The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1910-04-29
Florida Is Admired
In The Northwest


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Clement Gore. n an article wE,ron
for a Chicago paper says cf fiorl4a
There was an old saying aNlo8
Englishmen OF the Eifhfeenth Centu
that II you wanted 20 know a0metnt
about England you shOuld So 90 France
and this may be peculiarly applied 1
Florida to-day, for believe that Aiof
ida has ten times as many admirers a.
the North as she has within Der oen
borders,
To-day It is chilly and cold In Chi.
cng0; light OvercOats are worn, ara
some OF the buds on the trees Ia TIA
parks are withered and dead, hagi9g
been born 10 be killed by the frost,
sAs rode down on the elevated ear
this morning 10 work, there sat OgpO-
site nae two men Of more than ordinary
appearance, one 81 whom ! knew % %
q manufacturer o. machinery and q
man Of considerable worth and moRty
IN the Central West.
These men were engaged In con-
veTsation that sa0wa more clearly than
anything else the regard with which
the North holds ElOrida. Aany pos-
lions Of th0 state were discuased, and
during the Ave or ten minutes that I
listened 10 this conversation / knew
was IN the presence Of men who had
travelled widely over the State OF Flor
ida. 10 eiR0 al ~ that conversation
would he Impossible, but this much 81
Il now recall:
FLORIDA IL q Esatq whose value con-
niais iR her natural onaOWlne4ts -4-taEt
q, that gougFaah icaily HhS n located Al
the most perfect position % tbis o9Ucr
try. know that % .be,the truth. Sec
Ond, that che has an Incompatible cll-
mate. third, tnat The native NlOgidlo1e
did not fully appreciate the vastlieae d
the wealth at their slboWs; fourth. that
the iRllUx az nsopla frQm ali parts tt
the El0ba toward Florida w0Eld with,
out 3 question Of 4 oonbt mean
RroatSg dsvoloRnGnt for TIE State, 81.
cause Of the multiplicity Of ideas ana
the enfhualaem al new blood tban anv
single factor IN Floride'a present a.
VelOpnaent.
After I reached my ofice began q
look over some facia ana figures With
respect 10 the development o. the gre4e
Northwest and the human migratory
movement headed' tat way. learned
that the Chicago and Northwestern, the
Hartman aud IAN lines the Grand
Trunk and the Canadian Pacific, had
been the means, during Che year 1909,
OF hauling over their lines aDpr0xi-
mately over 100000 peoples that the
majority o. these people who bought
lands Ia the Northwest, and were com
PEELED % lay out nc once from SO 90
$50 ga acre IN purchase price aud im-
prNyemeptS. And the growing season
for the majority Of this dlstrict was o.
days; In some Instances, however. lr
reaChed aB ..igh a. 40 dayn--and that
the return per acre 90 this investment.
gross, dia not nearly reach lie initial
investment.
4 cOntrasted this brief analysis oe
one migratory movement with tiOriua,
ana saw at once what everybody seos
who has visited both sections. The
farmer Ia Florida can set crop o.
500 an acre at the present time upon
an investment OF less thon S2A Win
work cquai 10 that Of TIE man
lives IN the Northwest He can obi4i1
upon % per cent OF the land results c.
gregnting from bve to ten times rs
much as the farmers In the Northwest
after all, Professor Knapp Il right
Florida Is so per cent climate. 10 per
cent soil aud 10 per cent man. The more
you can take away from the climate
and add 20 the manor IA other words.
the least you depend ON the climate and
the more you depend on the man--the
greater will le the results in Florifa.
II noticed upon q recent vialt 10
Jacksonville, down the East coast and
up the Wet Coast. with q journey
through the central portion q the
state, that what FLORIDA lacka, and
what she needs the nest. a the spirit
~ the arbas Nofthwegl Tie nnoIt WIN
make up the desolate wheat neIda az
washington. the mountain nloDoa of
Oregon, and the Irrigated eage brush
lands Of idaho and Montana. are hoonlr
alive % the possibilities 81 tnelf Nlny,,n
and their FARMS and, believing "a
possibilities. every locaiIly Nna nolne
commercial body that a woft|nN far
and night endeayorinr % aflface nor.
thy immfkration O. ~ snciion. I.,ero
various sectiona oyef tie naTae Of these
commercial clu0a. advertise Is national
maeaFipea. Iaef print costly lllorn-
turo IN three ooloFz. trying 90 eonsoy
the beauty 81 TIE skies ana land and
they make 8 freo H|alFibuNon 81 lHn
iIieraturo. which C1ln enneffmea a..
hlgh az 60 eea,a a eQpT. for thcso men
y iil4l E II 1faIn neu tlIlnf
that tar n9fa taat man tnd b. pro-
e11v l14uc 1tl sd elefnIIg nnd thaf
W7ei ne rnrl 80 - ~ Innto
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