The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-28

homeseeker to enable them TO sup
ply any demand at any time. The
company's lands are well drained,
there being no wet, low or worthless
lands among them.
Operate Splendid Railroad.
From Bagdad, on the northern
sphere of beautiful Pensacola bay,
the Bagdad Land & Lumber Com
pany operates one of the best pieces
of railroad property in the state,
north for forty-five miles. This
standard gauge railroad leads by
the industrial town of Munson to
the town of Bradley, Alabama, 25
miles southwest of Andalusia. The
rolling stock is among the best in
the south and the roadbed is unsur-
passed anywhere. The trestles are
fireproof and the rails are of 10
pound Ensley steel. This road is
known as the Florida & Alabama
railroad, but is under the absolute
management of the Bagdad Land &
Lumber Company. BY this splendid
road connecting, as it does, with the
L. & N. at Milton, shippers in the
northern part of Santa Rosa county
are brought into direct connection
with the leading markets of the
country for the sale of anything
raised on the farm or ranch.
Great Cattle Country.
No lands in the entire south are
better adapted to stock raising than
the lands of West Florida. Among
these thousands of fertile acres may
be found the rich grass-producing
lands of the Bagdad Land & Lumber
Company These lands are well
watered, but are not wet and uncul-
tivatable. The rainfall of this sec
ton is sufficient to produce any kind
of feed crop. Cattle can be kept
in excellent condition by being fed
only about three months each year.
Herd Fat on Native Grass.
The large herd of Hereford cattle
which we viewed near Munson have
been kept in excellent condition by
simply running on the company's
woods pastures, consisting of about
fifteen hundred acres enclosed under
woven wire fence. The herds are
gentle and easily managed. Mr.. John
son. the ranch superintendent, goes
among them at will and handles them
with as much satisfaction as he could
if they were sheep instead of cattle.
Health Conditions Good.
The health conditions in West
Florida are as good as the best. This
entire golden gulf country is famed
by brisk sea breezes all summer. 1t
is kept from extreme cold in winter
by the warm southern sunshine. The
thermometer seldom goes below 40
degrees in winter and is rarely ever
more than 90 in summer, with brisk
winds blowing for about 20 out of
every "a hours.
/ Good schools.
The school and social privileges of
West Florida | have found to be as
good, if not better, than in some of
the other southern states. Every few
miles we come to neat school house
and every now and then a splendid
church. In the small towns the peo-
pie appear to be too busy for idle
gossip and the social life appears to
be of high order.
A Homeseeker's Paradise.
To anyone desiring a location in a
rapidly developing section of the
sunny southland with good agricul-
tural lands, pure water, good eli
mate, good schools, good church and
social privileges and excellent in
dustrial possibilities / can think of
no better field than is offered in
West Florida by the Bagdad Land
& Lumber Company. | have been
over these lands recently and know
whereof l speak.