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THE GULF COAST ROUTE.

rrom tlio &■« to the Gulf.

THE GOLDEN FRUIT ROUTE.
Ttir<nigli (.ho Lako Region an<l Iho Omi^^ Bolt.

(SOUTHERN DIVISION).

THE TALLAHASSEE ROUTE.
Througli the Uplands o( FlorliUi.

(WESTERN DIVISION).

ISSUED BY THE

sPASSENOKR DEPARTMENT*

FLORIDA ■■-■ RAILWAY ■■> AND » NAVIGATION « COMPANY.

■1884.

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IlluoiratP'l ami Prlni.Hl s-r tlio
RAILWAY AND KAVr:;AT10N COMPANY,

THE * SOUTH « PUBLISHING * COMPANY,

ORGANIZATION.

OFFICERS:

BENJ. S. HENNING, President, New Yobk.

(35 Wall 8treot— MillH Building.)

C. D. WILLARD, Viee-Premdent, New York

(:«> Wall Street— Mills Building.)

I.. M. LAWSON, Treasurer, New York.

(102 Broadway.)

D. E. MAXWELL, General Svperintcndent, . Fernandina, Fla.

A. O. MacDONELL, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, . Fernandina, Fla.
F. B. PAPY, General Freight Agent, .... Fernandina, Fi*a.

THOS. W. ROBY, Auditor JACKRONViiiLE, Fui.

JOHN HEDGES, Cashier, Fernandina, Fi*a.

W. NAYLOR THOMPSON, Paymaster, .... Fernandina, Fla.

R. V. DAHONEY, Master of Machinery, . Fernandina, Fla.

C. W. MAXWELL, Master of Transportation, . . JACKSONTiiiiiE, FiiA.

C. H. MARTIN, Master of Roadway, (Cent, and So. Div.) Fernandina, Fla.

B. M. BURROUGHS. Master of Roadway, (Wo»i. T>[\.) . TALiiAHASSEE, Fla.

JNO. A. HENDERSON. Attorney, Tallaharsee, TJaA.

WALTER G. COLEMAN, General Traveling Agent, . . Jacksonville, Fla.

(Cor. Bay and Hogan StreotB.)

DIRECTORS:

B. S. Henning,
D. L. Yulee,
A. D. Basneit,

W. Bayard Cutting, H. L. Horton,

C. J. Peck, C. R. CiimmingR,

C. D. Willani, L. M. Lawson,

E. H. Harriman.

E. N. Dickerson,

F. W. Peck,
T. C. Piatt,

GENERAL OFFICES, FERNANDINA, FLA.

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FLORIDA-OLD AND NEW.

Florida in, at once, the oldest and the
newoet Stato In tho Amedcan Union — oldest
in aottloniunt and historical aeeooiatioufl,
and nowust In development. Old Florida
dat(.« back to the dlMCOVcrlce of Cabot In the
I llfteonth, and Ponce do Leon and Idudon-
I niere In tlie slxt:«nth centuries, and em-
j bracoB itw Buccessive occupancy by tho
B Spanish, French, Enf^llMh and Americana up
I to thu time or the lato Civil war, during
i| which extended perio<l It pasHtxl through &
Diultitudu at startling and romantic vldasl-
tudm of alternate prosperity and depreeeton.
The long-continueil ami lutermlimblo conicflte for tho control of tho country betweoi
the French and the BpanlHh, with their bloody liiutory; tho eCforto at settlement and
development In tho growth of Indigo and other tropical products during the Engllab
occupation ; its latjir development under tho moro vigorous and practical Americans,
with lt« va»t plantations of cotton and eugar ; the attractiveness and heatthfuloees of
Ite climate, and the discovery of Its adaptability to the growth of seml-tropiool fruits
aitd all kinds of vegetables, have niajle for Florida a record of over-changing ezper-
lenoes, as singular and unique an It ia Inturosting and Instructive.

The planters of tho early day — inimlgrants from the adjacent states, whose eneiv
glee were devoted to tho production of immonse crope of cotton and com — were quite
contented with the careless cultivation of a few oranges, lemons, limes, etc., for home
consumption, while the commerdai pOBslbilltlce of such crops were unthought of or
disregarded; the means of transportation were imperfect or entirely wanting, and
there wab apparently no outside demand for those products for which the State has
eince become famous.

In that olden time the wealth and population of tho State was ohleRy concentrated
In the sootlon now known as Middle Florida, oomprislog the oountlea lying between the
Oeorgia Une and tho Quit of Uexico, and between the Apalaobloota and Suwannee
rivers. In no portion of the South wore there at that time larger or finer cotton
plantations, more luxurious homos and surroundings, or a more prosperous and oon-
tented people than existed In this rich region. The people lived like nabobs, and
devoted themselves with equal zeal to the cultivation and handling of the great staple
and the omenltiee of social lite. Fine old mansions yet stand among the glaot Uv»

oaks, upon more than one of the rich plantatioms, untenanted and ruinous ; their
silence and desolation full of pathos and eloquence, reminding the ctiance passer-by
of the prosperity and affluence of former days. This good old time lias passed away,
with many of those who were its founders and devotees, but the rich lands yefr
remain, scarcely affected by the half century of immense yearly crops which th^
have produced. Methods of cultivation which have prevailed among the freedmeo
tenants of these lands since the war have reduced the annual product, but not the
producing capacity of the lands, and when they are subjected to the better methods
known and practiced by the best farmers of the North and West, their fertility and
variety of products will be almost beyond the power of belief. The ** fortunes of war**
worked a disastrous change in the conditions here, as elsewhere. The slaves were
suddenly converted into ** free American citizens," and lost no time in deserting from
the great army of producers to engage almost en nuisse in the more congenial avocation
of politics ; the production of the staple crops ceased almost entirely ; the plantation
was deserted for the town and the cross-roadH rendezvous, and its owner was left
helpless and despairing, without an income, without capital, and without credit, but
with a family to be supported, and a new future to carve out for himself under the
most trying, disastrous and depresHing circuinstancoH wliich ever befell a prosperous
and happy people. Desperate efforts were made to sot the wheels of agriculture in
motion again, and a few individuals Hucceeded ; but the majority struggled long and
vainly against the untoward tide of misfortune and disappointment.

In the meantime, occasional Northerners ventured into Florida in search of
health, or from motives of curiosity ; and, realizing the possibilities of the country,
undertook to develop it in the right direction. Their ventures in cotton-planting,
owing to ignorance of the conditions essential to success, were generally disastrous,
but in other directions they accomplished a progress previously unknown. Orange
and lemon groves were planted ; experiments were made in pineapple culture ; the >
production of vegetables for shipment North soon became a practical success, and in
many respects the elements of a prosperous future for the State were apparently near
at hand. But the conditions of social existence were unsatisfactory ; the proportion
of Northern settlers was small, and on account of the natural, and, at that period,
unrestrained, prejudice existing towards them, their situation was not comfortable,
and many of them abandoned what they felt could be made a profitable and pleasant
undertaking, on that account. A few were loft, however, and, as years passed, they
remained to demonstrate the fact that the growth of oranges and other semi-tropical
fruits and vegetables could be made a success, and, under favorable conditions, aston-
ishingly profitable. Others were attracted by the published experiences of these
pioneers, and people began to flock in, submitting to the enforced social isolation, but
keeping in view the brilliant promise of success.

This state of things continued until the Northern element became so strong that
the sense of loneliness almost entirely disappeared ; and there is no country, at this
time, where enterprising Northern people are so cordially welcomed as in Florida,
even in those portions which have heretofore been considered the exclusive home of
the Southerner. In addition to this, the peninsular portion of the State is rapidly
being opened up, presenting a virgin territory for the enterprise of Northerners in
innumerable directions, and a vast tide of immigration has been steadily flowing in
for the past four or five years. The problem of success in fruit and vegetable culture
in Florida has been absolutely and positively solved, and the profit of their produc-
tion fully and satisfactorily demonstrated.

Not only the industries above mentioned, but many others auxiliary to them,
have been established and brought to a fiourishing and prosperous condition ; and
still others, heretofore unthought of, are daily being considered, experimented upon.

developed and made Important faotots in the general growth of the material pros-
perity of the State.

The demand for Improved and extended traneportatlon taeilitiee has grown with
the growth of all these newly-deveioped Industrlee, not only with relerenoe to the
Internal needs of the State, but t« a much greater extent, perhaps, with referenoe to
complete and rapid access thereto from abroad. Among these, none are of more vital
Importaoce than the local railway lines, both old and new; and at the head of the
list of these stand the two great trunli routes which formed the original scheme of
railw^ tran^KirtatioD Inaugurated In 1855 by State laws and State i^d In the shape
of grants of public lands, and whEoh bl-sect the State in opposite dlreotlone throughout
its entire length and breadth, now, with their several branches and extentione, oon-
Bolldatod under one management into one grand system, comprising over five hundrod
miles of main track, under the name of The Florida BaiiiWay and Natioatiok

OOKPUfT.

THE

FLORIDA RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION COMPANY.

On the 7th day of January, 1853, the Legislature of Florida granted a charter to
the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad CJompany for the construction of a
road from Jacksonville to AUiirator. (now Lake City) in Columbia county ; and on the
8th of January, 1853, the Legislature granted a charter to the Florida Bailroad Com-
pany, providing that its road '* shall commence in East Florida, upon some tributary
of the Atlantic Ocean within the limits of the State of Florida having a sufficient
outlet to the )cean to admit of the passage of sea steamers, and shall run through
the eastern ana southern part of the State in the most eligible direction to some
polntj^bay, arm or tributary of the Gulf of Mexico In South Florida south of the
Suwannee river having a sufficient outlet for sea steamers.'* On the same aay a
charter was granted to the Pensacola and Georgia Bailroad Company to construct
a railroad from Pensacola through the western and northern portion of the State,
with a branch to the Georgia line.

On the 6th of January, 1855, the State Legislature passed an act entitled, **An act
to provide for and encourage a liberal system of internal improvements in this State,"
commonly known as the " Internal Lnprovement Act," which contemplated in terms,
as a part of the system thereby provided for, the construction of two great trunk lines
of railway, viz : ** From the St. John's river at Jacksonville to the waters of Pensacola
bay, with an extension from suitable points on said line to St. Mark's river or
Crooked river at White Bluff, on Apalachicola bay, in Middle Florida, and to the
waters of St. Andrew's bay, in West Florida ; and a line from Amelia Island on the
Atlantic to the waters of Tampa bay in South Florida, with an extension to Cedar Key
in East Florida."

On the 14th of. December, 1855, the charter of the Florida Bailroad Company was
amended "so that the said company shall have power to construct the railroad from
Amelia Island to the waters of Tampa bay in South Florida, with an extension to
Cedar Key in East Florida" ; and on the next day, December 15th, 1855, the rights of
£he Pensacola and Georgia Bailroad Company were extended by amendment to the
oonstructlon of its road to a junction with the road of the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf
Central Bailroad Company at Alligator, (Lake City), and to the purchase of the old
Tallahassee Bailroad, which was constructed from St. Mark's to Tallahassee in 1833,
and is now known as the St. Mark's Branch.

By an amendment to its charter passed on the 29th of July, 1868, the name of the

^Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Bailroad Ck>mpany was changed to the Florid*
■Central Bailroad Company.

An act of the Legislature passed Deoenibor 13th, 1866, authorized the Pensaoola
and (Georgia Bailroad Company to sell its branch from Live Oak to the Georgia line
to the Atlantic and Gulf Bailroad Company, of Georgia.

An act passed by the Legislature on the 24th of June, 1869, reciting the sale of
the Pensaoola and Georgia Bailroad and the Tallahassee Bailroad, incorporated a
now company, composed of the purchasers, and called the Tallahassee Bailroad
-Company; and on the same day the Jacksonville, Ponsaoola and Mobile Bailroad
Company was chartered, and authorized to complete the line from Quinoy to the
Chattahoochee river, and through West Florida.

By a resolution adopted by the stockholders on the 18th of January, 1872, the
name of the Florida Bailroad Company was changed to the Atlantic, Gulf and West
India Transit Company, which name was aftorwanlH Himilarly changed to the Florida
Transit Bailroad Company.

That portion of the main line of the Florida Transit Bailroad extending from
Waldo to Ocala was constructed under the name of the PoninHular Bailroad Company;
and that portion of the main line from Ocala to Wlldwood and beyond, was con-
structed under the name of the Tropical Florida Bailroad Company.

The Locsburg and Indian Bivor Bailroa<l Company was organized under the
general incorporation law of Florida by articles filed on the 20th of February, 1882, to
build a road extending from a point on the Tn)pi(5al Florida Bailroad west of Lees-
burg to Leesburg, and thence to Lake EubUh and Lake Dora, and through Orange and
Brevard counties to the Indian river, witii branches to Lake Apopka and Lake
Tohopekaliga.

On the same day, February 20th, 1882, the Florida Central and Western Bailroad
<Jompany was incorporated by articles filed by Sir Edward J. Beed and his associates,
who had become the owners, by purchase, of the Florida Central and the Jackson-
ville, Pensacola and Mobile railroads.

On the 15th of January, 1883, by a resolution of tiie Htockholdors of the several
roads, the Florida Transit Bailroad Company, the Peninsular Bailroad Company and
the Tropical Florida Bailroad Company, were merged into one corporation under the
name of the Florida Transit and Peninsular Bailroad Company.

The Femandina and Jacksonville Bailroad Company was organized under the
general incorporation law by articles filed on the 16th of March, 1880.

During the year 1883 the several roads mentioned, viz : the Florida Transit and
Peninsular, the Florida Central and Western, the Femandina and Jacksonville, and
the Leesburg and Indian Biver railroads, passed into the hands of a single company,
and, since March 1st, 1884, have all been operated under one management, under the
name of The Florida Batlway and Navigation Company.

The Florida Bailway and Navigation Company's system, comprising over five
hundred miles of main track in actual operation, and about eight hundred miles of
main track, when completed, not only gives to Florida its most extensive and impor-
tant main lines of transportation, to which all other lines, operated and projected,
are in effect subsidiary and tributary ; but it comprises the largest and most impoi:-
tant portion of a sj'stem of lines which is destined to materially affect, in the near
future, the entire commerce as well as the entire railway transportation system of the
Union.

The importance of this great trunk line through the Peninsula of Florida, as a
highway of travel and traffic between all parts of the United States and the countriee
of Central and South America and the West India islands, is a subject which far

• • •

exceeds in interest tlie consideration of its local traffic. The completion of the road
from its present terminus to Punta Bassa, on the waters of Charlotte Harbor, a dis-
tance of about one hundred and fifty miles, and the establishment immediately cons^
quent thereon of a daily line of first-class, fast passenger and freight steamships
thence to Key West, one hundred and ten miles, and to Havana, seventy miles fur-
ther, yrill give direct and complete daily communication between Cuba and all parts
of the Union, bringing the West Indian and South American markets as near to the
consumers of their products as they now are to England and the European continent,
And making new markets in those countries for all the products of the States.

The Mississippi and Ohio valleys now consume about three-fourths of all impor-
tations of coffee, sugar, etc., from the ports of the Caribbean Sea and South America ;
And that region produces the very articles — agricultural implements, bread-stuflis,
oattle, cotton-goods, etc. — most largely exported to those countries.

Official statistics show that of the total sugar consumed in the United States in
1882, about 1,750,000 hogsheads, or over 1,000,000 tons, there were imported, chiefly
irom Cuba, over 1,600,000 hogsheads. Of the total importations from Cuba of 678,000
tons, 442,000 tons were entered at New York, 135,000 tons at Boston, 65,000 tons at
Philadelphia, and at other ports 36,000 tons ; yet of this whole amount about 400,000
tons were consumed by people living nearer to Punta Rassa than to New York, and
Punta Bassa being about one thousand miles nearer to Cuba than to New York, for this
population it is the most direct and economical importing point. The imports and
the consumption of molasses show a similar state of facts.

The importations of coffee into the United States in 1882 were 220,000 tons, equal
to about 500,000,000 pounds, or ten pounds for every man, woman and child in the
<50untry, of which 400,000,000 pounds were entered at New York, and the remainder
mostly at Baltimore and New Orleans. The Imports from Brazil were 340,000,000
pounds, from the West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia, Central America and Mexico,
130,000,000 pounds, and from Java and the East, 30,000,000 pounds.

From the foregoing facts it seems manifest that a line of transportation reaching
almost directly into the heart of the region producing and exporting into the United
States these vast quantities of staple products, and taking from the United States an
equally large volume of our products and manufactures, should become, when per-
manently established, one of the most important of the world's great commercial
highways. That ** railway connection with the West Indies and South America is the
greatest necessity of the present age, and there will be no rest until this want is sup-
plied," has been well said by one of tlie most valuable railway authorities in the
Union {Railway Age, Sept., 1883). It is to satisfy this want, by the completion of its
line to Punta Bassa, by the perfecting of its connections northward and northwest-
ward, and by the establishment of daily steamship service from its southern terminus
to Cuba and South American ports, thus developing a highway of commercial value
not less important to the interests of the whole country than the trans-continental
railroads of the far West, that the Florida Kailway and Navigation Company is now
bending every energy.

The extension of the system to Tampa and Charlotte Harbor, now being rapidly
completed, will enable it to control the trade of a region which is conceded by all
reliable authorities to be the most desirable in the Union for the production of sugar.
In all the peninsular portion of Florida the sugar-cane grows with great luxuriance,
*• rattooning " for some six or eight years in succession, whereas in Louisiana it
requires to be replanted every three or four years. It grows in South Florida to the
height of ten to fifteen feet, while in Louisiana it is much smaller. In Florida, too,
it can be left in the field to ripen fully, without fear of the frosts which in Louisiana
often oause it to be gathered in an unmatured state.

The transportation of the orange crop of the State is an important and intereetlDg
feature of the business of the Central and Southern divisions of the road, which extend
through the very heart of the orange region. This industry, although yet in ita
infancy, presents already some remarkably suggestive facts. The entire crop of the
State a few years ago was scarcely worthy of mehtion from a commercial point of
view ; but the increase has been so rapid as to give, in 1881, a total crop of about
forty-six millions, increasing to a crop of above fifty millions in 1883. Notwithstanding
this astonishing progress, the future has in store for this industry still more notice-
able results, for which there is ample room, the demand being constantly and rapidly
increasing, and the total annual consumption of this country being now about ^ht
hundred millions, of which more than fifteen-sixteenths are imported from abroad.

The business of forwarding early vegetables produced for shipment to Northern
markets also forms no inconsiderable portion of the traffic of the system of roads
now controlled by the Florida Railway and Navigation Company. Beginning with
the first products of the lower peninsula, and ending with the latest shipments of
potatoes from Middle Florida, the entire season is one prolonged period of labor,
expense, anxiety and activity for the entire corps of officials and employees, the
exceedingly perishable nature of these products, and the consequent necessity of rap-
idly pushing them forward to their destination, involving the most prompt and uner-
ring methods, and the constant and watchful care of every one connected with their
transportation. The volume of these, as well as of other products requiring the services
of the several lines to transport them to market, can be estimated at a glance by
referring to a very carefully prepared table showing actual shipments for a single
year from each of the several stations, which will be found in another place in this
pamphlet.

Besides the unparalleled advantages of safety, speed and comfort offered to the
entire volume of passenger travel between all parts of the United States and the West
Indian, Central and South American ports by the completion of the peninsular line of
the Florida Railway and Navigation Company's road to Punta Rassa, and a daily
steamship service thence to those ports, the already completed lines and their unex-
ceptionably favorable connections northward and westward enable the Company to
offer to the people who, in already vast and annually increasing numbers seek the
matchless climate of Florida for relief from the cold, discomfort and danger of the
Northern winters, a means of transportation to and through the entire length and
breadth of the great winter sanitarium of Florida, unequaled by those presented by
any other line or lines.

Travelers coming to Florida from any of the Eastern or Middle States, by secur-
ing tickets which will bring them over any of the Georgia roads or Atlantic coast lines
leading to Savannah, will connect at that place directly with trains on the short line
of road (the City and Suburban Railroad), now controlled by this Company, leading
from Savannah to Montgomery on the sea shore, about twelve miles from Savannah,
whence the elegant steamers of the DeBarj^-Baya Merchants' Line, completing what
is known as the ** Montgomery Route," will transport them directly and rapidly by
the safe and picturesque ** Inland Route," between the noted " Sea Islands '* and the
main land, past the famous and interesting ruins of ** Dungeness, ' on Cumberland
Island, to Femandina, the initial point of all the Company's lines leading all over the
State, in every direction. Those coming from any of the Western or Southwestern
States, by securing tickets which will bring them over the Illinois Central, Mobile and
Ohio, or Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company's lines and their connections, via
New Orleans, Mobile or Montgomery, Ala., to Pensacola, will there connect with
solid through trains, with Pullman Palace Sleeping-cars attached, which will take
them through West Florida, over the new Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad, and

through Middle Florida, on the trai:k of the Western Division, (F. E. & N. Co.), by
daylight, thus enabling them to enjoy the novel, and heretofore unusual experience of
seeing the beauties o( the wonderful " Hill Country " of Florida. Travelers desiring to
drst visit the Great Exposition at New Orleans and then return to their homes by way
of Florida, or to go thoneo on the eseursion trains wliich will he run during the period
covered by the Exposition, will positively find no other roiife open to them by which
they can go direct to and through the entire State, than by the through trains over
the Pensaoola and Atlantic and Florida Bnilway and Navigation Company's roods, to
'which will be attached through Pulhnan Palace Steepiog-cars from New Orleans'^to
Jacksonville.

THE

FLORIDA RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION COMPANY.

SCHEDULE OF STATIONS AND DISTANCES.

CENTKAL DIVIHION.

BTATION.

DIHTANCE.

MILEH.

HTATION

Fomandina,

—

Htarkc,

Hart's Koad Junctioi),

Thurston, .

Italia,

■ 18

Wahlo, .

Callahan,

FairbankH, .

Button, .

GainuHville,

Brandy Branch, .

An'odondo, .

Baldwin, .

Palmer, .

Maxvillo,

Archcjr,

Highlanrl,

(il

BrouHon, .

Lawtoy,

Ottor Cr<3ck,

Burrln,

«74

Rosewood,

T«rnplo,

(Uidar Key, .

JACKHONVILLK liUASCll.

8TATION.

DIHTANCE.

MILKH.

HTATION

Fc^nmndina,

• ^"^^

Duval,

llart'H Roiwl Junction,

Jackson vill(».

HTATION.

HOUTHEKN DIVISION.

DIHTANC'K. MILKH. HTATION.

Waldo (from Fenuindlna), —

Dixie, .... 8

HawtiioriHs ... fi

Lo<?hloosa, ...

Orange Lake, . . 8

Hparr 5

Anthony, ... 4

84 Hllver Hpring Junction,

92 OtJiila,

m Lake Weir, .

104 Oxford, ...

112 Wildwood, .

117 Panasofkee,

121 Witlilacooehe(» Kiv««r,

LKRH]u:i{a in{ANc;H.

STATION.

Wildwood (from Femandina),
M(mtclair, ... i)J

DIHTANC'K. MILKH. HTATION.

100 L(ieHi»urK,
U^t^ TavaroH,

DIHTANCE.

KILK8.

90jt

104

108

113

122

134

145

155

DIHTANCE.

MILKS.

DIHTANCK XILEH.

130

134

150

«i

150|

100

108

189

•ANCE.

MILER.

172

182

WESTERN DIVISION.

STATIOV.

DISTAIfOE.

MILBB.

8TATIOX.

mSTA VCE.

VILIS

Chattahoochee Hiver,

—

EUavllle, .

114

River Junction, .

Lire Oak,

127

Chattahoochee,

Houston,

133

lit. Pleasant,

Welbom,

138

Quinoy, .

2()

Dowllng*8 Junction,

142

Midway,

Tjake City, .

150

Tallahassee, .

Mt. Carrie,

157

Chalres,

Olustee,

162

Lloyd,

Sanderson,

172

Pinhook,

Taliaferro's Junction,

174

Drlfton, .

Glen St. Mary,

179

(Montlcello, 4)

DarbyvlUo, .

181

Audlla, .

Baldwin, . . . .

190

Groenvllks .

Clark's Junction,

192:

Madison, .

White House, .

198

West Famj,

104

Waycross Junction,

208

Lee,

. ' 2

106

Jacksonville, .

209

ST.

MAKK'H nRANX*H.

8TATION.

DISTANCK.

MILKR.

STATION.

DI8TANCF..

MILES.

TallahaHs<M», .

•

Wakulla, . . . .

Belair,

St. Mark's, .

Ferroil, .

Mouth St. Mark's Rivor,

LOCATION AND MILEAGE.

Central Division : Passes through the counties of Nassau, Duval, Clay, Brad-
ford, Alachua and Levy.

Southern Division : Passes through the counties of Alachua, Marion, Sumter
and Hernando, arid is now being extended into Polk and Hillsborough.

Western Division: Passes through the counties of Gadsden, Leon, Jeflferson,.
Madison, Suwannee, Columbia, Baker and Duval.

St. Mark's Branch : Passes through the counties of Loon and Wakulla.

Leesburg Branch : Passes through the county of Sumter, and is now being
extended Into Orange.

Jacksonville Branch : Passes through the counties of Nassau and Duval.

Monticello Branch : Passes through Jeflferson county.

?riLE&

Central Division, Femandlna to Cedar Key, 155

Southern Division, Waldo to Withlacoochee River, 105

Leesburg Branch, Wlldwood to Tavares, 22

Western Division, Chattahoochee River to Jacksonville, 209

Jacksonville Branch, Femandlna (Hart's Road Junction) to Jacksonvillo, . . 22

St. Mark's Branch, Tallahassee to St. Mark's 21

Montlcello Branch, Drlfton to Monticello, 4

Total mileage, main track, 5.38

X AT,.BBU.BVIEW.

CENTRAL DIVISION.

FEBNANDINA, *' the Newport of the South," as it has been Justly named, is the
tial point and general headquarters of the Florida Eailway and Navigation Com-
ny's railway system. Its happily-bestowed cognomen had its origin in the prox-
ity of the city to the magnificent ocean beach, known as Amelia Beach, to which
'erence will be made further on in these pages. The city itself is of no insignificant
portance, and has frequently been called the " Gate City of Florida," from the fact
its possession of the largest and deepest harbor on the eastern coast of the State,
is beautifully located in a sheltered situation on the west side of Amelia Island, the
.•them extremity of which guards the entrance to Cumberland Sound and the'exten-
B land-locked harbor, into which open the St. Mary*s river, and Amelia river from
8sau inlet, the former from the west, and the latter from the southeast.

The harbor of Femandina is one of the finest and most commodious on the Atlan-
coast. '* It is similar to Charleston and Savannah in having a bar at its entrajioe ;
I in respect to the draft which can be carried to its wharves, the three cities are
mt on a par. But Femandina excels the others in the fact that the wharfing shore
mly about three miles from the sea buoy or open ocean. After crossing the bar,
re is a broad way of from twenty-five to sixty feet depth, at low water, to the
ihorage in the harbor. The inner basins which form the harbor are closely land-
ked, of unlimited capacity, of a general depth of thirty to forty feet at low water,
>d holding ground of stiff, blue clay, and lined by extensive shore for wharves,
e water obtainable here for ships' supply is reputed to keep better on voyages than
'' other in the South." — (From an Address by Hon. D. L. Yulee, delivered to the
cuandina Board of Trade, Jan. 26, 1880.) ** Inside of the bar there is an unlimited
•ent of deep-water accommodation, and also the protection of smooth water before
<ihing the land-locked basins. The anchorage in Amelia river possesses the quiet
i safety of an enclosed dock, and repairs of all kinds may be carried on vrithout
• fear of accident arising from the motion of the water." ** We are careful to ayoid
king tnis communication unnecessarily long by entering upon a comparison of
^andina with other places in the same r^ion of coast— such as Brunswick, for
■•mple, which is now connected by railroad with Savannah, and being more in the
arior, is less healthy; or St. John's entrance, * * * which has an insuperable
ection in its bar ; but we take pains to say that such comparisons have formed a
ge part of our study of the whole subject. We have not spoken of the peeuiiar
vantages of Femandina as a depot and naval station without attaching a meaning
the word."— (From the Report of Admiral 8. F. Dupont, U. S. N., General J. G.
ttiard, U. S. Engineers, Professor A. D. Ba(^e, Supt. U. S. Coast Survey, and Com-

modore 0. H. Davis, U. S. N., made to the Secretary of the Navy in 1861, referred ta
la the Address above mentioned.)

The natural advantages of Femandina as a seaport and a centre of trade ha,n
not been heretofore utilized as they deserve. The ravages of war fell with peculiar
force upon the city, paralyzing its industries and complicating the titles to propoitj
by reason of sales made under the U. 8. direct tax laws. These were followed by the
greater misfortune of epidemic disease happening at a time when its resources woe
unequal to the demand for adequate sanitary regulations and precautions. All these
disasters and hindrances have now happily passed away, and the staunch little
** Island Oity," as it is fondly called by those who know and love it, is rising from tiie
prostration caused by its many misfortunes, and is rapidly putting on the appearance
of a veritable metropolis.

The facilities afforded by Femandina for the profitable and successful pro8ecuti<»
of an extensive wholesale trade with the entire peninsular portion of the State, as
well as with a considerable section of Middle Florida, are unsurpassed by those of
any port or city in the State. The splendid harbor admits vessels drawing seventeen
and a half feet of water at high tide (with an excellent prospect of increase to twenty-
six or twenty-seven feet by Government appropriations) ; and the depth of water in
the harbor enables cargoes to be loaded and unloaded directly at the wharves. A line
of firsi>-class steamships (the Mallory Line) plies regularly between tliis port and New
York, another line has just been established to Boston, and another to Baltimore,
and a direct line of ocean steamers to and from Liverpool visits its wharves at
stated intervals. Freights, therefore, both froM -Europe and the upper Atlantic coast
ports, are more than two-thirds lower than freights by rail, and the Florida Bailway
and ifavigation Company's lilies of railroad give direct and constant aooesB to and
from all the interior towns and cities of the State. A recent fire destroyed a number
of the older buildings in the principal business portion of the city, which have been
promptly replaced by handsome and commodious brick structures, whose appearance
and^ccommodations foi^lihe purposes of modern trade would do credit to any of our
largest cities ; and wh61i the superior advantages of Femandina as a great central
entrepot for the bulk of the trade of East and South Florida shall be known and prop-
erly appreciated, the entire harbor frontage and the two or three tiers of blocks
extending its whole length, which have been reserved for business purposes, will
become one great mass of brick warehouses, out of whose capacious depths will pour
a never-ending stream of merchandise to supply the growing wants of the vast and
constantly increasing population of the interior.

Throughout that portion of the city devoted to private residences may be found
some of the handsomest and cosiest homes in all Florida, representations of some of
which are given among our illustrations. The gently-sloping eminence upon which
this portion of the: city is built affords facilities for ample drainage, which has been
thoroughly effected by a system of sewerage of which many larger cities might well
be proud. The atmosphere, laden with the perfume of the sea and the exhalations
from the vast pine forests near at hand, is pure and healthful ; and the ocean tides,
sweeping over the salt-marshes, leave no stagnant fresh- water pools to breed malaria.
The soil of the island is light and sandy, with an admixture of comminuted shell,
making it in many localities exceedingly productive, as is amply evidenced by the
luxuriant growth of the orange groves and shade-trees of various kinds, including the
i stately palm, and the- wonderful products of the numerous vegetable-gardens and
. tk)wer-'yards which abound in and about the city.

