The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-03-01
LIVE OAK, PERRY
AND GULF RAILROAD
OFFERS FARMS OF 40 TO 16O
ACRES ALONG ITS LINE FREE
OF COST on UNUSUALLY
LIBERAL AND EASY
CONDITIONS.
General Offices at Live Oak, Fla.

nee River Route, traVerseS one OF
the richest, most productive and heal
thiest sections of Florida, starting at
Live Oak and continuing westerly
through Bowling Park, Perry and
Hampton Springs, to a point near the
Gulf of Mexico, with a branch to AL
ton. Live Oak is one of the best lit
tie business cities in Florida, with a
population of about 5000, is 70 miles
west of Jacksonville and about 25
miles south Of the Georgia State line,
is junction point for the Seaboard
Air Line, the Atlantic Coast Line, the
Live Oak, Perry & Gulf and the Flor
ida railway and is the county seat for
Suwannee county.
The section Of Florida served by
the Live Oak. Perry & Gulf railroad
is the heaviest timbered section Of the
State, and numbering and allied in
dustries are being developed in big
way in the several rapidly growing
towns along its line. This means
unusually good openings for all class
es. These heavily timbered lands are
also, naturally, the richest agricul-ur-
al lands and it is these lands that the
railroad desires to settle with good
hardworking progressive peopl, as
fast as the lands are released by the
operations of the big lumber milling
companies.
Suwannee county, lying as il dos
between the Atlantic ocean and the
Gulf of Mexico, with the never failing
cool summer breezes from east to
west, has climate as cool in summer
as in the north and yet ideally perfect
in winter, and with ample fall for
drainage and an abundance of pure
drinking water, Suwannee county is
an especially healthy spot. A rainfall
Of over so inches per annum makes
crops as certain as possible.
For the purpose of encouraging set
tiers to Immediately occupy and cul-
tivate all the unoccupied lands in Su-
wannee county and thereby material
ly increasing the tonnage and earn
ings of our railroad, We have succeed
ed in inducing the several big lumbef
companies on our line, who are own
ers of large tracts of agricultural and
timber land, to let US have $4,000
acres of the best agricultural lands
in Suwannee county, to be put on the
market to actual settlers. We abso-
lutely exclude spectators who wish
to buy more than 320 acres, while to
the actual settlers we offer land prac-
tically regardless of prices Or terms.
In fact, On ridiculously easy condi-
tions to reliable people, we will fur
nish from 40 to $50 acres absolutely
free of one dollars cost, on a plan
much easier than land ever could have
been obtained even under the govern
ment homestead law And, it will be
remembered that millions Of acres
that were first acquired from the gov
ernment without cost are now worth
from $4,000 to 100000 per acre. The
owners Of these Suwannee county
lands have consented to our opening
them for immediate settlement on our
heretofore unheard of liberal terms
and conditions, only because they
know such settlement will greatly en-
hance the value of the quarter of a.
million acres they have yet to put on
the market.
Just imagine -thest lands are locat-
ed right along our line of railroad;
some adjoining townsites, some not
far from our local metropolis, Live
Oak, and none of them more than four
miles from railway service; close TO
good schools, churches, markets,
neighbors and only about three hours
ride to the great city Of Jacksonville
with its seaport markets to the world.
These are the best lands in the State
of Florida for the raising of corn,
cane, long staple cotton, upland rice,
all kinds of hay and fodder, cowpeas,
velvet beans, cassava, peanuts, pota-
toes (both sweet and Irish) vegeta-
bles Of all kinds, fruits, nuts, cattle,
hogs, mules and horses; while the
conditions for poultry raising, bee
keeping and dairying are ideal. We
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