The Washington times., 1925-09-09
BUILDING BOOM
At PIERCE,
FLORIDA
Florida City Building Growing
and Booming In Heart Of
Orange Grove District

Building, growing and booming
that briefly describes Fort Pierce
on the east coast Of Florida, near
where the Florida Improvement
Company, which has just opened OF
fees in Washington, owns upwards
to 100 900 acres which is now being
offered to the people of the Ma
tional Capital at pre-boom prices.
Right in line to become another
Miami Fort Pierce is in the midst
OF one Of the richest. most prolific
citrus and vegetable land in all
Florida. This makes the land near
this city valuable-both as real
estate investment and for farming
land.
Fort Pierce, in the famous Indian
river, st. Lucie county, is in the
heart of the orange grove district
and will shortly be the only stop
for ocean steamers between Jack
sonyille and Miami. 1t Is already
seething with real estate activity
and the 100000 acres owned by
the FLORIDA Improvement Corpora
ton are considered ideally located
for speculative and farming pur-
poses.
This land has produced and Is
Eow producing, when cultivat 1,
three crops a year and profits Tor
individual owners up to and ex-
ceeding $1,000 per acre per year
The Florida Improvement Associa-
ton Is pointing out to purchasers
OF any part of the 100, 900 acres that
they may till the land while they
spend the winter in Florida or as
an alternative place the land in the
hands of local association for cul-
tivation. 1t will soon net big
profits. the corporation declares.
1.-THE causeway to the beach and
the dredging of the harbor, permit
ing ocean steamers to come in, made
Miami" declares an officer Of the
Improvement corporation. The
new causeway to Fort Pierce has
just been completed. The dredging
of the harbor is practically finished
and in a few months Fort Pierce
viii be a port Of call.
What happened in Miami follow
ing the building of the causeway
and the dredging Of the harbor is
bound to happen at Fort Pierce.
Acreage the same distance from
Miami as ours is from Fort Pierce
is worth today from $4,000 an acre
up to $4,000 a. lot. We offer this
land to investors, builders AMI
operators in parcels of ten acres
and upwards at low opening pre-
boom prices on terms of % per cent
cash, balance annually, quarterly
or monthly payments covering three
years.
1.-THE productivity of the SOIL
guarantees against loss, assures Of
q handsome income and the chances
for quick profits are greater than
anywhere else"
Local offices of the Florida I'm
provement Corporation are in the
Transportation building, Seven
teenth and II streets northwest.
The corporation has an office in
New York and at Fort Pierce, Fla.
William Henry Byington is the
president of the corporation. He
is considered an authority in the
field of reclamation. The mar.
ner in which he became interested
in Florida makes an interesting
story.
Mr.. Byington was Californian
and it was in that State he first
which have been foundation upon
which he has built his reclamation.
projects.
Hardly passed the age of
twenty-one years, Mr.. Byington was
called upon by a group of business
men to head a corporation to re
claim a great tract Of land in his
native State, California. His sue
cess in this undertaking won for
him a nationwide reputation. The
Job was completed in a compare.
lively short time, a great barren
tract being converted into a banner
crop producing area, inhabited by,
thousands.
Mr.. Byington later left California
for New York city. He headed his
own corporation in the metropolis,
supported by New York bankers,
Middle West bankers, and even
bankers from his native State, the
latter of whom had followed his
work. and were enthusiastic back
ers of all his undertakings.
Vacationing in Florida, Mr.. By
ington became deeply interested in
the State, his attention being at
attracted particularly to ST. Lucie
county, Florida. He made an in
vestigation and found that oy the
simple procedure of drainage, the
county could be made a veritable
Garden of Eden. Mr.. Byington,
after his investigation, purchased
hundreds and hundreds of acres of
land for his company.
Mr.. Byington then discovered one
disadvantage, the fact that follow
ing every heavy rainstorm the