I r X /^ Amelia Islahd arid its vicinity abound with places of historical and romantic in-
terest; The 'islfilrid is formed by the surrounding waters of the Atlantic, Cumberland
'86uhd;ith6StJ'MAr3^sand Amelia rivers and Nassau inlet, and is about twenty-two

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mUw in lei^h, with an average bruodth ot two miles. It was known in the Uin« pt.
the Rborlglnes qa Ouale, and naa the eeat oE government of a powerful oblet, who tu>8
bem deeorlbed by Laudonnlere as a person of remarkably comntandlng preeenoe and
ooble mien. His eoeptre was broken and liis savage court dlspeieed under the oft-
dtsputed reigns of the Spanish and English colonists. Qenqr^i Oglethorpe, whose
lieadquartera were at Savannah, clamed the territory along the coast as far sooth ss
Fort Geoige Island, at the mouth ottbe St. John's river, while thoSpftnlards olalniod
as far north as the Savannah fiver. A small fort was built at a very early day by thO'
Bpanlards near the spot where now stands the old town of Femandina, about a mile
north of the present modem dty, which was occupied and garrisoned up to the time

of the cession of Florida to the English in 1763. The spot where It stood, as well as
the quaint old town, are visited with interest by curious strangers. About the year
1770 the Countess ot Egmoot, on English noblewoman, established a great Indigo
plantation on the island, the buildings ot which were situated on the highest point ot
Uad, near the site ot the present light-house, and the indigo-works on a spot near
where now stands the Egmont Hotel, named, ot course, after the Countess, a fine
portrait ot whom hangs in its parlor. Some two or throe niilca from the city, at
the northern eitremity of the island, stands old Fort Clinch, whose massive guns still
Aown from the parapet, while its casemates are piled with the antiquated and appar-
ently useless impeditnenta of warfare.

Eight miles from Femandina, by water, on Cumberland Island, is the famous
estate of Dungeness, several thousand acres in extent, bestowed by the State of
Qeorgia upon General Nathaniel Groone, and belonging for many years to bis
deeoendante. The massive ruinp ot the stately old mansion kept watch and ward,
until within the past tew months, ovor the smouldering remnants and historic mem-
ories of the place. Brood avenues, bounded by plantations ot ancient orange and
olive trees and bordered by giant oaks, stretch grandly away on either side of the

homestead, while the half wild remnants of a onoe flourishing and ext«[i8ive botaninl
garden give evidence of the former luxuriant surroundings. The old family bmyiDg-
ground, with its ancient tombs (one of which covers the mortal part of the renowned
soldier known to fame and the history of his country as ** Light-Horse Harry ** Lee),
is located in a grove not far from the mansion. Many other objects and plaeee
of interest abound on the island, and its recent purchase by Mr. Thomas M. Carnegie^
a wealthy Scotsman, who is restoring and rebuilding the old mansion and rehabilitat-
ing the entire estate, will be the means of preserving the mementoes and memories
and traditions of this historic ground.

Femandina possesses a numl)er of handsome church edifices, prominent among
which are the Presbyterian, the Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael's (connected
with which ia a convent and young ladies* school under the management of the Sisters
of St. Joseph), and the beautiful new Episcopal Church of St. Peter's. There is also
a convenient and commodious public hall.

The Florida Mirror, one of the leading journals of the State, is published here.
Connected with its publication office is a thoroughly equipped job office, where mndi
of the printing of the Bailway Company is done. Half a mile south of the €itj are
the principal car-shops of the Company, where have been executed some of the best
specimens of railroad work to be found in tlie South, among which may be mentioned
a complete locomotive engine, one of the best on the road, and the only one ever
constructed in Florida.

One of the chief attractions of Femandina is the Amelia Beach, a noble stret^
of smooth, shining sand, sloping gently from the foot of the great " sand-dune **
which lies along the outer edge of the island far out under the shallow waters of the
Atlantic, and extending from one end of the island to the other, a distance o>f ovbt
twenty miles. The surface of the sand at the edge of the water is as hard as a floor,
forming a magnificent drive, and a firm, hard shell-road extends from the dty to the
beach, a distance of nearly two miles. Near where the shell-road joins the beach are
a number of cottages belonging to citizens, and a large and comfortable hotel, the
** Strathmore," whose broad verandas, comfortable rooms and well-supplied tables
welcome crowds upon crowds of summer guests, year after year. Mr. and Mrs. John
B. Hopkins, of Tallahassee, have presided over its hospitalities during the season of
1884, and the house has been overrun with guests during the entire summer. A
branch track from the city to the beach is in contemplation, which will render the
facilities for reaching this notable resort perfect. The surf-bathing on the beach,
which of course is the chief attraction, is said to be safer and more enjoyable— espeo-
ally for ladles and children — than at any of the famous resorts of the northern
Atlantic coast.

The general offices of the Company are situated at present in a building con-
structed for the accommodation of the general offices of the old Transit Bailroad;
but It is in contemplation to erect a new building at the foot of Centre street (the
principal business street), which will contain ample room for the transcustion of the
large business of the Company, besides handsome and commodious accommodations
for passengers.

A complete telegraph and telephone service are among the conveniences employed
for the transaction of business by the Company and the citizens.

There are three good livery stables to supply visitors with conveyances of all
kinds, and the harbor is full of sail and row-boats of all shapes and styles and sizee.

Fishing in the harbor and adjacent rivers is unsurpassed, and there are quantitiee
of game of several kinds on the island.

HoTEiiS : The Egmont is one of the most complete hotels in the South. Finrfr
class in every appointment, with service of gas and water throughout, bath-rooms on

, 4>fecy floor, a bUUard-room for the free uee of its gueeU, coetly (umlture, « charming
Aower-gfir'len and park of palmetto trees attached, oocupjlng one of the moat elevated
gUnutXoaa in the dty, and with a cutnnc equal to the tiest in the countr;. It preamto
■■ttiacUons which are found In but tew other pUoes in theSouth. The Uaosion House
IB down-town, nearer to the depot and wharves, and la roomy, comfortable and well-
ooanaged. TheLuoy Cottage, on one of the qulet«et and pleasanteet re^denoe gtxeeta,
to a ntreat In active demand among thoee who Icnow of Its superior attractions.

HABTS EOAD JUNCTION. Naseau eounty, is In the midst of a pine forest, In-
miies tium FernandiDB, terepersod with ridges of fertile soil ; and is the point where
the new short line of the Jacksonville Branch diverges from

the m^n line.

ITALIA, a tlag etatlon, also in Nassau county, is the seat of a Qourishing lumber
T DIB. rnim Hut'B Boad Jc, and brick-making business conducted by Mr. Wm. MacWU-
18 " " Femandloa, liams. It has a post-offlee, and is in the heart of pine

^L^ — '■"^"^er. forests rife with undeveloped wealth.

CALLAHAN, in Nassau county, Is a telegraph station and the crosslng-piace of
« miles rram I Ml la, the East Florida Eallroad, fWaycross), extending from Jack-

ST •■ " Famandina, BonviUe to Waycross and Savannah, Georgia. The country

i* 'J_ " 5?^5^ey, about Callahan is undulating and well settled, and the soil

ie good, as is evidenced by some of the finest crops of com, vegetables, etc., to be
seen In the State. The lumber interest is a flourishing industry, and the place is one
-of some cammerclal importance. Here vast quantities of the products of the penin-
sula destined by the all-rail routes to Nortbom markets are transferred from the
Florida Railway and Navigation Company's tracks to the " Waycross " road ; and in
the season of winter travel the vicinity of the depot, with hundreds of passengers
with tbrir luggage in process of transfer to and from the several trains, make up a
lively dally scene of activity and apparent confusion.

> If*

DTTTTON 10 an important shipping and manufacturing point for lumber, tnrptt-

' 16 mites bom Oaiiaiian, — **"« «>d rosin. The elevation hero is forty-flve feet tixm

87 •• ** Temandina, the sea level, and the surrounding lands are generally of »

11 8 " *• oediirKey. productive character, having a sub-soil of clay whl<di idd»

ito their fertility. Button is a flag station, and is in Nassau county.

BBANDT BBANCH, also in Nassau county, is in most respects similar to Dot-

4 mites from Dutton. to^i the manufacture of turpentine, resin and lumber bdog

41 " " Fernandina. the chief industries. The neat farms and fine crops which
114 " " cwiiirK*^. may be seen hereabouts give evidence of the fertUtty of the
soil.

BALDWIN, in Duval county, is one of the most important railroad centres in the
m. trum Brandy Braiicti, State. Here the track of the Central Divisioii 6romeB, al-
47 *« *« Fernandina, most at right angles, the track of the Western IMvifllon ex-
108 ** ** oda r Key. tending from the Chattahoochee river to Jacksonville Train»
over both Divisions make close connections at Baldwin in every direction, four trains
leaving the station twice each day. The environment of Baldwin is low, fM ai|d an-
inviting, yet the elevation is forty-seven foet above the sea, and the plaoe, sisrrofnded,
as it is, by almost interminable pine forests, is reputed to be as healthy m maj'in the
State, and by no means an unpleasant place of residence. At no distant day there
will doubtless be here a mammoth hotel for the accommodation of the travililig pab-
lic, and the traveler can now find comfortable quarters and excellent fare.

MAXVILLE, Duval county, is a flag station, and the site of extenslTe^lnmber

'~8 miles from Baldwin, mills and turpentine works. It is fifty-seven feet abore the

65 ** «« Fernandina, sea, and is surrounded by some of the finest timber laods in

100 " '« C edar Key, tho State.

HIGHLAND, in Clay county, is a telegraph station, and is the highest pc^t on

7 miiett rrum Maxviiie" the line, being two hundred and ten feet above tide-water, on

62 ** " Fernandina, a ridge from which tho surface-waters flow eastward into the

98 " " Cedar Key, gt. John's rivor, and westward into the Oulf of Mexico. Its

elevated position and healthful surroundings have attracted a considerable popula*

tion, and it is a fast-growing and prosperouH village.

LAWTEY, Bradford county, is a charming village, chiefly settled by Northern
4 miles from HighfandT, ~ people, whoso tasteful residences, thrifty orange groves and
«6 •• •• Fernandina, well-cultivated vegetable farms are a pleasure to behold.
w " " Cedar Key. Many winter visitors find here all the enjoyments of a Flor-
ida sojourn, including excellent shooting. The altitude is one hundred and forty feet,
and the neighboring pine forests give an exhilarating tone to the constant breesses
from gulf and sea. Considerable quantities of oranges and vegetables are shipped
from here.

BUBRIN, a flag station, is in Bradford county, where there are extensive saw-

1^ miles from LawteyT mills and turpentine stills. The country is rolling and the

67 )i •• " Fernandina, soil tortile far beyond the extent indicated by its appearance.

8 7 *< " "Cedar Key, gome of the finest orange trees on the line can be seen' here,

and the shipments of vegetables are large.

TEMPLE, also a flag station. In Bradford county, Is similar to Burrin. A huge

8>i miles from Burrhi, vegetable and orange crate manufactory Is in operation here,

7a •• •• Fernandina, in connection with Temple's mills. The proprietor, Oapt. S.

^ !!__..'.* 9?!l'*?'_?^yi_ J. Temple, Is one of Bradford county's most substantial and

public-spirited citizens, and has established a tram-road to Klngsley, six miles distant^
one of the most attractive and prosperous places In this region. It is ten miles from
Mlddleburg, the head of navigation for steamboats on Black creek, a tributary of tlie
St. John's river, and Is situated on the shore of Klngsley Lake, a beautiful sheet of clesr

'water, almoet perfectly olroular and about two railee Id dluneter, whoae surface ia
some ninety feet above tlde-wat«r, giving on Its outlet to Block creek a mognifieetiC
water-power. The lake Is surrounded bj higb, wooded banks, and the viciiiity Is set-
tled by a colony of enterprising NDrthem people. Hunting, fishing, boating, etc., are
among ttie amuaementa enjoyed by many winter visitors, who And pleasant quarters
In private lamlliee.

8TABEE, a tel^rapb station In Bradford county, is a. thriving and prosperous
1 inU« tTDm Temple, town of about eight hundred inhahltanta, delightfully sltu-

> " " Fernuiaina, nted "among the plnee," and surrounded by a rich famdiig

_ country. There are a number of pretty lakes in Its violnity-

The soil is a rich, dark loam, uDHurpassed for orange and vegetable culture, and Its
advantages have attracted the attention of a number of capitalists who claim to have
found here, after visiting other portions of the State, the most promising faoiUties-
tor orange growing on a largo scale. One " syndicate," from Delaware county. New
'Cork, baa recently cleared, fenced and planted out a grove o( over one hundred acres-
In area, and other parties have gone Into the business to an almost equal extent.
Starke bas a flourishing sohool, known as Starke Institute, which is liberally patron-
ized. The Tdtjpnph, published by W. W. Moore, Is the county paper, although the
county-seat is at Lake Butler, some miles In the Interior, where there is anotherpaper
published — the Timee. Extensive shipments of oranges and vegetables ore made
from Starke, and large quantities of the famous " Sea Island " cotton are produced la
the vicinity.

THDBSTON, a flog station, is a place of thrifty-looking orange groves, neat cot-

t mllM Crom Btarkn, tages and productive v^etable farms, with fields of flnecom,

n " " remaniilnm, sugar-cone and other crops abounding on everyside. Large
TO " " Cedar Key, quantities of syrup, sugar, oranges, vegetablt« and other pro-
ducts are annually shipped from titts point.

WALDO, In AlaohuB county, le one of the most prosperous and Important places
' 7 mii» ttum Thuniun, — ' »° the Division. It occupies au Important position as tbe
M ■' " FernkudiuK, junction Of the Southern with the Central Division, from
Tl ■■ ■■ Oodar Key, whence depart all trains tor Ocala, Wlldwood, Leeebnrg, 6t«.
Waldo 1b situated In the centre of the best porUon of the great, fertile county of
Alachua, and Is destined to be a place of Important commercial Intereeta. It is one
hundred and fifty feet above the sea, and contoina about seven hundred Inhabitants,
among whom it numbers some of the most enterprising dUzens of the county and
State. East of the town lies a perfect net^work ol lakes, large and small, which give
to the country round about Its slgnlfloant name of the Central Lake Beglon of the
State. Lying but a few miles distant to the east le Lake Bonta Fe, the largest, and
between it and Waldo Is Lake Alto, considerably smaller. The Santa Fe Canal Com-
pany, whose Chief Engineer and local representative, Oapt. Ned. £. Farrell, is one of
the most prominent of ttie citizens above referred to, have recently completed their
canal from Waldo Into and across Lake Alto, and thence across a narrow neck of
land into Lake Santa Fe, giving access by means of a smalt steamer to one of the
finest agricultural sections of the State. Tlic shore-line thus reached is some thirty
mllee In extent, and embraces connection with Melrose, at the eastern extremity of
the lake, from whence to Qreeu Cove Springs, on the St. John's river, a line of r^lway
la in course of construction. It Is a fact no iess remarkable than well authenticated,
that the orange groves In the vicinity of Waldo have scarcely suffered at all from the
effects of the severe cold spells which have visited the State during the post tew
years, while large trees situated many miles farther south — in some Instances over

one hundred miles — have been killed. This apparect Immunity from frost has been,
no doubt truly, attributed to the presence of natural protection, such as bodies of
water, forests, etc. At Fort Harlee, three miles northeast of Waldo, stands the cele-
lirated " oldest orange tree in Florida," belonging until recently to the estate of the
late D. 8. Place, Esq., of Waldo, one of Florida's noblest adopted citizens, who, after
giving tor years, without hope or thought of reward, of his time and substance to

Viorida's Interests, finally gave his life itself to her service, dying while on duty as
ter representative at the Atlanta Exposition. This noble tree measurea nine feet in
■ciroumlereiiea about the trunlt. Is thirty-seven feet high, and has borne 10,000 oranges
in a single year. Its uge is unhnown, but Its existence as the only tree in the State
-ot its ago and size, demonstrates the fact that this region Is at least the safest for
■orange culture. Some of the groves about Waldo are as nearly perfect in every re-
spect as one could wish to see. Mr. S. J. Kennard, whose experience is one that
-ought to be familiar to every settler In Florida, has one ot the handsomest and most
productive groves of its age In Florida, within three minutes' walk of the Waldo de-
pot. His succeSa Is largely due to careful, patient labor and attention, and he is one
■of the shining examples of what a poor man can do in Florida. He is also iai^ely
■engaged in the cultivation ot peaches, his favorite and most successful varieties be-

ing the Ohinese Peen-to and the " Kennard " poach, introduced into Florida by hlmaelf,
from seed given him by a friend who brought it from Yolcohama, Japan, and now aUu>
known as the Honey peacli. With those varieties lie has made a remarkable suooess^
receiving at the rate of $6 and $7 per bushel for them in the Eastern markots. Grapes
of all varieties are aUo cultivated hereabouts with success, among them the oolebra^
ted Black Hamburg, bunches of whlob have besn produced in the open air weighing
three and four pounds. Waldo has, besides saw miljs and turpentine works in Its vi-
cinity, a flourishing cigar manufactory. Xpisoopftl, Methodist, Presbyterian and Bap*
tist Ohurches are established and flourishing, as well as excellent schools. The only
newspaper is the AdvtiriUBr, published by Mr. J. B. JolvjUJiton.

FAIBBANK8, Alachua county, is a flag station, and a very pleasant and attractive
iwUlei fronrwamo, »«w settlement, inhabited clHelly by a colony of Western

09 " " Farnaudiua. people, whose thrifty and industrious ways have already
63 «« " Cedar Koy. made their mark upon the country round about.

OAINEHVILLE, Alachua county, is the county-seat, and the only city on the line

6 miioM from Fairbanks, between Fernandina and Cedar Key. Its growth during the

96 " " Feruaudina, post few years has been phenomenal, and it has become a

-?! ll^*^**" ?®y: _ distributing point for the trade of a large and rich section of

country. The city hau a population of about 4,()00 and Is sltuaUKl on th^ edge of
a vast tract of the rlcheut hammock lands, at an elevation of one hundred and twenty-
eight feet above the sea. It hau long bc(m noted as a placo of unusual sanitary at-
tractions, and Is already a popular and pleasant place of resort for winter visitors.
The streets are wide and shady, and the business portion of the place contains a num-
ber of substantial and well-arranged buildings. A number of the best business houses^
together with the two principal hotels, were reci^ntly destroyed by fire, but rebuild-
ing has commenced, and, as in most slndlar coses, the buildings destroyed will be
speedily replaced by better and larger ones. A handsonie new court-house Is among
the projected improvements, and a new depot building will soon be erected by the
Florida Ball way and Navigation Company, to accommodate Its rapidly increasing
business.

The East Florida Bomlnary, a Btate Institution, endowed, like the West Florida
Seminary, (Literary Department of Florida University), at Tallahassee, with an ex-
tensive grant of public land, is one of the most complete educational institutions in
the Btate. It has a military department under the instruction of an ofRaev of the
U. B. Army, and is in a most prosperous and promising condition.

Alachua county, in the vicinity of Gainesville, abounds with natural euriositiea
and places of interest to the sight-seer. ** Paine's Prairie," two miles from the city^
once indeed a veritable prairie, four miles wide and nine or ten miles in length, U
now a lake on whose waters piles a ndnlature steamer bringing oranges and other
products from the countless groves and farms whhih surround Its fertile shores. The
name Alachua, (Big Jug), Is said to be derived from a great luiturai *' sink "which
once formed the outlet to the ** Prairie," but which became clogged up some yeara
since, creating the present lake. The ** Devil's Mill Hopper " is another natural curl'
osity, situated four or five miles northwest of the city. It consists of a ** sink/' or
deep hole In the ground, almost circular and always partially filled with water; and
though many small streams pour constant supplies of water Into its depths, the water
within It never rises beyond a certain point. Innumerable small lakes abound in alt
directions, affording unlimited fishing and shooting of water-fowl, while the fleldSi
and woods are plentifully stocked with pailrldges, deer and other game.

Gainesville Is a railroad centre of no Insignificant proportions. Besidea the
Florida Eallway and Navigation Company's road, to which Its growth and prosper!^
so far have been chiefly due, It Is the western terminus of the Florida Bouthem Ball*

way, a narrow-gauge road which connects Gaineeyille with Palatka, with a branch
eouthward to Ocala and Leesburg. It is also the southern terminus of the Savannah,
Florida and Western Bail way Company's Florida System, eictending from Live Oak.

Alachua county, in common with Marion, Bradford, Baker, Columbia, Suwannee,
^Hamilton and Madison counties, Is noted for its production of the long-staple cotton,
and at Gainesville Is located the extensive cotton-ginning establishment of H. F. But-
ton & Co., whose chief business is the proper preparation of the staple for the manu-
facture of thread by the Willimantic Thread Company. The culture of early vegeta-
bles for shipment to Northern markets had its first distinct impetus in this county,
and the rich lands lying along the railroad between Starke and Bronson, in Levy
county, still produce the bulk of those products shipped from this portion of the
State.

The United States Land Office is located at Oainesvilie. The Alachua Advocate ia
the principal newspaper. The Farmer's Joumai, recently established, is conducted by
M. M. Lewey, a talented colored man, and member of the State Legislature. The
first named recently began the issue of a daily edition. The Flaindealer is also pub-
lished here.

Hotels : American House.

ABBEDOKDO is a telegraph station, in^ Alachua county, and Is chiefly noted for
6 miles from Oainesvilie, the large quantities of vegetables produced in its vicinity for
104 •• •• Femandina, shipment to Northern markets. This industry has been
n. " ** Cedar Key, steadily increasing in volume and profit for several years,
and the inexhaustible fertility of the soil is annually demonstrated. The station
takes its name from the famous Arrcdondo grant, in the midst of which vast tract of
several thousand acres the city of Gainesville and several adjacent villages are situ-
ated. Over one hundred thousand crates of vegetables have been shipped from this
rich r^on in a single season. Strawberries, the earliest grown in the State, are
shipped from here and from the vicinitj' of Gainesville in immense quantities, the
earliest bringing in the New York market from $2 to $3 per quart.

PALMER, (formerly Battonville), is another great shipping point for early vege-

lloliesirom Arredoudo, tables and oranges. In the vicinity are also a number of

106 ** *• Feruaudina, saw-mills and turpentine works. The lands are rich and

.*!_"_ __'!_ Ce^*"* Key. productive, and the neighborhood is filling up with thrifty

ruck-farmers and fruit-growers.

ABGHER, also In Alachua county. Is a flourishing little place, depending largely
"smiles from P^mer. "PO^ the culture of vegetables and fruits for its prosperity.

118 •« " Femaudina, Large quantities of com, cotton, sugar-cane and other crops
- 42 ** " Cedar Key, ^re also raised in the vicinity. An extensive nursery of fruit
trees is located at Archer. The soil is fertile and some wonderful crops have been
raised from it. One grower last year realized as the net profit from half an acre of
cucumbers the handsome sum of $290, and similar instances are not uncommon.

BBONSON. in Levy county, is a telegraph station, is the county-seat, and con-

9 miles*from A rcher; tains a population of about four hundred. A numl)er of

122 ** ** Fomandina, largo saw-mills in the vicinity are kept in constant operation
83 «« ** Cedar Key, by the demand for building material from the rapidly in-
creasing numbers of new settlers. The place, behig just on the edge of the great
Gulf Hammock, is a popular resort for sportsmen. Not far from Bronson exists a
valuable and extensive deposit of iron ore, the only one of the kind known in the
State, from which small quantities of iron have from time to time been produced. A
large furnace was in process of erection to utilize this product near the close of the
civil war, and but for the collapse or the Confederacy it is probable that a portion of
the Southern army would have been supplied with implements and ammunition from

thifl eouroe. The praotlcal development ol this rich deposit is only a qneatlon of
time. The Levy Cmmty Tfniea is the county paper.

OTTEB CREEK, a, flag station In Levy couDty, le situated In the mfdat of the
13 mllM from BrotMon, Quit Hammock, and tta surroundings ore interestliig and
lU •' '• Femandlua, unique. A Jolty old sailor, Captain Mason, Hitertalns royal-

.5 " " O^^^x^T- ly the numerous bunting parties whioti stop here to enjoy

the shooUng, which Is of the rarest, the hammock being overrun with game of all
kinds. A few miles distant is the well-known Oulf Hammock House of Captain Win-
gate, which is crovrded with guests during the season from all parts of the country and
Europe, who make It their headquarters for the winter's campaign against the
myriads of game of all kinds.

E08EW00D is a flag station, la Levy county, and Is a favorite resort for hunts-
11 mllaa [rum Otiar Crsek, men and fishermen. Vegetable farms flourish here, the soil
US '• " ramandinii. being very rich. TbelumberbusinceelsaltKibecDmingheavT'
10 ■• ■■ Cwi Hr Kny. and profitable.

CEDAR KEY. This place is the terrainua of the Cimtral Division, and is sltu-
10 mUeBfroiD Boaewood, ated upon one of a series of small Islands or " keys " lying

>M " " ._^^."'*'"'J,?*- . close to the main land and surrounded by the deep waters

of the Oulf of Mexico, forming a capacious and excellent harbor. The neighboring
Islands, Atsena Otio, Depot Key, etc., are Inhabited, and the last named principally
occupied by the citenslvo "cedar-mills" of A. W, Faber A Co., where Immense quan-
tities of cedar wood of the Unwtt quality, brought from various localities up and
down the coast, are cut Into suitable shape for the manufacture of the celebrated
" Faber " pencils, and shipped thence to the manufactories. The sponge trade Is also
a prominent feature of the commerce of the place, the vessels of the sponglng-Aeets
which operate along the Gulf coast in either direction making the harbor and city a
depot of supplies as well as a market tor their product. Largo quantities of flah,
oysters and turtle are also shipped hence all over the State, and latterly, by preserva-
tion In ice, to the cities of Georgia and other Interior states.

Cedar Key has been lor iriany years the chief distributing point for the trade of
the lower Oulf ports, being the only Oulf -coast point on the peninsula reached by rail.
The completion of rail communication with Tampa will cut oft a portion of Its trade
perhaps, but It will always be a prominent trading point, and the development of the
many valuable Industries in Its vicinity, and the rapid settlement of the adjacent
country, will enable It to hold its own, it not to grow rapidly. Its Que harbor, giving
' easy access to the largeet vessels, will also command for it an extensive trade from
the Western States by way of New Orleans. Lines of steamships ply regularly be-
tween Cedar Key and New Orleans, Key West, Tampa, Manatee and Havana, oon-
necting with Atlantic ports and Northern cities by means of trains of the Florida
Bi^lway and Navigation Company's roads. Steamboat lines also cotmeot Cedar Key
with the rich country lying along the Suwannee river, whose mouth le only a few
miles up the Oulf coast,

Hotels : The Suwannee Is a large, new hotel, kept In the beet style-

JACKSONVILLE BRANCH.

This new line, formerly known as the Femandlna and JackaooTille Eallroad, ma
constructed in 1683 to meet the pressing demand for a direct connection l)etween
Femandina and the St. John'e river n^on. The line runs over the track of thoOen-
tral Division from Femandlna to Hart's Boad Junction, eleven miles distant, thence
diverging In a direcUoa almost due south. From Hart's Boad Junction to Jackeon-
Tille the distance Is twenty-two miles, and the only stations intervening are flag
stations, of little or no commercial Importance.

TYSONIA. the most Important, ia the seat of an extensive turpentine business,
conducted liy Mr. H. C. Tyson, who has a fertile little farm and a charming home.

DUVAL, the next station southward, Is near the edge of a vast savanna, among,
the pine woods, and has also a considerable turpentine business.

PANAMA, and CEMETEKY, the flrst near Panama Farli, a pleasant suburb of
Jacksonville, and the latter at Evergreen Cemetery, are in the midst of a dense ham-
mock, lying between Jaclisonvllle and Trout creek, in the "clearings" o( which may
be seen many handsome suburban reeldencee and fruitful vegetable farms and market
gardens.

JACKSONVILLE, thirty-three miles from Femandlna, is the terminus of tho
Bronoh, whose trains run directly into tho City a few blocks east of Its business cen-
tre, delivering Its passengers at Bay street, whence the lines of street cars, omnibuses
and otiier vehicles transport them In a few minutes to any portion of the city.

It Is not to be expected that a description of the (^ty of Jacksonville, the largest
place In the State escept Key West, should be given here. To do so would be a work
of supererogation, for to assume that any reader of this pamphlet does not know all
that we could tell of Florida's vigorous, prosperous young metropolis, would be to
reflect upon his or her Intelligence. Jacksonville Is known the world over, almost,
as the great centre of attraction and the chief objective point of all winter travel to-
Florida; and aa "all roads load to Borne," so all lines of transportation into Florida,
lead to Jackaonville, radiating thence throughout the length and breadth of the State.

SOUTHERN DIVISION.

ALDO, on tliu Central DivixiotJ, is tijo |>oiiit wliore the lauik of the Southern
it. Feni«ndiiiB~ Division divorgea, in ii direction uoarly southeast, and has

^' withiai:<ii>cL.'e K. ftlreaiLy bpen cle8erll>e(I.
IXIE, tiiu iiext Htatioii, in a fluf; tttalion 111 Alaehua count}', uoniiiionly known ae

ijr Waldo ' ' — Cttiupville, where there is an extensive raanufaetory ol the

" FemsJidian, finest liuiliting-tiriek in tlie world, the elay found here being

^'-'i'J'li''™*^'* ?'. •^pi'ciHlly ailaptcil to the purpose, and tlio works being com-
n every partieular. Four miles west of Campvllle, on the margin of Lake New-

DAU, ia the mu:;h-talked-ot new town ot Viudsor, for a desoripUoD of whicli we nf^
to the advertlsemente of Meseu. Orlffln ft ClorkeoD, of JaoksoDTllle. Windsor 1»
" twnperonoe town," the title deeds to all lots forbidding tho manutaoture or ul« <3
spirttuoujd liquors, on pain of torleltuns.

HAWTHOBNE. also in Alachua county, is a thriving and prosperous village,
""•m. (r. DiiiB, situated In the Centra ot a riuh section, the soil of which haa

» " " Fernaudiaa. a fine clay Bub-soil, in places mixed with shell and marl, and

90 " •' withiaconehfe B. especially adapted to the culture ot the peach and the
orange. Hawthorne has about 500 Inhabitants, having, it is stated, doubled Its popula-
tion within the past eighteen months. The Florida Southern, (narrow-gauge), Railroad,
extending from Gainesville to Palatka, here crosses the track of the Florida Eailway
and Navigation Company, adding considerably to the Importance of the place as a
railroad centre. The altitude here Is about 150 feet above the sea, and the adjacent
pine forests make the place one of the most healthful in the State. Handsome
churches and excellent schools, numerous stores full of heavy stocks ot goods, and
scores of attractive-looking and substantial residences, make Hawthorne one of the
most prosperous-looking places on this Division. A number of pretty lakes in the
vicinity odd a charm to the landscape, a:id the shores ot Locbloosa are but a few
miles distant. The roads in the vicinity are excellent, and good teams can be pro-
cured. Game abounds, and the lakes are full of ilno flsb.

Three and a half miles east of the town Is the Magnesia Spring, already a favorite
place of resort for both residents and visitors. It is forty-five feet wide and seventy
feet long, oval in shape, and ot an average depth of about thirteen feet. The water
Is perfectly clear and of a bluish cast, and Is discharged at the rate ot about X,500
gallons per minute. The temperature is 72 degrees Fahrenheit, and ample lacllltlefl
are provided for bathing, tor both sexea.

