The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-03-11
.HOMESEEKfRS
ADVANTAGES
P disabilities of Florida Exceed
That of Any Other State
MORE PEOPLE NEEDED
Movement to Secure Homes in Florida
Greatest in History of State - d. sir
able Class Of Farmers are Coming

It makes but little difference where a
treasure of gold, silver or precious gems
is buried, sooner or later the mine will
discovered to enrich the finder with a
value. The gold of the Klondyke and
the diamonds of South Africa for cent
uries kept secret their hiding places in
the bosom of the earth, but surface in
dicatiOns were the traitors which urged
men to dig and dig; and they did dig
for the golden and sparkling treasure;
and the harvests of wealth have stag
gered the world into establishment by
their immensely.
The KlOndyke and South Africa are
not the only spots where wealth lies
hidden, to BE- brought forth for the dig
ging. Florida offers opportunities
which, if improved and intelligently
used, will produce fortunes of vast pro-
portions for thousands of people who
are daily being robbed of those COM
forts and pleasures which are their
birthrights in a land where seeking is
as good as finding. for to seek is to find.
We do not mean that men can come
here and bend their backs little and
feel and see the yellow dust sitting like
sand between their fingers, or stoop
down, pick up stone, and be assured
that it is diamond in the rough
Wealth thus found is never appreciated
Those who gets rich quickly often
grow poor hurriedly. Prodigality is
the natural result of easily acquired
wealth. The man who knows a dollars
purchasing capacity is the man who
mas worked for and saved the dollar.
What we mean is that Florida has
within itself elements, possessed by no
other state in the Union, to produce
the dollar. but here, as elsewhere, the
sowing must precede the harvest, and
labor must be spent. and then come the
shewles of prGit. Toll first, then ease
can be enjoyed. None, save the
Weary Willies," pine for rest when
there is no WEAKNESS in body. muscle,
or brain.
In point of agricultural advantages,
Florida surpasses every State from
Maine to Texas, from the Gulf of Mex
leo to the Great Lakes. It's soil will
produce a diversity of crops astounding
in multiplicity. Almost any crop that
will grow in any section of the United
States will grow in Florida with proper
culture, and there are many crops that
thrive IN Florida that cannot be pro-
tuced in any other State Many that
reach a greater perfection of flavor in
Florida than anywhere else. Take,
for instance, our orange and compare it
with the California product, and the
orange OF the Pacific Coast is chatfy
and insipid and suffers miserably in the
And so with many other
things.
Florida is a young State yet, and the
development of its resources and possi-
bllitles are in the long clothes of baby
mood. These resources and possibly
ties have not thus far acquired strength
but they will, and when they do the
balance of the States will recognize that
down here, with its nose jammed near
y against the equatorial line, there isl
foe worthy to be reckoned WITH If not
feared and dreaded, because Of It's
manifold and incompatible resources.
We believe that when Florida gets
imbered up she will not only produce
the bulk of the citrus fruit consumed
in the United States, but also the bulk
Of the finest grades of tobacco, early
vegetables, celery. awberries, pota-
toes, long staple cotton, bamboo, pine
apples, sugar and syrup. and dozen
other crops peculiarly suited to our soil
and climatic conditions.
What Florida needs now above all
Else is people. The right kind of peo-
Die. Good, Industrious people. And
lever before in the history ofthe State
has there been such a movement to
acquire homes in Flori.a and the peo-
pie who are seeking these homes. as a
,ule. are the high class OF farmers who
rave wearled of the privations of frigld
States and want a home where they can
Enjoy the comforts OF an almost perfect
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