The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-08-21
THE SOUTH THE LAND or OP-
PORTUNlTY


A writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer
presents twelve convincing reasons
why those seeking homes, should emf
crate from the North and West, TO
the South:
/. The soil, quickened and enrich
ed by an abundant rain fall, is gener-
ally of the most fertile character. and
capable of growing the most exhuber-
ant crops (often two in one season.
with less labor and greater certainty
than elsewhere.
2. The climate, except in low, ma
larial districts, is pleasant, salubrious
and healthy the weather being temp
cred at all times by gulf, lake, river
or mountain breezes. The heat of Gin
cinnati and Central Ohio. though less
continuous, is more oppressive than
the heat of Memphis, Mobile or New
Orleans.
g. Excepting a few isolated por-
tions OF the country, good well or
spring water for drinking purposes is
abundant.
l. While there is no necessity to
feed stock of any kind longer than
one month, the winters being mild
and the grasses ever green, juicy and
succulent, it is necessary in the more
rigorous north to feed from five to
seven months. This is mighty import
ant to the stock growers.
5. On account of the numerous
navigable streams and lines of rail
road. whatever is produced can be
easily and cheaply transported, and
as a consequence, the markets are
excellent.
g. As a general rule, although
average Southern people do not seem
to appreciate the fact, the cost of
living is less than in the north.
I. Families removing south, unlike
those who formerly emigrated to the
extreme west, can locate in good
churches, schools, good society, court
houses, and where all the machinery
of law and good order in full and
successful operation. This is notably
the case since the despicable carpet
bag regime has been supplanted by
intelligent and honest home govern
ment-
8. The families that may settle in
the south VIII be at all times, by rail
way or by steamer, Within cheap,
speedy and convenient reach of their
northern frfends-much nearer than
in Nebraska or Colorado.
8. While the farms in the north
rate in value from $50 to $3.50 per
acre, according to location, improve
mentss buildings, ETC., they very best
of southern farms with few excep-
tons, can be bought aat prices rang
ing from s. to SIS per acre. Any farm
er who understands the value of mon
ey will appreciate this difference.
10. The northern tradesman, with
his superior industry and sagacity,
seldom fails to achieve a fortune in
southern cities, where opportunities
are so great and manifold, and com
petition so small
IL. The manufacturer can find in
che south iron, coal, and limestone,
for making the best qualities of iron
and steel; cotton, wool, wheat, and
cane, where they are grown, for his
spindles, looms, burrs, and refining
apparatus, together with the finest
water power for propelling engines
and machinery, making this, what
God intended it to be, one OF the
finest and best paying manufacturing
districts on this continent.
II. Summing up the case in a sim
lie paragraph, it is my deliberate con-
viction that there is no territory OF
equal proportions to that OF the
sunny South" that is blessed with
so many natural advantages, and that
has no impossihilities of material
prosperity.
If the canal machinery were kept
could no