Ad extensive deposit ot natural phosphates exists In the vicinity of the Spring, as
well as a ledgi* of santiatonp of eicollent quality for builtling purpoaea.

The omage groves ftbout Hawthorne are particularly thriving la appearance, and
the business of growing early vegetables tor shipment is rapidly attuning large pro-
portloDs. In one of the niinierous groves may be seen three trees about twenty-live
years old, which annually ylelil to their owner (Mr, Adklns) thirty thousand oranges,
paying a not profit tor each tree of nearly J200.

LOCHLOOSA, which takes Its nanne from the beautiful lake on whose banks it is
7 m. [r,~HawchorDe, Situated, i» an important station, being connected by steam-

IM " " Foni&D<l[na, era with the ahnost numberless landings and orange groves

88 " " withiftcoochea R. qh i>)chlooBa and Orange lakes, the former being four miles
long and six wide, while the latter is fifteen miles in length and troni two to three
miles wide, the two being eoimected by a deep and navigable channel. Large quan-
UtJes of oranges and vegetables are brought to Lochloosa station for shipment from
the landings and groves on these lakes. The shores of Lochloosa, lined with dense
grovw of stately palms and magnificent magnolias, Interspersed with orange groves,
settlements and vegetable farms, present a rare picture of semi-tropical ecenerj'
whose equal it would be hard to find, even in Florida; while Its waters and Islands
are the abode ot innumerable water-fowl, and the adjacent forests abound with all

mumer of gome. Lni^o qiinntlliee ot fish ot various kinds are taken from tbe lake
forBhlpment to Niirtlicm and Intorlor markets.

From liochlooea the railroad paseoe along the lake shore and onward towards
tho eaatem arm or Orange Lake, which It crosses on a long trestle resting upon pllee,
and reaches on the south shoro tho celobrat^l groves of Uoears. Harrts and Bishop,
In Uarlon county, passing directly between them for nearly a mile. Along this divid-
ing line between tho two groves al>out twelve hundred of the Hneet trees had to be
remoTed to moke room tor the conRtru(;tlon of tho track. Those are the largest nat-
ural groves in Florida. They are situatttd In the midst of a vast rich hammock, the
trees being of naturai, npontaneous growth. l[i tho places where they now stand,
budded to the beet swoot varietlofl. Tho Hards grovo contains nearly two boniiTed

ttcres ot UearinK tri-es, stajidlng ratlier tliickiir tliiiii tlmse oi-clliiailty set out, aod
yielding last year a erop worth $fiO,000, wliil.! the crop of tlio pnffloiit year Is expected
to produce not Ices than $75,000 or $80,000. The Bishop gi'ovo, belonging to Hon. P.
P. Bishop, of San Muteo, on the St. John'H river, contalnw one hundred andsiityacreB
of trees, mostly in iKiaring.

Here, then, is the naUvo home of the oningc true, where It growi* wild like any
other loreet tree, tho shoots from the roots springing up in every direction, and evm
Interfering with tho (lultivntion of tlic ailjaecnt Holds and ganlens, and becoming a
veritable pest, as troublesome as hazel-bushes in a Northoni com-lleld. The removal
ot these wild shoota to nurseries and there budding tlioni with sweet varieties has
developed into a profitalile Inilustry, one grower having thus realized the handsoote
sum of $20,000 In a shiglo season. And hero is the beginning, the upper edge, as It
were, ot what ia justly known as " the orange l)elt," through wbleh for a bundred
miles or more the trains of the Florida Railway and Navigation Company pursoe
theirbusy way, giving oecesa and egrcus to and from one of the most intereetlDg
regions of travel on tho American continent.

OITBA, in Marlon County, fommrly Orange Lake, is situated just beyond

« m. Ir. Locblooe^ tho Blahop nnd Harris Rrovna, about a mile Irom the

iia " " remandina, lake ehore, iinJ is Burroundecl by the same dense hammook

77 11 „ withlacooe hBe R. f[rowth. In Its vlninjty is tlie splendid home o( Florida's
Orange King. Mr. J. A. Harris, tho owner of tho grove deseribod above. He 1b a
young man at line physique and pleasing address, and one of the loading citizens of
the county, whose thorough business methods, modest doporiment and sterling worth
have won ^eere rospet't from all who know him.

The handsome and eitenslvc groves of Messrs. John F. Dimn, of Ocala, Church,
Brown & Allen, 3. 0. Matthews, Lindsay k Co., an<l a dozen or more others, adjolulng
the two larger groves, make up a vast tract of over 3, WO acres of solid grove adjacent
to Citra station.

SPAKB, a flag station

117 '

■ WUhlac

Marlon county, is an important shipping-point for
oranges, vegetables, etc., and the excellent lands In th.e
vicinity are being rapidly settled up. The situation Is ele-
vated andhealthy, andtho people, especially new-eomers, con-
tented and prosperous.

ANTHONY PLACE, in the same county, is similar to Sparr, 8ituat«id on a high,
■ 4 m. fr. Bparr," healthy pine plateau which has been inhabited and cultivated

all " " Temaodlntt, sineo tho days of the earliest settlement of tho county. The

te ■■ ■■ wuhiaciKichoe B. country in Its vicinity is rapidly filling up with an eitcellent
-1^^°° ol Immigrants.

BILVEB 8PEING JUNCTION. Here the Silver Spring Braiicli, two miles long,
i m. tr. AnihoDr Plaoe, enables all trains to lie run to the very edge of the great
MO " " PBraanilln», Silver Spring, which 1h eo well known to all who have ever

i» " " withi aoooehw a. heard of Florida, that but a few words of description are
Deeded hero. This vast circular basin, six hundred feet In diameter and nearly Dtty feet
In depth, Ih the source of a river navigable for small steamboats, known as Silver
Spring Run and which emptiest Into the Ocklawaha river, about nine miles distant.
Notwithstanding Its great depth the water is so ulear that the smallest object can be
seen on the bottom Before the completion of the present line of railway the only
mwDS of transportation to B\U er Spring was by the long and tedious voyage up the
Ocklawaha river Now the tourlHt laii visit this remarkftlilc and Interesting plana

without Incurring the discomforts and loss of time requisite for the voyage ; or, It be
deeiree, can reach the Spring by rail, and after his tour through the peninsula is over,
return to the Spring and take the steamer down the Ocklawaha.

HoTEiiS ; Westerveit House, where excellent aeeommodations can be had, as
well aa boats for use In viewing arid enjoying the wonders of the Spring.

BoABDiNO-HousEe : M. E. Boss.

OCALA. This vigorous and prosperous little city has a population of aboat
t m. tr. Silver Spring Jc, 3,500, is the county-soat of Marion county, is sltuatod in the
IH " " FemBDdina. centre of one of the richest regions of the State, and Is

W ■■ " WlthlBcoothee B. manifestly destined to be the chief city and distributing
point of the great orange belt. The intense energy and public spirit of its people have
been severely testedby a recent conflagration which consumed in a single day over
N50,000 worth of its best business property, comprising four entire blocks of over i
fll^ buildings. This awful calamity, which occurred in November, 1883, Instead oU
operating as a discouragement, only seemed to Incite the Inhabitants to new vlgou
and to develop more rapidly than ever the wonderful spirit of enterprise and progrerjii

^hiiili hod already b^^un to ebow its triUte In the rapid and eubetantlal growth of Uie
place. Already moet of the locations occupied b; the dettroyed buildloffs are the
sites of far finer, larger and more substantial etruotures, the erection of which in so
short a time has not only seemed a marvel second only to enchantment, but has had
the effect of encouraging the erection of additional buildings outside of the burnt
<Il8triet.

The old Ocala. House, Itself one of the best and largest hotels south of Jackson-
ville and west of the St. John's river, has been replaced by a magnificent brick
structure with a front of two hundred and thirty-eight feet on the public square, and
extending back a depth of one hundrnl and siitv-seven feet and cap^le of accom-

modating over four hundred guests. The new Ocala House has been leased by the
proprietor of the former house. Col. L. M. Thayer, and all who know him agree that
the prospect tor a brilliant season for the new hotel is assured.

Large brick stores of modem style and ample capacity have arisen from the
asbes of their piMecessors on every side, and tbeae, with the handsome and commo-
ditous new brick court-house, which stands in the centre of the public square, give
Ocala more the appearance of a real city than that of any interior place in the State.
A telephone esehange, excellent and well-stocked livery stables, a sprightly and well
conducted weekly paper (the Bonner), and handsome Macadamized streets, add
largely to the metropolitan aspect of the place.

Not far from the city lies a large deposit of excellent building-stone, which when
first quarried Is soft and easily dressed, and rapidly hardens on exposure to the
vreather.

Ooala is surrounded on every side by thrifty and profitable orange groves, one of
the largest b^ng the famous grove of Mr. Adam Elchelberger., the pioneer of orange
caltnre in the county, who ships annually from 4,000 to 5,000 boxes of the finest fruit,
and who will, as soon as his younger trees begin to bear, have a grove of fully 4,000

trees In beating. Ur. C. U, Brown, the owiior ot the OcalBi House, has several Qns
tcroves, and one of Ocala's chief attractioDB ironsiHts of its long avenues (known as
Orange and ILemon avanuoa), lined on either side with ({roves of beartog trees. Four
miles Irom the city la tlie oldest grove in tlio county, known as Hiawatlta Grove, and
belonging to Dr. J. E. Stubbert, many of tlie trees of which are tliirty-flve feet in
h^bt and nearly torty years old.

Col. John F. Dunn, one of Ooala'e fhlef eitlzeris, also owns a numberof ezeellent
and valuable groves. He in the founder of the Bank of Ocala, and the owner of
Dunn's Park, a oharining spot, almost in the euntre of the eity, consisting of a splen-
did orange grove embowered amonj; giant live oakH draped with long, graceful
sprays and festoons of SpanlRli moss.

The astonishing increase In the populnthm nud cnminerdal importance of Ocola
and the rich section of country surrounilin^' it hnx been largely due to the efforts of
such men as Col. Dunn. Mr. Brown and Mi'. 3. R. Ciinchman, tho last-named being a

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clvll engineer ol high repute, and the agent of tho great Diaston land companloe for
Marion and other adjacent counties. Bcal estate transactions have extended and
multiplied so rapidly within the past few months as to require the establlebmeDt of
an abstract offlce on the plan adopted in northern states, which is under the charge ot
the Bacon A Adams Alratraet Company, and is proving a great convenience to pur-
ohasers.

HoTEi^; Ocala House, Magnolia House.

ToscAWiiiLA, Ave miles from Ocala, and Bblleview, twelve miles from Ocala,
ai'e new eettlements rapidly being built up by new comers from other states.

LAKE WEIR STATION, otherwise known (from tlie name of its post-offloe) s»
18 m. It. Ouaia. Whitesvllle, Is tiie place of debarkation (or all travel bound

ISO " " Fornandina, for the Vicinity of E^ake Weir, which lies about two mllee-

39 ■■ " wuhiBcwcbge R. (jjatant, and is one of the most charming sheets of water In
the State, surrounded by beautiful residences embowered in orange groves. The soil

bereaboutM
of oranges
aeren mllee
banks from
Lake ol tbe

la iinnBuallj' productive, unil hixB iii"!ii kruiwii lo yiulil, befiiiloa tlio llumt
ami vogutttbles, u crop of 1,000 mcloiie to the ucrc. Tlio liiki) is about
loug nnd four mllua In uldtli, with sloping uid sometimes procipltous
ilght^ fent III hulght. Ite Iniliiui name U sold to linvu beon " Tbu
Full Hood," nnd ItB ploturuaqiio environment hae nttnuited a populutlon

t wealthy winter resldonLg tunl Industrious settlors, whose onei^otii:
Bpldly converting It hito a porfoet paradise.

OXFORD, Sumter county, 1b a Hag station and shipping point for quanUtles of
- melons and early v^etables produced Ui the rielnity. It i»
a growing place, and offers many inducements to the Immi-
I.- grant, chief among whiuh are Its hrjalthy situation and good

WILDWOOD, in Sumter county, Is the most thoroughly wlila-ftwkke uid tmtet-

Hi ih. ti. oifoniT" ~ ~' prUlng ol the many new towns recently evolved like mnglo

1(0 " " rarnandlDa, Irom the wildemcBH by the oitension of the Florida SMI-

_»■_'_!' ^'?_'''''?^_^<«J'^ way snd Navigation Company's lines. It Is happily BituatwJ

in the mldat of the pine woods, just on the edge of the Withlacoochen hammock.

which extends on either side of the Withlacoochee river (sometJmea called the Wltli-
lacoochee of the South, to dletinguleh It from the river of the same name wlilch rlMfl
in Georgia and forme the boundary between Madleon and Hamilton counUee, empty-
ing into the Suwannee at Eliavllle), from the lower edge of Sumter oounty to thit
lower edge of Levy county, and which oontolne some of the most gigantic trees enst
of the Boclty Mountains. One famous live oak Is said te measure thirty-seven feet in
droiimtereuoe around the trunk, and several oyproee trees have been found from fonr
to seren feet In diameter.

Wlldwood 1b well named, for until the conBtniotlon of the rrilroad the place
where It stands was a wilderness indeed, sparsely populated by a simple and worthy
people, who viewed the onward progress of the Iron highway with amazement. They
ore rapidly becoming accustomed, however, to the advance of civilization Into ttielr
heretofore quiet domain, and take kindly to modem practices, as will be seen by the
following communication recently received by one of the ofllolals of the Oompanj'.

" Sib ; — Myself and many of my friends would be pleased occasionally to take e
ride on the B. B. Fleaso toll me of the best way of obtaining such privll^e."

It Is rumored that a reply was forwarded suggesting to this "anxious miquirer"

iimplisli Ills tlesiro wiis to gi't on liitJniiile terms with the ood-
duoU>rs, aiid another, less objectloiiahh- to the Coiniuiiiy. woa Id Interview the tloket-
agent and purdhnae a ticket before getting on tlie rare.

At WMdwdod the Leeaburg Branch deHeuts from the iiiulii line in a southeaat-
wardly direetioii, pnsaing through e. rich country, partially hammock, and opening up
to settlement one of the most dealrable sections of the peninanla. The Orange-Le^f
Is published at Wlldwood, weekly.
H0TEI.S : Wlthlaeoooliee Houee.

PANASOFEEE, situated at the southern extremity of the lake of the Bame

if Bi, tc. Wilawood, name, In Sumter county. Is another of the vigorous young

IDS " " Fernandlaa. towns which have sprung up as If from the effeote of nitch-

31 ■■ ■' WnaucooeheB B, oraft. alonjf the line of railroad as it has progressed south-

warrl. Ita situation !« unusually favomhle, in the midst of heavily timbered, rich

of storw HI" in iiju'mtimi iind doina an exeellent business, and

could hardly lie sold for a

being rapidly

lands which a few n
disposed of at high Hgures.

There are a number ot fine orange grovea In the vicinity, whose condition and
history demonstrate the peonllar adaptabili^ of soil and climate for this fruit. In
one grove, that of Mr. Geo. Marsh, may be seen a tree thirty-eight years old, the
st«m of which is tiiree feet in ulrcumference, and from which won> shipped in 1883 twen-

ty-two boxotior HujMirlur fruit. Aixilliiir triio. In IIioTuwikw Kruvo, ylulded Iwenlf-Hvoii
boxes, and nvu truuH In Mr, Ono. WIiIUi'h itravo yluldiiil In a hIiikIo ttuoiion twelvit
Ihouwiid oriuigui. A larK') nnrutiar t>t yuuiiK ki^'V"". tiiJurly old uniiugh to bear,
demonstraU) tlio uujMuilty at Itiu moII for iiroduuliiK 'luluk kcowUi, utiil llio foot thai
nono of tliu trooH In tho vUtliilty HulTuroil luiy dumuKo Irani rwwnl Huvoro froaU givw
additloiiitt ovIdoniMi of Uiu hiiooIiiI iuIvamUikim tliU mulim pomhimhuh fur onoKit
oulluru.

Th(i oonitnoriilHl liiiiinrlniKMi of I'linuHnrkDci iiuty Ihi ImtUir a|i|)ni<iliLloil whan It U
Hltttod lliut Htuanibiiabt plyliiK <)>■ Hx) WkliliiiKioiilioii rlvnr itiiti faan lliruiigh lliu iiatuml
uhaniiol or " run " Into ami Uidiiud iiniiinil tli« litk", iliiut [jonnontlng tlio lullroad wlUi
the ouUru lutvlgablii portion of Uiu rlvur, and <)|iiinlnK up for wittlitminit an<I tnulea
Unritory ulnuMt unoigujilod In rioumrtMn liy nny |H)rtli)ti of tlm Htalo. Thu Piuia«ont»u
Democral, wixikly, hiut nwonily liixm iv>tu>illnli<Hl.

HuuTKUVtLLU, two inlliiH HDiitlKuiHt iif I'mniHofkiH), Ih tlm Mint of Kuvoraiueiit
of Humtor (Hmtity, flikI hiiH alwiiyM liiinri ii |i|iiiui of iionHldiirablii Inipurtaiiuu. TIh^
Humtorvllli) Timai U Uio only tiuwH|uipi)i', nnd tlii< Hiinitiirvitlii H(ltl^t, by J. O. U.
HHmlllon, Ih tho prlnulfMil holul.

Olit((i>K.<>ii«or tli'i many woii'lurfiil mi<l vUfiinnm [i<>w Hiiltlinntinln whiuh aroHpring-
Ing Into llfu all along tlxi lino i)f tli'i imtd, Ih only abuut four or Ilvti nillM wMt of tlm
lino, In Horiuindo uiiuily ; and Vimiial (Iitv, ntiotliur, U in tliu Homo oounly, on Lakii
Oliario-Apiipka, whoHo watorHaro Donnoutiiil wlUi lliu Wlthlm-oouhoo, giving noootut to
Hloamoni fruiii llio rullroaii al Panaoutk'io.

Fronk PanaHofkiio Ut tho pniitiint lornihiiiH of tlm ruad, at thu plooa where It
uroMHUH tho WlthlanoiHilKKt rlvor, ttiit illHlani'o In Iwonly-ono niilea. Ttio country
Ijuyond Ih iiko tliut iiuit aliuvu diwiirlliod, and wliiin ojiujiod up to travel and Mittleiaaut
by tlio mllroail In IIh prognwH towartlH Taniiu, Itn noxt obJoc-Uvo point, will offer
HOino of tho niiiHt uxlraonllnary Induiiiiniuntx to wltlorH t^) bo found anywhere In tbo
Htato. Alramly tho tanilH aliiitg tho |iroJ<N!liid lino of tho road are being eagerly
Hought aftor, atid proHiHt[;t4>rit aro buHy Dndlrig and making lot^atluiia, Henrt. Bueh-
nell A Canipiioll, roul oHt4ito rigonbt, I'annMofkuo, aro rlnlng good work In thU dirootlon.

From Wllilwooil, I'lmanofkiio and tlm tiirnilnut of tlio rouil the oomfortablo
MMi'.htiK of tho Houlh Florida HUma (ioinpany tionvuy paHHOngKra In all direotionn.

LEESBURG BRANCH.

r'OOD on theboutbem Dhialon Is the junLtlon of the main line with thu

1 Femnailiiia Leoshurg Branch and haa been already mentlODed, and de-

Tasares scrit ed In that portion o( thia pamphlet devoted to the South-

BAUBOO, the first station out From Wildwood, is a Hag station, from whence
' 5 inileB from wiiiiwood, eoiisiderahle shipments of vegetables are already made,
IHJ ■■ " FsrnandiDB, produced on the excellent soil in the vicinity. Some of the

n " ^ TavareB. flnest vegetables shipped over the Line were produced in lh«

vicinity of Bamboo last »oason.

HONTCLAIR In n Mtnlliin nf itoiiHlilumMti liiijKirtAii(n<. froni whimoo large i|iun>
'iiM'nilw from BamlHxi, lltliut uf |in>ilii(^ii urn Hhlppnil. A Urga marowitllfl biwfncM
IMX " " Tarn ftn'ii tin, Ih niiii'tiK'tJi'l liy Dunning, HnlllnHhixl k Co., nt thoir nuuii-
ilK - ■• T«r«r*i., nurtli nUtm wlilfli -UitkIi* nlongitkl.i tho nllrootl Iraok.

Two nilloH north of MonlcUlr, cIiihii U> tli« wmlom mid of I/iko Orlffln, Is Frult-
liuiit Park, a. lnv«ly pliuni Hltimto'l on il IiIkIi " l)la'<k-Jiwik rliiKo," nnilil n Mvon oT
iihartnlnK Ink'"* nf itlffiinint hImh, ull ImviiiK UWt, nTntmy ImiikH. HlnpliiK Kotitly U> th*

wnUir'H iHlK",nTi<l 'I'ltilAltiltiK |iiini, c<l<iar wali-rwIiliOi rKtli'rtHin'Kr.v ilnUill of tlig f[illB((n
of tho ((Iniit plinw nml iiUiiir Irmw liy wtildi Ihiiy nrn Kurroiidilntl, Tlirirty Hiitttomonti>.
onvfiK" \trnvon anil vn|tH«lilii ffintiM nnt Hiwir In iiviiry (llnwilnti, iiioitlly ixHMipInd tiy n
colony of rtiinly, wcll-fiiliicntt'il nml ontflrprlhltiK yoiiriK KtiKlWi tfutil.limuin. Proml-
nunl, nnioiiK tliu mnny twiniitiriil plm-iw lit " Wlnilnrnuini," ilm I'lmrinlnK Imniu iif Uojor
O. F. BookH, who (»iiiii horn four ymnt ago from plillikrlolphln nriil HutLlnl on th><
Hhnrn of nnn of thii Inrffvit nnd pmttlfwl of IJiii imtiioroiiH Idkiw. Hnro ho linn, by
woMiierfiil ItidiiMtry and )iontiivoran<Hi, nii'l withoiil any iirovioiioly lUMjulrn'l nklll or
nxpiirionco, on anoll whloh Hi n Wiinl,om fnrmnr woiihl npiHwir UmiJimr Ui jmy for
oiilUvAtloti, without tlin unci of Any oommiiri-ln! fcrUII/iTM, Hiu'roiiMiliKl hin ooxy honi»
with A ptirfnvt wmlth nf fnillH of All kliiiln, (loirioiiHlmtlMK not only thii fltiiowi of tho
itolt, but tho itnimlillltlfiH of tlio mitn (whidi, Aflor nil, Iiah nioxt U) ilo with hiktcohs In
nny unou|iAtliin), to pnxliKin friiIlM In liifKO vnrlnt.y aiiiI of tliii llrHt (iiiallty. Uver <iii»
tiiindroil illnl.hint vnrlolliw of friillH nro HiKinoHHriilly oiiH.lvntor! on thin |>]iioo, InrliidlnK
mnny whldhnroKonornlly Mii)i|HiH<iil to txi uriHiiltiHl ii< th« Plorldn i^tlninl^i, niioh nn
npplon. t«>Ant, otc.

LnrKo iiiinntltloH of oarly voKuliililtw nni Hhlppiid nnnnnlty fnmi Uoiit<;lalr, tho
prraluiitof tho FriiltlAnil Pnrk tArmn, ah w«ll iv* from KnilllaiKl fnrk nut! on, on tho
rioriilA Honthorn KnllroAil.

LEESBUBQ \a one of the oldest places in this part o( the county, and has qult«
an m. mm Uunusiur, the appearanoe ol » city. It was tor some years the county-
1T3 •■ " Feruaadtna, seat, and ts the most important commercial place In the
10 ■■ " TuTarw. county, doing a large mercantile business with the region

lying about lakes Harris and GrJHn. It is situated on a narrow peninsula separating
the two lalcee named, whose shores are lined for long distances with what were once
wild groves of orat^e trees, but are now fine, profitable budded groves.

Lees than a mile away, with a substantial tramway leading thence from the main
street of the town, is the landing on Lalie Harris, where miniature steamers which
ply its waters arrive and depart to and from the numerous landings and orange
groves along Its coast. Into lakes Griffln, Dora and Eustis, and up and down the
Oclclawaha river, connooting at Fort Mason, on Lake Eustis, with trains on the St.
J'otm's and Lalie Eustis Railroad for Astor on the St. John's river. Tills road is now
t>eing rapidly extended to Leeeburg, with the expectation ot reaching that place-
' during the coming autumn or winter.

At Leesburg the tracli of the narrow-gauge road (Florida Southern) has its present
tennlnatjon, being projected thence southward into Orange county. The extension
of the railroads to and through X/eosburg has created a revolution in the real estate
business in the vicinity, and iand-seekers can hardly fail to find ample opportunity
tor selections at reasonable piices. Messrs. McCraclien, Bacon & Co. and J. Nat
Hoore are the principal land agents.

BOABDmo-HOTjSES : D. D. Eoach.

TAVAEF.S, the present terminus of the Leesburg Branch, In Orange county, is a
10 miles tram Leeaburg, most prosperous and flourishing place, whose destinies are
iBi ■■ •■ femandina, in the liatids of active, progressive and public-spirited men.
M •• " OrlanJo. Situated in the centre of a region of navigable lalies, whose
borders in the near future will be lined with groves and settlements and farms, and
enjoying unusual facilities ot railway connection in all directions, it is apparently
destined to become a great distributing point and a place of extensive commercial
Importance.

Tavares is the initial point ot tha Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad, which
Is projected through the heart of Orange county and eastward to the Atlantic coast,
and is almost completed to Orlando, the county-seat and chief city of that county
situated on the South Florida Bailroad, and which will give to the immense travel
which annually flnds Its way into Orange county, a direct, alt-rail route, over the
Florida Rt^lway and Navigation Con pany s 1 nes and th s new rood.

WESTERN DIVISION.

CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER. This is the western terminus of the Weatam
< miles tram JackRODillle, Division, {formerly Florida Central and Western R^lroad),
and ie a lunding on the Chattahoochee river, or, more prop-

:ly, the Apalachicola river, which is formed hy the junction of the Chattahoochee and
lint rivers about a mile above the landing. Just below thoilandiiig^the iron bridge
odhoPonsacola and Atlantic Rail-
road crosses the river, and its
Initks extend thence to the Union
Depot at Bivor Junction, adistance
of about one mile. Here all trans-
i are niaile to and from the
■ilorn Division, the Pensacola
Atlantic and the Savannah,
Florida and Western railroads,
the iatt«r having in operation a
^branch road from here to a junc-
1 with its line between Bain-
bridge, on the Flint river, and
Savannah. Of conrse,allthrough
r and freight trains between Jacksonville and Pensacola and New Orieans
lerely stop at River Junction, without transfer.

At the landing are extensive wharves, depot^buildings and an inclined tramway,
perated by steam, to facilitate the transfer of freights, etc,, and a small hotel for the
ceommodation of passengers bound up or down the river. Hero the trains of the
Testem Division connect with the several lines of steamers plying between Apalachi-
ola, situated on the Gulf at the mouth of the river, and Columbus, Georgia, the head
f navigation. These steamers, though small, are very comfortably— and some of
lem elegantly— finished and fumished, and are numerous enough to give, in the
'inter season, a tri-weeldy connection in either direction.

The country in the immediate vicinity of the river is low and flat, and covered
rith a dense forest growth, embracing a large number of varieties, including the
Imost extinctFlorida Yew, and the unique Torreya Taxifolia, (popularly believed to
e identical with the " shittim-wood " of Scripture), its chief peculiarities being that it
1 to be found nowhere else on the American continent, and that its wood Is practi-

calty tndeBtructlble — logs faaving been known to lie embedded In the mud of the
swamps and river bottoms undecayed Tor many years. Beyond tbe river bottoms
great hlils, almost mountainous In height and appearacce, rise abruptly to a hdghl
of a little over three hundred feet, being the higkeel poM ia Florida.

CHATTAHOOCHEE STATION, a flag staUon In Oadeden county. Is the station
sm. It. ciiauiUiiKwiioaK., 'f" Chattahoochee village and the State Asylum for thfl
aw ■■ ■■ jiwttfrnme. Indigent Initane, both of which occupy commanding poal-

tious on the summit ot one of the highest hills, north of the railroad.

The Asylum Is situated on the site of, and occupies the buildings formerly belong-
ing to, the United States military post established here In 1834 by General Jackson,
then military Governor of the Territory. The buildings are of the most substantU

character, being all of brick, arranged in the form of a hollow square, enclosing, wiUi
the high brick wall which connects them, a smooth plaza, shaded by large trees sml
carpeted with grass. The property comprises about 1,700 acres, and much of it is
under cultivation as a farm for the production of forage, v^etahlos, etc., for the us«
of the Asylum. It was donated by the Federal Government to the State shortly alter
the war. The view from the tower is one of the finest panoramas of beautiful land-
scape scenery to be seen south of I<ookout Mountain, and a visit to the asylum is one
of the most pleasant and interesting episodes a tourist could desire.

BoARPiMO-HOTiSES : H. H. Spear.

MOUNT PLEASANT, a way-stotion, is chiefly noted as the location of the ejt«i-
8 lu. ir. uimttniiijiKUuHS., slve Hermitage Vineyards of the late Col. M. Martin, Sur-
II '• " ciiBioiiinoohee B., veyor^oneral of the State, which lie about five miles north
198 " •■ JnckwinTiii". p( jhe depot, and where are growing many varieties of

grapes, including the Hartford Frolillc, Ives, Concord, Delaware, Martha, CynthlBni,
and a number of Rogers' Hybrids, as well as the hardy Sciippemong. LarKe quan-
tities of wine are annually manufactured and stored in the great wine-cellars, and
portions of the earlier vintages have been sold, bringing highly remunerative prices,

and being celebrated for their excellent quality. The vlneyardd were eetablLshed in
1869. The recent death of the proprietor may bring tnis ma^ificent property int4>
market. There are a number of other, though smaller, Tineyards in tlie county,
which are a source of handsome profit to their owners.

QUINCY is the county-town of Gadsden county, and is a snug and charming little
am. tr. HI. Pieasanc pla^^e, containing about 800 inhabitants. It la one of the

M " '■ ChttitBiicxioikeB R., oldest towns in Middle Florida, having been Incorporated Id
IW " ■■ JactsoDviile. 1828. It is delightfully situated at an elevation of 290 feet

above the sea, and its environment is exceedingly picturesque. Just north of the
town is the beautiful valley of the Attapulgua. On all sides rise the wooded hilla
which form the great charm of Middle Florida. Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian
churches, a handsome brick school-building and a well-preserved and commodious
court-house adorn the town, bosldes numerous handsome private residences with well
eoltivated grounds, that of Judge J. E. A.Davidson being one of the most attractive,
and oontt^nlDg a great variety of rure plants and Howere, among them several plants
of the only real South American Pampas Grass in the Stat*3, from which are taken
some 500 mognillcent " plumes " every year. The grounds of Congressman B, H. M.
Davidson contain some of the largest specimens of the Camellia Japonica in the
State, if not In the South, one or two of tliem being some twenty-live feet in height.
The only weekly newspaper in the county, the Herald, is published here ; also the
Montltiy BdactUar.

The scenery In the vicinity of Quincy is charming in variety and picturesque
attractions. Thedelightful drives,

flno views which abound every-
where throughout the county,
present attmcttons ti
eurpasavd by any in the State, and
a largo hotel for
the accommodation of visitors
would be an enterprise returning
handsome profits to its proprietors.

All the cereals, cotton, sugar-cane, grasses, etc,, flourish and are grown
«xt«nBive)y. A crop of 8,000 pounds of oala was recently produced from o single oi
Stock-nUslng Is largely engaged In, and the county has long been noted for its line
liome-raieed horses.

