The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-10
OIL AND LAND PLAN
CREATING INTEREST
Many People Are Taken to Florida
City Where< They Pick Out Tracts
and Residence Lots.

The head office of Tatum Bros
company, Miami, Fla, is enjoying a
most unusual activity, according to
the following article written by one of
the Miami Metropolitan reporters, who
called at the office Monday morning of
this week
The largest publicity campaign
which the Tatum Bros. company of
Miami has ever put on, and the larg
est, it is claimed, ever put on by any
Florida company, is now in full sway,
for the purpose of selling 10000 acres
of land which runs in a body from
near the depot at Florida City, east
and south of the Miami canal to the
bay.
This acreage is the same character
of land on which are right now the
wonderful crops of winter vegetables.
There was excitement all forenoon
today around the offices of the Tatum
Bros. company, where information was
demanded as to their latest invest
ment and development proposition.
Many visitors proceeded at once to
Florida City in automobile to pick out
sheir. tracts. A number of sales were
made in the offices from the plats.
Lending interest to the sale, the
ratum Bros. company and the Florida
City Land company have arranged
Jointly with o. w. Greenburg famous
as a maker of silhouettes, by which
ne has a desk in the front portion of
he Tatum Bros office at $50 East
Flagler street, and makes siihouettes CT
all adults who call and inquire about
the oil and land proposition. These
silhouettes, as fast as they are made,
are posted on cards and presented to
the subjects with the compliments Of
the two companies.
Scissors and black paper, with al
little paste, are the only stock in hand
ne needs.
Selling 10000 Acres.
The proposition in selling these 49,
900 acres of land east of Florida City
is to sell 10 acres Of the farming land,
one lot 50x150 in Florida City and
$3.50 in stock in the oil and land com
pany, all for $1,000, on easy terms of
20 per cent down and the balance at
IA per cent a month.
1--WE are not selling oil stock, and
we do not guarantee oil, but ten acres
ind the lot in Florida City are worth
more than we ask for the land without
oil prospects. We have seen seepages
Of oil and indications in many places,
and the arrangements for this sale are
such that we put into the oil and land
company 25 per cent Of the money
realized from the sale, which provides
4 fund for boring wells and developing
Tor that prospect. If oil is found, the
purchasers of all the properties will
benefit alike. Biologists assure us that
the strata here justifies a belief that
oil will be found
The selling campaign for this prop
erty has been started all over the state,
offices having been opened in Jack
sonville, Tampa. st. Petersburg, Lake
land, Orlando, Daytona, Fort Pierce
and West Palm Beach.
The Tatum Bros. have been in Miami
% years and have had to do with some
of the largest realty transactions in
this section, in Miami and all around
the city, particularly in and around
Florida City and Homestead and in
the Everglades.
We are advised by the Tatum Bros
company that many inquiries are COM
ing in from all points in the state, and
they anticipate a very quick sale of
the entire 10000 acre tract.