The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-12-29
MER|TORIOUS
PROPOSITION
A Qualified Judge so Refers To
Fort Pierce Farms Property
BEST LAND IN FLORIDA
Believes an Investment in These Lands
Can be Safely Counted "GiIt Edge"
Agricultural Value Unsurpassed
Jensen. Fla. Dec 9th. 1C

Jensen, Fla, Dec 9th, 1911.
Florida East Coast Realty Co., Fort
Pierce, Florida.
GentIemen: When one realizes the
unwarranted representations that are
being made by some of the Companies in
Florida that are inducing people to in
vest in lands, one who has any respect
for their reputation may well be more
than careful in giving testimony as to
the merits of any particular tract or
8 ctiOns; have done this but once,
and then with the necessary qualifca-
tions.
| have such we'll founded aversion
to the indiscriminate representations
that are prevalent in the sale of lands
in Florida to residents, that
would be very loath to add my testi-
monial as to the value of any body of
land that did not fulfill my ideas as TO
their adaptability to meet the require
ments of those to whom they are
most likely to be sold.
Fruit and vegetable growing are
among the accepted profitable resour-
ces of the state, but Florida Is bound,
sooner Or later to broaden her indus
tries into the more stable and substan-
cial departments of agricuture-into
that class of farming that is not so
entirely dependent upon market cOndi-
tons Immediately upon the maturity
of crops as the fruit and vegetable
crops require; understand me as in no
way Understanding the full value of
the last mentioned crops, but the pros
pective settler, when seeking a per-
manent investment had far better be
sure that the land he selects has a
fertility and body which will enable
him to grow all those necessary farm
products; from which to feed his stock,
his chickens and practically his family,
in other words have real farm-such
lands are not to be found everywhere,
but my investigation of your holdings
has convinced me that you have a
body of land that is ideal, and believe
will meet the requirements OF that
great class of people who want some
thing that has real merit-land on which
they can grow fruits and vegetables
land that will produce the real neeess-
tiles of life, lands which when properly
put in order for cropping, will always
have real value--a value predicated on
their fertility and unquestionable abil-
ity to return to the owner full value
for money and labor expended. 1t is
this class of land that is going to give to
Florida that stability which the fruit
and vegetable business alone cannot
supply.
feel that my twenty years residence
in this section in measure quallfle
me as being a fair Judge of the facts
of which speak, and wish to congrat-
ulate YOU on having such a meritorlous
proposition to submit to prospective
settlers, and | predict that in few
yeals we will witness a development
along the line have above mentioned
that would be credit to the Blue grass
sections of Kentucky. AS a W hole body
YOUR holdings are among the best that
| know in the state, and with proper
drainage which you are now dong, an
investment in them is something that
one can safely count on as, gilt edge.
Yours very truly,
W. X. HARDEE.