The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-12-10

There must be something more at
tractive about Northern Florida in late
November than its warm sunny days,
blooming roses, and the rich, luXu-
RANT green of the pine and palmetto
to cause half hundred substantial
intelligent farmers, business and pro-
fessional men of the North to invest
in from one to three ten-acre farms
each, and one man bought ten farms.
These men went to Hilliard to find
out for themselves and their friends
whether the claims made in the print
ed matter sent out by land company
were all true. Many of these men have
not yet returned to their homes in the
North, but have taken advantage of
the 21-day time limit on their home
seekers tickets to see something of
the state of Florida, paying visits to
the 1500-acre pecan, orange, grape
fruit and semi-tropical nursery of the
Griffing Brothers Company at Mac
clenny, 40 miles south of Hilliard, and
visiting some of the old fruit and veg
etable trucking sections that have
made North Florida famous as the
greatest of Americas Winter Gar
dens."
They found that the land within
eight to ten miles of the old estab-
lished trucking districts has, for many
years, been held at such high prices as
$1O0 to $500 per acre for uncleared
land, which takes small fortune for
a man to get start. But even at the
high prices, the income every year of
$1OO to $500 an acre raising strawber-
ries and vegetables, man makes five
to twenty times what he can raising
oats and corn in the Northern states.
The several men who have already
returned from the Florida trip are
congratulating themselves on their
good fortune of being able to secure
truck farm land within two to five
miles of that substantial little town,
Hilliard, on the main line of the At
iantic Coast Line Railway, at $21 an
acre. It is stated that this railway
runs more passenger and freight trains,
and carries more people in and out of
Florida, than all ether roads entering
Florida put together.
1t is reported by three of the men
who visited Hilliard that all condi-
tions are better, very much better,
than they expected to find, and the lit
erature sent them by the Cornwall
Farm Land Company, owners of the
North Florida Fruit and Truck Farms
at Hilliard, does not in any way over
draw the facts as they found them,
and some of the truck farmers they
talked with spoke Of crops raised and
money realized from vegetables large
ly in excess of the statements in the
land company's descriptive books.
They also learned that winter grown
vegetables command prices that, as
stated by one, made their eyes open,"
and that there is demand for every
box, basket, hamper and barrel of the
products of the soil of North Florida
the year around largely in excess of
the present production.
The climate, the pure and abundant
water, and the general healthfulness
Of the Hilliard district impressed them,
and as one doctor in the party stated:
There seems to be little chance for
men in my profession" left no doubt
In the minds of those whose first cor
sideration is for the health of their
families
The land company made an agree
ment to credit the round trip railroad
fare rate of November 25th on the pur-
chase of a ten-acre farm. All those
who went to Hilliard, and who could,
took advantage of it, and as there was
no expense to the buyers at the head
quarters of the land company, while
there, the trip was inexpensive, inter.
esting, and certainly should prove
profitable.
1t is understood that the Cornwall
Farm Land Company, First National
Bank Bldg, Chicago, makes an offer to
pay the railroad fare to Hilliard, re.
funding it on his payments, to any man
who buys one ten-acre farm any day
during the month of December, 1908
from all towns in Ohio, Indiana, Ken.
lucky, New York, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee. Those who want to inves
tigate should read the advertisement
of this company on another page OF
this paper, and write for the terms
and literature.