The culture of tobacco has always been one of the important industiles of Oadsden
eounty. Many planters in Gadsden for years made this their staple crop, whLe others.

large cotton plantAm, made It an tixtra omp, which, without curtailing the amount of
cotton produced, UBUully paid all the oxpennm o[ the plantation. The tobacco produet
of the 8Ut« In ISiS (conBus of IBBO). was 908,1114 poundn, ol which Oadsden count? pro-
duoed 776,17? poun'ts. The crop ol Oadwlen In 1800 wbh oMUinated at 1,200,000 poundi,
bikI at tliK price than current retun-
ItH ((ruwera about tSOO.OOO. In
1 HTH the (TOP was only about 100,000
IkxitkU, and In 1B74 about 900,000
IKiunite. The crop of IHTO (cemoa
t.f IHMO), was only 6,677 pound*.
ThlH reiimrkalile falUns off In tlia
pro'Uit'lion of a staple {'■Top from
whluli Hiiiih iintablo ronulte had fenn-
iTly liiioti olilaliioil \n almont entire!;
y,^ iitlrlliiitalilo to the war, and the blgb
\ prliriM [>t cotton Iniinixl lately anbae-
' tjiiont llicr«lo, which tempted all
pluiitiirH to Krow cotton to tbe toW
(ixi'liwlon of uviuy other crop. Bfr
hIiIiw UiIh, many of the older genen-
tlon tit phuitoni who hail demonttn-
1<hI the niici!(sw of tobacco culttue In
the (inrllur ilny have iiasaed awaj.
Till) favomblo coiidltlonH of Boil,
<^lltii»tii, eU:., yot remain, however,
mill iilltliutOadwIeiieiiimty requires
to etinlile her to diual, and In a bild
time far Hiir|Huw, her fonner sucem
In liilNu^co i^iilturu, U the ituml-
H I I itl o[ practical t*>ljiicco-nn>wurn fmiii VltTflnli,
a 1 t1 Car >1Iiiiih, with lln^lr kiiowlndKO of fflodun i
HI ill tl III to ai^i'iini|>llHh nwulUi which tlie lot-
I lu h1 e tl e war him pnivuntKil. The Mime iiatonl
) lutw t ill ni»riy all the otlior countJoe In Ulddla
li wlnlKCof the reiiiiininiDiilH of tobac<:u cultun

ky T

grati 1 U I

Ulmourl Ku t

msthnlH ni l^H

poverlHl nl c I 1 tlo f 1 r pm

eoniUtionii wl I I exlHt In 1ml

Florl In a 1 the In Ikdi 1 1 avlnt;

oan'ecan;oly go anilHH In the nelm^on of a loiuillly favomble tor the proeocullon of Uil«

Important luiil prolllalilo IiidiMtry.
lUtvr.iM : Qiilncy IIouhii.
MIDWAY Is a Htnall Hettliimeiit containing one or two Htorw, uchool-houiie, and •

'iTnT rr tjulucy, f"* ilweillngH.in the centre of a rich farming count:?; and at

81 '■ " Ciiatnthoocliiio It., vnrloiiH jilniiM In ItM vicinity, along the rooil between Uldm;

"L" " JociiwinYtiin. a,|,i Tftlliihajwec, ani a numtK<r of Kaw-mlllM. The rail rotd

crosHi» Little river iHitweun Qiilncy and Midway, anil the Ocklockoneo river between

Midway nnil TallahnHM^n. Thn growtli of lumber trciw along tliow rlvore Id very daoM

and of linn (|uallty, and tlie lugH are nittitil ilown the Hlrcain Ui the Haw-mlllff located b

the vlirtnlty of the railroad, wlilch takrei their prixiiictH to ninrket.

TALLAUAKHEE in the coiinty-Huat of Luoii county and tho CapltAl City of Ok
isin "ft" 'MidwiiyV ' Slate. It utaiuiH ii|ion the broail ouinmlt of a high hill, ovir

U " " ObnttaboochiMi B., two humlred and IITLy feet nbnvti the nim, and with the exoep

MS " '^ JacksniivIllB. t,|on of a Hingte range of lower hlllH Ut the Houthwanl, nothing

Intervenes t>etwuon Itx poHlUon and Uie Oulf cooHt, twunty-nlne miles distant, but u

almost unbroken forest of pine timber.

From tbe westward, the first view of the vlty glvee but a. taint idea ot Its charmlog
fdtufttloii and Ite elevation, Xhe white buildings gleun among the groea trees, and high
over all riaes the tail tower ot the court-house, trom the top of which a view ravishing
In Ita lieauty can be obtained. The approach from the eastward is much more Inter-
esting. Four miles from the city, the train passes over a portion of the prettiest ot the
upland lakes ot this hill region — Lalie La Fayette, so named from ita situation in the
midst ot tbe noble estate granted by a grateful country to the great French patriot, In
recognition of his services in the Revolutionary struggle for independence. It was a

magnificent domain ot over 23,000 acrre, (an entire township), f.nd contained some of
the choicest lands in tlie State. Passing the lalce, the road runs through a stupendous
"out" made through a great lilll, the grade to the centre of the cut being one of tbe
Steepest oa the line, and in the State. As the cars emerge from this tunnel-like way,
first into a deep and narrow valley with steep slopes on either side, and thence
debouching into the broader valley of the " St. Augustine Branch," in the early morn-
ing, a scene ot beauty meets the eye, such as no uninformed tourist ever dreamed ot
beholding in Florida. Great sloping hills rise as it by magic on every side; in front,
orownlng the loftiest, are the wtiltened walls and thousand windows of the city shining
In the morning sun.

The population of Tallahassee, within the city limits proper, is given by tbe census
of 1S80 as 2,194, but with its outlying suburbs, including the homos of many of the
numerous operatives of the cotton factory and r^iroad car-shops, it doubtless contains
over 3,500 souls. Its heaithfulness is a proverb among ail the people of the State, and
can be no better illustrated than by stating that during the summer of 1882, its entire
sick list was easily attended by a single physician. There were two physicians resident
In the city, one of whom was al>sent until midsummer, and on his return the other left
with bis family on a visit to Virginia, In the early spring, and during the autunm
months ot September and October, there is always more or lues sicltness from malarial
causes, as in all souttiem regions where ilch lands and what is iuiown as hanimock
growth — meaning all timber growths except pine — exist; but tbe maladies are slight,
easily yield to simple treatment, and are generally to tie entirely avoided by a careful
att«ntJon to diet and sanitary precautions.

Tallahassee is full of Interest to the tourist, not only on account ot its tielng the
seat ot government, but because of Its inherent attractions. It was here that tbe great
chiefs ot the alwrlglnes held their savage court; here the Spanish invaders of their

territory, in the era immediately succeeding the settlements on the Atlantic coast,
established themselves by the occupation of the Gulf coasts and the erection of elab-
orate forts and strongholds, the remains of which still exist ; here that, In a later day,
the military authorities of the United States, under General Jackson, after taking
formal possession of the territory, established the chief military post and seat of gov-
ernment. Aside from its historical interest, Tallahassee has always been a place of
consequence as a centre of trade. Long before the Florida Oentral Bailroad, (from
Jacksonville to Lake City), the old Pensacola and Georgia Railroad, (from Lake Olty to
Tallahassee), later called, with its extension to Cliattahoochee, the Jacksonville, Pen-
sacola and Mobile Railroad, were thought of, the Tallahassee Railroad, from St
Mark's to Tallahassee, was a flourishing enterprise, founded as early as 1833 upon the
necessities of the immense trade even then existing between St. Mark's and the interior.
In later years the building of railroads from the Atlantic coast westward diverted this
trade.

Two miles west of Tallahassee is the '' Murat Place," a flue plantation owned and
occupied, until her death, by the widow of Prince Murat, the son of Napoleon's favorite
Marshal, afterward King of Naples. The Prhicc, who spent the last years of his life
upon his flne estate in Jefferson county, and his widow, who survived him many years,
lie side by side in the Episcopal Cemetery at Tallahassee.

Three miles westwardly is the site of an old Spanish fort (San Luis), upon the
broad summit of one of the highest hills, where fragments of ponderous old iron armor
and heavy cannon have been found. In many other localities are pointed out similar
remains.

Tallahassee has been called the "Floral City of the Land of Flowers," and well
deserves the name. Almost eveiy dwelling is in the midst of a wilderness of flowers,
which seem to bloom with equal splendor from January to December.

The hard clay roads, winding gently over the hills and through the valleys, under
over-arching boughs and among the fertile fields, toward the various beautiful lakes
which abound throughout the country, afford the finest opportunities for pleasant
drives and rides and walks ; all of which are invited by the clear, bracing atmosphere
and the varying changes of the landscape.

Lake Jackson, the largest in the county, lies nearest to the city, its nearest point
being only about three miles. It is a noble expanse of water, extending in a northerly
direction a distance of some eighteen or twenty miles, and varyuig in width from half
a mile to three miles. North of it lies lamonia, a veritable archipelago on a small
scale, being full of small islands. It is famous over half the continent, among the
knowing ones, as the place par excellence for the shooting of water-fowl during the
winter months. South of Tallahassee, four miles, is Lake Bradford, almost circular
in form, and about a mile and a half in diameter, its shores composed of a wide belt
of flne white sand, and shaded by immense trees. Twenty miles northeast is Lake
Miccosukie, nearly as large as Lake Jackson, and forming a portion of the boundaiy
between Leon and Jefferson counties. Lake Hall, almost a perfect crescent in shiqie,
lies flve or six miles northeast from Tallahassee. All these are surrounded by high
banks and bluffs, and the scenery is as fine as in any lake region in the world. A
beautiful and substantial little steamer, the *' Jennle-Rossle," has been placed on tiie
waters of Lake Jackson for the use of pleasure and fishing parties by Mr. E. W. Clark,
a prominent merchant of Tallahassee, and a considerable fleet of swift sail-boats,
including one or two of the famous "Racine" pattern, all belonging to citizens of
Tallahassee, beautify its waters. The boat-houses are on the extensive estate of
" Rodenwald," belonging to Mr. H. V. R. Schrader, of Tallahassee, on the east side
of the lake, flve miles from the city, where charming building lots for winter homes,
gardens, truck-farms, etc., are to be had. The Thomasvllle, Tallahassee and Golf

Ballroad, now In coui-se of conetructJoi), winds along Its eaetem shore near the water's
«dge, and juet opposite " Eodenwald," on the western shore, Is " Shldz-u-o-ka," a
beautiful tract of some 1,200 acres, recentl; purchased by Messrs. Clark, Purvee k
Co., who contemplate the erection of a hotel and a number oF pretty villas, the winter
homes of those who have purchased portions of the estate.

Tallahassee has substantial and well-appointed churches, Baptist. Methodist,
Presbyterian and Episcopalian, and the Roman Catholics have a chapel In the old
convent building, where services are regularly conducted by a resident priest. The
H^rew residents also enjoy religious sorvlcoa, but have no synagogue.

The Florida UniveraLty, a most comprehensive Institution of learning, Is locat«d at
Tallahassee. It comprises a Literary Department, (the West Florida Seminary, a State
Institution endowed with a large ^ant of public land), with schools of Languages and

Metaphysics, Natural Science, English Branches and History ; a Military Department,
-with its cadets organized under the State Laws into a battalion of State Militia; a
Uedlcal Department — the Tallahassee College of Medicine and Surgery ; a Polytechnic
Institute, with Schools of Civil Engineering, Mining and Metallui^. Mechanics and
Arehitecture, Arts and Oommereial Instruction ; a Law Department and Normal
Institute. A corps of over twenty-live competent prefessors and instructors are
«ngaged In the different departments. An extensive and valuable Museum of Anatomy
And Natural History Is attaehed U> the Medical Department.

A larger number of newspapers are published in Tallahassee than in any other
■<!lty in the State. Tlie Weekly Fhridian, established In 1828, Is the patriarch of the
Florida press. The Eamomiiti and Land of Flowers are weekly. The Florida Immi-
f/raxt and State Jom-aal of Education, formerly issued as the organ of the State Board
of Immigration, is now issued monthly in the interest of immigration and educatioD.

A flouriMhinfc public library, callod tho UnivorMlty Library, \h a new foature of
TallahaiMiM* lifo, having Unm organi/xMl in 1H83. It mscupiDM a Muite of pleasant rooncM
in a Ciffitval and dfMirablo loifation donaUyJ for IIh umo by one of TalUkhaeiioe'0 oldatt,
mo»t belovo<l and public^^pirit4Ml citizisnM, Ex-Go vomor (now Jtulge) Davi/1 H, Walker,

Tho HUito Capitol 1m a roomy, niaMMlvo and wolUproHorvod Mtrueture of imponlog
apiH3aranc;o, built in 1834 by tho military govommont of tho territory, and Mtandu in a
'i'/Ommandirifc Hituatlon on tho extreme Mouthorn iwrtlon of the hill occupksrl by tb«
eity. From the eaMt<5m entranrje U> On weil-kopt groundn, exUmdH eastward ly the 0t,
AufOMtlne Uoml, a military highway conMtrufled by the U. H. Govenimmit in territorial
Umee to aoutuHst, for purt>oHeH of military tmrtH(K)rtation, the rjapital with the Hettte-
mente on the Atlantic (x>aHt.

TallahaMH<M) hi the northern t^tnninuM of the Hi. Mark'n Branch, which extend* a
distance of twenty-one milcH to Ht, Mark'H in Wakulla rs<mnty. Theie are a numlier of
railroailM projected to and through Tiilhth«MH4)c, among thorn the ThomaevUle, Talla-
haeee«3 and Gulf Rallroa^I, from ThomaMvlllc, Ge^irgia, through TalUthaee^M) to «ome
eligible [Kiint on the Gulf aoimi, (probably Carrabclle, a thriving luml^ier ix>rt on the deep
watf^rH of Dog Inhind If arbor, at the weHt<;m end of JamcH Inland), the preliminasy
Hurv<)yM of which have l>e«)n c/>mph;t<Hl, and the work of grayling comnumced. The osr-
Mhofm of the ol/l Florida O^rttrai and WeHU5ni liailroail are MltuaterJ n^)ar the depot,
which Uitt<tr 1h the lln<*Mt building belonging to the line, and wae built to acccjromodate
the general ofTlrjen of the olrl P. &> G. li, U.

At the TallahaHHe^)car-Hho[iH noma of the ^>eHt railroa^J car-building to \tti found in
the Houth may be Hwstu The W^Mteni Division haM Home handaome nleeplng-eani for
local UHo, tunied out from th^Me HUn\m, and there in now building one of the mofft ele-
gant and boMt arrang<Hl prlvaUi cxmiMm for the umo of the Prealdmit of the Company,
ever tMtm in UiIm aectlon of the C/Ountry. It hi (^)mplete In all Ite appolntmente, witti
dlning-Malr)on, klU^hen, Hie«)plng a(>artmenUi, Mmoking-nH>m with wlmiowH extending
to the floor, gente' toib)t-nH>m, liullee' tolbjt-rofnn, and a private) drawl ng-rr>om. It i»
heated by Mteam, funihiherl and upholMteni<l in the bent ntyle throughout, and ia a piece
of work that liaeter of Ma(;hlnery Dohoncsy may well be proufl of,

Nrsar the dr^K>t ntandn the TalhihaMee«) CotU^n Factory, the only eKtablhihment of
ito kiml in the Htate, It wae founder] many yearn ago by a Mtock f^;mpany, and la now
owned by Mr. Alexander McDougall, who hi <5ngag(^J in the rnanufa^H^ure of flneyarne,
which nuMii with a ntaily and profitable Male, The cafiacity of the mill, with a modente
addition of capital, r$ould profitably Im Inf^reaeed t<5n or twenty-fold, A ginning eatab-
Itohment and grlMt-mlU are run in conneidlon with the factory, A planlng-mill, a cigar
factory, a tan-yanl, (the only on<5 In the Htate), an Ice fa^.lory, and an exteneive mamtfBO'
tory of fine preHMerl brick, cx>mplete the lint of Tallahaeeee'a manufacturing eatabliib-
mentM. M<5MMrM, li. C, LhwIh & Hone c;ondur;t an exUsiiMlve l>anklng buaineaa, the aaif
one in Middle Florl<ia, TaihiltaMmse ItaM Mome thirty or more Mtorea, Including tfaxee
drug atorcM, two lKK>k MtoreM, newM depot, furniture Mtore, Mtove Mtore, hardware ttorer
and two Urge livery Mtablee, There are few vacant etorea or buMlncHa plaeea in the ettj,
ami a nnm\Hiv of hirge brh;k Mtore-houM<5H for the a<;c^)mmodatlon of Ita Increaalng boei-
noMM are i>eing ere<;terl,

L(5on county hi one of the uumi fertile and proMperoua In the Btate, producing laq;e
cropM of cotton ami the c<»reahi. Of Ute the culture of tolmcco hae )MMm largely engaged
in, and a (miUtry tor the manufacture of the pro<luct Into clgani haa been eetabUabed
anrl la producing a fUm artl(;le. The rahilng of fine blooded atock, both bonea and
ijattle, liaa abio l>i»cf>me a prominent InduMtry, ami hundre^lM of valuable graded milcb
(iOWH have lxM$n mmi U> other [lartM of the Htate, where there hi a conataxtt and growlQg
demand for them. The btiMlmiMM of rlalrying haa of l&Ui yeara extended largely, and
'*Leon cx)unty butter" hi in great demaml all over the Htate. The ralaing of aaf^

vQgetables for shipment to Northern markets has been, and is constantly becoming
more and more profitable as growers gain in experience, especially the crops of Irish
potatoes, the product from Middle Florida having attained a high repute in the North-
em markets. One grower in Leon county during the last season shipped a lot of forty
barrels to New York, which the dealers there actually reported as being "too large for
the trade ! " All varieties of the grape are cultivated with success, and several large
vineyards have been recently set out by practical wine-makers upon the fertile hill-sides.
The cultivation of the celebrated Le CJonte pear is attaining in this county, as in others
ot Middle Florida, a prominence which indicates it as the coming industry In fmits.
Large tracts of ten to fifty acres in extent have already been set to this wonderful fruit,
and its cousin, the Eiefer pear, and some of the oldest trees are already bearing, giving
most astonishing results. Three trees belonging to one grower produced thirty bushels
of fruit in their sixth year, which sold at $2.75 to $5.00 per bushel. As the trees can be
set as close together as orange trees (say fifty to the acre), this would give a gross
income per acre, at an average price of $3.75 per bushel, of $1,875 ! A Le CJonte pear
orohaitl is as good, and in some respects a better thing to have than an orange grove.

HoteijS : The Leon, a large modem house, constructed and owned by a local
stock company, has recently been leased for a term of years by Mr. J. M. Lee, the well
known proprietor of the mammoth Everett Hotel in Jacksonville, and one of the most
progressive and successful hotel managers In the South. The Leon has accommodations
for about one hundred and twenty-five guests, is first-class in all its appointments, with
service of gas and water — hot and cold — ^throughout, and Is elegantly furnished. The
aty Hotel, the oldest in the State, perhaps, has a reputation and histoiy hoary with age
and shining with honors. It is leased to Mr. Geo. C. Morgan, late of Alabama, and has-
been thoroughly renovated, repaired, cleansed, partially re-fumlshod, and re-christened
after its enterprising new proprietor, ** The Morgan." The Whltaker House, remodeled
from a spacious old residence, and in a pleasant and quiet though central location, \b
one of the nicest places in the city. It Is kept by Mrs. S. B. Hopkins, whose old-time
hospitality at her well-known former residence, *• Goodwood," (one of the largest and
finest of the many luxurious country seats of the olden time), was a proverb through all
the region round about.

BoABDiNG-HOUSES : Mrs. Mcintosh.

GHAIBES, a fiag station In Leon county, is the point of shipment of large quan-
12 m. fr. TaUahassee, titles of cotton grown on the rich lands of the many large

56 " " Ohattahoocliee R., plantations in its vicinity, and during the cotton season It is a
188 " " Jacksonville. busy-looMng place.

LLOYD, in Jefferson county. Is a flourishing place, with post-office, express
6 m. fr. Chaires, office, a number of stores, and a cotton-seed oil mill, the first

62 " " Chattahoochee R., one erected in the State. Large quantities of cotton-seod
147 ** ** Jackaonviiie. products, syrup, sugar, poultry and eggs, besides other pro-

ducts, are annually shipped from this station.

Hotels: Whitfield House.

PiNHOOK is a fiag station, seven miles from Lloyd and two miles from Drifton.

DBIFTON is the junction of the mam line of the Westem Division with the Montl-

9 m. fr. Lloyd, cello Branch, which extends thence northwardly four miles

71 " *• Chattahoochee R., to Montlcello, the county-seat of Jefferson county. Tiulns on
188 ** " Jackwonviiifl. the Branch connect regularly with all passenger and freight

trains on the main line.

MONTICELLO Is nobly seated on a high ridge, surrounded by a splendid famUng

4 m tr. Drifton country — one of the richest sections of Middle Florida. It Is

76 «« " Chattahoochee R., a queer combination, as many of the older towns are, of old-
142 •* " Jacksonville. fashioned, comfortable simplicity (In habit as well as archi-

lecture) and modem improvements and style. Many of the lately erected dwellings
and stores would do credit to a large city. Like most Middle Florida towns, it is
heavily shaded, chiefly by handsome live-oaks and water-oaks. Flowers abound every-
where through the grounds of the private residences ; and a flourishing greenhouse,
well fllled with rare plants, on the place of Col. Bird, just out of town, is one of the
attractions of the place. The model plantation of Mr. £. B. Bailey, (one of the young-
est as well as wealthiest of the planters of Middle Florida), of 600 acres, near the town,
is supplied with the best and latest improved machinery and implements. Mr. Bailey
owns some 12,000 acres of the finest farming land in the county, besides the care of
which he has a large store and cotton warehouse at Monticello.

The people of Monticello are becoming very progressive and energetic In the adap-
tation of their soil to the production of new crops, and have recently engaged largely
In the cultivation of vegetables and fruits. Over 75,000 Le CJonte pear trees, which will
bear in another year, are estimated to be growing within a mile of the town. The
growing of melons for shipment has largely engaged the attention of the people in the
vicinity for the past few years, and fields of two to throe hundred acres in extent are
not uncommon. The plan of diversifying crops is recognized as a prime element in
agricultural success, and the county bids fair to rival any in the State in the variety
and excellence of its products. Much attention is being given, also, as in Leon oounty,
to the growing of the finest strains of live stock, many specimens of registered Jerseys,
etc., having been imported.

Monticello has an excellent newspaper, tlie CkmstvtutUm ; it possesses Baptist,
Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches, and a very commodious and substan-
tial brick school-building, also a spacious and well-appointed public hall. A large hotel
is in process of erection, and when it is completed and properly operated by an exper-
ienced and popular lessee, the opportunity to visit and view one of the finest sectloDS of
country in Florida will be sure to be embraced by a large number of visitors.

Hotels : Partridge House.

AUCILLA is a small village situated near the boundary line between Madison and
7 m. fr. Drifton, Jefferson counties, and takes its name from the Aucilla river,

78 " •• Chattahoochee R., which flows near by, rising in Georgia and emptying into the
181 " " Jacksonville. Gulf— a small but beautiful stream, abounding in picturosque

scenery. Aucilla is chiefly noted for its "breakfast-house," where eastward-boand
trains stop ** twenty minutes for breakfast " at " Aunt Aggy's," where is served a boonti'
ful repast of real old-fashioned, wholesome country fare.

In the lower portion of Jeffenson county is the location of that now celebiBled
object of interest, the " Florida Volcano." Persons whose lives have been passed in
the section named unite in testifying to the existence, for the past thirty or forty years,
of a sti-ange " pillar of flre by night, and pillar of cloud by day," which marks tiieqKJt
where the volcano is supposed to exist. Although many attempts have been made
to reach it, it still remains a mystery, owing to the difficulty of penetrating the
jungle which surrounds and partially conceals it. This mysterious secret, wiiieh
Dame Nature has so long and jealously and successfully guarded, is becoming more and
more a topic of absorbing interest in the minds of those inclined to exploration and
discovery.

GREENVILLE occupies a beautiful situation, near the foot of a range of low hilto

7 m. fr. Aucilla, which rise behind and beyond it to the southward, while a

86 •• •* Chattahoochee R., charming landscape of broad, fertile valleys surrounds it to
124 " " Jftcksonviiie. every other direction. Giant live-oaks are plentifully grouped

about, and in the vicinity are several small lakes. It has several stores, a mill and
cotton-gin, and contains about 200 people. The surrounding country is rich and rolUng,
and large quantities of cotton and other staple crops are produced in the vicinity.

HADISON Is the county-seat or Madleon county, a tovm ot some 80O Inhabltaata,

U ra. It. QreeuTiua, containing about twenty or thirty Btoree, an excellent school-

M " " Chuuliuochea B., building, (St. John's Seminary], Episcopal, Baptist, Presby-
110 " " J»ct«iiiivllla- terian and Methodist churehee, and a handsome new court-

bouse. The town lies about half a mile from the depot, and Is reached by hacks,
which run to aud trdm all tniine. Near the depot llos a fine tract of land, covered with
ImproTemente of various kinds, and owned by Cupt. J. L. Inglis, who has long been
Kigt^ed in eitonsive manufacturing Interests, comprising saw-mill, grist-mill, rice-mill,
cotton-glnnlng establishment, etc., and who live9 In one of the handsomest and largest
dwellings In the place, situated a short distance from the railroad, in the midst ol
highly cultivated grounds. Captain Inglis is also a practical model larmor, and has
done much to develop the agricultural resources of the county. He has recently per-
teoted anangementB for the Investment (in coimectlon with and partially supei«ediBg
his previous manufacturing mterosta) of a large capital by the celebrated thread man-
Bfacturpn MoBHr« T * P foaia of P lislpv Scotland The new arrangement embraces

the organization of the Hadl-
I aon Cotton Ginmng Company,
rittently incorporated InNew
\ork and Florida, with E. 8.
AuchinLloss of New York,
President John L. Inglia, of
MadiiH>n Manager, and Q.
N Homhlower Secretary ;
Messrs H D Auehincloss,
lif New York Joseph Gul-
worth of Sa\annah, and
■\Villiam Lawtey of Feman-
dina with the President and
Manager comprising the
company The capital repre-
sented ly thuialue of the
plant is about tSO.OOO.
The business of this exten-
sive establishment will be to
handle and prepare tor the
thread-mills the peculiar
loi^-staple cotton which is
produced in this vicinity, and
its various products, and the
making ot oil, oll-caka and
colton-seed meal for fertil-
izers. The exhibits ot the
long-staple cotton of these
counliee at the Atlanta Ex-
in attracted the attenUon ot the thread-makers lo its superior quaUtles tor their
purpose, and the establishment ot this enterprise and a similar one at Lake Cil^ Is
Uie result. The company have tumished large quantities of seed to the planters ot
Uadison and adjoinii^ counties, under contracts providing tor the handling by them
ot Hie crops produced therefrom, and are doing everything in their power to encoun^e
Its production and the use ot tlie meal product as a tertllizer, which Is s^d to excel
In effect all other known compounds.

Madison has two newspapers, tlie Recorder and the Nme Era ; and a stock company

has just completed a large and handsome hotel, which will not only be an ornament to
the town, but a source of profit to its owners.

Madison county, besides being In the region where the long-staple cotton is pro-
duced, is in the midst of the Le Conte pear belt, and large numbers of orchards are
already growing. The same spirit of progress in agriculture which prevails In the
other counties of Middle Florida Is found here, and each year adds to the list of new
industries and new products. Man^ of the trucis farmers have been the most successful
in the State In the culture of vegetables, Irish potatoes, melons, etc. The culture of
oranges has always been a feature of the Industrial progress of the county, and It is
said that the first orange trees planted In Manatee county, which now produces large
quantities of the finest fruit, were talien from Madison county In 1843 by a Mr. Joshua
Stafford. The cold waves which have swept over the State during late years appear to
have done less damage to the trees in Madison than In other parts of Middle Florida.

Foiu: miles from Madison, over smooth, hard roads, the wandering visitor will find
'* The Cascade," " the roar of whose waters sounds like the boating of the surf upon the
beach," says one who has been there. Eleven miles distant is Lake San Paola, five
miles long by three in width, surrounded by majestic oaks ; and two miles beyond is
" Chulootah," one of the most regal and remarkable of the old-time estates of this
region.

" Chuleotah," which being translated from the Indian, means •' Pine Hill," was the
former seat of Judge J. 0. McGhee, one of the planter-princes of Madison county. It
stands on the summit of a high hill near the great highway known as the St. Augustine
road, and was erected more than forty years ago. It is built in the Gothic style of
architecture, with pointed, many-gabled roofs, and stacked chimneys, extensive piazzas
supported by massive arches, and containing as its chief Interior feature an Immense hall,
twenty feet wide and forty feet In length, with Its numerous other rooms In proportion.
Boudoirs, bath-rooms, drawing-rooms twenty feet square, and innumerable other
features which would grace any modeni-bullt villa of the highest grade, were, in that
early day, a source of unending wonder to the neighboring residents, and exhaustless
comfort to the occupants. Every particle of material used In Its construction, and fur-
niture, came from the extensive estate It adorned ; nearly all the work on finishing and
furniture was done on the spot by skilled artisans brought there for the purpose, and
no two rooms were finished or furnished in the same wood. The fiower-gardens and
fruit orchards adjacent were equally complete in every particular. An immense army
of slaves furnished the labor of the vast plantation, which was a perfect community in
itself, manufacturing at home nearly everything used on the place. This magnificent
property is now owned by Hon. W. Naylor Thompson, of Femandina.

Hotels : The new hotel will be leased and In operation for this winter's business.
The name has not yet been decided on.

WEST F ABM is a fiag station in the centre of an extensive turpentine farm belong-
6 m. fr. Madison^ ing to the West Brothers, where a large turpentine still, sur-

104 " *•* Chattahoochee B., rounded by the cabins of the operatives, forms the chief

105 " " Jacksonvill e. object of interest.

LEE is another fiag station, similar to West Farm, from whence large quantities
2 m. fr. West Farm, o' turpentine and resin are shipped annually. The proximity

106 " " Chattahoochee E., of these ** farms " to the railroad enables the stranger to note
103 ** " Jacksonville. the processes of manufacture of the pine sap into valuable
naval stores.

ELLAVILLE Is a pleasant village of about 700 inhabitants, and Is entirely popu-

~8 m. frrLee, ^^^ ^y *^® employees of the late firm of Drew & Bucki, whoso

114 " «* Chattahoochee R., immense lumber and planing mills were located here. This
95 " " J acksonville. was one of the largest establishments of the kind in the

South. It was establinbed In 1B67 by tbe senior partner, Ei-Oovemor George F. Drew,
Ur. IiOuis Bucki, of New York citj-, becoming a partner in 1869, and eote proprietor by
puTfibase fivm Oov. Drew, about a j-ear ago. Tbe firm name is now L. Bucki & Son.
Tbe entire eetablishment, including an immense quantity ot lumber, was totally de-
stroyed by nre a few months ago.

