem
ders the soil useless in the cultivation of
any crop requiring more than few inch
ess of soil. However, this rule does not
apply to the pine lands that are under
laid with a yellow sub-soil, as it is claim
ed that these lands are as valuable as
hammock and orange trees live on
this land to the ripe age of fifty years or
more / saw some trees of this age that
are healthy and vigorous and laden with
fruit and appear to be good for many
years to come.
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or tiger or boa-constrictor, and yet it is
the fortune of this section to be free from
such beasts and immune from poisonous
reptiles.
THE GAMBLE MANSION.
The Gamble Mansion still stands on
one Of the choice locations in Manatee.
1t is the old home of an illustrious and
aristocratic family who owned thousands
of acres of fertile lands, who controlled
one of the largest sugar plantations in
the world and who have left behind them
thrilling stories of adventure and hero
ism The mansion is of old colonial style
with its pillars of white towering to the
artistic roof of the broad veranda. To-
day it would cost many thousands of dol
lars to build such residence with the
brown stone and brick near at nand, ar
chitects ana contractors in numbers ready
to calculate the smallest cost. But when
the Camille Mansion was built, every
piece of stone and every brick had to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07
Beautiful New Section of Florida Just Opened to
the Outside World by Seaboard
Air Line.

the richness of the soil makes any pro-
duct so prolific that one is inclined to
accept what nature provides and make
no further effort. Fortunately the peo
pie are not so disposed as is shown by
the proven statement of one man who
cleared $152S75 from just one acre of
ground last season. He worked all the
year, it is true, but he raised only three
crops and often they raise four and some
times five crops in year. There are
many reasons why they are able to do
this; they undoubtedly have the richest
soil to be found, but above all else the
climatic conditions are responsible for
the good fortune of this section, and by
this section would not be interpreted as
referring to the whole State of Florida,
but solely to that comparatively small
section known as Manatee county. 1t is
almost set apart to itself; almost sur
rounded and surely greatly protected by
the warm waters of the Gulf, the balmy
Manatee and Braiden rivers and so stu
ated that no northern winds can reach it
without first gathering warmth from
tropical waters.
THE AWAKENING.
The Seaboard Air Line is the only rail
road entering this chosen section of the
Manatee. Turkey Creek is the junction
where the main line from Jacksonville to
Tampa is tapped by this branch which
opened direct communication with the
outside world to the towns of Parrish,
Wimauma, Balm, Ellenton, Palmetto,
Manatee, Oneca and Sarasota and at
Manatee it is only mile distant to
Braidentown, the seat of the county gov
ernment, with street car connection at
the Manatee depot.
The palmetto and the palm, the water
oaks laden with their tropical moss, the
pine and stubble and few small orange
groves are seen on the trip across the
State. There are few in Jacksonville,
but they are as tenderly cared for as hot
house plants and one does not begin to
look upon the real natural beauty of it
all until he enters this newly penetrated
country where a killing frost has never
been known.
What literature has been distributed
telling of the glories of the Land of the
Manatec has been accused of painting
a too highly colored picture, but the
charge has always been made by those
who have not visited the country where
the Seminole fought the white man and
Terra Ceia (Heavenly Land) is the name
given a section by its own native popula-
ton,
Through this wonderful country one
who loves nature travels with heart
full of the very warmth of love and rich
ness of the sweetest fruits of living.
The orange groves, with their even,
regular lines of handsome trees laden
with their golden luscious fruit, the
dwarflike grape fruit trees bending to
the very earth under the burden of clus
ters of that precious fruit, the date and
,cocoanut palms with their stately heads
bending gracefully in the tropical breeze,
the bamboo reaching wand-like up into
the heavens with the freshest, lightest
tints of color; all these with the carpet
of solid palmetto greet the eye and form
but poor idea of what is yet to come.
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NEAR THE MANATEE RIVER
IS THE LAND OF FLOWERS

