The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-19
LARGE ACREAGE
OF TRUCK LAND
PUT ON MARKET
POLK County Record)

lFOlK county RecOru)
Practically 1000 acres of Polk coun-
~ land have just been released for
development by the transfer of deed
conveying this properly to the Peace
Valley Farms Company. The deed was
recorded Wednesday, and plans for
the sale of the land cut into small
tracts for development purposes, are
being made by George w. Oliver, at
torney for the company
For the past several years these
holdings have been tied up, under a
contract made by Edwin Spencer of
Lakeland, for their purchase. Owing
to the business depression. and the
condition of affairs generally, his pur-
chase was not completed, and with
their re-transfer to the Peace Valley
Farms people a great area of farm
able land, much of which is as rich
much land as is to be found in the
South, is being put on the market to
the attraction Of purchasers who will
come in to increase Folks already
varied output of agricultural produce.
The drainage, according to Mr.. Oil
YER is in good shape, although some
Of the bitches will require cleaning.
The land is the best located trucking
land i'm the state, from the CONNER
cial point of view, traversed, as ii is,
by excellent asphalt roads, and by the
Seaboard Air Line and Atlna.ic Coast
Line railways. Plans have been made
to pay all the drainage taxes accru-
ing while the property was tied up,
and the entire 10000 acres should
shortly begin to show results.
Contiguous to the Peace Valley
peoples property is a smaller tract Of
the same character of soil owned by
the American Humus Fertilizer Co.
near Dundee, where operations were
in progress a couple of years ago, for
the mining of peat, and the manufac-
ture of what expert chemists predict
ed would become much-demanded
commercial fertilizer Lack OF funds
and various complications have now
closed the plant that was built at a
cost of about $150,000, although it is
said by heads of the company that
operations will sometime be renewed.
With soil of this type on the mar
ket, Polk countys trucking industry
may we'll be expected to increase in
importance rapidly. Many residents
of the county are more or less famil-
lar with the successful experiments of
DR.. ]. f. Crum of Winter Haven. who
has been developing a tract on Lake
Hamilton with great success for the
past several years. DR.. Crum. it is
understood, has just returned from
a trip to Lake Okeechobee, where. in
similar soil, tremendously successful
avocado groves have been developed.
DR.. Crum, highly enthusiastic and
thoroughly convinced that the same
success may be expected in a Polk
county development CATER expert
menting on a limited scale at his own
farm has decided to plant about
hundred acres in adocados. His farm
has been producing a high grade of
corn this year, and has formerly pro-
duced excellent tomatoes, strawber-
ries, beans. cabbage, and the usual
line of truck produce, with compare
lively little fertilization of any kind.
1t will be remembered that the
Peace Creek Drainage District, in
WHICH the GeuCe Ndlley fdIlllS W
holdings are located, was incorporated
in 1915, by the property holders of
that section, for the purpose Of re-
claiming a great waste of swamp
land, most of which was under water
for large part of the year, and prac-
tically useless. Some $50 owners
compose the corporation. with hold
ing of 10000 accres of land which has
now, by drainage, been made capable
of producing in its entirety.
1t was financed by special sys-
tenn of taxation levied for the purpose
of constructing drainage canals and
bitches; but its development was
greatly retarded by the conditions