The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-01-28
DESIRABLE
HOMESEEkERS
Only Certain Classes Can Expect
to Make a Success in Florida
SOME CAPITAL NEEDED
Opportunities Abound For Men of Energy
ard Ability Small Capital will Accom-
plish Wonders in This State

Speaking of the large number of let
tiers received in Jacksonville, inquiring
about Florida and matters pertaining
to the State, the Times Union prints
the following, which applies with equal
force to all sections of the State:
Some of the letters received are
from people who have evidently failed
to make success in anything they
have undertaken. Some say frankly
that the writer has no money, but that
he wants to come to Florida, and wants
to get paying position where he can
make living and buy an orange grove
or a good truck farm.
That is very laudable ambition but
when a man has never succeeded suffic-
iently 10 manage to save some money
in the place where he was raised and
where he has friends, he is not apt to
succeed at the very start in an entirely
strange cOmmunity.
There are numbers of instances that
could he cited where people of very
limited means have come to Florida and
have made great success in agricul-
tural pursuits. But. remember, these
people had little to start on While.
there are great opportunities in Florida
for men of energy to succeed and to
have enough ready cash to support
themselves for a. time, at least until
they get started.
No man without money can go out
into the woods of Florida and expect
to make living from the start from
the soil. He must live while he is
clearing his land and fencing it and
getting it ready for cultivation. He
must have money enough to buy seeds
or trees and plants, or whatever they
expect to make living from. He will
have to have horse or mule to pillow
his land. He will be at some necessary
expense for some time to come before
he can gather from his land The first
crop.
All of this should be taken into con-
sideration before deciding to leave the
old home and move into new locality.
OF course. a man of energy and deter
minatiOn to succeed can make a living
here with but small capital. but man
without any capita had better stay
away for awhile. Florida wants set
tiers, but it wants men who can start
in with enough capital to support them
selves for awhile.
1t takes very little money to buy
land in Florida, especially on the
monthly payment plan, but sometimes
letters are received from people who
say that they want to buy piece of
land in Florida, but having no ready
money, they want to arrange to pay
for it out of the first crop of oranges,
or vegetables, or products of the soil of
some kind, that they will raise after
arriving. Now, how in the world do
such people expect to be able to clear
their land, pay for the lumber for fenc-
ing, pay for blowing or for the hire of
a horse oremule, and pay all the ex-
penses that naturally arise while the
place is being prepared for the cultiva-
ton of the first crop?
People owning Florida lands are not
so anxious to dispose of them that they
are going to stand all the expense of
getting family started on the road to
prosperity merely to dispose of five
or ten acre tract.
There are even instances where men
have written that they want to come to
Florida, and will come at once if some
individual or company will send them
the money to pay railroad fare from
their homes. That class of individual
is most assuredly not wanted in Flori-
pa. Florida wants men who have made
success elsewhere; men who have
push and energy; men who can help
themselves and will not be dependent
on Others for a living. To this class of
men there are golden opportunities in
Florida and they will find that the eli
mate is such that they can work every
day in the year, and that they can have
some one or more crops maturing every
month in the year, while in their pres
ent locations they have to remain idle
for, four months or more and are de-
pendent on one crop from the same soil
a year.