All this beggars description and when one
has once seen the rare beauty OF 1T all
he becomes more enthusiastic in praise
than the real estate man who would bid
you settle in his section.
DELICACIES THE YEAR ROUND.
Nature worshippers adore all that is to
be seen, but that which reaches nearer
to ones true appreciation is when time
comes to dine at the Central Hotel at
Manatee or the Bell Haven Inn at Sara
sofa or some other we'll kept hotel, where
fresh cauliflower, peas, tomatoes, lettuce,
celery, potatoes, radishes, egg plants,
strawberries, blackbefries, dewberries,
huckleberrie, oranges, grapefruit, KUN
quots, mangoes, and other vegetables and
fruits the palmetto honey and guava
jelly made at home; the Spanish mack
erel, red-snapper and pompano caught in
local waters, robbins, quail and venison
brought from the woods by local hunters,
are all served in tempting style and
with table decorations of beautiful roses,
red and white oleanders and other flowers
which bloom here in profusion in mid
winter season.
Travelling through this land of sun
shine the dense hammock lands with
their luxuriant growth tempt every visi-
tor to settle here. The growth now COW
ering these lands requires the richest of
soil and yet reimburses the land season
by season enriching it for the day when
it will be cleared for cultivation Much
in fact more than three-fourths of the
hammock lands, has not yet been cleared
for cultivation. The absence heretofore
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be brough5 thousands of miles but the
shells and plaster which make this man
sion picturesque we're at hand and there
Is not standing il. Florida today a man
sion of a Vanderbilt, g Flagler or a crea-
tion of the late MI Plant, that Will COM
pare in beauty With this old home Of the
years that are gone.
1t is only short distance from the
Gamble Mansion to the walls OF the
great great sugar refinery. Only the
walls remain . tell the story of the
great business existing here years ago.
The refinery was built of brick and the
main building was rearly two hundred
feet in length Just across the cad is a
forest of palms, always beautiful, this
f0resv seems more gorgeous than any OF
its naighbors. A mile from here is where
the world gets the greater portion of its
supply of fullers earth. 1t is interesting
to continue the drive.
Returning TO Palmetto three lailToad
tracks are crossed One is the line into
Palmetto, another the track leading to
the river crossing to the town OF Manatee
and the third the track which the Sea
board has built to Terra Ceia for the con
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07
MOST FERTILE SOIL
Orange Growing and Trucking Section
Practically Below the Frost Line.
Farmers Net Over $1,000 to the
Acre. Story Of a Trip Through the
Manatee Where Settlers are Grasp,
ing Great Opportunity.
BY w. III. BAGLEY.

Land of The Manatee, February g.
Nature is beautiful everywhere. 1t is
said that in some sections of the noun
tains of North Carolina is to be found
the grandest natural scenery in America,
but the wildness of it all makes the
means of livelihood difficult. And this
appears to be one of the conditions gen.
orally accepted as fact, that where 1t is
most beautiful it is most difficult to make
a living.
During all my travels through temper
ate and tropic climes l have never seen
the equal of "the Land of the Manatee,
that new section of Florida which has
but brief time been penetrated by rail
way facilities and which sends out to the
snow-bound sections of our own country
the delicacies which fortunes cannot make
to grow within the reach of Jack Frost.
The richness of nature in its every phase
in this newly opened country surpasses
In grandeur the famous resorts OF the
east coast of Florida, tempts the traveller
back from Cuba, makes the Westerner
open wide his eyes, and draws from the
visitor from southern California confess
sion that his climate and soil is surpassed
by this Manatee section.
1t is interesting to one who goes over
our North Carolina farms and sees the
snow covering the earth with every hope
of work driven from thought by the ex-
cessive cold, to visit this section of
Florida which knows no cold in winter
and suffers not from torpid heat in sum-
mer.
A trip through the ManGtce section is
refreshing. Every foot of road one
travels seems to have something novel
for the visitor. Every imaginable form
of vegetable life is before ones very
eyes at the very season when even the
earth is hidden from view at home.
To prove rule, it is said. IN excep
ton must be found, and the accepted
statement that the most beautiful in ma
ture is seen where 1t is most difficult to
obtain a livelihood, is completely destroy
ed in the jungle of palm and cactus and
everlasting spring time foliage which one
sees in southwest Florida
1 was talking recently with Florida
minister who was visiting Manatee and in
speaking of the high moral tone of the
business community he said it was but
natural and yet there was ever present
the most peculiar temptation to all man.
kind in this section to be slothful and
forgetful of duty 1t is so easy to make
a living, so easy to be comfortable and
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venience of these shippers. Special pick
UP" trains go to Terra Ceia twice day
to bring out the cars which have been
loaded with truck.
THE MANATEE RIVER.
Leaving Palmetto the train goes to the
town of Mantee. The view from the
bridge across the Manatee River is be-
yond the power of pen to describe. From
the east flow the Manatee and Braiden
rivers, their confluence being at a point
near Braiden Castle. Along either bank
of the river may be seen handsome homes
Of old and rev times. On the north shore
is the thriving town of Palmetto, on the
south the town Of Manatee and looking
westerly from MGratoe is the hustling
progressive county seat of government,
the town OF BTaidentown. West of Braid
entown lies the village OF Fogartyville.
From the bridge enc has a pretty view
of The river above and can also see di-
rectly into The Gulf Of Mexico The light
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07
ELLENTON.
Town Oil North Side OF River in Heart
of Trucking Section.

