The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-02-23
LIVE OAK, PERRY
. AND GULF RAILROAD
OFFERS FARMS OF 10 TO 160
AIRES ALONG ITS LINE FREE
OF COST on UNUSUAL
LIBERAL AND EASY
CONDITIONS.
General Offices at Live Oak. Fla.

The Live Oak, Perry & Gulf rail-
road. popularity known as the "SuWan-
Zee River Route traverses one of
the richest, most productive and heal
; th;est 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 20
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 Tor
Suwannee county.
The section of Florida served Dy
! 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 agricu!-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. dots
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 tor
drainage and an abundance of pure
drinking water, Suwannee county is
an especially healthy spot. A rainfall
of over 50 inches per annum makes
crops as certain as possible.
For the purpose of encouraging set
tiers to Immediately occupy and cul-
tiyate 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 lumbea
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 800 acres, while to
the actual settlers We offer land prac-
tically regardless of prices or t2rms.
In fact, on ridiculously easy condl-
tons to reliable people, we will fur
nish from 40 to 160 acres absolutely
/ free of one dollars cost, on a plan
much easier than land ever could nave
been obtained even under the govern
ment homestead law. And, 1t will be
remembered that millions of acres
! that were first acquired from the gov
ernment 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 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 & 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 1rish) Vegeta-
bles of all kinds, fruits, nuts, CATTLE,
hogs, mules and horses; While the
l;+;o, for nou1trv raising hpe