The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-06-30
A BIG LAND DEAL IN MANATEE
wealthy Germans Buy a 75,000-Acre
Tract-6ig Results Expected
to Follow

to Follow
The biggest and best real estate
deal ever made in the state of Flor
ida, says the Manatee Record, was
consummated by Capt C. H. Davis on
Wednesday of last week in Tampa
The real estate transferred consists
of about $4,000 acres, and brought SIP
per acre.
The purchasers are wealthy gentle
men of Germany, who stand high in
the court and official circles of the
empire
The deal has Deen under way since
the first of January, and the negotia-
tons were largely carried on by c. S.
Elliott Of Tampa, who found it neces-
sary during the time to pay a visit to
Germany.
The land in question lies in a body,
and was the property of c. H. Davis
and associates. It's location is in
township SO, ranges IT, 18, 10, 20 and
p in Manatee county, and that part
of Hillsborough county west of the
Seaboard Air Line railroad and south
of the Little Manatee river, and. as
stated above, consists in all of about
$4,000 acres of high class pine, ham
very heart of the fruit and vegetable
district, which is practically below
the frost line. The lands are very fer
tile, and are especially adaptable to
all kinds of citrus fruits and yegeta-
bles
The price paid for these lands, as
note dabove, was $12 per acre, with
the payments as follows: $4,000 cash,
to bind the deal; $375,0OO to be paid
in August, 1911; $25OOOO in twelve
months, and the balance, $2O5.0O in
two years, making in all the grand to-
tai of 100000, or, if you please, only
100000 short of one million dollars.
Capt. Davis, during the past eight
or nine years, has made many big
land deals, but the present one caps
them all, and gives him the distinction
of having made the largest and best
real estate deal in the state. We say
largest and best, first, in point of dol
lars and cents, next in grade and quail
ity of land.
The names of the gentlemen who
made the purchase are as follows:
Count Carlos Donhoff, Excellens, of
Schloss Frederickstein, East Prussia;
DR.. o. Won Hentig, EXcellens, of Ber-
| lin, Germany; Albert F. Rodewaldt,
Berlin, Germany; H. Ramelow, Berlin,
Germany. These gentlemen stand
! high in official and financial circles,
and represent the highest type of
manhood and citizenship of the Ger
| man empire, and Capt. Davis and the
whole of south Florida are to be con-
graduated upon having such desira-
BILE class of citizens become interest
ed in our section.
The intention of the purchasers is
| to develop the turpentine and lumber
interests and at the same time to set
tie it with high class German farm
ers. When We say high class Ger
mans we mean those who are skilled
in the art of farming, and whose citi-
zenship is to be desired by any COM
munity.
The prospectus has already been is
sued, and shows that the purchasers
have set aside $25O,OOO for good roads
purposes, to be constructed through
out the entire $4,000 acres, and will
other wise make improvements of
such a character as to make it easily
the most desirable and up-to-date col
ony in the south.
Such a colony settled by the thrifty
and intelligent German farmer will
prove a great acquisition to Manatee
and Hillsborough counties, and the
Record heartily welcomes them to the
| land of sunshine and flowers.