The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-16
Strip Of Bay Bottom Land
To Be Sold At Tallahassee
Minimum Set OI
Prized area Is
sIOO,OOO, Legal
Notice Reveals

a 33-miIe strip Of land
and bay bottom. 1000 feet
wide running from Key Lar
% to Biscayne Key VIM go.
on sale IN Tallahassee to
anyone who can bid more
than i minimum 500, 900.
FOR the priced strip. accord.
Ing 10 : legal notice submit
ted to The Key West Citizen.
Thomas Horobin, large
scale real estate promoter,
originally offered to buy the
strip for the 100000 figure
while the legislature was in
session Ia May. At his re-
uuest, state Representative
Bernie &. Papy introduced Z
Bill which would ask the leg
islature 10 sell II 10 him.
II was found that no act Of the
lerisiature Is necessary hoEoDln
Nith rs 500, 900 check can buy
~ lond from the State Internal
fmprovement Fund Il there are no
hiaher bidders 81 no objections onI
AUGUST q, q II !. N. u the state
capital.
Horobln. according % the AP
MI probably make ! real estate
aeveiopfnsnl and bury The hlgh.
~ BETWEEN expanses Of sasableI
teal estate, which would blot out
ne puhilc's view 81 The water ana
ne puhlio'e ncces 70 the beach
md bay
Tlho Ap furlher saJd ii ihe time
ne raailfk eaEno n ir Nay mt
1aao Cednly CEN sionefa have
iona damned q build eauseway
ranrlnr over one Of the most
boautiful and scenic seaseapes ~
ha western hemisphere
Tlss Sloo.cco figure ~ = TIE
mlnlmum BID figure 90 The ss-
ME len slrlp, 900 tpes wida,
6 sxseily ne figure offered hY
- halami tpaeulaier. Whether
naaa County win GENE q end
as,lhld him, 81 wheshsF shese
Mn V ebloeilons shai wlll held
~ No aals to AaFehlN vii not
asuwafaa Untll AOuuas 18th y
Tallahassee.
The advertisement says that the
land and bay bottom Is being Ct.
aered gcr the Aconstruction Of .
hIrhway running south from Key
Bisrayne % the Intersection Of
IIlghway No. / On Key Largo
Tie puFehsseF sbllsaias him.
~ * eommonea ~ e. before
ianuaFy 1. 1854. Ne construction
) vluhf e way Eunnlns sevsh
Sram Kew Blseayne 70 ne inter.
eoe,,en % RoUle No. ! ea Key
laruo. end eonplete the same
-. ~ hetora 1nnuarY !, lssI.
The lands are being offered for
aala August ie, subject % and up
- ~ condition that the purchas-
- ahall construct such roads,
rauseways, viadnets and bridges
an over and across said lands
frnm ne northern % the southern
boundary thereof IS shall be nee
esary and appropriate for traffic
needs. and shall be sold upon the
n,rther condition that Il said roads
eanseways. yiaducts and bridges
ahan not Be constructed before
January i, 1857, that the above
deecfibed lands and al the I'M
rrovemenfs thereon shall revert to
ana become property Of the State
q Florida % the same extent Is
4 the said lands had never been
sold.
The purchaser may charge . toll
FOR the highway for 50 years. not
"a exceed Is cents per car. The
sale II ana when made shah be
subject % the Trustees reseTvilg
unto themselves rs per cent ct the
phosphate minerals and metals
and 50 per cent Of the petroleum
thereon or Hereunder, and 50 per
cent 81 the petroleum thereon or
hereunder.
The choice Smile strip Is des-
rrihed fully n Tie legal advertise.
ment.
The resolution aushorizing the o..
far AZ Tie land and bay bottom for
ale az objections was passed 1T i
rneeting al the Trustees 81 the In
lernal Improvement Fund al June
Is. 1883.
Though the price offered 81 Ho.
rOhin os $4,000 for the strip
eoiands large according 10 the AP
+ y actually only sixty cents IN
ocean front foot.