The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-10
COINS ~ T,tE TRAM TOAD
Home Seekers Nis;t;as tie florida fv.
ereledes Ia lsree Nua6ees. lerse.
Party Of Pleased People Visited
Miami Last Week,
Twelve Jhousaad Farms viii nave
Been Sold 6y tie First Of the Year.
Range People Actively Interested.


A large party of home-seekers
from Kansas and Oklahoma arrived
this morning. says the Miami Daily
Metropolis Of q week ago. having
been part Of an entire train load
consisting Of $50 persons that start
ed few days ago from Kansas
City for Florida.
The Miami party is being con.
Quoted by \. D. Hart. president of
the Florida Fruit Lands Company,
VIII" comes from Kansas CITY.
NT. Hart says that the twelve
thousand farms allotted from the
10000 acres of Everglade lands that
have been put upon the market will
be sold by the first of the year. The
greatest number of sales have been
made in Nebraska, though more
than thirty states are represented
on the sales list. Not a few of the
purchasers, he says, are living in
southern California. This he takes
"a a significant fact.
"The people III southern Califor-
nia," said Mr.. Hart today, "know the
value of citrus fruit lands. They
can sell their own lands for a &hous.
and dollars an acre and more aud
they can buy lands in Florida just
as good, it not better, for $24 an
acre. They know good thing when
they see it. Then, too. Florida has
obvious advantages over taliior
mia in being 40 much nearer the
great markets, and this is an advan.
tage that they appreciate also"
ANOTHER LOS ANGELEs.
This ia Mr.. Hart's fret visi, to
Florida since 1901. He was here
shortly after the Jacksonville FIRE.
Asked If he noticed any change in
things :since that time, Mr. Hart
smiled indulgeutiy aud said:
well, l should say. Miami GER
tainly looks good to me- believe,
and have predicted publicly. that
Miami would he another Los An.
geles. 1t has Los Angeles beat for
natural advantages in every partic-
ular except possibly one, and that
is sentimental. They have noun.
tain scenery ont there and you have
none Of that here. but in every
other particular your prospects are
better than Los Angeles had, aud
mark you, Miami is going to dupli-
cate the growth of LosAngeles lrs
bound to come, aud bdon't see how
you are goi ng'to get away from it.
"Ny wife," continued Mr.. Hart. "is
a native daughter of California.
Californians axc especially distin.
guished for their loyalty to that
great state, aud she waa like the
rest Of them until she came to Mia
mi last year. Before that visit we
had been talking of going back to
California. but since that time she
has been talking Of bungalow in
Miami for hers. She told me, in fact,
that she was sorry that she ever
came to Miami, for California didn't
loom up in ,ts former superiority
over the rest of the world as 1t had
formerly, and she is sorry for she
has found place hetter than her
| native state"
SOME DISAPPOINTMENT, YES.
Mr.. Hart said in the course Of the
interview that there was bound to
be some disappointment among the
settlers coming to Florida. 1T ia
always the case with any state or
section that has BOOM" he said,
There are some land speculators
that are taking advantage of our
advertising to boom worthless
lands, and it ie reasonable TO sup.
pose that somebody is going to be
disappointed, but we take pains aud
make it point to have our agents
thoroughly Informed and we will
not stand for any misrepresenta-
tiOn." .