The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-02-20
live OAK, PERRY
And GULF RAILROAD
OFFERS FARMS OF 10 TO 160
ACRES ALONG ITS LINE FREE
OF COST ON UNUSUALLY
LIBERAL AND EASY
CONDITIONS.
General Offices at Live Oak, Fla.

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The Live Oak, Perry & Gulf rail-
road, popularity known as the 'SuWan-
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
population of about 5000, is 70 miles
west of Jacksonville and about 2s
miles south Of the Georgia State line,
is a 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 tire
State, and numbering and allied in
dustries are being developed in a big
way in the several rapidly growing
towns along it's 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 people as
fast as the lands are released by the
operations of the big lumber milling
companies.
Suwannee county, lying as l. docs
between the Atlantic ocean and the
Gulf of Mexico, with the never failing
cool summer breezes from east to
west, has a climate as cool in summer
as in the north and yet ideally perfect
in winter, and with ample fall Tor
drainage and an abundance of pure
drinking water, Suwannee county IS
an especially healthy spot. A raln1all
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 lumbes
companies on our line, who are own
ers of large tracts of agricultural and
timber land, to let us have 2a,O0O
acres of the best agricultural lands
in Suwannee county, to be put on the
market to actual settlers. We abso-
1uteIy exclude spectators who wish
to buy more than ?2O acres, while to
the actual settlers We offer land prac-
tically regardless of prices or terms.
In fact, on ridiculously easy condl-
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, 1t WILL De
remembered that millions of acres
that were first acquired from the gov
eminent without cost are now worth
from $4,000 to $4,000 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 iocat-