Messrs. Drew & Bucki owned eome I 200 or 1 500 acres and Governor Drew about
1,200 acres, including and Immediately adjaciuit to tlie mills and Tillage and tbe firm
about 90,000 acres of choice timber lands in ttie riemlty chiefly along tbe Suwannee
river, through which runs a private railroad ot the standard gauge equipped with
«nginee and rolling-stock belonging to the tirm and employed In supplymg the mills
witb logs. The annual product of the mills heretofore alH>ut twelve million feet, was
recently increased to twenty millions by the introduction of additional machinery The

firm recently built for their trade Iffitween Jacltaonviile and New Yoi'k a handsome and
powerful steam schooner, the "Louis Bucki, ' the llist of Its kind on tbe coast, wtiich
bas proven a complete success. A lirm of Pennsylvania car-huildeis have recently
dedded to establish an extensive car factory at Ellaville, and Messrs. Bucki & Son con-
template the early re-building of their mills.

About a mile beyond Eliaville the track crosses the Suwannee river on a 8ui>stantial
covered bridge, whoso walls unfortunately permit to the traveler only a moment's
glance at one of the most charming bits ot scenery in Florida — the Junction ot the
Withlacooebee and Suwannee rivers, which is only a, tew hundred yards above the
bridge. Both rivers are narrow but deep, ilowing between rocky, precipitous banks,
which are overhung with large trees festooned with long gray pendants of Spanish
moss. A few miles above Ellaville, near the west bank of tbe Withlacoochee, is Blue
Spring, a favorite place of rosoit for the people of Madison town, some eleven miles
•distant, the hard, shady roarls making a very pleasant drive. The Spring is about
twenty-five (eet in diameter, and is strongly impregnated with lime.

LIVE OAK, the county-seat of Suwannee county, is a place of considernble impor-
i3"m7(r."EiTavirie, — tance. It hofl about 500 inhabitants, several churches, Masonic
im •• " ChaittthooobeeB., and Odd Follows' lodges, about twenty stores, several cotton-
8 3 " " JBckBonviue. ginning establishments, good schools, etc. The Florida

branch of the Savannah, Florida and Western Bailway here intersects the Western
Division. The Live Oak and Rowland's Bluff Railroad extends to Howland's Bluff on
the Suwannee river, twenty-flve miles distant, and to Gainesville in Alachua county. A
line of steamere run on the Suwannee river between Rowland's Bluff and Cedar Key.

Live Oak has two newspapers, the Intelligencer and the BuUelin ; and a large liverj-
Stable affords ample means for transportation through the adjacent country.

Suwannee county is especially favored In the way of transportation facilities, being
bisected each way by railroads, and its western borders washed by the waters of the
Suwannee river, which is navigable almost to Ellaville. There are yet large bodies of
8tat6 and United States lands subject to entry, there having been more of these land»
selected and patented in this county than in any other county in the State. The county
has prospered greatly in the past few years, having advanced from a list of 400 voters
to over 1,500 since the war. There are immense tracts of fine timber lands, and several
large saw-mills. The Empire Mills, three miles west of Live Oak, have a capacity of
30,000 feet per day, and Johnson's Mills, two miles east, can cut about half that
amount, while the Suwamiee Mills, near the northern boundary of the county, can cut
10,000 feet per day. The soil, all along the road and in the interior, is of excellent
quality, and great quantities of early vegetables are produced for shipment to Nofthem
markets, besides cotton, turpentine, rosin, etc., in large quantities. For fruits, and
especially grapes and peaches, the soil seems to be particularly adapted. Market gar-
dening and fruit-raising are among the most prominent uidustries in the vicinity of
Live Oak ; and the success of those engaged in it will encourage others to increase the
general result. One grower is mentioned as having netted $275 from two acres of
watermelons raised in the vicinity of the depot last year. Within a stone's throw of the
railroad track, and just east of town, is the splendid Scuppernong vineyard of Col. Jolin
F. White, from which are made annually from thirty to fifty barrels of superior wine.
It is five acres in extent, witli an additional three acres of young vines. Oranges are
grown, as in all the counties along the lino, but not to a large extent. The cultivation
of the Le Conte pear Is also proving very successful.

Near Suwannee, a station on the Florida Branch of the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway, seven miles from Live Oak, is the well-known Suwannee Sulphur
Spring. A verj' large and handsome hotel was built there in 1883, but before it was
quite finished it was destroyed by fire, and has not been rebuilt.

HOUSTON is a small station with store, post-office, etc. It is surrounded by
"irm.~fr. Live Oak, numerous small but beautiful lakes, and is becoming the

133 " •• Chattahoochee R., place of shipment for large quantities of vegetables raised in
111'. . '.' Jacksonville. the vicinity for the Northern markets.

WELBORN, a similar station, has a population of about 150, and is the centre of a
slirrfrrHouston; large vegetable-growing interest. From Welbom it is eight

138 •• " Chattahoochee R., miles in a northerly direction to the celebrated White Sulphur
71 ** " J acksonville. Spring. The Spring is situated in Hamilton county, on the

orth bank of the beautiful Suwannee river. The means of reaching the Spring are
ample and comfortable, and the trip over the smooth, level road is made in about two
hours. The first five or six miles of the route lie through the " piney woods " and among
the turpentine farms and long-staple cotton plantations which abound there ; the last
few miles over a rolling country, heavily covered with woods of hammock growth. A
substantial bridge, suspended high above the water, crosses the Suwannee, and at it»
further end is the village, known as White Springs. The Spring is situated a few hundred
yards below or west of the bridge, at the foot of the high bank of the river, and but a few
feet above high-water mark. Over it is built a large and substantial structure, three
stories in height, which serves as a bath-house. The upper story, which is nearly on a
level with the top of the bank, contains the entrance, pumps for supplying the water to
the hotel and village, and the bath-keeper's offices. The second story contains dressing-
rooms, and the lower story contains the pool, which is twenty by forty feet in size.
The Spring is one of the largest in the State, and its immense volume of water, burst^
ing forth from the bowels of the earth, impregnates the air for hundreds of yards
around with strong sulphurous odors. Within a few feet of the Spring, on the summit
of the river bank, stands the hotel. It is partly new and partly composed of the ol(f

hotel whloh has ftooommodated vleitora to the Spring for many years. The newBtruob-
lire, now oompleted, coDtalna about 100 rooms, and is under the management ol Major
T. P. Weason, an old resident of the place, who kept the old hotel twenty-throe yenrs
ago, and who owns a most valuabln chalybeate spring property on Swift creek, about
three miles west from the White Sulphur. The entire spring property, containing
about 300 acres, baa recently passed into the bands of Messrs. Wight & Powell, mer-
chants of Cairo, Oa., who are engaged in the construction of the hotel and the orna-
mentation and Improvement of the grounds. The Improvements will include a hand-
some building, separated from the hotel by the wide, shaded avenue leading; to the
Spring, and containing bllUard-rooms, bowling-alleys, bar, ball-room, etc. The hotel
wlU be kept open during the winter, and It is almost a misnomer to call it a " summer
resort," since the healing waters ot the Spring will t>e accessible to the public all the
year 'round.

DoWLiNo's Tdbnout, four miles from Welbom, is for the convenience of shippers
ot lumber from the adjacent mills, and logs to the Jacksonville mills.

LAKE CITY Is the countj-seat of Columbia county, and one of the prettiest and
lam. trrwelboru, ~ ~~~ most prosperous places In the State. It Is almost surrounded
too " " Cbattahoochee B., by a serioB of charming little lakelets, which give a most
W " " j actMiiTHie. pleasing effect to the landscape, and are large enough to

■iford, be^dee imllmlted Qshing, very pleasant sport in the way of sailing and rowing.
The dty contains about 2.000 people
and its prosperitj', as well as that of
the county, is Increasing rapidly.
There are seven or eight churches
and several excellent private schools,
besides the public schools. It also
has some forty stores, two livery
stables, a largo carriage factory and
other phicua of business, and an ex-
cellent newspaper, the Reporter.

The elevation at Lake City Is said
to ho 203 tcet ; at Wolbom, the next
■ station westward, 309 feet above tide-
water. Its health fulness has become
a provotb all over the State, and the
number of Htrangers who seek its
many chumis during the winter is
rapidly increasing every year.
_ Here Is now in opemthm an im-

mense establishment for the handling of sen-Island or long-staple cotton, founded by
the Lake City Cotton Ginning Company, which Is incoi-porated under the laws of New
York and Florida, similar to the Madison Cotton Ginuin<; Company, and upon the plan
of which that was founded, it having been inaugurated about the same time b; the same
firm of thread monufacturcis, Messrs. J. & V. Coats, ot PiUsley, Scotland. Mr. A, O.
Bigelow, a prominent business man of Lake City, Is the resident manager. The crop of
cotton of Columbia county for the present year Is estimated to bo woith $600,000.

The Florida Agricultural College has recently been located at Lake Cily. This is
a State Institution, endowed with a lar^e and valuable grant of putitlc lands, and the
buildings for its purposes will be ample and convenient. The one Just eomploteil, being
the west wing of the main building. Is forty-five by ninety-live feet In size, three storlee
in height, with tower nhiety-flvu feet high. The College is locatecl In a most eligible
and picturesque situation. enWroned by several small clear lakes, and a grove ot glgan-

tic oakB. An experimental larm ot one hundred and twelve acres le attached to tSta
College, and a full tacult]' ot Instructors haa beea engaged Tor Its flist session, irtaich
began In October.

The soUe of Columbia county are ot great variety and richneea. It Is one of Uie
most naturally fertile regions to be found In the attire State. Ite chief products u«
sea-island cotton, upland cotton, com, rice, sugar-cane, oats, rye, sweet potatoes,
stock, peas, tobacco, wool, vegetables, plndars, hay, etc. The soa-islaod cotton is
the money crop, and is generally cultivated. Ita fine, strong staple has attracted tho
buyers who supply the world with thread, and tho farmer can now sell his crop direct
to the agent ot the mills, saving all the expense ot shipping and losses through middle-
men. It is usually planted and cultivatod upon the natural land, Ttvlce Columbia
county received tho premium at the State Fait tor spa-island cotton.

From the Ilrst settl njont ot the Stat« this section has been not^ tor the fine
quality of peachiJi produced with little care from the native vanetiea The common
varieties b^^n to up n tlie 1st of Tuh and last until the 10th ot August There are
\'arietios, like the Peen to and Honcv poachos which npen in Maj and June and sell
readily in marljot at fancy pnces Others ripen m Augu t Sopttmher and October,
Figs are «rown bj many T>eoplo but not in sufficient quantities to ship Thej sell
readily at homo at $1 50 to £2 per bushel Grapes of many kinds have boon tried and
several varletii« are well adapted to this lo'ality The Scuppemong suoceeda best il
has several distinct \arletlos OranROS are now e\eiting the t,r«ite3t interest Scarcelj
a family can be found which has not a tew orange trees In bearing and growing finelf,
while others are making extensive groves. In 1835, when wild orange trees wore killed
or Injured in every locality, the grove on Orange Lake, nine miles iiorthweet of Lslie
City, was uninjured by the freeze, conclusively illustraljiig tho adaptability of this wc-
tion to the cultivation of this fruit. Twice Columbia county received premiums at tiie
State Fairs for the excellence ot lior oranges.

Columbia county has an enterprising Immigration Association, whose efforts an
ably sodonded by Messrs. Flnloy, Dortcli &■ Snowden, real estate agents.

The growii^ of vegetables tor shipment to Northern markets has engaged the
attention of the people tor several years, and o.ipcrimeiits have demonstrated the
peculiar adaptability ot soil and climate to tho succosstul prosecution ot this Industry.
The principal vegetables shipped are poos and beans, which yield al}undantly and grow
quickly, and require very little cultivation. Cucumbers, squashes, Irish potatoes, egg'
plants, beets, cabbage and onions are also raised. Watermelons, too, are grown to

;reat advantage, the character ot the soil being especially adapted to thoir cultivation.

Hotels : Chicago House.

MOUNT CABBIE, in Columbia county, is a flag station, from whenc-e large quan-
"7"S7SrLafce Olty, titles of lumber are shipped from ttie extensive mills in its

JT " " Chattahooohea R., vicinity. It is surrounded by a good fanning (-ountrj", which
M " " JachaQDTL iie. ig rapidjy fllUi:^ up with settlers.

OLUSTEE, in Baker county, is a growli^ place, whose chief industries are the

'b m. £r. Mt, "Carrie, "' ' lumber and turpentine business and truck fanning. Near it

03 ■■ " Ohatlahoochee E., waB fought during the civil war the Only engagement of any
*I _!'_ '1_''?^^™.'H'*- . . note, save the battle at the Natural Bridge in Wakulla
ountj, that occurred in the State east of th" Apalaehicola river. It is known in history
s the battle of Ocean Pond, or battle of Olustee

PendiiETok is a Hag station recently established eight miles from Oiust('i> mid
wo milee from Sandersou.

8ANDEBS0N, tiie county-seat of Baker county, is widely known and Lioted for the
10 mTtrroiuBtoi, quantity and itiLo quality of the pcacihos grown in its vii'inlty,

73 ■• '■ Chaiiahooebee R., largo shipments of which are annually made. It is also Uie
".'■_ "^ JackTOuviue. <«ntiv of a prosperous v^etable-growliig Uidustr>'.

Taiiaferro's Junction, two miles from Sanderson and five miles fi-om (Hen
it. Mary, ia the junction of a private railroad track extending far Into the depUis
I the pine forests, from whence vast numbers of logs are transported to the Jackson-
lllfl lumber mills.

GLEN ST. MABY, Bakor county, is a now station established on a tract of splon-
T mTSrBaSdBraon," " " did, rolling, high pine land, containing fiO.OOO acres, lying l>e-
Tfl " ■' ChattahoocbM B,. tween Baldwin add Sanderson. This Hilo tract lias, for its
80 ■■ '■ J ackBonville. northern boundary, the St. Mary's river, which flows into the

ea at Fernandina, aljout fifty miles distant, and the south fork of tiiis same river flows
lown through the centre of the tract, having a clear, limpid current and high l)ank8.

The eotire tract is called by the same name, and Its founders have built a good hotel
there, besides a station-house, stores, post-office, schools, churches and dwolUngs. The
soil is a rich, gray loain underlaid with clay, and all manner of fruits, including the or-
iange and peach, do well, while field crops and garden vegetables are unsurpassed. It
Is conceded to be one of the healthiest localities in the State, and peculiarly favorable
to persons afflicted with pulmonary or asthmatic disorders.

HoTEiiS : Glen House.

DABBY VILLE, also in Balcer couatv, is situated in the midst of a good belt of

2 m. fr. Glen St. Mary, timber, and has several saw-mills in its vicinity. The soil i»

181 •• " Chattahoochee E., well suited to the production of vegetables, and the growing

^ " Jl Jacksouviiie. Qf these and fruits is receiving considerable attention. The

future prospects of this place are very bright.

The laads hereabouts, in Baker county, are iiigh, rolling and fertile, and the soil \»
underlaid with clay. The climate is splendid, water excellent, and good health assured.
The products of the county are oranges, peaches, pears, grapes, figs, and other small
fruits, corn, cotton, oats, potatoes, sugar-cane, tobacco, rice, and all the v^etables.
Some of the finest bearing orange trees in the State are to be found in this county, but
no large groves have ever been planted and brought to bearing, the great industry of
the county having been heretofore the manufacture of lumber and naval stores. Baker
is one of the best grazing comities in the State. Thousands of head of cattle are reared
without a dollar of expense to their owners. Sheep would do quite as well, with the
usual and ordinary protection from dogs that is required everywhere. Lands are sell-
ing in this county at from $5 to $20 per acre, and are now being eagerly sought foR^
Parties desiring to make permanent homes in Florida cannot do better than examine
the. many claims of Baker county before determining where they will locate.

The eastern portion of the county diffei-s much from the low fiat-woods in the
west. Like Middle Florida, it is hilly, and is practically the *• hill country" of East
Florida. The great "Trail Ridge " extends through this part of the county, and ift
crossed by the railroad track only a short distance from Darbyville, at which point, at
the summit of the high grade through and over the Ridge, the spring waters divide,
those on one side fiowing westward into the Gulf, and those on the other flowing into
the St. John's. Here, on this western slope, protected by the forest-clad hills, from the
<lamp winds and raw, chilling fogs that haunt the Atlantic coast, lies the great ** peach
belt " of Florida, innumerable orchards of which delicious fruit are to be seen on every
side. Nearly nine thousand crates of splendid fruit were shipped from Darbyville alone,
during the season of 1884.

It is in contemplation to change the name of Darbyville to "McClenny," in honor
of Hon. C. B. McClenny, whose home is here, and to whose enterprise and public spirit
the place and its surroundings are chiefly ^indebted for their progress and prosperity.
He is one of the incorporators and a large stockholder in the Florida Improvement
and Colonization Society, whose Land Commissioner, Mr. C. F. Shuey, has charge
of the immense boilies of land belonging to the Society here and in the vicinity of Glen
St. Mary, and whose headquarters are at Darbyville.

The Baker County Star^ weekly, is published at Darbyville.

Hotels : Hotel McClemiy.

BALDWIN, in the edge of Duval county, is the crossing-place of the Central and
" 9 m. fr. Darbyville, Western Divisions, and is one of the Uveliest railroad oentr»

190 " " chattahooohee R., in the State, despite its rather uninteresting appearance. The
19 •• •• Jack sonv i lle. tracks cross each other almost at right angles, and the

immerous passenger, express and freight trains on each division passing at all hours of
the day and night in every direction keep up a continual din and clatter. Considerable
local business is done at Baldwin, and the day is not far distant when some far-seeing

and enterprising individual will build here a magnificent and capacious hotel and
restaurant, chiefly for the benefit of his own pui^e, and, secondarily, for the entertain-
ment of the vast numbers of passengers who daily find themselves ** ashore " here for a
few minutes while train business is being transacted, which frequently happens (every
old traveler will understand how frequently) about the time something nice to eat or
drink would taste good.

"WHITE HOUSE, the last station before reaching Jacksonville, is a puzzle to all
"sinTfrrBaidwin, who see it. No one seems to know why it was so named,

198 " " Chattahoochee R., unless from the fact that there is no white house, nor, indeed,

1 1 " ** Jacksonville. a house of any color, anywhere within sight. It was probably

an important station in the early history of the road, when the virgin pine forest all
about was being converted into lumber to build Jacksonville houses, but it is now
litUe but a name.

At ** Waycross Junction " the Western Division track crosses that of the Savannah,
Florida and Western (Waycross) Bailroad, thence proceeding into the city of Jackson-
ville, about one mile distant.

The track of the Western Division entei-s the city almost directly at the point
where the broad sweep of tlie St. John's river curves abruptly from its southward coiuse,
eastward towards the sea. The later-built roads — the "Waycross " and the Jackson-
ville, Tampa and Key West — also enter near the same point ; but while these have their
dei)ots and grounds quite at the southwestern extremity of the city, the grounds of the
Florida Bailway and Navigation CJompany lie stretched along the river front for nearly
half a mile, giving ample space for its extensive and always busy and crowded lumber-
wharves and log-slips, and extending on beyond these, up into the very heart of the
city, the passenger and freight trains running almost to the very walls of the great
Aster Building itself, in the second story front rooms of which are some of the offices
of the CJompany. On the wharves at the foot of Julia street stand the freight depot,
tioket-offlce and passengers* waiting-room, and directly across Hogan street from the»
Astor Building, on the south side of Bay street, stands the up-town ticket-office of tlie
Gompany, conducted by Mr. Walter G. Coleman, the General Traveling Passenger
Agent, who devotes his winters to the Jacksonville business, assisted by the ticket
BLgent, Mr. C. S. Beerbower, who is on duty all the year round, selling tickets to all
parts of the country and State over the Company's lines.

A few feet westward on Bay street stands the neat little brick office of Col. S. I.
Wailes, the Land Commissioner of the Company, where, assisted by a large corps of
clerks, the Commissioner is engaged constantly in the location and sale of the Com-
pany's lands.

Two blocks northwest of the depot, at the comer of Cedar and Forsyth streets, is
one of the coziest houses in the city — ^the Sunnyside, kept by Mr. S. M. Hall ; and on
the south side of Bay street, near the Astor Building, are the real estate offices of
Messrs. W. & W. S. Walker.

Directly in front of the railroad wharves and depot, half a block distant on Bay
street, stands the great Everett Hotel, (the largest in the city except the St. James),
whose destinies are presided over by the brilliant and successful young Boniface, Mr.
r. M. Lee, who is also lessee of the Leon at Tallahassee, and the Sanford House at
Sanford, in Orange county. One square back of the Everett is the Duval ; on the
second square beyond that, fronting the city park, is the Windsor, the most elegant
jmd famous of all the Jacksonville hotels, kept by Mr. F. H. Orvis, who i,lso conducts
In summer the famous Equinox House at Manchester, among the Green Mountains of
Vermont. Diagonally across the park from the Windsor is the St. James.

Down Bay street, three blocks from the depot and one block north on Pine street,
Is the well-known and popular Tremont House, noted for its imusually excellent

cuisine, and kept by Dr. H. Do Wolf Dodgo. The constAnt demand for more room has
obliged Dr. Dodge to greatly enlarge the premises, and two large additions have just
been completed which more than double the former capacity of the house. The im-
provements also comprise a new and capacious oflBce with marble floor, electric bells,
gentlemen's lavatory with marble fixtures, bath-rooms and rooms with baths, a large
dining hall and over 500 feet of broad piazzas.

On the op])osito corner from the Tremont, occupying the whole second floor of the
old Freedman's Banlt Building, are the general offices of the Florida Land and
Improvement Company, the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal and Okeechobee Land
Company, and the Kissimmoe Land Company — ^the first-named being the original
organization under th(^ celebrated Disston Purchase of 4,000,000 acres of the State
lands by Mr. Hamilton Disston of Philadelphia, and the others being offshoots there-
from — all managed by Col. W. T. Forbes, as Land Commissioner of the two first-
named, ami Manager of the last-named company.

On Forsyth street, only a few doors from the Tremont, are the elegant real estate
offices of Messrs. Griffin and Clarkson.

At the foot of Pine street, in Bostwick's new buildings, is tiie office of Hopkins JL
Le Baron, real estate dealers.

Half way down Bay street on th<j south side, between Pine and Ocean streets, in
the second story of the Heed Block, are the handsome offices of the Florida Land and
Mortgage Company, tlie organization under a purchase of a portion (2,000,000 acres)
of the Disston lands ]»y Sir Edward Keed, of England, and his associates, managed by
Mr. A. D. Basnc'tt, Resident Director, and Mr. Arthur T. Williams, Land Com-,
missioner.

In the middle of the next block below, on the south side of Bay street, is Betteiini's
Hotel, kept in metropolitan style on the European plan. In the same block is the
post-office, and half a block from that, up Newnan street, is the "old reliable "St.
Mark's Hotel, under tlie numagement of Mr. Fred. E. Foster, who also runs the Hotel
Columbia at Ocean IkMich, New Jersey, during the summer. One block below the
post-office is the Carleton.

Just in the rear of the Post-office is the ferry-slip of the Jacksonville, St. Augustine
and Halifax River Railway, from whence the steam ferry-boat •' Mechanic " makes regular
trips to the opposite side of the river, landing at tlie terminus wharf and depot of the
railroad. Adjoining the ferry-house is a substantial, two-story brick block, the upper
fioor of which is occupied by the real estate offices of Messrs. Wright & McClure, the
founders of the new town of Bayard, fifteen miles out on the railroad, where Judge
Wright, of the Times- Union staff is locating a colony of good people from everi^hen,
who find there tropical conditions without going to South Florida.

The various steamboat landings are all within easy distance from the Western
Division Depot. The People's Line steamers and the St. John's River Fast Line boats
land at the foot of Hogan street. The boats of the DeBary-Baj^a Line, which com-
]>ri8es a splendid fieet of sixteen elegant steamers, a portion of which are run on the
Montgomery and Sea Island Routes in connection with the trains of the Florida Bail-
way and Navigation Company, land for passengers at their wharves at the foot of
Laura street, only two blocks from the Western Division depot, while their freight
wharves are at the foot of Pine street. The depot and wharves of the Jacksonville
Branch are at the foot of Mai*sh street, five blocks from the post-office, and nine blocks
rom the Western Division depot.

■ .1

ST. MARK'S BRANCH.

TALLAHASSEE Is the jimr^tiou and initial point of the St. Mark's Branch, over
which trains leave for St. Mark's, tw(}nty-on(^ miles distant, three times a week, return-
ing the same day. The roa^l runs through a rather flat and uninteresting country
most of the way, being the poon«t portion of Wakulla county.

BELAIB Is a flag station of little pres<int Importance, but was formc^rly the favor-
Tmlles from Tallahassee, Ite summer resort of the Tallahassee people. Situated on a
17 •• " St. Slark's. high ridge. In the midst of a dense pine forest, with one or
two beautiful miniature lakes of dear, cool wat<3r near. It must have been, and from all
accounts was, a delightful retn^at from the summer heats and the tendency to malarial
disease which prevailed In the (^arly history of the country, when the great forests of
hard-wood timber to the noilhward were b(}lng clearcnl away to make room for the
vast cotton and corn fields. In tht^e latter days, Belalr Is but a shadow and a name,
while the present generation have found a much more delightful summer retreat at St.
Teresa, a pleasant little village of (cottages, sltuat<Hl on a iUm shelving beach on the
Gulf side of James Island, some flfteen miles from St. Mark's by water, and forty
iniles from Tallahassee overland. Surf-bathhig, Ashing and hunting are the chief
amusements, and the summer population of the place often runs up into the hundreds ;
for people come from far up In Gtjorgla and Alal)ama to enjoy Its d(?llghts. The com-
pletion of the Thomasvllle, Tallahass(>e and Gulf Railroad to Jam(« Island will make
8t. Teresa and Carrabelle, at the w(^t^»ni end of the Island, moni popular and populous
than ever during the dog-^iays.

FEBBILL Is another flag station, from wlnnice flrfj-wood, ties, syrup, barrels
6 miles from Belalr, and produce of various kinds are shi])ped to Tallahassee. The

10 " " Tallahasseo. flnest and earlitist wat<jr-melons are produced on the fertile
eoils of this region, whlcfh appear to be (Specially adapted to that crop.

WAKULLA, formerly known as Oil Still Station, Is the nearest station to Newport,

6 miles from Ferrill, thretj miles distant on the St. Mark's river, the site of the

15 " ** Tallahassee, noted Sulphur Springs, which have long been celebrated

hereabouts for their wonderful cures of rheumatism and other kindred diseases ; and

in also the nearest station to the wjlebrated Wakulla Spring, although most visitors

prefer to take carrlagcjs at Tallahassee and drive thence through the pine woods.

This wonderful natural curiosity has been visited by thousands of Interested sight-
seers, and is an object well worth going fai' to Htw. It lies In the midst of a dense

^^'e^«^^^^

tftowth of hunmook forest, and hna t)MU doMrlbed as alrooet the «xact ooimterput at
the celebrated ^ver Spring in MarJun county ; but many ol those irho have vl8iteil
both declare Wakulla to bo by tar the nioHt romarkalile. Sidney Lanier, In his delight-
ful " HandboolE and Ouldo to Florida," Bayw of 11 : " About flfteen miles from TaJta-
basaee Is one of the most wonderful sprinna In tiio world— the famous Wakulla Spring,
whloli snnds off a river from ite bIokIo outburst. ■ • • ■ Onee arrived and f)i

on its boBom, ono ruiiuws the pluof^iirea wlik'li itave beon hereinbefore described In
what was said of Silver Sprint^. Like that, the water here, which le Hlmllariy Impreg-
natotl with liiiio, Is thrilUuglj transparent ; liore one finds again the mosaic of manj-
shaded green hues, though the ttpaco of the Spring Is less broad an<l more shadowed
by overhanging troeH than the wide basin of Silver Spring. In one purllcular, howevw,
this Is the more Impruasive of the two. It la 106 feet deep, (Silver Spring ts slity
feet), and as one slowly lloatH, faeo downwani, one perceives, at Hrst tllmly, then men
clearly, a great ledge of wiilto rock whleh Juts up to withhi, perhaps, fifty feet of the
surface, from beneath wideh the Hsh eume swimming, as If out of the gaping mouth of
a great oave. Looking down pant the upper part of this ledge, down, down through
the miraoulous lymph, which impresses you at once as an abstraction and as a oonontn
substance, to the white concave bottom, whore you can plaitdy aee a sort of ' trouble
In the ground,' as the water burets up from its niyuterious channel, one feels more tbto
ever that sensation of doptli Itself wrought Into a substantial embodiment, of which I
have before spoken."

bottom of the Spring, shaped like a great bowl, is covered with bits of bright
)ns and other objects dropped by curious visitors, who take a wild delight in
: them whirl and circle down into the abyss below, through the magnifying
hich invests them with every color of the rainbow in their eddying flight,
y years ago the skeletons of two mastodons were found at the bottom of the
jid were taken out and shipped to the Smithsonian Institution ; but the vessel
e on was wrecked off Cape Hatteras, and those interesting remains now lie at^
►m of the Atlantic. In 1881 a similar skeleton was discovered some eight feet-
e surface of the ground in Taylor county.

width of Wakulla Spring is about 250 feet ; its form nearly circular, and the-
river, which flows from it, is a deep and large stream, capable of bearing
isels. At its mouth, where it flows into the St. Mark's river, it is about lOO
de. The Spring, with a large tract of land surrounding it, ^as recently been
)d by an eminent Cincinnati physician, who proposes to erect suitable buildings
3lish there a winter sanitarium.

Wakulla, beauteous spring 1 thy crystal waters

Reflect the loveliness of Southern skies ;
And oft methlnks the dark-haired Indian daughters

Bent o'er thy silvery depths with wondering eyes ;
From forest glade the swarthy chief emerging,

Delighted paused, thy matchless charms to view;
Then to thy flower-gemmed border slowly verging,
I see him o'er thy placid bosom urging
His light canoe.

IdABE'S, the terminus of the Branch, is a small town of seventy-five or eighty
troin~Wakuiia^ people, who are mostly engaged in fishing and in the sponging-

" Tall ahassee, business ; it has two stores and a dozen or two dwellings,
he railroad warehouses and wharves. From St. Mark's to the mouth of the
's river, the distance is eight miles, with a deep chamiel all the way, through
rge vessels are enabled to reach the wharf. A lighthouse of the second class
; the mouth of the river.

St. Mark's river is one of the most picturesque streams in America. Its
ike that of the Nile, Is a mystery, but has always been believed to be the great
tie Lake, from which a subterranean outlet is supposed to exist, extending to
k," where the St. Mark's begins its strange and devious course. The river is
e for vessels of considerable size for some twenty miles, to a point near what

as the Natural Bridge, another wonderful natural curiosity, which may be
by a pleasant drive, through the pine woods, of eighteen miles from Tallahas-
re the river, a broad, deep, sluggish stream, disappears suddenly into the
f the earth. No barrier arrests its course ; the formation across its course is
e or four feet above the level of its waters ; it simply appeal's that, at some
leriod in the past, the bottom quietly dropped out, and, to all intents and pur-
om that point the St. Mark's river is no more. But a phenomenon equally
ng is its reappearance in a great basin some forty or fifty feet from its burial
lere it calmly comes up again, like a giant refreshed, from its journey to the

the earth, and resumes its placid course towards the Gulf. The intervening
tTween the exit and reappearance of this great body of running water is not
T feet in width, and has no appearance of a bridge, but is so exactly like the
ling land on either shore, that persons passing over it for the first time enjoy
rience of that ancient worthy of nursery rhyme who ** couldn't see the town
ouses " — he doesn't know it is a bridge until he has passed over it. Here,
tie war, was fought the only battle in Middle Florida. A force of Federals

landud near IJi« IlKlilhciUHK, nnil wi-ru iiiBklnn tliHr way UiwrhIh TaUahanMuc>, Intj'nl
uimn lt« uapturi', wlii'n tliiiy won' mnt hnro liy mi Inferior fdrmi ol «li! tiimi iMid bojit.
volunteers, plckiKl up Iikit aud 1 hi'n> In tlin ({iini'ml nlnnii, mipportMl by only a »miii-
pftny or two of Infantry, ami a Hniull liatlxry or ariJIli'ry. TIiimh inatlu a utand Imnm-
iliatflly at th(< Naliiral BrIiiKO, and thmw up nartli-workx, ttoin whoni« the pam
vBB gallantly dofitiKUxl, tlio FMlonilH IhUiik forcnl to n^mat after (ixperltiniilnK a cnii-
Hlclcralile tOHH.

