The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-02-22
LIVE OAK, PERRY
AND GULF RAILROAD
OFFERS FARMS OF 40 TO 100
ACRES ALONG IT'S LINE
FREE OF COST ON CN-
USUALLY LIBERAL
AND EASY CON-
DITIONS.
General Offices at Live Oak, Fla.

General Offices at Live Oak, Fla.
The Live Oak, Perry and Gulf rail-
road, popularity known as the
"Suwannee River Route traverses
one Of the richest, most productive
and nealtiliest sections of Florida
starting at Live Oak aud continuing
westerly through Bowling Park,
Perry and Hampton Springs, to a
point near the Gulf of Mexico, with
branch to Alton. Live Oak is one
Of the best little business cities in
1000, is seventy miles west of jack
sonville and about twenty-five miles
south Of the Georgia state line, is a
junction point for the Scaboard Air
Line, the Atlantic Coast Line, the
Live Oak, Perry and Gulf and the
Florida railway and is the county
scat for SuWannee county.
The section of Florida served by
the Live Oak, Perry and Gulf rail-
road is the heaviest timbered section
Of the state, and numbering and al
lied 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 set
tie with good Woodworking pro-
gressive people as fast as the lands
are released by the operations of the
big lumber milling companies.
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between the Atlantic Ocean and the
Gulf Of Mexico, with the never fail
ing cool summer breezes from east to
west, has a climate as cool in sum-
mer as in the north, and yet ideally
perfect in winter. and with ample
fall for drainage and an abundance
Of pure drinking water, Suwannee is
an especially healthy spot. A rainfall
OF over fifty inches per annum makes
crops as certain as possible.
For the purpose OF encouraging
settlers to Immediately occupy and
cultivate all the unoccuped lands in
SuWannee county and thereby ma
terially increasing the tonnage and
earnings of our railroad, We have
succeeded in inducing the several big
lumber companies on our line, who
are owners Of large tracts Of agri-
cultural and timber land, to let us
| have $4,000 acres Of the best agri-
cultural lands in SuWannee county,
/ to be put on the market to actual SET
tiers. We absolutely exclude specu-
lators who wish to buy more than
1920 acres, while to the actual settlers
we offer land practically regardless
lnf or n Il
ulously easy conditions to reliable
people, we will furnish from 40 to
| 60 acres absolutely free of one dol
| lar cost, on a plan much easier than
land ever could have been obtained
even under the government home
stead law. And. it will be remem-
bered that millions of acres that
were first acquired from the govern
ment without cost are now worth
from $50 to $500 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 enhance the value of the
quarter Of million acres they have
yet to put on the market.
Just imagine-these lands are
located right along our line of rail-
road; some adjoining townsites,
some not far from our local metrop-
oils, Live Oak, and none of them
more than four miles from railway
service; close to good schools,
churches, markets, neighbors and
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great city of Jacksonville, with it's
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, po-
tatoes (both sweet and Irish) veg
etables of all kinds, fruits, nuts, cat
tie, hogs, mules and horses; while |
the conditions for poultry raising,
bee keeping and dairying are ideal. |
We hope within another two years
to see SuWannee county we'll settled |
and all under cultivation-a verita-
bic garden spOt-and lands selling at |
500 per acre and upwards. But, |
for the present, our railroad needs |
more settlers and more tonnage; |
prices and terms on these
lands are no object. In short, if you
can convince us that you are capable |
of farming from 40 to $50 acres and
that you could, if necessary, come to
Florida with cash working capital
of $500 or over, preferably $1,000
or more, you can on the easiest con-
ditions imaginable, secure through
us, without one dollars cost, a farm
of from 40 to $50 acres under war
ranty deed to farm, hold, sell or do
with as you wish.
If interested, we would be glad to
tell you all about this country, our
plans, the opportunities here for
money making, and especially the
by which you may have
one of these farms free of cost. To
learn all about it, write on post
card or in a letter, simply Mail me
and address John H.
Land Commissioner,
Room No. ia, General Offices, Live
Oak, Perry and Gulf R. R., Live
Oak, Fla.