The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-08-05
IMMIGRATION
FL0RIDAWARD
Immense Movement Headed To.
ward Florida Next Winter
VALUABLE -COMERS
Inter sive and Diversified Farming is At
tracing Sturdy and Successful Farm
ers of the Great Northwest

Many plausible reasons can be cited
in substantiation of the prediction that
tide of immigration Floridaward is
imminent that will, during the coming
fall and winter, exceed that of the past
five years.
Holders Uf large tracts of land in all
portions of the State, more particular
ly in the vicinity of the Everglades. are
placing new advertising, and their main
and branch offices are distributing vast
quantities of literature throughout the
East and West.
Farmers of the Northwestern States
have found out that they can raise three
good crops in Florida against one where
they now live, and are planning to make
change, for there is an abundance of
excellent fruit and truck land in all
sections of the State.
The large colonization concerns have
their fingers upon the pulse Of the dis
cOntented farmers of the Northwest.
They assert that stupendous move
ment Floridaward is assured and hund.
red or more land companies are today
reaching out with their literature to
the tillers of the soil who contemplate
coming to Florida.
Transportation men are assisting, in
the movement by offering homeseeker's
rates. They have faith in the merits
of Florida soil and climate and, like
the honest colonizer, desire that the
prospective settlers shall personally in
vestigate conditions and satisfy him
self through individual examination.
That the Everglades are to be DRAIN
ed that the contract has been let; that
the bulk of the work-the main canals
lis to be completed within three years
and that the State has in the treasury
upward of two million dollars to pay for
the work, as well known facts
That these Everglade lands and the
large tracts on it's east and west bord-
ers, are exceedingly fertile and capa-
BILE of raising all kinds of vegetable
and staple farm products has been
proven beyond doubt by actual tests.
1t has also been demonstrated that
intensive farming is most profitable and
will be the vogue for years to come. A
roadway through a celery patch has
been made to produce in cash what a
Western farmer pays in rent for an
eighty-acre farm. And the fact that
three different crops can be raised and
harvested from one field within the
course of year must not be lost sight.
Indications point to very desirable
class of immigration to Florida this fall.
Hale hearty and intelligent men have
been, and are still coming to Florida to
investigate for themselves and their
friends and neighbors. Many of this
advance guard have been interviewed.
In every case they are satisfied with
conditions as they find them, and con.
fident that change from the West and
Northwes. and Middlewest will prove
beneficial.
Men fom the cities without farming
experience, and men who are not able
financially to see their way at least one
Florida vegetable season, are not be-
ing encouraged to make change. Only
the most intelligent and capable are de-
sired. Success awaits them in Florida,
while failure might be the harvest of
the inexperienced, unless he comes with
sufficient capital to employ local and
intelligent help.
The new settler in Florida whose
primary object is to get ahead through
truck ia, ming should not lose sight of
the fact that in all portions of Florida
valuable asset can be hadin the plent-
ing and cultivation Of fruit and nut
orchards. More time is required to
reap financial gain, but when fruit and
nut trees begin to bear, profit is large.
With the new farmer and fruit grow.
err will come many industrial and COM
mercial enterprises. Mills and facto.
ries will spring up in the communities
now. being settled and from now on it
is firmly believed that Florida will be-
gin to be appreciated for something like
her real worth,