The Wukiilla river If uIho t)i<-l-iin>H<|iii< ntid iHiauUriil. niiil ntdpfrntii Kt. Mark'Miip
to thii Kprintf 1h Olio of tliii thiiiKH m> IniirlHt of wi<ll-n4("1it1"<) nilu'l and roaMonstilf
HuliHtantlal hoily can afTonl Ui nilMB. At ll« iniuitli nl«iid tho rtonnlnH of tlio andetrt
Hpanhli f<irtii'«H of San Hanvi, wh1i-li wiw built iif iniuwlvo blnckM of «1mii), nnil but
for ItM <li!jMOllHliniont to fiinilHli inaturial for a liirK" V. H, HoHpltal, biillt nisr 11m Hltn
Homo twenty yeaw n^o (ltw<ir now a niiHcnibli' iiiiil not at all pli-tur(M'|iiti ruin), 11
mlf(ht liavi' lii'iiii HtanitlnK li' tlilH ilay. Two iioiiilnnniH blnekx of utonii, iino lM«rlnH a
reprwDiitiitlon of tlm coat of ai'iiiH of tb« KpanlHli Klnu. anil th« other a Inttoml
liUHtriptlDii In HiunlHli, which oni'n Kmi-inl tliii fortriw* walU ovor tlio willy-porl Mid Uin
main ontrani-is veto nwciioil from an iKiiobId xiho many yi^an a«o, liavltin luvmi d
i^OvorMl doln^ duty an door-HtitpH to a naloiin In Ht. Mnrk'H by Hov. K. K, Call, ami
taken to hlH n>Hldcm'i' In T»llabitHHii>. wliiTo Ibiiy now nimaln.

CONNECTIONS.

AT FERNANDINA:—

Steamships of Mallory Lino to and from New York — weekly.

Steamera of DeBary-Baya Merchants' Line (Montgomery Route) to and from

Brunswick, Montgomery and Savannah, connecting with the Georgia Railroad System

and Coast Lines Northward — daily, and Steamships for Boston, New York and Phila-

delphia — ^tri-weekly.

Steamers of New York and Charleston and Florida Steamship Company — ^semi-
weekly.

Steamer Martha, to and from St. Mary's River Landings — semi-weekly, and Town
of St. Mary's — daily, except Sunday.
AT CALLAHAN:—

Trains of Savannah, Florida and Western Railway, to and from Savannah, Charles-
ton and all points North and West, and Jacksonville— daily.
AT CHATTAHOOCHEE, (River Junction) :—

Trains of Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad, to and from all points in West Florida,
and via through trains between Jacksonville and Pensacola, to and from all points
North, West and Southwest — daily.
AT CHATTAHOOCHEE LANDING:—

Steamers on Apalachicoia, Chattahoocliee and Flint rivers, to and from Apalachi-
cola, Bainbridge and Columbus, and intermediate Landings — ^tri-weekly.
AT JACKSONVILLE:—

Steamers of DoBary-Baya Merchants' Lino, to and from all pomts on the St. John's
river — daily.

Trains of Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway, to and from Palatka — daily^

Trains of Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway, to and from St.
Augustine — daily.
AT GAINESVILLE:—

Trains of Florida Southern Railway, to and from Palatka — daily.

Trahis of Savannah, Florida and Weatoni Railway, to and from Now Branford an(i
Live Oak — daily.
AT CEDAR KEY:—

Steamships of Tampa Steamship Company, to and from Manatee River Landuigs
and Tampa — semi-weekly.

Steamships of Florida and Havana Mail Steamship Company, to and from Tampa,.
Punta Rassa and Key West — semi-weekly.
AT HAWTHORNE:—

Trains of Florida Southern Railway, to and from Palatka and GainoHvillo — daily.
aT LEESBURG:—

Steamboats on Lakes Hams and Griffin, to and from all Lake Landings.

Trains of St. John's and Lake Eustis Railroad, to and from Astor.
AT TAVARES:—

Steamers for all landmgs on Lakes Dora, Harris, Eustis and Griffin.

Stage Lines to and from points in Orange County.
AT PANASOFKEE:—

Steamers for all landings on Panasofkee Lake and Withlacoocheo river.

Stages of South Florida Stage Company, to and from Brooksville, Sumtervillo,
Tampa and all points in South Florida — daily.

D.B.M^WEI,L. J FERNANDINA. FLORIDA. [ ^ *' °- "*Til''\

aen. Supt. I ) Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agt.

WALTER O. OOLEHVN, Ghen. Trav. Ag't, Oorner Bay aad Hogan Streets, Jacksonville, Florida.

METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.

The following table shows the maximum, minimum and mean temperature for
each month of the years 1881, 1882 and 1883, and the first six months of 1884, at Jack-
sonville, Tallahassee and Cedar Key, three of the principal points on the Lines of the
Florida Bailway and Navigation Ck>mpany, with annual mean temperature and highest
and lowest temperature with dates at each point for each year ; also a comparative
recapitulation compiled from the several sections of the table.

This table is compiled, for Jacksonville, from data furnished by Sergeant J. W.
Smith, U. S. Signal Service Observer at that place ; for Tallahassee, from observations
taken by W. A. Bawls, Esq., and published in the Weekly Floridian, of that place; and
for Cedar Key, from data furnished by Gen. W. B. Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A.,
from the records of his office in Washington.

JACKSONVILLE.

1881

Temperature.

o
u

Sfaxlmum 72.0

If Inlmum 33.0

Mean 52.7

78.0
34.0
57.9

80.0
39.0
59.5

88.0 i 96.0
37.0 I 63.0
67.2 , 75.8

—

. .

•

•-8

•
•-8

•

o
O

99.0
66.0
82.5

99.0

70.0

, 83.8

96.0
70.0
81.5

94.0
69.0
79.9

88.0
54.0
74.6

83.0
32.0
66.6

Annual mean temperature, 70.2 degrees.

Highest temperature and date, 99.0 degrees, June 22d and July 23d.

Lowest temperature and date, 32.0 degrees, November 25th.

Maximum.
Minimum .
Mean

78.0
32.0
62.5

79.0
38.0
61.7

88.0
47.0
66.8

1882.

85.0

89.5

56.0

54.0

70.9

74.5

95.5
65.0
81.1

94.0

96.0

94.0

86.0

80.0

71.0

69.0

65.0

51.0

38.0

80.9

81.6

77.8

72.6

60.0

Annual mean temperature, 70.4 degrees.

Highest temperature and date, 96.0 degrees, August 9th.

Lowest temperature and date, 28.0, December 17th.

1883.

79.0
41.0
61.8

76.0
28.0
54.8

Maximum.
Minimum .
Mean

76.0

83.0

79.0

88.0

89.6

29.0

40.0

52.0

54.0

57.9

64.3

60.4

70.1

73.9

95.0
68.0
80.9

98.0
69.5
84.1

94.5

90.5

92.0

83.0

70.5

62.5

59.0

43.0

80.8

76.5

74.2

63.3

78.0
30.5
60.6

Annual mean temperature, 70.6 degrees.

Highest temperature and date, 98.0 degrees, July 16th.

Lowest temperature and date, 29.0 degrees, January 21st.

1884.

Maximum
Minimum .
Mean

72.2

79.0

85.2

88.5

90.7

21.0

36.8

42.4

47.2

62.3

51.7

62.1

66.3

68.7

76.5

91.6 ;......

61.7 '

76.9

Highest temperature and date, 91.6 degrees, June 26th.
Lowest temperature and date, 21.0 degrees, January 6th.

TALLAHASSEE.

1881.

Ma-ximuTP t 1

73.0
32.0
52.4

77.0
32.0
56.1

76.0
44.0
60.5

88.0
47.0
69.5

90.0
70.0
79.5

96.0
76.0
84.8

97.0
73.0
85.1

94.0
72.0
81.6

94.0
72.0
81 .-8

87.0
66.0
76.8

78.0
32.0
65.1

76.0

Minimum

89.0

Mean

61.0

Annual mean temperature, 71.2 degrees.

Highest temperature and date, 97.0 degrees, July 23d.

Lowest temperature and date, 32.0 degrees, January 1st and 2d, and November 25th.

1882.

Jan.

Feb.

Mar.

April.

May.

luue.

July.j Aug.

Sept.

Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

14 azlmuin

77.0
82.0
64.8

78.0
88.0
62.9

86.0
60.0
69.3

86.0
61.0
73.1

90.0
63.0
76.4

96.0
70.0
80.6

90.0
70.0
81.2

92.0
72.0
80.9

90.0
70.0
79.7

86.0
63.0
75.8

84.0
48.0
68.9

78.0

^finf miim

82.0

Mean

67.3

Annual mean temperature, 72.1 degrees.

Highest temperature and date, 96.0 degrees, June 2l8t.

Lowest temperature and date, 32.0 degrees, January 2d and December 8th.

1883.

Maximum.
Bf Inlmum .
Uean

71.0

80.0

79.0

89.0

90.0

94.0

96.0

95.0

93.0

92.0

80.0

40.0

51.0

61.0

62.0

71.0

74.0

67.0

60.0

42.0

68.9

69.2

64.5

74.9

78.0

80.7

83.9

82.6

78.6

76.9

65.2

Annual mean temperature, 73.1 degrees.

Highest temperature and date, 96.0 degrees, July 17th.

Lowest temperature and date, 38.0 degrees, December 16th.

79.0
88.0
62.3

1884.

Maximum.
Ifinlmum .
)f ean

68.0

79.0

83.0

21.0

43.0

41.0

48.6

61.9

66.6

85.0
50.0
71.0

Highest temperature and date, 90.0 degrees, May 22d.
Lowest temperature and date, 21.0 degrees, January 6th.

90.0

84.0 1

60.0

70.0

78.2

77.2

CEDAR KEY.

1881.

Maximum
Minimum .
Mean

74.0
34.0

54.6

74.0
35.0
57.8

74.0 1 84.0 j 91.0 I 93.0 i 94.0 i 93.0 I 94.0
40.0 I 38.0 66.0 < 68.0 | 69.0 I 69.0 ' 68.0
58.3 I 66.0 76.6 i 82.5 , 83.1 i 81.7 80.7

89.0

81.0

57.0

33.0

75.6

67.2

Annual mean temperature, 70.5 degrees.

Highest temperature and date, 94.0 degrees, July — and September — .

Lowest temperature and date, 33.0 degrees, November — .

78.0
42.0
61. P

1882.

Maximum.
Minimum .
"Mean

74.0
:34.0
62.6

76.0
40.5
62.3

82.0
47.0
67.2

85.0

90.0

60.0

54.0

73.4

75.2

91.0
68.0
79.9

92.5

92.0

K6.0

70.0

69.0

65.0

81.5

79.2

74.0

81.0 I 69.0
37.0 29.0
61.7 64.0

Annual mean temperature, 71.1 degrees.

Highest temperature and date, 92.5 degrees, July — .

Lowest temperature and date, 29.0 degrees, December — .

Maximum

72.0
32.0
58.5

79.0
43.0
66.9

74.0
45.0
61.3

1883.

86.0 87.0
55.0 50.0
72.6 75.1

90.8
70.3
82.1

92.5 i

Minimum

Mean

69.4 i
83.8 1

96.0

90.3

87.5

80.2

75.4

72.2

65.6

69.0

43.3

30.2

83.7

79.7

76.3

65.8

62.5

Annual mean temperature, 72.4 degrees.

Highest temperature and date, 96.0 degrees, August — .

Lowest temperature and date, 30.2 degrees, December -

Maximum.
Minimum .
Mean

1884.

68.9
25.2
51.6

77.4
37.2
63.4

78.9

84.8

90.0

42.2

50.7

60.5

66.7

69.0

77.0

91.0
62.0
78.2

Highest temperature and date, 91.0 degrees, June — .
Lowest temperature and date, 25.2 degrees, January — .

RECAPITULATION.

Highest temperature, 99.0 degrees— Jacksonville, June 22d and July 23d, 1881.
Lowest temperature, 21.0 degrees — Jacksonville and Tallahassee, January 6th, 1884.
Highest annual mean, 73.1 degrees — Tallahassee, 1883.
Lowest annual mean, 70.2 degrees — Jacksonville, 1881.

Highest average mean for three years (1881, 1882 and 1883), 72.1 degrees— Tallahassee.
Lowest average mean for three years (1881, 1882 and 1883), 70.4 degrees — Jacksonville.
Greatest range of thermometer in three and a half years, 78.0 degrees — Jacksonville.
Least range of thermometer in three and a half years. 70.8 degrees — Cedar Key.

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GKO. C. MOROAN, PROPRIKTOR

UNDER * ENTIRELY * NEW * MANAGEMENT.

THE ENTIRE HOUSE RE-MODELED AND REFURNISHED. ELECTRIC BELLS
AND BATHS. ROOMS LARGE AND COMFORTABLE.

Having l(*.as(.Hl for a term of years

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and would inform its Patrons and the General Public that it will be

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The Morgan " is situatcid opposite the State Capitol, in one of the most desiitible
and elevated portions of th(i city. It has an extensive tropical garden in connection,
and flower-garden (mi the roof, commanding magnificent views of the beautiful and
picturesque "Hill Country" for many miles around.

Tallahassee, the "Floral City" of the South, is famous for its numerous splendid
flower gardens, where the choicest exotics delight the (;ye of the beholder, presenting
a scene of loveliness rarely e(|ualed and never surpassed. The hard clay roads leading
to the numerous beautiful lakes in the vicinity afford drives, rides and walks such as
can be enjoytjd in no other part of the State.

The Cidinary Department of " The Morgan " is under the supervision of one of tho
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most exacting, including the finest of Fish and Oysters, direct from Lake and Gulf, in
abundance.

The Olflce will be under the charge of Mr. Geo. H. Sprague, formerly of Sweet's
Hotel, Grand Bapids, Mich., and the Frazicr House, Bay City, Mich., who is a courteous
and polished gentleman, and "the right man in the right place."

With the combined efforts of the Proprietor, Mr. Sprague and the Steward, Sam'l T.
Orissy, late of Hotel Brighton, Coney Island, the guests of "The Morgan" can feel
assured that they ^vill receive every attention and enjoj- (wery comfort and luxury
Jcnown to the very best hotels of the country.

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17 West Forsyth Street,

(OppoHitn Dunk of Jiu'krionvlllo).

JACK«()NVII.IvIC, bM.()RIL)A.

City Property, Suburhaii Lotn, Oranj^o (IrovcsH, Vogotablo Farrni,

Timlxir Traotn, Wild LandH.

REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD.

■Mi»i»1>»»i1»»^

LOANS NEGOTIATED.

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WINDSOR, ALACHUA CO.. FLA.

DREW'S ADDITION TO TAMPA

Uos oloHO In to tlio bUMlmmH portion of iho city an<1 ImnimllaUiIy nontltfUotiN to thA roiil4Ml
portion, oonvonloni to Tohi ohIcmi, (;hiirc'h(«H, Hiorcm, oti!, Wo oiTor for mii>Io f'httlcd lf>U fit ri^nmrtk'
abloprtooH and on fuvorablo torniH In Drow'M Addlilon to TiimpM, whlt'h prtinotiUittUmimiUul fiMll'
itlnii for roHldunt lotH, an wull an opportunltlt)!* for Minmulatlou.

Springfield, Campbcirs Addition and Burbridge's Addition

aro throo Huburlm to .TmrkHonvlUci, tho ohiof city of Florida, now rapidly Krowlnff. W« oflter tor
Halo fifteen hundrod bulldlntc Ioih In thoNo Hu)mr\m. TIioho who havo Noon ihtt rapid luorouM In
valuoof HUburban |>ro|M)rty olHowliom, nood not bo ronilndod of tho favorablo op|H»rtunltliMi uov
offered by JaokHonvllle'H unprecodonuid growth. JlornoH for all on oaHy tormii of payinent.

ORANGE LAND IN HERNANDO COUNTY,

Neartho thriving Hottlomont of Orlolo, alonir thoOharlotto Harbor llallroad, four mllM wMt
of Trannlt Uallroad, whloh 1h now buUdlnm, wo offor forwalo two ihoiiHand aoroN cUoIcm, N4l«ot0<l»
hlffh roUlnt^ i>lno land at prlooH ranirlntf from $ti to $'M por aoro. Hoalthy looatloun, tfood unifi'
borhood, early traoHportatlon faclUtleit; railroad iiaMMON rltfht through mtmo of tbtMUtudf. T#ft
acre lot» for $100 each.

WINDSOR

FLORIDA.

WINDSOK,

la the name of one of the prettiest and healthiest towns lu Florida, or any other State. Situated
on the eastern shore of Lake Newnan, a beautiful sheet of water some nine miles in length,
abounding in fish. Nine miles east of GalnosvUle, two miles from Gruelle station on the Florida
Southern Railroad, and four miles west of CampvlUo station on the Peninsular Bailroad.

LAND.

Windsor embraoes a tract of about 4,000 acres, nearly one-half cleared. The soil la neither
the white aand of ao large a portion of Florida, nor the red clay of Georgia, but a dark, rich loam,
producing excellent crops of all varieties of vegetables or the finest orange trees. The higher
land is fifty feet above the lake, gradually sloping to the water. Lots varying from four to twen-
ty acres, several fronting on the lake. Village lots for building purposes can be had at from fifty
to two hundred dollars.

HEALTH.

The wonderful healthfulness of the place has been the subject of remark for the past thirty
years. There are people now living there that have been residents for that length of time, and
who assure us that for a population of seventy souls there was not a physician called before the
war In fourteen years. What other portion of country can make so good a showing? It Is high
pine land with excellent water ; sore throat and catarrh soon disappear here.

CLIMATE.

Windsor is located on the ridge midway between Ocean and Gulf, giving It a steady, even
climate. No hot nights here and few Insects.

IMPROVEMENTS.

Windsor la young— barely six months old— and there are up and In course of construction
about twenty houses, several of them costing from two to four thousand dollars ; two saw and
planing mills running, two stores up, and one office; another store building: a post office estab-
lished ; several orange groves sot out; miles of streets cleared out — in fact, the whole face of the
oountry Is rapidly improving.

PROGRESS.
During the winter more stores are to go up, one church, one academy, and a score or more of
dwellings. A steamboat is to be put on Lake Newnan to connect with the Florida Southern Rail-
road at Oruelle.

ACCESSIBILITY.
Windsor Is easy of access. Take the steamer to Palatka, whence a ride of two hours on the
Florida Southern Railroad takes you to Gruelle station ; or Peninsular Railroad to Campvllle,
three and a half hours from Jacksonville, and a hack ride of thirty or forty minutes will take
you there.

HOTEL.
We have an excellent site overlooking the lake, of five acres, which we will donate to any
party who will build a good hotel to accommodate fifty guests. No better place can be found.

LANDS FOR SALE.
Lands can be purchased at from fifteen to one hundred dollars per acre, according to loca-
tion, and whether timbered or cleared. Several beautiful lake fronts.

DO YOU WANT A HOME IN FLORIDA?
If so, we would say— take a good look at Windsor before you decide where to settle. Mr. E.
F. Moody is Agent at Windsor to show lands.
For fuxtbar particulars, address,

emFFm & CLIMSOK, 17 west Forsyth St, JICKSOHVELE, FLI

vl
BY ALL ODDS TITE

BEST EQUIPPED RAILROAD

— IN THE MOUTir. -

LET IT BE FOREVER REMEMBERED THAT

THE MOBILE AND OHIO RAILROAD

Is tbo bast Atid ohortodt loutt^ to uiul from Ht. LouIh, CAiUuiko ami iho Norihw<^Ht U) JackiKmviUtt
and all Florida polutH, via I. (!. It. It. to Cairo and Ht. L. I. M. k H^. lo ColumbuH, Ky. : M & O. H. 11.
toMOIJILE; L. k N. U. U. to PiiiBacola; 1*. k A. U. K. to ChaUahoo<rliiMv F C. & W. or H I', k W.
Bys, to JackHOuvlllo and th<*ro i;otin(Mft with all railway and Ht()atnb«)ai Uiioh dlvortflttfc for al) tho
ATTBAOTIVK WINTER llKHoUTH IX FhoHiDA. l''or furtlior Information apply to any of the com-
pany's atfontH or to tho ixinUiVHiutwd,

CHAS. J, WALLER, GEN. PASS. AGENT,

Momij;. ALA.

^^ NBW VORK ^^

^ AND

CHARLESTON AND FLORIDA

STEAMSHIP COMPANIES.

Tho only lino undor ouo niana({«>nont running Ix^wt^ou Now York and Palatka, Fla.. stopplnf
at Oharloston, Bavauimh, Furnandlna, Jackson vlUo, and landings on Ht. .lolniH rlvor botwoon Jack*
souvUlo and Palatka.

The Now YoviL and Charloston Btoamshlp Company's flout Is composod of tho following first
class stoumors :

CITY OF COIAiMIUA. Capt. Woodhull. I DELAWARE, Capt. Wlnnott.

CITY OF ATLANTA, Capt. Lockwood. | HAN DOMINGO, Capt. I*onnlnfl;ton.

Loavlng Now York from Plor 27 North Rlv«r at :i P. M., ovi^ry W«dnoH<lay and Haturday, and
connecting at Charleston with tho Iron Htnamshlps of tho Florida Htuamshlp Company, viz:

CITY OF PALATKA, Capt. LosVogol. | CITY OF MONTICRLTX), Capt. JoHoph McKoo.

Oonnootlons are made North bound At Bavaunah with tho Htoamshlp and Railroad Linos dl
verging therefrom, and at Charleston with tho rail llnus from that point, and tho Now York and
Charleston Btoamshlp Company sailing evory Tuesday and Friday or on arrival of the Florida
Steamship Company's steamers.

THROUGH RITES OF FREIGHT AND PASSAGE TO ALL POINTS.

For further Information apply to any of the agents of tho lino or to

J. W. QUINTAKD A CO.,

Gen. Agents, Plor 27 N. B., New York.

JAMES ADGEE & CO.,

Agents, Charloston. H. C.

8. B. TOBY, Goueral FrtilKht and Pmweiigor Agout, Plor 27 North Blvor, Now York.

C. H. & S. B. WRIGHT,

« TICKET AGENTS, ft-
Office: lasoiic Hall Bmlding. comer Hew York iTenie aid BonleTird,
DeLAND, FLORIDA.

A-OEJITTS

DeBARY-BAYA ^ MERCHANTS' * LINE

ST. JOHNS RIVER STEAMERS.

«eal Eitata Bought and Bold; Landa ClBared and Set to Oroyaa; Oruves, Wild I.nndB, Ballillng

Lots and BuHlness awnds always "ii hand.

SEND STAMPS FOB MAPS AND CIRCULAR. -

OonTojrancIng m sli lla branchea a Bpeclalty. Tliloa oiamlaad and Beareh [umlahad 11 ilealrefl.

CHA8. B. BII9HNELL. J. W. CAMPBELL, AtUimfy at Law.

BUSHNELL & CAMPBELL

LAND - AGENTS

^ PANASOFFKEE, ^ ''
Sumter County, Florida.

COLLECTIONS 1VIA.DE.

OABB B. McCLEMNT. C. F. SHUKT,

President and Oeoeral Manacer. Land CommlMioner.

THE FLORIDA IMPROVEMENT

AND

^'^.'Jr^.-^J^ •^„-^. -^ -^ -I- 'lii^'J^' .. r^i^^O •/ ->_.-ii_.-ii_.-k__-ii-^_ -i^-'ir ^^^k"

« COLONIZATION SOCIETY «

Darbyrille, Baker County, Florida,

<Twent7-eight miles Itom Jacksfmyllle, on Wedtorn Dlvlnlon, Florida Railway and Va^lgatloo

Oimpany),

Offer for ealo to actual settlors, deslrablo lands on InstallmentH, WITHOUT MORTQAOE and
with ABSOLUTELY NO FORFEITURE, sltuatod In tho most delightful and healthful portion of
the State, at PRICES MUCH BELOW CURRENT VALUE.

DAILY HAILS. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH OFFICE.

QUICK AND CHEAP TKAN8PORTATION. CHURCHK8 AND SCHOOLS.
»THK l^KACH K.KGIOK OK KI^ORIOA «€

Railroad faro at REDUCED RATES to and from Jacks^^iiville. only one hour dlHtant.

These lands wore sfjlcctcd by Hon. C. B. McClonny In person slxttjcn years a^o, paid for lu
eash, and the titles examined and approved by the leading counselor In Florida. No land Is
offered for sale for which ABSOLUTE WARRANTY DEED will not be given.

THE ^ HOTEL * McCLENNY

A new building, with 800 feet of veranda and all modem conveniences, sltuatc^d directly at
tho depot, under the management of Mr. Sam. H. Smith, of PhlbKlelphla, lato of tho St. Mark's
-Hotel, Jacks<^mvllle, offers ample and Hup<jrlor accommrKiatlonH for nlxty-flvo or seventy guests,
at low rates.

Residence and business lots hi the vigorous youni; towns of

GLEN ST. MARY AND DARBYYILLE,

AT $25 AND UPWARDS.

COTTAOES BUILT TO ORDER. LAND CLEARED AND FENCED, oltoVEH, ORCHARDS AND
VINEYARDS MADE AND TAKEN CARE OF FOR PniU.HAHERH,

ON SMALL PAYMENT DOWN.

For particulars, address any agent of the Society, or

C. F. SHUEY, LAND COMMISSIONER,

DARBVVIT.I.K, KI^ORIDA.

DISSTON PURCHASE

= 4,000,000 ACRES! =

TV HAMILTON DISSTON, President. '^<f/

3. J. DUNNE, Vice-President. T. H. ASBURY, Treasurer.

R. SALINGER, Secretary.

Iiands for Sale at Government Price of $1.25 per Acre.

In blocks of not less than 80 nor more than 640 acres, within six miles of railroad line,

price $2.60 per acre.

^KISSIMMEE^LAND^CO,^

T. H. ASBURY, President. L. W. KLAHR, Treasurer.

HAMILTON DISSTON, Vice-President. T. W. PALMER, Secretary.

200,000 ACRES CHOICEST LOCATIONS

For Residence and Cultivation of Orangres, Lemons, Pineapples, Bananas, Ck>ooanuts, etc., in the

Counties of

ORANGE, BREVARD, SUMTER, POLK, HILLSBOROUGH, MANATEE, AND MONROE.

Sold In quantities to suit buyers. Prices from $2.60 to $10 per Acre, according: to location and
quality.

KISSIMMEE CITY.

Business Lots $200 to $600.

Five-Acre I/>t8 $300 to $600.

A. & G. C. C, AND OKEECHOBEE LAND CO.,

8. H. GREY, President. J. M. KREAMER, H. DISSTON, Treasurer.

W, H. WRIGHT, Vice-President. Engineer. R. SALINGER. Secretary.

LANDS FOR SALE IN LOTS OF FROM 40 TO 10,000 ACRES,

IN COUNTIES OP BREVARD, POLK, MANATEE AND MONROE.

PRICES.
For average Pine Lands H.26 per Acre.

For average Prairie and Pasture Lands >1.25 per Acre.

For Lake and River Fronts $.5.00 to 10.00 per Acre.

For Sugar Lands 10.00 per Acre.

The Lands of this Company are specially adapted to the Culture of Tropical Fruits, Rice,

Sugar Cane, etc., and are generally accessible by steam navigation.

W. T. FORBES, liiramnSSIONEt JACKSONVILLE, FLA.

TOPICS of™ tropics.

A Live and Unique Newspaper, Published at

Jacksonville, Pla.,

and Devoted to the Interests of

Floridians,

Present and Prospective.

A O. WRIOHT, EDITOR

Sample Copies sent on Application.

One of tho principal " U)plc8" Is

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* BAYARD «

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A tropical town, lying high, dry and rich, directly on the St. Augustine Railroad, about half-
way between Jacksonville and Ht. Augustine, eight miles west of tho Atlantic Ocean, six mlleft
east of the St. John's river and within two miles of steamboat navigation on Jullngton creek.

Lots 125 by 165 feet; avenues 100 feet wide ; streets 60 feet wide ; alleys 10 feet wide ; eight lots
to the block. A good road to the beach, only 8 miles distant. Two handsome parks are located
in the town plot, at convenient distances from the central portion and the depot. Fifty dollars
and upwards per lot.

M FUBTHER mFORMAM, PUTS, MAPS, ETC., GiLL ON OR mmi

BAYARD FARMS.

The Choicest Offer in the Real Estate Market of

Jacksonville, Fla.
Ten Acres each, near the Bailroad and Town of

Bayard,
in Duval County, Fla.

VVRIGHT <& IVIC CIvURE, . . AGENTS,

Half an hour's ride from Jacksonville.

Another " topic " Is these splendid

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FARMS

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of ten acres each, adjoining the new town of Bayard, on a very desirable tract, well-watered by
clear, never-falling streams, flowing Into tho St. John's river, whoso natural warmth on the west,
with the warm breath of tho Gulf Stream on the east, gives a truly tropical character to the tracts
on which the Bayard Farms have been laid out.

Within an area of five miles from Bayard, fifty magnificent orange groves are flourishing
unhurt by "cold waves," and in a constant state of vigorous growth. Two hundred dollars and
upward per farm.

WBieHT & McGLDBE — in the rear of Post Office,— JAGKSONVIIJ.^ FLi

j. r. coachman.

Real Estate Agent ^

m Land Broker,

CITY ENGINEER OF OCALA.

NOW IS YOITR TIME TO GET

»!.— leo.OW acres ijood Pino and Ham-

tlL-WO.IHn ourcB of the DncBt Timber
Land-. II,2S 10 *1.B0.

LBk.^ Brrant; threo milgs of front.
ThiB Is a vrry linn tract, bnlng an
f.ld urantnnd HnliiCtud aOorWyanra
aff,, Prlco from fS to »M |>er

lyilli water and ralirood lacllillca
lift irauepiirtinloji, oi':, TIiIb tract

^0/i 44.-1,000 acres of firBt-clasa Hw

*' Ijnd from ono to two rallea Inm

IhB famous Blua RprlnR )n aouH-

or^ Land, 10 a,;rc3 elBsred. sodi

(7j>f^ dwelling hDQBB, 3 nmma, andolbtt

■Vjrtf. oQl-bQlldlnss, good well o£ water,

*'■<?/' " oransa lr«B. somo boarlnB, oOur

Icult ireea, Bucli aa plums, peachM.

-ICflTS milos norm of Ocala.™

FlorUla Southern Railroad. FrIM

. $15 par acre.

^/iif^ <8.-(!0 acrcB of good Pine Land 1J(

•Vf'C ! ""'■-■» """I" "' C^ndieri rallrMd

^0, \ runs HiTough Iho same. Pri™ W

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DISSTON PURCHASE 4,000,000 ACRES.