Elenton is the growing town reached
before the Manatee River is in view. 1t
is situated in the very heart of rich
trucking section, has a population of
sturdy and solid citizens and is increasing
monthly it's shipments north All of this
section is endowed with choice sites for
truck farms and orange groves. The
country has received the best attention
from land owners. A system of irrigation
has been established in one section to
make the land even more valuable and
Of good use twelve months in the year.
Some citizens have taken steps to beau
tify their places by transplanting the
palms and other plants in regular order
or in the shape of figures. Avenues Of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07
WIMAUMA.
Town Being Built by Capt C. H. Davis
of Manatee.

Wimauma is milling town which is
being built by one of the most enterpris
ing men in Southwest Florida. Capt. C.
H. Davis, who built the Manatee Rail
road from Turkey Creek to Sarasota, and
who is president of the Manatee Banking
Company at Manatee is the owner of a
large tract of land about Wimauma. Sit
uated here is one of the most beautiful
lakes in Florida, two miles or more wide,
sixty feet deep in many places, the water
clear as crystal and the bottom always
visible. Captain> Davis is native of
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PARRISH.
The First Large Grove Reached by
the New Railroad.

good back country. The first large grove
on this new railway is located here and
nearby are some good trucking lands al
ready under cultivation and large ex
tent OF hammock lands ready to be
cleared and planted with some vegeta bic
or other table delicacy that will bring
a fancy price in northern markets out of
season. Hammock is the name given
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07
NANATEE.
Progressive Town With New Indus
trles---A Centre OF Interest.

The town of Manatee is in many re-
spects the luckiest spot in the county.
1t has the name of the most favored sec
tion of this favored State, it is ideally
located on the choice side of the most
beautiful river in Florida that bears its
name, it has soil that will give strength
and almost everlasting life to the orange
tree and grape fruit and it is the only
town on the south bank of the river to
be entered by the railroad.
When thezsteel rails were first pointed
Continued on Page Fiye.)
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palms and palmettos make the approach
to many homes more beautiful.
There are many excellent locations for
homes, though the richest to be offered
by Manatee county are nearer to the
river.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07

Virginia, lived in North Carolina and
has relatives at Wilmington and other
points in this State, but gave up his
home in Georgia to settle in the Manatee
section, because after two years here
he decided it was the choicest spot in
America for home. Capt. Davis is one
of the ablest managers have ever known.
He has built some of the most important
railroads in the South and is now at the
head of large manufacturing interests,
which tend to develop many Southern
towns.
The state herald., 1904-07-08
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Atlantic City ana return, s4555, July
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INSPIRES CONFIDENCE.

The finest thing about President
Roosevelt is that he inspires confidence
in his own future, Us well as that OF the
country, whose head he now is and will
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The man IN full Of latent possibilities
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delphia Inquirer.
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the above entitled action be not served with this
summons, or if the service hereof be made out Of
this state. thon ten days additional to the timO
hercinbefore specified for Appearance and ans-
wer will be allowed before the taking of judge
ment by default as aforesaid.
The said action is brought to quiet title in the
plaintiff; lot three C3) in section two (s) in
township eight (s) north of range forty-three
4S) west of the 9Th + NJ In Phillips county Colo
RADIO, as,will more fully appear from the com
plnint in said action to which reference is here
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And you are hereby notified that il you fnil to
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and judgement as prayed for in his complaint.
Given under my hand and the seal of tho said
district court at Iiolyoke, Colo, in said county,
this 10th day of Sept. A. d. 1908.
W. q. HELLAND,
[SEALl Clerk of the district court.
Phillips county, Colorado.
] II PAINTER. Attorney for Plaintiff.
The state herald., 1904-07-08
A TALK WITH THE DAIRYMEn.

we desire TO call your ATTENTION TO the
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patrons twice month hereafter Re.
member that We shall continue to handle
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market, and We offer the most liberal
terms to those who wish to buy. We
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you can always depend upon us to fur
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cream. Yours for business,
Beatrice Creamery Co.
The state herald., 1904-07-08
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

Notice is hereby given that Saturday the
18th day Of May next, between tho hours
OF 10 o'clock in the forenoon and o'cloci. in
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the town Of Holyoke, county of Phillips and
state Of Colorado, the personal property of said
docodent, consisting Of - head Of COWS and hoif-
ers. calves. 10 head OF horses and two ynarling
colts, hog, buI-gy, . sets double harness, 9
saddles, pump jack and power, one corn shell
Ter, one feed grinder, one stack Of hay, road
scrapcr, hay rack. set block and pulleys, /
lumber wuRon three seated spring wagon, /
binder, moving machine, lister. plows, !
harrow, shot gun and other articles, will be
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Terms Of salc.-All snms Of slc and under,
cash. On all su:ns over so six months credit will
be given, with approved security, notes TO draw
interest at the rate Of ten poI cent from ,htc,
discount of three per cent for cash.
J. II. PuSTIn, Administrator.
April 81. 1904.
The state herald., 1904-07-08
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