Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-02-22
LIVE OAK, PERRY
And GULF RAILROAD
Offers Farms a 70 to 100
Acres Along l., Line
Free of Cost OIL Unus.
ually Liberal and
Easy Conditions
General Offices at Live Oak,
Florida

IlOTlOd
The Live Oak. Perry &. Gulf Railroad,
popularity known as the "Suwannee
River Route" travcrses one of the
richest. most productive and healthiest
sections OF Florida, starting at Live
Oak and continuing westerly through
bowling Park, Perry and Hampton
Springs. to point near the Gulf OF
Mexico, with branch to Alton. Live
Oak is one of the best little business
cities in Florida. with a population of
about 5000. is 20 miles west of Iackson-
Vile and about 25 miles south of the
Georgia State lie, is a junction point
for the Seaboard Air Line the Atlantic
Coast Line, the Live Oak, Perry &
Gulf and the Florida Railway and is
the County Seat for Suwannee County.
The section of Florida served by the
Live Oak, Perry G. Gulf Railroad is the
heaviest timbered section OF the State,
and numbering and allied industries are
being developed in a big way in the
several rapidly growing towns along
its line. This means unusually good
openings for all classes These heavily
timbered lands are also. naturally, the
richest agricultural lands and it is
these lands that the Railroad desires to
settle with good handwriting progress
sive people as fast as the lands are re-
leased by the operations of the big
lumber milling companies.
Suwannae County. lying as it does
between the Atlantic Ocean and 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 GER
tain as possible.
For the purpose Of encoura cling set
tiers to Immediately occupy and Guilt
vate all the unoccupied lands in Suwan-
nee County and there by materially in
creasing the tonnage and earnings Of
our railroad, We have succeeded iii in
ducing the several big lumber compan-
les on our line, who are owners of large
tracts of agricultural and timber land.
to let us have % 900 acres OF the best
agricultural lands in Suwannee County.
to be put on the market to actual set
tiers. We absolutely exclude speculat-
ors who wish to buy more than 800
acres, while to the actual settlers we Of
fer land practically regardless of prices
or terms. In fact. on ridiculously easy
conditions to reliable people. we will
furnish from 40 to 16O 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 Govern
ment without cost are now worth from
$50. 90 to 5000 90 per acre The owners
OF these Suwannee County lands have
consented to our opening them for inn
mediate settlement on our heretofore
unhcard of liberal terms and conditions,
only because they know such settle.
ment will greatly enhance the value of
the quarter of a million acres they have
yet to put on the market.
Just imagine these lands are located
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 thr e hours ride to the
great city of Jacks ,nville. with its sea.
port 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, potatoes. (both sweet
and lrish) vegetables of all kinds. fruits,
nuts, cattle. hogs. mules and horses;
while the conditions for poultry raising,
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