The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1906-03-23
HOMESfEKERS'
OPPORTUNITY
Settlers Along East Coast Will
Receive Encouragement
FLORIDA A SANITARIUM
Offers More Undue ements to Farmers Than
Other Sections. The East Coast
Best Part OF State.

We reproduce the following article,
written by +. y. Simpson for the Mel
bourne Times, 1t applies to st. l.ucic
county and our immediate section as
we'll as to Melbourne and vicinity. Mr..
Simpson says
Melbourne is progressive and
thriving town. The hotels and board.
Ing houses and private cottages are all
filled with winter visitors. New homes
Of permanent residences are employing
all the carpenters, and other prospec.
tive cottages are standing in line wait
ing for the mechanics, But what of
the farmer who supports the town? We
have good soil. Rich hammocks lie be
hind III back from Indian River. All
that Is necessary to produce good farm
crops Is intelligent cultivation, proper
seeding judicious selection of the crops
that will grow in our soil and climate,
and energy to work for 4 profit rather
than be- satisfied with bare existence.
Agriculture will give us Il permanent
and steady growth. One real farmer
Is worth more than car load Of tourists
on their way through to Cuba or the
!
winter visitors who like Us and will stay
down here with us and marry into our
families, increase the population and
grow up with our developing, country.
Florida is national Sanitarium. We
furnish free climate to invalids. People
can thrive here in eternal sunshine with
palms and pines and flowers in climate
that is perpetual summer to jewellers
from the frozen north, Every truck
farmer is Il taxpayer, every builder on
Il vacant lot is homeseeker, every
permanent dweler here is Il citizen and
has "A voice in the primaries and vote
in law. making and regulating our pros
perily. We don't banker after knock K
crs and pessmests. We want friends,
live fellowship, and newspapers readers,
Subscribers to the local papers keep up
to the times and lead the publ ic think
makers in uplifting and upbuilding,
Stingy in pocket. narrow in ideas, and
poor in heart are the kickers who thrive
on gossip, the faults of their neighbors,
and their own disappointments. They
are Jealous Of good luck or prosperity,
selfish to the verge o. dishonesty and
mad with the world. Visiting prospec-
tors from our polar neighbors of the
great Lake region are invited to take
of their winter caps and stay awhile,
They will like Us soon as the icicles thaw
out of their hair. They are welcome to
a share in what we have and we will
rive them all the advice necessary
about climate, soil, weather, laws,
customs and local conditions.
I'VE want people to come down into
Sunny Florida where the northern birds
come to sing their winter songs and
laugh with US, to enjoy life and it's
hupvy opportunities. We must all get
hnrk to the soil, to Garden of Eden
conditions. An Italian proverb says
that ~ man who owns land mas pro-
perty reaching from far beneath the
earth up to the ornament Ours is II
land of natural growth vegetation IN
nll It's variety of kind, color, size ana
shape is here seen in its tropical
GRANDEUR, Our market gardener K. A..
Conklng supplies Melbourne and h;al'
Gallie and the country between. Ihis
shows what can be done. and he with
nnly one arm, is making Il fortune.
Welcome to Florida and its unlimited
n,ssibilities for homes and happiness.
Snow and sleet are words not famliial
in Florida weather talk, and yet we are
not of the earth. Some one said the
other day, IF it were the leastest bt
nicer here | should die of joy This
snot is lust this side of paradise and Il
pleasure shared is pleasure doubled,
"New people are coming in, property
il changing hands and there is Il ten
dency to push prices up. The man who
hnvs town lots or farm lands now i
sure of profit even if he buys to sell,
hut much greater if he purchases as q
settler. for the day of the educated
farmer is dawning in Florida and there
Is little that he cannot raise, and nearly
Everything S t suitable to climate and ., sea
SON does well if conditions and treat
ment are properly interpreted.