The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-22
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week
Tais Is tie place where our Old
nsighoo-. the Honorable r. Simmons.
h4s caSt his lot
He has acquired considerable farm.
ing lands and is buying more.
Mr.. Simmons has one of the pref
test homes on the prettiest street OF
that city
We were given an opportunity TO
inspect what they have in the way
Of farming lands around Ocala
Their lands are equal TO Bulloch
county's best
And that is saying & great deal
The feature that struck US was the
differences in prices.
Good farms can be bought around
Ocala at less than half what the same
values can BE- obtained il Bulloch
county.
Mr.. Simmons showed US a tract of
four hundred and sixty acres, with
two hundred and forty in cultivation.
The property is located three miles
from town, on the line of the railroad,
with SPUR track alongside of it
He bought the land last spring
rented it out on shares and had al.
ready received enough money from
his shares to pay all expenses and
pay for the purchase OF the land and
had q thousand dollars left
There we're other men Who had
made 4 greater record than this.
Thirty dollars per acre gets fancy
lands near in. with fine improvements.
Lots of land further out is selling
for ten dollars per acre and some Of
ii for less
There is not waste acre on any
of it.
There are no branches or creeks
No wet, SOggy places
No swamps.
Plenty Of rich hammock soil that
viii grow ftty bushels Of corn to
the acre or 4 bale OF cotton without
fertilization.
The lakes furnish the water
The county roads are paved with
the sand lime subsoil and are almost
perfect
All they need in that county is PEG
pie
The best place we have seen for
a poor man to go ana get him
home and start out in life
You can raise anything in and
around Ocala that you can raise in
BullOch county and do it fifty per cent
cheaper
Then you can raise a lot of things
you cans raise here. I
The finest live stock country we
have ever seen.
Saw calf fifteen months old that
tipped the scales at fourteen hundred
pounds. They were fixing to ship him
to the Chicago Live Stock exhibition.
More fat hogs than we have seen
in many day.
1t struck rs that they ought to have
our packing plant.
The finest climate on earth. A lit.
tie frost, but no freezes. Good
churches and good schools, big trunk
lines of railroads. on the main line
between New York and Tampa.
Splendid shipping facilities. for
crops that will grow the year round.
They had a cannery running, can.
ning snap beans. They were shipping
them by the carload to Chicago
They were growing luxuriantly in
the fields then.
Marion county will ship five hun.
dred boxes OF oranges this
season, thought this is not in the real
orange belt.
Just why the values up here are
so much higher than they are down
there We are at a loss to know.
The people looked as healthy "a
any people we ever saw.
They were as clever as they were
healthy.
This looks like q good place for a
man to take his family and locate. in
the event he has any idea OF going
anywhere.
Marion county. Florida, the county
seat of which is Ocala, a city OF
eight thousand people. offers good