The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1912-02-22
LIVE OAK, PERRY
and GULF RAILROAD.
Offers Farms of 10 to 100 Acres Along
Its Line Free Of CGSt On Unusually
Liberal and Easy Conditions.
General Offices al Live Oak, Fla.

The Live Oak, Perry 4 Gulf HALL
road, popularly known as the Su-
wannee River Route traverseS
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 a
point near the Gulf of Mexico, with
a branch to Alton. Live Oak is one
of the best little business cities IN
Florida, with population of about
5000, is 20 miles west of Jackson
vile and about 25 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 Florida Rail-
way 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
industries are being developed in a
big way in the several rapidly grow
ing towns along its line. This means
unusually good openings for all
classes. These heavily timbered
lands are also, naturally, the richest
agricultural lands and 1t is these
lands that the Railroad desires to
settle with good Woodworking pro-
gressive people as fast as the lands
are released by the operations of
the big lumber milling companies.
Suwannee county, lying as it does
between the Atlantic Ocean and the
Gulf of Mexico, with the never fail
ing cool summer breezes from east
to vest, has a 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
40 inches per annum makes crops as
certain as possible.
For the purpose of encouraging
settlers to Immediately occupy and
cultivate all the unoccupied 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
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 absolutely eX-
clude spectators who wish to buy
more than 320 acres. while to the
actual settlers we offer land practi-
callv regardless of prices or terms.
In fact, on ridiculously easy con-
ditions to reliable people, we will
furnish from 40 to 160 acres abso-
lutely free of one dollars cost, on a
plan much easier than land ever
could have been obtained even under
the Government homestead law.
And, it will be remembered that
millions of acres that were first
acquired from the Government with
out cost are now worth from 5000
to $4,000 per acre. The owners of
these Suwannee county lands have
consented to our opening them for
immediate settlement on our hereto
fore unheard of liberal terms and
conditions, only because they know
such settlement will greatly enhance
the value of the value of the quarter
of a million acres they have yet to
put on the market.
Just imagine these lands are To-
Gated right along our line of Rail
road; some adjoining townsites, some
not far from our local metropolis,
Live Oak, and none of them more
than four miles from railway SER
vice; 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 roising of corn, cane, long
staple cotton, upland rice, all kinds
of hay and fodder, cowpeas. velvet
beans, cassava, peanuts, potatoes
(both sweet and Irish) vegetables of
all kinds, fruits, nuts, cattle, hogs,
mules and horses; while the con-
ditions for poultry raising, bee keep
ing and dairying are ideal. We
hope within another two years to
see Suwannee county well settled
and all under cultivation-a verit-
able garden spot-and lands selling
at $4,000 per acre and upwards.
But, for the present, our Railroad
naadS more settlers and more ton