*Kniil, T'-r wild lanrtn In Al.inhun. Lnfayotl". LKry, J

Loan . ilnJi^ i:..i. '■■ -i iVrni m 10 1

J^ K. COAC

OCALA, FLOr

larlon nnd Hornando cnuDtlea. BaM
ally 'nVMr'.'-i' |.t-''i!I 1:UiI-. lit Tmpleil
lr<.ii.l .1 -.l..-led BDd

P.M- ^.,;ii. Interest.

H MAN,

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-^r R. ^ W. -^ WILLIAMS-M^

ATTORNEY * AND * COUNSELLOR * AT * LAW, m»^r-

■^*^^

AND « SOLICITOR * IN • CHANCERY,

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA.

-^^«Sfe« Special attention given to Beal Estate Law and the Examination of TltleB.-^ff*^^

-^J. T. BERNARD,^

--^*^ ATTORNEY a AT * LAW, ^^m

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA.

Financial agent, agent fob GoiiONiES.-

-COLIiEOTIONS AND LEGAL BUSINESS IN ALL PABTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

K^SUNNYSIDE HOTEL,^

JACKSONVILLE, FLA.

S, M. HALL, Proprietor.
Oonvenient to the business portion of the city, and to all the B. B. depots and Steamboat landings.
Comfortable Booms, Shaded Verandas, Excellent Cuisine, Competent and Polite Attendance,
and all Modem Conveniences. jkt'Bates Especially BEASONABLE.-'iStL

-<iBETTELINr8H0TEL,>o

►eeubopean plan, 3-
18 East Bay St., Jacksonville, Fla.,

TWO DOOBS WEST OF POST-OFFICE.

All Street cars from depots and steamers pass
the Hotel. Booms 50 cents per day and up-
wards. Booms for Two 75 cents and upwards,
according to size and location. FIBST-CLASS
KESTAUBANT attached, where Beguiar Meals
are served. Bbeakfast, 25ccs. Dinnee, 25 cts.
fluppEB, 25 cts. Lunch Counteb, N. Y. Pbices.

F. BETTELINI, Proprietor.

GULF HAMMOCK HOUSE.

Nine miles from Otter Creek Station, Florida.
The leading resort for Sportsmen on the Gulf
Coast. This Hotel is situated on the most beauti-
ful river and amidst the finest scenery, and best
Hammock lands in Florida. There is good fish-
ing for Black Bass, Sheepshead, &c., &c., and
abundance of Deer and Turkey. Hunter and
Boats for hire. Communication with Cedar
Key by Sail Boat. TEBMS. $2 to $3 per day;
$12.50 to $15 per week ; $50 to $60 per month.
Capt. Wingate is again here to welcome his old
friends. For further particulars address

Gulf Hammock Hotel Co.,

Levy County, Flobida.

-^KIvORID A

* UNIVERSITY,^

22— in Ij OR, I ID A..

Tallahassee College of Medicine and Surgery; Literary, Law, Theological, Polytechnic, Normal
and Military Departments ; Commercial School ; a fine Library and extensive Museum ; Twenty-five
Professors and Instructors. For Calendar, containing terms, &c., apply to J. T. BEBNABD, Sec'y.

s^THE SUWANEE,+5

OH3ID.A.R, ICESTT, in Xj OR, I D.A..

Beautifully situated on the Island of Cedar Key, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico.
Salv -^ ftter Bathing at all seasons of the year. The only Hotel in Florida where Oysters, Fish
and Game are a specialty. BATES, $2.50 to $3.00 per day. Special Bates by the week or month.

A. E. WILLAKD, ) Ptanrietora

FKANK McILVAINE, f ^opnetora.

LUCY COTTAQE,

SEVENTH STKEET, (Neak Egmont Hotel) FEKNANDINA, FLOKIDA.

EVEBTTHING CLEAN AND COMFOBTABLE.
PLEASANT BOOMS, NEW FTJBNITUBE, HAIB MATTBESSES. NATIONAL 8PBING8.

MISS LUCY O. THOMPSON.

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^^SPEED, SASeTY Ap COMFORT J

NO I,INF,H KXOKI.

THtC ASMOCIATHID

Railways of Virginia and the Garolinas,

OPKllATINC* THR MOHT IMPOUTAT^T AND DllllWrr llOUTKH UKTWKKN Th.;

NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.

THE PIEDMONT AIR LINE,

BUNNlNa DOUBLE DAILY TIIAINH BKTWKEN EAHTKKN CITIES, ATLANTA k NEW OBLBAlTIk

Mnkon dlrm-t connection to .Tncknonvlllo and TallnhoiiHoo, both
via Columbia or AuKUHta and Atlanta.

TIME, NEW YORK TO NEW ORLEANS, 54 HOURS.

THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE,

-ntlNNINCJ DOUBLE DAILY THAIN8 BETWEEN THE EA«T AND HAVANNAH,-^
MakoH dlrort connection to JackHonvlllo, TallabanHon. Pcnnacola and Now Orloani.

TIME, NEW YORK TO .JACKSONVILLE, H8 HOURS.

The Western North Carolina R. R. or "French Broad Route."

Botwccn Olnclnnatl, LonlHvlllo and (^barlcHton, H. C.. with <u)nnnctionH to Jacknonvlllo and Tallft*

haBHoc, ofTcrH nnpcrb H<;cnlc attractlonn, uncqunlod In the WcHt<^rn Honralnphere, I

and from HallHbury mxith fnrnlHhcM throo dlntlnct llnoMof travel, vie:

Via (/Hablotte, Columbia and Aitouhta.

Via Chablotte, Columbia and Chablehton.

Via Kaleioii, Goldhbobo and Wilmtnoton, and Chablehton.

For TlokctH, Hch<»dtileH Pullman (Jar Horvico, and Koti'^fnl Information, apply to

H, P. OLABK, Oonoral EaMtcrn PaMMonffor AKont, .... 220 Broadway, N. 7.

WALDO A. PEABOE, N«»w England Agent, .... 228 WaMhlngton St., Boston.

F. B. PBIOE, A«ent. No. 6 North4th St., PhlladolphU, Pt.

JA8. HOLLINOHHEAD, A«ent, • - . . No. German St., Baltimore.

A. L. BEED, Agent, . No. 611 Penn. Avenue, WashlngtOD.

N. MAODANIEL, Agent, No. floi Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington.

0. W. HABWOOD, Pa«»enger Agent, ....... Blohmond, Vi.

H. B. P0WEB8, Pa»«enger Agent, .... Ko. 140 Common St., New Orleani.

W. W. DAVIE, General Agent, ) ^« «,««*. , .., vu

O. W. TAYLOB, Pawwmger Agent, ) " " 49 W. Bay St., Jaokwmvlllfl, Fl*.

T. M. Embbhon, Sol Haas, M. Hlauohteb,

O. P. A., Atlantic Coaet Line, TrafHo Manager, G. P. A., Blohmond It DanTlll«&l»»

Wllmlngt<»n. N. 0. Blchmond, Va. Blohmond, Va.

OFFICE OF "THE FLORIDA FRUIT AND FARM COLONY.

CHARLES A. CHOATE, ALFRED A. ANDREWS,

Tallahassee, Fla. ,^, ^J^ J-J^ ]^ ,^, Springfield, Mass.

V^ ^1 TALLAHASSEE. 1^ ^^

^1 TALLAHASSEE,!^

LEON COUKTY, KLORIDA.

Middle Florida (embracing the counties of Madisou, JofTerson, Leon, Gadsden, and Wakulla),
Is the central field of our operations.

The lands are mainly a rich alluvial loam with a strong red clay subsoil of great agricultural
possibilities; are well watered and produce abundant crops of Com, Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar-cane,
Q-rasses, Potatoes, Turnips, Sweet Potatbes, Fruits in large variety and most of the Northern farm
staples; and are admirably adapted to raising Horses, Mules, Cattle, Sheep, Poultry and Dairy
E^roducts, for all of which there is a large demand at our doors, at highly remunerative prices.

It is the highest, healthiest and most attractive part of the State, and presents a picturesque
panorama of high hills, broad fertile valleys, vast forests of Oak, Hickory, Magnolia and Pine,
studded with beautiful lakes, that cannot bo surpassed in the South. The climate is exquisite,
and especially desirable for constant residence the year round; the roads are excellent; the
country is hilly, and it Justly merits its name of the •• Garden of the State."

The organization and development of colonization plans in this truly favored region receive
our special attention.

CORRESPONDENCE IS INVITED.

CEDAR KEY, MANATEE RIVER & TAMPA.

THE A 1 STEAMERS OF THE

^?^.

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TAMPA * STEAMSHIP * COMPANY

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PERFORM REGULAR

* SEMI-'\VEEKLY * SERVICE *

between above points, leaving Cedar Key Mondays and Thursdays on arrival of Florida Railway
and Navigation Company's train at 6 P. M., making close connection at Tampa with TJ. S. Mail
Steamer for Key West. Leaving Tampa Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 A. M., and calling at all
P«4nts on Manatee river both going and coming.

MILLER k HENDERSON, OWNERS AND MANAGERS,

TAMPA, FLORIDA.

XVI

J^.

THE FLORIDA IMMIGRANT.

••THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH."
An eight page Monthly Journal devoted to the dlBseminatlon of truBtworthy Information oonoemlag

^>^+KLO R I D A, H^t*-

Its Soil, Climate, Productions, Resources, Advantages and Opportunities lor Profitable Investment.

Published at Tallahassee, Fla., at O ^ 1£ LHjLil.AH iM;r annum. Including one of Golton'»
New and Colored Maps of the State, compiled with accuracy from offlcial sources up to 1st Jan., 1886.

The IMMIOBANT is a comprehensive, impartial and exhaustive channel of Information coD'
oemlug every part of the State, and strives to make itself a reliable adviser, and welcome visitor
to those who seek for a new home In Florida. Address

THE FLOEIDA IMMIGRANT, TALLAHASSEE, FLA.

ciTHE HARNETT HOUSE,

■^

eJ Is

-SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,-

Is conceded to be the most comfortable and by far the best conducted hotel lu Savannah.
' RATES, $2.00 AND $2.50 Pkk Day, According to Room and Location. —

-»M. L. HARNETT. «►

The Haruett House as now conducted. Is doin^ a large business. The superior culslno. Intel-
ligent management convenient location and extremely moderate rates, make It the most p<;pular
hotel in Savannah.— Jacksonville {Fla ) JhmM-Uninn.

The Boston & Savannah Steamship Company.

'\m/^^

ONLY DIRECT LINE BETWEEN THE SOUTH AND NEW ENGLAND.

Running Steamers Weekly, every Thursday from Boston and Savannah, and connecting at
Savannah with all rail and steamer lines to all points in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, the Soutb,
Southwest and Mexico.

The Steamships of this line are the new. fast and elegant iron steamers rif 2.2iX) tons each:

GATK CITY, Capt. DANIEL HEDGE.

CITY OK MACON. Capt. WM. KELLY, Jb.

LOWEST RATES, FASTEST TIME, AND GREATEST COMFORT.

Through Tickets and Bills of Lading issued from and to all points. For further information applyt'>

W. H. BING. .... Nlckerson's Wharf. Omgress St.. Boston.
A. De W. SAMPSON, - - 201 Washington St.. Boston
RIOHARDSON k BARNARD. • • - Savannah. Oa.

HENRY R CHRISTIAN. Jacksonville. Fla.

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PENSACOLA & ATLANTIC RAILROAD,

THJS SHORT LimO BETWEEN

.-rfe). NEW ORLEANS AND ALL FLORIDA POINTS, j^

FROM THE WEST AND NORTHWEST.

THE EXPOSITION ROUTE TO FLORIDA,

VIA NEW ORLEANS AND PENSACOLA FROM THE NORTH AND EAST.

-r- — '-^^^THE FLORIDA ROUTE TO THE EXPOSITION,t=$< -^

71a Washington, Richmond, Savannah k Pensacola, or Via Fomandina, Jacksonville fcPensacola.

DITTI If XV PIT irp PTTUFPT CTPPPTN^l fllPQ Between New Orleans & Washington, and
rULLJILArl rALAUli DUrriil oLLLriJIU UAnO between New Orleans & Jacksonville.

Solid Trains bet-ween Pensacola JuAction and Jacksonville,

VIA PENSACOLA AND TALLAHASSEE.

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"THE KLORIDA CHATAUQUA." ^^^sr-w^

The First Session of the Florida Chatauqua will open the THIRD TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY
and continue Four Weeks.

A new and elegant Hotel, equal in all its appointments to any in the country, will be open
Nov. 1st for visitors. It is furnished with all the modern conveniences, gas, hot and cold water.

It is situated on the borders of Lake de Fun lak, a beautiful sheet of water In the pine forest,
thirty miles from and three hundred feet above the level of the Gulf of Mexico, midway between
New Orleans and Jacksonville.

No more attractive place can be found in the State.

Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars

BETWEEN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, AND TAVARES, FLORIDA,

THE FARTHEST POINT SOUTH IN THE UNITED STATES REACHED

BY ALL RAIL.

W. D. OHIPLEY, Gen'l Superintendent, F. 0. SHEPARD, Gen'l Passenger Agent,

F. S. GRIMES, Traveling Agent

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THE FLORDA FRUIT AND FARl COLONY.

Chabtkbed uxdek thk Lawh of FwiRiDA. Capital Stock, $25,000. —

IXrx>BPC>BATORH:

EDWARD LEWI8, TallabaMee, Fla. ■ JOHN M. STEBBIXB, SpriD^fteld, KaM.

O. E. DYKE, Tallahaf»fte<s Fla. | ALFKED A. ANDREWS, Sprtnslleld, Maes.

M. MARTIN, U. H. Hurveyor General. GrulAflfu County, Florida.

This organization pro|N,MM;Hto bring t^igetlK^r and colonize Northern and Western people of
similar t&steA, habits and dftMlroM. and U* iM^cure for each the advantages of society, scboolt,
churches, and other Irxral condltlonH <;aiculated for the general welfare.

The actual HETTI.EIi will find that the project combines many attractions to him ; bat the
speculator can probably And oth«'r channels more to his mind. Address

THE FLORIDA FRUIT AM> FARM COLONY, TALLHASSEE, FLA.

THEBANKOF OCA LA, Florida State Igjicultiiral CoUege, ;

(JNO, F. DUNN A CO.)
OcAiiA,— Marion Ool.vty, — Florida.

We will do a GENERAL BANKING BUSINEftS;
and being centrally I'Kiatcd, and having a lar;?f
capital, gives us facilities unHurpassod by any
Bank In the Htato. Patronage solicited.

J. M. BLAIR, Cashier,

Late C'aHhicr Exchange National Bank,
Cincinnati, Ohio.

— AT LAKE CITY,

On FhrrUJUi Central and Western RaUroaA,
sixty miles west of Jacksonville, offers to North-
ern students a winter homo, and the T>e»t eda-
cational advantages at mfxlerate cost. Session
IJETHNS OCTOBER iHt, and ENDS JUNE 9th.
Classical, Scientific and Agricultural C^mrses,
with Military Tactics. Full faculty, unsur-
jiaHsed ell mate, imro water.
Send for Annoxtncemest to

ASHLEY D. HURT, President

EAST FLORIDA SEMINARY. ! THE MANSION HOUSE,

A State Institution Mith Military Organization.

HesHion 1884-85 Jid'/um Hoplomber 24, 18H4.

The Curriculum embraces English, Matlie-
matical. Classical and (Commercial Studies, The
MethtKls of Instruction nre Htrlctly Normal, and
the Tralninf? (MassafTonlH ProfesHlonal Prepara-
tion to studentsAND OTHKIIS wluxjxixjct to be-
come Teachers. The Military I>epartment Is in
cliarge of Lieut. A. L. Wagner, of U. S. Army, a
Graduate of West Point.

$3fYor coxdcs of Annual Register, apply to

Col. E. P. CA TER, SupH,

GaineHvIUe, Florida.

! FERNANDINA, ^ ^ FLOBIDA.

MRS. B. M. DOWN IE, PKOPBIETBES6.

This old, favorite and well-known House has
been thoroughly renovated, repaired and re-
painted, and offers superior Inducements to tlie
traveling public. Oor>d beds, pleasant rooms, s
perfect cuisine, careful and polite irttendants,
and its convenience to all depots and landings,
make it THE best place in the dTTfor either
trani^ent or i>ermanent custom.

A reasonable proposal for the puroliase<tf tbe
ruitire hotel property, (one of the handMnneftt
and most desirable in the State) from tiie rigbt
party will bo entertained.

«<ST. LOUIS S CAIRO RA1LR0AD>

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— THE ONLY DfKECJT THKOUOH LINE BETWEEN —

CAIRO*AND*ST. IvOUIS.-

<;loHe connections with llie MOBILE AND OHIO at CAIRO, and at ST. LOUIS with alllines dlTOIflng.

If you contemplate taking a trip NORTH or WEST call for tickets via this popular zmits.siid

take none other. NO DELAYS. QUICK TIME, and change of cars made In Union l>epotl.

-5JNOTE THE TIME:*.

LEAVE (;AIR0 11.45 a. m. 10.15 P. M.

ARRIVE St. LOUIS 7.00 p. M. 6.50 A. M.

jr#* Our tickets are on sale at all principal ticket offices throughout the South.'
(HAS. HAMILTON, JNO. H. TRACY. BOBT. BELL,

Oenoral Superintendent. Trav. Pass. Agt. Ass't 0. P. A.

ST. LOUIS.

REAL ESTATE AGENCY

FINLEY, DORTCH & SNOWDEN,

LAKE CITY. FLORIDA.

Ai.i.K,NU8 0F j^ ^MEWSOEALER.^ f watches, cloci

SPORTSMEN'S I ^__ JEWELRY,

GOODS. ; _

- E. W. OLARK. -

TALLAHASSEE.-

FLORIDA
FLORIDA, t OtTR-IOS.

^ST. s JAMBS * HOTBL,*

TALLAHASSEE. FLORIDA —

prepared in ttKFii

age and presprrli

lUTEH :— »a.60

MH. AND MBS. GEORGE A. LAMB.

CLARENDON HOTEL, GREEN COVE SPRINGS, FLORIDA.

HARRIS A APPLEGATE. PROPRIETORS.

The Clarendnn has Bcnommnrtstlona for SW gueetH; Ila nppHllilrnpnlB n

TWO MILLIONS

r)f acrPH of Farming, Oranj^o, Tim-
ber and Grazing Landw, Hitnated
in twonty-nine counties, and com-
priHing the lands bonght by Sir
Edward J. Re<;d, from tlie State of
Florida in 1881, are now offered at
graded prices. These lands were
selected by Hon. Hugh A. Corley,
lat(^ (Commissioner of the State
fjand Office, and Mr. M. A. Wil-
liams, late agent for side of State
lands, which fact is a guaranty of
their high (piality. Thfi purchase
known as the licked Purchase was
cmly opened for sale* this year, and
the lands have not been culled or
picked over. No part has been
reserved in any manner, and the
whole is open for sale. Special
prices on large tracts. Timber
lands, virgin forests in bodies of
50,000 acres and upwards. Lands
sold for cash, or on long time.

THE FLORIBA LANO AND HORTBAGE GO.

(LIMITED),

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA.

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THE

FLORIDA LAND AND MORTGAGE COMPANY

(LIMITED).

2,000,000 ACRES FLORIDA LANDS.

lersbury; the Jacksonville office, No. 8
West Bay street, and under the charge of
A. D. Basnett, as resident manager, and
Arthur T. Williams, as Land Conunission-
er. Agencies have been also established
in each of the comities where the Company
holds lands, and information will be cheer-
fully given to all.

The lands of this corporation are situated
in no less than twenty-nine counties in the
State, embracing parts of West, East, Mid-
dle and South Florida. These lands were
selected with great care out of all the lands
then owned by the State by Colonel M. A.
Williams, under the special supervision of
the Hon. Hugh A. Corley, late a member of
the Cabinet of the Governor of the State^
Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the
Internal Improvement Fund of Florida,
Commissioner of Lands for Florida, etc

The said lands are adapted to the growth
of all the tropical and semi-tropical fruits,
as well as sugar-cane, rice, tobacco, cotton,
early vegetables, small fruits, etc. They
were selected with a view to their present
and prospective value for timber and agri-
cultural purposes, and embrace every va-
riety of soil and surface to be found in the
State. The Company has large tracts of
valuable timber lands, mostly virgin forests
of yellow pine, and can sell in large bodies,
ranging from 50,000 acres to 300,000 acres,
and offers special inducements to lumber
men. These tracts embrace the most val-
uable timber tracts in the Soiith, and mill-
men and those interested in lumber, would
do well to correspond with the Company^

It is strange that although this beautiful
*• Land of Sunshine and Flowers," also of
health and prospective wealth, was the
earliest discovered, explored and settled
portion of the mainland of North America,
yet it has remained almost a terra incognita
for over 300 years, not only to Europe, but
even to the inhabitants of tbo United States,
of which it forms a part,.

The wonderful productiveness and the
immense resources that could be developed
from its sandy soil were never "dreamed
of." It was not imtil within the past ten
years that Florida has become widely
known, not only as the " Land of Sunshine
and Flowers," but also as the land of the
orange, lemon, lime, citron, pineapple, ba-
nana, cocoanut, guava, mango and other
semi-tropical and tropical fruits. Florida
has also been recently styled the " Italy of
America," and its climate and fruits are
now acknowledged to be both of them su-
perior to the renowned climate and fruits
of Italy. Nothing has contributed so much
to draw the attention of the civilized world
to this '* American Italy" as the great pur-
chases of Florida lands recently made by
Hamilton Disston and Sir Edward Eeed, of
England. The 2,000,000 acres acquired by
the latter distinguished English capitalist
were subsequently sold to the Florida Land
and Mortgage Company, a corporation of
English capitalists, and offices have now
been established in London and Jackson-
ville, and the lands graded and put on the
market.

The office In London is at No. 20, Buck-

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THE BACON & ADAMS ABSTRACT COMPANY

OCALA, MARION COUNTY, FIXDRTDA.

Oimploto iwt of Abstract H(K>kit for Marion County. Abstracta fumlahed to <»rderou aliurt notice.

4^- RATES REASONABLE. -$«

I. V WESTKRVEIvT^,

SILVER SPRING, MARION COUNTY, FLORIDA.

DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT.

Orange OrovoH m^t out and cultivated on contract. CorreBpondence Solicited.

WM C. I.AIDU & CO., FLORIDA REAJj ESTATE.

KINOSLEY LAKE, CLAY COUNTY, FLORIDA.

DealerB in R<'al Estate. Will soil, purchase,
irapmve and pay taxes for non-residents. Houses
and land for rent.

Special attention given U)l<xrating, setting out
and attending to Orange groves and ether tr<»p-
leal fruits.

Highest land in Florida. Magnificent Lake.
Perfectly healthy: fine hunting, fishing, rowing,
^tailing and bathing.

Those affected with lung difficulties, catarrh,
asthma, rheumatism, and all kindred com
plaints are cured, or greatly l>enefited.

If you think of coming to Fl(»rida, write us how
you are situated, and what you want. If we can
help you we will be pleased to do so; if we can-
not, we will frankly say ho. We solicit your pat-
ronage and guarantee satisfaction.

W. & W. S. WALKER,

64 West Bay Street. JaoksoDville, Floikb,

Have for sale on the most favorable teriBB,
every variety of FLORIDA LANDS, In neailf
every part of the State.

Improved Lands, Orange Groves, CityPn^
(>rty. Suburban Lots, Unimproved Lands— ALL
BARGAINS.

Between 800 and 1,000 lots in the beautiful and
elevated suburban town of RIVERSIDE, averag*
lng25 to 30 feet above Bay Street, and for health-
fulness and magnificent views UNSURPASSED
ANYWHERE.

4f^Send for catalogues, read and see what we
have, and then COME AND SEE US.

C. L. MITCHELL,

HOF^KINS & LE BAROX. FORT MEADE, POLK CO., FLORIDA.

CIVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS. ^ ^ , ,. ^

Agent for the Disston and Wailee I.And8, and

-REAL ESTATE DEALERS,- < General Agent for Sale and Purchase of Unite<l

ROOMS 8 & 9, BOSTWKJK'S BLOCK, FOOT OF ' States ami l>rivato Lands.

PINE8T., JACKSONVILLE, FLA.

Agents for Disston, OkeecluilMu- A: Klsslmraee jfj-i plant groves, and care for them; pay

^°genteT,rs^uth Florida Land ('.)mpany, of ^*^^«' *"'» ""^^^'^ ^'' any other business fornon-

Bartow and Ft. Meade. residents. Can furnish trees, plants and seeds

Agents for Town of Ft. Myers. of all kln<ls. from my

Agents for the sale of G<»vernnienl aiu\ State
Lands for sale all over the State. SUNNYSIDE NURSERIES.

Thirty-three years' exiwrience and acquain-

tance In Florida.

UNITED STATES AND COUNTY SURVFAORS. Corn-siM.nd.-nre (with stamp enclosed) solicited.

McORAOKENr BACON & CO.,

v>:real estatk aoents,!^

LEESBUPvG. SUMTER COUNTY. FLORIDA.

XKr>. E. KARRKLIv,

^^W A L D () LAND O K K I C E , ?^

jlQ^Maps and papers descriptive of Wuldo and vicinity sent free to ail who enclose stamps.

J'UTNAM HOUSE

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EOUWOX. H0U5C
M;>rJCHESTER,,VT

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*THE WINDSOR*

MOST » ELE&AKT » AM * PERPECT « HOTELS * IS » THE » mflTED » STATES

Its locatiim, fficiiig etist on the City Park ami Houtfi on Mooroe
Street, in the fiiie»t in Jacksonville.

A Glimpse of An Elysian Land.

IIT BEV. DAVID MOORK, D. D.

You ask me to tell your readers Bomcthlng about Florida In general, and of DeLand In paitic-
ular. Let mo say first, then, that the nhtry of Florldn la its climate, and the great culvantage <«f
a winter spent here is, that invalhls can live mainly out of doors, and breathe the fresh open air,
and bask in the warm sunshine;. Owing to the peninsular position of Florida, its climate is
unique. It is different from that of any other Houthern State, and you And nothing Just like it
either in Europe or on the Pacilic connt. Of course It is warm— in the direct rays of the sun often
hot; but we have constant breezes either from the Atlantic or the Gulf, which, while soft and
balmy, are also cool and refreshing. Even in the hottest jmrt of th«' day. if you step Into the
ehade of an orange tr<'(% or a passing cloud veils the sun. you lind It atoncj? deliclously cool. This
Is a peculiar and most grateful feature of the Florida climate. The air here has nothing of that
oven-like heat which wo often experience elsewhere, and whi<"h is so t)ppres8lve and prostrating.
But It is difficult to give a definite hlea of the exceeding beauty (»f this climate. To know what It
Js you must llv(5 in it. The only unpleasant weather we exi)erience hero is when the wind Is from
the North, and y(»u are having a regular blizzard up there. Then it is chilly and disagreeable,
doors and windows are closed, and fires are needed to be comfortable. But after two or threi>
days the wind changes, the sun breaks out, and lovely Fl(»rida is herself again ; the opening flow-
ers exhale their fragrance, the m<»cklng-l>ird3 pour out their marvelous songs, and all nature
laughs for joy. Now, In this month of Ai)rll, the w<;ather Is surpassingly beautiful.

IS IT HEALTHY?

But what about the health in Florida? you ask. "Well, there are localities in Florida, doubt-
less, which are unhealthy. But take the State as a whoU'. reliable statistics show that Its death-
rate Is lower than any other State in the Unl«»n. and that Florida is really one of the healthiest
portions of our country. Of this particular region I can speak from personal knowledge. Situ-
ated as wo are, five miles east of the St. .Johns, midway of an extensive pine ridge, soil sandy,
with no stagnant water in the vicinity, we have all the conditions of health that Florida affords,
and in the highest degree. It is high and dry, and you nmy travel this entire plateau and not
see any moss on the trees. There Is sickness here, as there Is everywhere, but after careful ob-
servation and inqulrj', I am c(mvince<l that a large share of the cases of sickness here Is owing
to Impure water. One of the drawbacks of Florida — and it has several, for it is not heaven— Is
the lack of good water. But pure water can be had. And when the people here come to use only
filtered rain water, and take reasonable care of themselves in other respects, I am persuaded
that cases of serious illness will be few and far between. This Is beginning to bo better under-
stood, and people are t)ullding large cisterns and using good fllterers. We have done what we
could to shed light on this subject.

But you have malaria In Florida, you say. Yes : along ihe rivers, on the low hammock lands
and In marshy locations, especially in the latter summer months, there is no doubt a good deal
of malaria. But even on the rivers, during the winter months, there is little to be feared from ma-
laria, and in fine uplands like this, nothing at all. Year In and year out there Is not half as
much malaria on this orange ridge as there is In portions of Westchester county, say along the
Bronx river, and in many other localities in our Empire State, not to speak of Jersey and the
West. The fact is, this entire high pine region is exceptionally healthy. Fevers are of a mild
type, diphtheria and scarlet fever are almost unknown, and upon invalids suffering from disease

Forfurtlver information apply to II. A, DeLand, FairpOrt, N. F., or
to J. Y. Parce, or C. K & S. B. Wright, DeLand, Flu.

•of the respiratory organn, this balmy climate acts like a charm. Not n few como here in tho last-
stage of cuusumptloii, aud, of course, they sink down and die. Florida will not raise the dead.
But thousands seriously affected with catarrh, asthma, bronchitis, aud other kindred diseases,
•come here and get well, or at least they are greatly benefited, and their lives are prolonged.
When we came here last November, my wife liad a distressing cough, her breathing from asthma
was most painful, and for years she has scarcely ever been free from catarrhal colds. The first
three weeks she seemed worse rather than better, and we feared that, like so many, we had come
loo late; but tho fourth week, with Ck>d's blessing, the genial climate began to exert its healing
influence. Soon cough, asthma, and catarrh disappeared, and have not returned. She has been
«ble tolive largely out of doors, has enjoyed life immensely, and is now comparatively well.
You do not wonder we have pitched a tent for a winter home in this land of sunshine and flowers,
for this climate is simply healing and life t(j her. Aud hers is not a solitary case. There are
«core8 of similar ones all around us. I have talked with many who told me they were slowly but
jsurely dying at the North, but coming here got well, and are now doing their own work. A well-
knewn Ph.D., of Philadelphia, a great sufferer from asthma, told me, a few weeks ago when he
was here, that during the ten days he had been in Florida he had oxi)erienced entire relief from
Asthma, had slept like a child, and gained seven pounds. There is no question in my mind, that,
as Florida Is better known, it will come to be more a place for winter homes for Northern people;
and invalids, Instead of going to the south of France or Italy, and thus placing the ocean between
them and their homes, will seek healing and comfort in their own beautiful Florida, and to their
Immense advantage. Florida will yet become one vast sanitarium. Its climate alone, so beauti-
ful and salubrious, is enough to make Florida a rich and prosperous State; but it has Immense
resources of its own which are only just beginning to be developed. And this leads me to speak
f»f DeLand in particular.

WHERE AND WHAT DeLAND IS.

