The Southern States (1896) (14761764176)

Identifier: southernstates1896balt (find matches)
Title: The Southern States
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Agriculture Industries
Publisher: Baltimore, Manufacturers' Record Pub. Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation



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ll-equippedrailroad between Tallahassee and Car-rabelle; a steamboat line running fromCarrabelle, which port they largelycontrol; a fine resort hotel on the Gulf,several townsites, a number of sawmills, etc. The railroad now in operation be-tween Carrabelle and Taillahassee willdoubtless be extended to Thomasville,Ga., which will not only give marketfacilities to the fine farming lands ofnorthern Leon county, but will giveThomasville a short line to the Gulfcoast, which will be extensively usedfor both freight and passenger busi-ness. There are seven stations alongthe line of the present road, some ofwhich will become towns of some im-portance. The Georgia & FloridaInvestment Co. owns 300 square milesof land along the line of the railroad,containing over 500,000,000 feet of finelong-leaf yellow pine. It has largeand very complete milling plants atMclntyre and Hilliardvitle. The farming lands of the syndicatecompanies are adapted to a wide varietyof product. They extend from within
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DAIRYING IS MUCH MORE PROFITA BLE IN MIDDLE FLORIDA THAN INANY NORTHERN STATE. THE HILL COUNTRY OF FLORIDA. 273 eight miles of Tallahassee well on to-wards the Gulf, and embrace landson which will grow hay, corn, oats,sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, toma-toes and all kinds of vegetables,rice, tobacco, cotton, sugar-cane,figs, grapes, pears, peaches, pea-nuts, pecans, melons and every otherkind of fruit except the tropical varie-ties. The plans of the company are toencourage small farmers, tracts beingcut up into from five to forty acreseach. These are offered at from $5to $20 an acre, payable in cash or anyway, almost—5 per cent, down, if de-sired, and the balance in instalments.The liberal arrangements offered bythe syndicate companies are attractinga growing number of settlers, andmust result in a very large immigrationmovement to that section. The Scottish Land & ImprovementCo. is interested in townsite develop-ment work. Its most importantundertaking is at Lanark, five miles