The National tribune., 1909-04-22

| the arfeSian wells IS pure and healthful.
It is Immediately in this famous wiley
that the Seminole Land and Investment
Company has acquired 5000 acres OF
land and established this old soldiers cole
ony. This tract of land begins six miles
east of Kissimmee, the countyseat of this
! (Osceola) county. snd lies between four
beautiful Iakes-Tohopekalig East To-
| hopekaliga,. Alligator and Gentry. As said
above, it embraces the famous ST. Cloud
plantation, the place that startled the
world by the amount and quality Of the
sugar cane, oranges, lemons and vegeta-
bles it produced during the time its found
der and owner, Hamilton Disston, Of Phil
adelphia, was alive and cultivated it, The
Sugar Belt Railroad, branch of the A.
lantic Coast Line, runs directly throus1
this property. which adds greatly TO the
value OF the lots the company is selling,
as it will also furnish adequate means for
the transportation of anything the colo
i nists may produce.
| The company is nprv having the prop
erty surveyed and plated, and expect to
have the work compisted by the last of
August or the 1st of September. although
| the lots will be in condition to be- deiiy-
cred to purchasers within the next 50
days, if they should desire to take possess
sion and begin putting the ground in shape
for cultivation.
| The town site will be located ON the old
st Cloud plantation, and will be, known
as St Cloud 1t is the intention of the
company to have erected fully 3,00e
houses on the properly within tie next
| II months, besides school houses,
churches and such public buildings as ars
necessary to the government of the town,
as we'll as a large and commodioas hotel
for the accommodation of those who do
not desire to build home of their own,
which means that the town Of 81. ClouI
viii have a population of 1000 by the
Spring of 1910
A section Of this property will be set
aside for the use of the colored people,.
| the company recognizing that in this Sec
ton of the country the negroes are the
! natural servants, but the territory allotted
to them will be separated entirely from
that sold to the celonists.
The plan of the Seminole Company in
disposing of this property is: The prop
erty is cut up into fve-acre plots and the
town site into lots of 25x156 feet, and sold
| to the colonists for the sum Of S100, that
| is both fye-acre plot and town lot, and
every acre sold will be subject to the
highest state Of cultivation. for. as has
been stated above. all the land lying IN
Ethe Kissimmee Valley will produce atant!-
aptly Of anything planted.
| Already quite a number Of purchasers
of these plots have arrived in Kissimmes
and every train brings an additional one
or two, so anxious are they to get posses
sion Of their property and begin truck
| ing If.
| The location Of this colony here means
much for Kissimmee and much for Osceo-
la County. In the first place it proves to
the thousands in the North and West who
are casting about for place in the South
| to make their future home tha. this is the
most favored section, for the company
selected it after making the most thorough
and painstaking investigation. In the sec
ond place it will stimulate business in all
lines, for it will bring thousands Of people
here who must be housed, fed and clothed,
which will call for more business men and
more mechanics. In the third place it will
greatly increase the value of property, not
only in this immediate locality, but
throughout the entire county.
| Our town and our county will grow and
prosper beyond the fondest expectations OF
our people, and before another twelve
months roll around Kissimmee City and
OsceoIa County will have taken their
rightfuI places in the front rank Of Flor
ida's progressive and populous towns and
counties. Prosperity is not coming-it is
here now.