The National tribune., 1909-07-22
Pleased viii, Florida.

Editor National Tribune: I returned
to-day, July IA, from my trip to Flori-
da After looking over the st. Cloud
Colony property / went to Plant City.
end spent a couple of weeks with my
son. He is much pleased with the State
. and so am l. St Cloud is one of the
favored spots in Florida, and two or
three years from now it will be one Of
the fourfshing communities of the
State. 1t will take work, but most of
the old boys still have good deal of
energy The climate is kindly, and
there are no extremes of heat and cold
to be endured. believe the years of
those who go down there to live will
be prolonged. Sufferers from rheuma-
tfsm and throat and lung troubles seem
to get early relief Nor did / hear of
fever or malaria being common in the
kissimmee country. The town of Kis-
sfmmee is rated as one of the most
Lealthful in the whole Union.
The people of that town and the
country around with whom / talked
gave me glowing accounts of the cli-
mate and OF what the soil will produce.
Most everything seems to grow, and the
growing season covers every month in
the year. The real trucking season is
in Winter. and that is the time oranges
are ripe and prices are high in the
Northern markets. There is also con-
stantly increasing local market, for WIS.,
itors come in greater numbers every
Winter. The poultry INDUSTRY ought to
be made profitable. There Is no troti-
BILE about family having vegetables
and fruit for table use every month in
the year. i do not see why St Cloud
should not be made a prominent Winter
resort. With the fine lake in front of IL
and fighinC and hnatfne- calling a
Winter, for the lake never freezes, is
an attraction of itself. And there are
no overshoes and oyercoats to buy and
wear and no expensive fuel bills to pay.
l did not hear of a word of disap-
proyal of the colony proposition ana
location from any OF our party. And
to please 40 men and women is no easy
matter. If there is ever anything half
wrong under such circumstances some-
body would find it. Altogether the ex-
eursion was success from start to fin
ish.
/ did not hear word of disap-
Florida than most of the party, for
stayed longer and visited other locili-
ties. My son has been down there for
some time, and the longer he STAYS the
better he likes IL. And ] have no doubt
when We get to st. Cloud TO live il will
improve On acquaintance. 1t will be
delightful, too to have so many of the
are fewer physical discomforts to bear,
because the climate does not impose on
them as 1t does in the North. It Is an
old saying that God made the country;
man made the CITY," II we read all
that is said about some CT the cities,
man is making mess of his work. It
seems to have been the design Of the
Creator that man should live an out
door life. When man was created he
was put into garden-under the spell
OF fresh air, sunshine, green woods. fair
flowers, spreading meadows, bright wa
ters, singing birds and possessing au-
thority and dominion over things of the
earth. 1t is perplexinC question how
Tar we may venture in the artificiaf
ME OF the big city without losing phys
ical, mental and moral tone and vigor
We read that the men who do the big
things in the city are of country birth
Their sons. too. often become devotees
OF sport and fast life. and some OF them