As already stated, DeLand occupies the middle portion of a high i)lateau or undulating swell
•of land, twenty m41es long and five wide, thickly covered with yellow pine and dotted with beau-
tiful lakes. The soil is a light sand, aud to one coming from the rich grain lands of Central New
York or the West, It looks extremely i)oor. You think that fifty acres of it would not raise enough
to feed a blackbird, and very likely your first feeling is ouo of disappointment and perhaps dls-
jfust. But it is by no means as poor as it looks, as witness these noble pines, these luxuriant
•orange groves, and this immense growth of weeds and wild grasses. It is so easily worked that
all the plowing is done with one horse or a nuilo, and if you stir it frequently aud fertilize it even
■as much ns you do at the North, it will raise almost unytiiing. Six years ago there was only one
house here, with a small clearing around it, and hore aud there a cabin far away in the wilder-
ness. Now there is a thriving town, throbbing wish life and energy— a live Westerm town in a
'Southern clime. Between forty and fifty buildings, some of them large stores aud first-class
•dwellings, have been erected since we came here, and the sound of the nxo, and the saw and ham-
mer, heard daily from morning to night, tell you that other buildings are going up on every side.
How can I give you an idea of the place?

Imagine yourself standing with mo at the junction of New York Avenue, running east and
"west, aud Woodland Boulevard, tho Fifth Avenue of DeLand, crossing at right angles. Look
-about you. You see fine stores for all kinds of merchandise — tiry-goods, groceries, flour and feed,
•drugs, furniture, millinery, jewelry, etc., a bakery, a bank, aud, I am sorry to add, two or three
«aloons. Looking north down the Boulevard you see a row of trees planted through the middle
of it, and extending a full mile. They are water oaks, wild oranges, and magnolias, alternately.
See what wide-spreading tops they are already throwing out, for vegetation grows with amazing
rapidity here. Imagine what a beautiful sight they will present and what a grateful shade they
will afford three years from now. Strolling down tho Boulevard, we pass the office of the Fionda
Agriculturist. Colonel Codrington, tho able editor, has more than fifty varieties of the citrus fam-
ily in his orange orchard, besides a great variety of tropical and semi-tropical plants, fruits and
flowers. The J\gricuitunst is richly freighted with valuable Information, and is a recognized au-
thority on all Florida matters.

** What is that beautiful edifice on yonder rising ground on tho east side of the Boulevard,
with stained-glass windows and slender spire?" you ask. That is the Baptist Church, the pride
of DeLand. It is finished, furnished, and paid for, and is a real gem in its way. To-morrow ia
the first anniversary of its dedication, and, with the Master's presence and blessing, we expect
to liave a glorious time. The niembershii>, though not large. Is of excellent material, the Sunday
•congregations are good, the prayer meetings well attended and interesting, aud the Sunday-school
large and fiourlshlng. That square cottage over yonder is the residence of our rosy-faced, good-
natured, excellent pastor. Rev. A. L. Farr. Step over, and he and his amiable wife, Strong as maid,
and stronger Farr as wife, will give you a cordial welcome. That cottage nesting in the pines, this
side the pastor's, is the winter home of Rev. A. B. Knight, of Kentucky, a grand man. but in
broken health. His excellent wife is tho daughter of Rev. Dr. Rylaud, of Richmond. This neat
eottage on tho Boulevard, just beyond tho diurch. Is brother Stockton's. Ho was a menil>er of
Dr. Family's Church, Jersey City, ' Ho is a wide-awake Christian worker, and conducts a fiourlsh-
lng mission Sunday-school nt WInnlmissett, some three miles east of tho town. That residence
next to him belongs to his business partner, brother McLaurInc*, a genial, warm-hearted Virgin-
Ian, whose cheery greeting always gladdens your heart. The next tasteful cottage witli bow-win-
•dow in front, is occupied by Mrs, Steadman and her accomplished daughter, of Osw(»g<). The
next, a very pretty one, just finished, and unoccupied as yet, belongs to young brother Frayser.
The cozy cage awaits the c<iming bird. That larger house farther on belongs to Judge Henry, of
Cincinnati, and the cottage still beyond is the winter hide-away of your humble sei*vant. These
are all Baptist families except one; but I mention them thus in detail not because they are Bapt-
ists, but to enable you to realize what kind of people make up the community of DeLand. They
are largely from the North and West, a considerable number from Kentucky, and a sprinkling

For further inforniatimi <ipply to H, A, DeLand, Fairport, N. >'., or
io J. Y, Parce, or C, H. & S. B. Wright^ DeLand, Fla,

sxvl

frrim tho othnr HoutliArn and KiMt«»m fItatMi. A morn lnt««1Mffnnt, f>ntf*ri>rt«lnff, An4 In A?i>r]r wtj'
«*X(*nlI«*n( iNMipli) you do not fltid ntiywIiHrn tn city or country. T)i«iy apprnclntn mcIiimIh uod
4;liun;b«Ni, art) n HablMth-k«M*phiic, rhtir**h'iftiUiK iieopln, icoiHl, kind nHtghlHim, juNt mmh |Niop|»
AM you would UkK to llv» anions. Nfarly nil tliH n<llfflouM denomlnatlonM »n* n^pmNMuted Im*i«,
A fitw weeknairothA M«th<MliHtN d*^U('At*Mi a very n«*at and comnKNllouM i*|jun?b, aud a fliM«r*l<M>klnr
nudlAHoe than that which cr«>wdiMl thit houiwi on that (N'ltaiilon yim wddoni mm*. luMllKiKiit
Mtrangnm pmiMint r»mark«Hl it. ThM paMUir HtAt»<l that mmw tW) Wf m nf^Mlnd to enahlM thi'iu to
dndlcatft th(» rhurch friM from debt, in a fifw inlnut««ii mon* than $(MJU wem HubMirrllNMl. thif B«pi'
Iau pniHont^and thf*y worn all thfom— iMintrlhutlnir am lllHtrally aM thn MnthodUtM theniN«*lv«ii.
ThiM aKAin MhowH tho kind of ixHiplo wo havo h(*ni. Tho Pr<Mliyti*rlanM And R|flH<!o|mllaiiN worwblp
at iintHHUt In th» Mt!h(Nil-houiMt, hut will wion build. Th» I>1m<Mp1i*h Mn<l ('athollcM hav** alM<i I'hurrrh
orKanlxatlonM. BuHldim, th»ro an' two rolornil fhun-h<*H, HA|»llHt And Mflh'KllMt. Thftrw art* f^Mid
public and Mdcct Mf'hiMdH hero now, aud InHtltutlouH for hlicht*rudu<'Atl(»n will \m plAUU5d In tli»
noAr futuro.

FU)UII)AK MAIN JUTHINP^iH.

Your rwaiicrH aro aware that the rAlnlni; of orAntfen 1m tho niAln buMlnMM tioro, Lemout.
llnii'M, phiAApploH, bunAnfiM, MUKAr-cAne, An«l other tM*nil-troiilcAl frultM, are Muccemtfully cultlva*
ted. But tho KrcAt IndUHtry 1m oraiiK*' culture. Kverylxxly iiam au orAUffe itnivf). If only an acre,
but tho majority of i^roveH alnuit hero rantfo from two to Ave and ten ach^m, five twlnir the uuMt-
«v>mmon. Of <!ourMo there are lAri;ericrovfM— twenty, thirty And forty acreM. O. S. Hull, KM<|..ofCHdar
KapldM. Iowa, hAM Mixty Acren In 4me urovf. And In All IW AcreM.coniAlnluK mopt than VijfMMUnnti,
While hero thlM winter he )>«Miicht thre«) a<;reH In town, itlenred and planted It, And will build next
winter. MAyorlluU evidently iNdleveMln Florida And In the oraiiKe biiMlneMM, and he In one ftt
the MhrewdoMtof men. MoMtof the KroveM In and around liel^nd are youuK; only a few are Id
full Imarlni;. ]>r. OlIlen'MKroveof l.mjOtnNm, In thoMUburbMof the vUIako, waa larlen with Ita
K"lden fruit when we Clime here. And never hml my ImaKlbAtlon concelviM] anything half m^
rhdi, lN>Autlful, And f(lorlouM AM that Kr"ve with itM weAlth of rich, rl|M* orangeM. Aljout C'hrlMt*
maM I vlMited tho fiiniouH NorrlMOrove, AtHprliiiC ilarden, Meven mllen from here. It 1» mainly
on low haniino<'k land, and tho trei'H uro budded Into Mour orAUffffM, irnfWlnff wild tn the hammock.
— the r»ther timlM'r ot courno iMduK cleared away. This In one of tho lari^eHt grawim In ttila vicini-
ty. WhAtAHiirht! OrAnK<*H,oranir<«M everywhere I A wlldenieHM of wealth and beauty. MaJ^/r
NorriM told um that he had already Nhlpi>«<d A(N),iNN> oranffeM, and that he hAM hAlf a million nnfn^
to piek And Mblp. Ho condu<'tod UH from tree Vt tr<i«*, urirlnfc um Ut eat of thiM kind and eat<»f ttiat,
and Mtlll another and another.

At lAHt he led UH to a tree In the oranfce f(rove, whleh In ItM MhAfx* And color wam pi^rfertly
)j4*AUtlful. Not MAtlMfled with fcAHtlnir UH from tho tn^'H, the tfenlAl proprleti>r lUMlMted on puttinf
A lArice bAflrfuHntoourcArrlAK'^ to take homo. Ah we drove ba<'k through the irrove, and all ItM
Klory came Into view ai^aln, I felt lnd«M'd that It wmh worth a Journey tn^nmH the continent Ut l/e-
hold that Mlicht. No dowrlptlon can fclvo Any Ad<M|uaie Idea of the existMulinic rlchne«H and beau-
ty of an orange grove In full lM*arlnM:. Imagine your^df Hurrounded by treeM thirty fe«t hlgti,
with thh'k, KloHMy green foliage, iM^aringfrom 'i.(NK>to ti,iHHi orangoH eA<rh, lAilen from tip top t#»
the ground. And ofU'u liAUging in clUHt<*rH of five, ten, f1ft4M*n, And H^fmetlmeM even more— AppUia.
of gold In plctureM of emerald. Do you wonder that any one Ixdioldlng Much a Might getM tli»
orange fever? I can anMure you tliat they all do.

ThlM orange biinlneHM 1h what brIngM MO many here. During the paMt Ave monthM thare baa.
b<fen one continual Mtream of iM*oplo coming and going, MfimetlmcH fifty In a Mingle day, and
fmry hotel and boarding houne huM Ijeen full to overflowing. A great many of IheHe have mada'
tnveHtmeiiiH and arranged tf> have groveM planter! . You may get Home idea of the movement tii
thIngM hero when I tell you that tblH winter Mr. DoT^nd alone ban Mold orange pro|»erty to Im-
twe<'n fifty and Mixty different partien, and tliat bin purchAMen And maIcm hAve Amounted Ut aUrut.
f KKM^Kl. WhAt other real cntato irieu iiave Hold I iiavo no meauM of knowing. Am a rcMUltof theM*
large InveHtmentH, thlHentlreorango iH'lt, from Hpring(^arden on tho north, om far aM beyond Oranff**
City on the Mouth, 1h bid ng transformed with aniaxlng rapidity from an exumMlve idne foreMt Into
an ImmenMO orange grovf. In riding over the length and breadth of thlM jplatf*au, you can
Mearcely gf9t out of Might of an orange grove, <»r A eit'iirlng prepared for one. Here 1m a eablo,
there a cottage, and yond<-r a manHlon. And for all thiH lmmedlat4* Murroundlng region, Del^aod
iM tho buHineHH cent4*r and noiirce of MupplieH. Ili'al eHtato Ih HU^mlily on therlMC. It haM doubled
In the paHt two yearn, and everything tN'tokeim a further lulvanee.

The Palatka and Indian Itiver llailroad Ih to pann through thin plat'e. The route 1m Hurveyed^
therlghtof way niontly M«»Mired, eiif^lmM^rM are finally loi'atlng the line, gangn of handn are tt-
work grayling. And It lM«;xiM"'ted that tho road will r>o eompletitd to thin plaeo In time for next
wlnter'M trafHc. When I m<'o what ban Ih'ou done tiero In Di^IiAnd—a whole Ufwn built, and the
country for flvo mlleH around dotted with honien of thrifty Mt^ttlern, and rememlH^r that all thto
haM iMMm aeeonipllHhed In hIx yearn— tho greater part of It Indeed In three yearM^I amaMUmlnbed
At the mighty forceH whif'h have beoii and Hi 111 are at work. Thin wonderful growth ban been
owing In no Mniall degree to tho entitrprlHC and energy of H. A. Dei^nd, Fh4|., of FalriMirt, S. T.,
after whom the t^^wn Ih named. In all bin o|j4*rationH here he haM purHUed a truly lllK'ral and en-
lightened f^dicy. In no eaMWuiH he gone for tho hint dollar he eonid get for projierty, but hM
fr«i4^uently l^mghtland and turned it over to actual Httttlern at a nmall advance, MimietlmeM at
JuHt what ltr;<^t him, thuH enaldifig purehanerH to do well for themwdveH, and at the Mame tlm^
to 1n) A help t'> the place. lie ban t>een the wiHif eounnidor, the truMted friend, and the wllllnc
hol|x;r of hundredH of ixtoplo from all pariH of tho eiMintry, and ban ever Mhown a gimerriUM liber-
ality toward every enterprlne whieh lendfjd Uf the material or Hplrltual proMin^rlty of the com-
munity.

It Ih nowA demonntrated faet that thiH entire p]at«*Aii Ih Mr>ecla11y adapted Ut the ralMing of
the flneHtorangttM. You, yourn^df, Mr. F^litor, have had a tAHt<^ nt them, And teMtlfled publicly

Ff/r/urfher hf/ormatifm fjf/fjjlf/ fo II. A. Dt'Land, Fatrport, N. T.^ar
to .L K Parw, or a //. rf* H. li. ' Wright, DeLfirul, Fin.

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through the Fmaminer as to their QQality. As for this plateau, DeLand, as I have said. Is the bus-
iness center, and has all the advantages named; It Is my deliberate conviction that its prosper-
ous future is secured.— -i^ew York Mxaminer.

DeLAND IN ITS MATERIAL AND SOCIAL

ASPECTS.

BY BEV. J. H. GBIFFITH, D. D.

The child is said to be father to the man. This Is as true of places as of persons. The cir-
cumstances of Its settlement and the character of Its flrst settlers Impart their peculiarities U>
a community, and determine its IndlYlduallty. DeLand is no exception to this general rule. Its
origin was a prelude and prophe<;y of its subsequent history. This town did not originate in a
huge real estate speculation, having as a basis an extensive tract of unimproved lands, coupled
with expectations. Its early founders were not quixotic adventurers who played a mere game of
chance in founding it. From the records of the first gathering of a few pioneers at which it wafr
decided to found a town, the unique and remarkable statement is taken that they desired to
found a town " on Christian principles." To this, as a germ and fountain head, may be traced
many of the special features of its material and so<3lal aspects.

ITS MATERIAL ASPECTS.

In the flrst place, there has been and still is, the absence of the purely spe^'ulativo element
to a remarkable degree. This is the more significant when the rapid development of the place is-
taken into account. There has been great growth in values. Property is continually changing
owners. Men buy and sell to realize on the advancing prices. And yet there has not been in all
this real estate activity the purely speculative element. This is due to the fact that the advanc-
ing prices of real estate have been the result of a corresponding advance in value. The rise has
been an effect, not a cause. It has not originated in infiation. The place has not been forced
into a financial fever to render reaction and prostration inevitable. Its growth thus far has been
normal and healthful. This feature of its growth imparts solidity and strength to its develop-
ment, and promises these features in the years to come. It besi>eaks honesty and integrity for
those who have led in building up the place.

Its democratic character is another feature in its material aspects. Its advantages have-
never been monopolized by a few. The many have shared the benefits accruing from its develop-
ment. Proof of this is found in the fact that to-day over 600 individuals own n^al estate In the
town and Its immediate vicinity. These rejjresent thirty-two states, two territories, England and
the West Indies. In this aggregate is found that variety and diversity which are essential to the
best development of any community. The ricli and the i>oor must meet together. Capital and
labor are the complement of ea<;h other; each Is needful to the other.

Another important item in the material aspects of the place Is that a large proportion of its-
people are permanent residents. DeLand is not a mere winter home, where people stay for a few
months to escai>e the rigors of a Northern climate. The great majority live here. This is tlieir
home. The North Is their visiting place. The stt^res, shops, offices and other places of business
are open the year through, and this will continue to be the case. The more fully people come to
know the salubrity of the climate, the healthf ulness of the place, and the cool, delightful breezes
that come here from the ocean even in mid-summer, the more will this become a community of
permanent residents. The relation of this feature to the material prosperity of the place is ap-
parent to all. The growth of its interest, like that of its orange groves, must be perennial. Its
undevelofied material resources form an important item in this direction. Any one who has
studied the natural and present condition of Florida with any care, can hut feel that the Htate is
]ust entering upon its career of growth. It is in its infancy yet; its enterprises and industries
are in their incipient stages. Orange <;ulture has not yet reached maturity, either as to methods
or results. Other possibilities are still latent. In all these <ronsideratiouH, DeLand and its con-
tiguous territory are entitled to their full share, and from them will derive a proportionate
benefit.

ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS.

The social, not less than the material aspects of this i)la<'e have been shaped and hewed by
the circumstances of its origin and early history. It is a community of high average social cul-
ture. Intelligence and refinement prevail to a greater extent than is usual in new settlements.
This is seen in the very appearance of the town. Its broad and regularly laid out streets, ita
neatly painted dwellings, its yards tastefully decorated with shrubs and fiowers impress the visi-
tor as he first beholds It. If he enters the homes of its people this impression will be greatly
deepened. A cultured hospitality and a cordial refinement will meet him on every hand, and for
the time he will forget that he is in a young settlement where five years ago was almost an unbrok-
en forest. The atmosphere of the community is as democratic socially as it is materially.

Intellectually regarded, DeDand is not less marked. No sooner had its pioneers decided to
found a town than they decided to build a s<rhool houHo and provide facilities for the education of
the young. A commodious and well finished school building was Immediately erected through
private contributions. The place has outgrown the capacity of this edifice, and the present sea-

For further information ojrfily to H. A, DeLand, Fairport, N, F., or
to J. Y. Parce, or C. H. dc 8, B, Wright, De Land, Fki.

son a fitlll larger buUdlnir U to b« erectod, and a graded aebool Is to be organlied. The ohUdran
are Infected with the name educational seal. Many moet lnter««sting Instances could be eltai
where children under iwelvo years vt acr<* come two miles to Hcbool, frequently walking the dis-
tance. DurlnK the pr«>ttent year an Academy has been oi>en4Ml and a large and commodious build-
ing will be ready for occui>aucy in the fall. This school haH already over forty pupils In attend-
ance. DeLand will und<iubtedly become an educational centor. for the development of the State
will demand additional e<lucatioual facilities. The mtldueHH and healthfulness of its climate
win attract many who do ni>t wish to endure the wverlty and face the hasards of Northern win-
ters. The equable terai*erature. the refreshlnff breezes from tlie ocean and the cool, delightful
nights, unite to render thin <>llniate and UK*ality favorable to (Hlucational pursuits.

This hasty, imperfect Klanco at the siK'ial asiM>etH of the town would be glaringly defective if
mention was not made of its rellglouH element. The chun*h starte<l side by side with the school,
and it may not unaptly be styled a place of ohureht^H. There an* already nine different religious
so<*ietles, and Ave of these have houseH of worHhip. The (Imt to erect a church were the Baptlats,
who have a very tasty and comniodlouH building c-ostlnf; nearly $4,000. The Methodist EpiBC«>paI
society have a very neat and comfortable house. The Pn>t(*»tant Episcopal church Is building •
place for worship, with the architectural taste for whieh as a <lenomination it Is so well known.
The ProHbytcrians have pun*haHed the pro|HTty um><l for a sohiM>i house, and are to %t Itup fw a
church, while the Roman Catholics have just broken ground for a house of worship. Thus the
town. In its material, mental and moral aspeetH, iuvltes aud welcomes the stranger into Its mldtti
and promises prosperity for the future.

It is no exsKgeratlon to say that the growth of the place has r»nly begun. The more fully iti
features and ]M)8sibilltles are known the niorr will Inttmdlnir settlers avail themselves of tliMe
advantages. In the desire to further this end, this fragmentary sketch has been penned.

DeLAND ACADEMY.

J. H. GRIFFITH, riUNCTPATj.

Having completed the first year's work in educiitlon with this school. It will not be outof plsee
to state ft few facts that th»» year has brought to lij?ht. The attempt to found a school here of an
academic Rrade was an experiment. Many qurstlons vital to the success of such an institution
were untried. No su<'h school had been open<Ml so far South. Tho problem has not been sfilved,
but the solution has already proceeded far enough t(» Insure nltimute success. The naml)er of
pupils has far oxcee.ied our expeetatlons. Diirlnjj the y«*ar there have been flfty-six different
I)ui)lls In attendance. Some of these have ««oiii»' only part of a term, others an entire term, and
still others have nttend<'d tlie entire year.

The healthfulness of the students has been remarkable. Of the entire number, but one, to
my kn<»wledp^ was <*ompelled to leave on ac«'ount of sickness. When it is remembered that many
of these pupils had been in delicate healtli at the North this fact is the more remarkable. The
most robust scholars were tliose of DeLand an<l the immediate vicinity. There Is sufficient
proof of the healthfulness of the place. It has also proven to be a location favorable to mental
application. So much had been sal<l and ac»'ept.ed r<»spectlnj? tlie enervating influences of South-
ern climate that I felt It mifrht be needful to exp<'ct less ])r(»press In study here than in the North.
I am fully convinced the very <»pposIte is the case. A ])upll can do mort) work here In the same
time than In the North. The pure air. the ln'ijjlit sunny sky. the mild and oven temi>erature, and
the absence of much that diverts tlie student's attention in other )>laces, all combine to render
this a favorable situation for Intellectual api)li<*ation. While the academic year here will be
several weeks shorter than in many Northern institutions, pupils will have no difficulty In dolni;
the same amount of work.

So much for the past. A word as to the future.

Tlie next year will ojien about tlie middle of October next, when we expect to have a new and
commodious buildlnfT ready for oc<'Upancy. ]Mr. 7)eLand. under whose auspices the school haa
been <»pened proposes at an early day to have tlie institution Incorporated and a board of trustees
chosen to whoso fostcn-inp car<' the school will be <"ommit.ted. It Is t<» l»e a public Institution, for
the benefit of the public, devoted to the Interest <»f the j?reat cause of Christian education. It is
not now, nor is it desif?ned to be a mon<»y niakliijf <Miterprise. The income the past year above
expenses would not hav(> Hup])orted one person. If our citizens and those interested iA the wel-
fare of our community trlve to it the sup|»ort and sympathy which such an Institution deservee
and must have, DeLand will be«'ome a t:rv!i\ educati<»nal <'entre for this State, and a place where
hundreds of young men and w<>men will <'«)nie to escapes the rip»r of N(»rthern winters.

For further htformaiion apph/ to H. A. DcLnmJ, Fnirport, N, Y,,or
to J. Y. Parct, or C H. d: S, B. Wright, DeLatid, Flu,

HYGEIA HOTEL, OLD POINT COMFORT, VIRGINIA.

HiVE YOU EVER IISITED OLD POUT COMFORT?

Snndeal ot Amorlcan Courlal hotels. Tbe vast and ]>a

Tear, nail Is a idobC delLghiful stopping place en rimle to
•ble Bods, eicellenl Culslue. Turkinh, AUBBlaD. Roinan.
llB notable cbaractoriBtlcg. Sui«>rb luuBln by the C 8. Ai
■ot Hllltary Bad Navel lire, tbrlULuic hlslnrlc BurroUDdIng
For temiB. descriptive circulars, etc.. address by loal

H. PHCEBUS, PROPRIETOR.

OCAIA HOUSE, OCALA, MARION COUNTY, FLORIDA.

Li, M. XHA.YHIR., FR.OFH,IH3TOR..

Open from November to June.
le Oo&la House, which (ronis the imbllc aquaro. Is a handstime new brick e

COLUMBIA COUNTY.

<K] TE MOST DESIRABLE OF ALL FLOBIDA COUHTIfiS. t>^

^TH E^

Golumbia County ImmigratioD Association.

C. A. FINLEY, Secretaiy, LAKE CITY, FLA.

GEOGRiPHIClL POSITION OF COLUMBIi COUMTT.

According to the establislied Govemment Survey, Columbia county occupies the geographical
centre of the State, is the centre of trade of the Eastern counties, possesses an enviable climate,
a ffieeness from daz^p fogs that delights the invalid and pleasure seeker, and a hospitable and
warm hearted population that will make the visitor welcome.

CLIMATE.

Columbia has been dubbed the " Italy of Florida," and richly she deserves the cognomen.
Her atmosphere is even and dry, giving to the health seeker that invigoration sought for. The
climate is simply delightful : salubrious, invigorating and healthful. The breezes from the sontli
and southwest come freshly laden with the salts of the Gulf of Mexico, while from the northeast*
east and southeast the invigorating breath of the broad Atlantic fans the cheek.

SOIL.

Oolumbla county, boast of every description of soil and from her large area can be picked
lands suitable to every agricultural, horticultural and pomological enterprise known. Hammock
lands abound In profusion. The pine lands are of the best and most durable quality.

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PRODUCTS.

The agricaltuiists reap bountiful harvests of Ck>m, Cotton, Bice, Potatoes, Hay, Oats, Bye, and
^Tery variety of field crop. The horticulturist luxuriates in his heavy and productive shipments
of Oabbage, Cauliflower, Peas, Beans, Okra, Egg Plant, Irish Potatoes — in fact every description
•ot vegetable that adorns the table. The fruit-grower can show the record of handsome orange
shipments, (Columbia county Oranges take the lead In the Atlantic markets over all other Florida
Oranges for quality and size). Columbia county Is the home of the luscious peach, the pome-
«fin*anate, the succulent fig and the wlne-produclng grape. Many large and productive vineyards
.^re scattered over the county.

•

TRANSPORTATION.

The county Is cut in half from east to west by the line of the Florida Bailway and Navigation
'<3ompany. Lake City, the shire town, being situated on that line of road, 69 miles from Jackson-
ville. Tickets from all parts of the United States can be secured over this Line, the Management
-of which permit its Conductors to give " stop-over" privileges to such as desire to stop and visit
Xiake City. The Florida Southern, running to Tampa, will soon be completed to Lake City. The
Ifacon Air Line Bailway Is proposed and a preliminary survey has been made, to run through
lake City, through the Peninsula.

EDUCATION.

The Florida State Agricultural College and University is located at Lake City. This College

"Will be made one of the finest educational institutions in the Union. It is presided over by one

vof the best faculties in the country and the following branches are taught: Classics, Literature,

^Science, Philosophy, Agriculture, Engineering and Military Tactics. Thorough training is also

•offered by this fine institution of learning, in sub-collegiate classes. The Peabody Public School

Is another institution of learning, located at Lake City. This school has been brought up to a

high standard. Many private schools are presided over by energetic and competent teachers.

There are FIFTY-FOUB public schools in operation in the county besides the private schools and

the College, thus offering to the settler unsurpassed advantages.

•

RELIGIOUS ADVANTAGES.

Every neighborhood In the county has Its places of worship, claimed by the various denomi-
nations. Lake city has seven churches, classed among the following branches of Christians :
Methodists, Baptists, Episcopal, Catholic, Presbyterian.

-GEM OF THE LAKES."

This name has been appropriately given to Lake City, the shire town of Columbia county.
Lake City has a population of 2,000 souls, and is cozily nestled among seven beautiful lakes, whose
shores are crowned with the majestic oak, stately magnolia and the waving beech, from the
branches of which hang pendant festoons of the lovely Spanish grey moss, framing a picture
beautiful to behold, " once seen always to be remembered." The beautiful shade trees of the
city excite admiration in even the most unromantic of her visitors. One can rest in Lake City,
feeling that indeed they have struck an Eden of pleasurable rest and health. Lake City has
thirty-eight business houses.

COLUMBIA COUNTY SHIPMENTS.

From carefully compiled statements from the books of the Florida Bailway and Navigation
■Company and the Southern Express Company, Columbia county ships in produce raised
from her soil an average of $750,000 in value each year. This will give the immigrant and
home seeker an idea of this fine productive county, the fertility of her soil, the activity of
her citizens and the remuneration in investing in her property. The orange shipment from our
county is beginning to excite comment from more southerly counties.

N. B. — A copy of the "Columbia County Pamphlet," issued by the Columbia County Immigra-
tion Association can be had by applying (with stamp) to C. A. Finley, Secretary Immigration Asso-
• elation, Columbia County, Lake City, Florida. This is a sterling work and is the most faithful
and truthful work of the kind ever issued.

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< BELLE VI EWI>

'^.^w-w^:

MARU')N COUNTY. hM.OKIUA.

•t;J^-''

BEAUTIFUL, <> HEALTHY *^ HOMES,

WITH —

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PHK « KICHKST * LANE).

tloaltli and rioli IhiuIh do not often ^(o togotlior in Florida, There
are many lovely towns in the Sta((\ that are healthy ; but where this
advanta«j;e in (^njoyed tln^ lands are almost invariably poor.

The projectors of this enterprise have undertaken to establish ft
town that shall be perfectly healthy, and at the same time provide the

settler with the richest land in the State for Farming and for Orange
Growing.

Belle view combines both these advantages in a higher degree than
any other jJace in Florida.

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THETOV\^N SITE OF BELLEVIEV\^

is one of the most delightfur and healthy in the State. It is beautiful
rolling pine land, with pure Freestone Water, while within one mile
of the depot, and immediately adjoining the town, lies the famous
"Long Hammock,*' one of the largest, and the very richest Hammocks
in the State.

The settler can reside in this healthy, enterprising town and en-
joy all its social and educational advantages, and within easy access
have his rich, productive little farm and orange grove.

This place is now filling up rapidly with the most intelligent,

Christian people, mostly from New England. The best of schools will

«
soon be in operation, and all the advantages and facilities of church

and education, that characterize a live New England town will soon

be found here.

All the deeds given by this Company exclude the sale of intoxi-
yskting liquors and gambling, forever from these grounds.

Send for a circular and further information.

3. L. BOBINSON, JOHN R DUNN,

President, Jacksonville, Fla. Vice-President, Ocala,JFla.

5AMUEL AGNEW, E. W. AGNEW,

Treasurer, Ocala, Fla. Secretiary, Ocala, Fla.

J. H. FOSS,

Gen. Manager, Belleview, Fla.

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DbBARY-BAYA

., MERCHANT? LINE.

CARRYING THE U. S. MAIL,

DonUe Daily throngh from Jacksonville to Sanibrd and Enterprise.

REOULAR MAIL OOUMLE: DAILY

For Green Cove Si>rlng8, Toool, Palatka, Welaka, GcH^rgetown, Volusia, DeLand, Orange Qiy,
Sanford and Enterprise and lntorme<liate landing south of Palatka.

Connects at Palatka with Florida Southern Railroad for Galnesvlllo and Ocala, and with
Steamers for all points on the Ocklawaha river.

Connects at Astor with St. John s and Lake Eustls Railroad for Lakes Eustis and Harris, and
all points on the upper Ocklawaha.

Connects at Sanford with South Florida Railroad f<ir Longwood, Maltland, Orlando andipopka
City, and with Steamers for Rock Ledge. Salt Lake, Indian River and other points.

Connects at Enterprise with Stage Lines for Halifax, Smyrna and Indian River.

RETURNING,

Leaves Enterprise daily at 7 A. M., Sanford on arrival of train from Orlando, maklngcloee ccnnec-
tions with the St. John's and Lake Eustls Railroad at Astor, and at Palatka with Florida SontherD
Railroad for Gainesville, Ocala, etc., and at Jacksonville with all the lines (»f Steamers and Ball-
roads for the NORTH, WEST, and NORTHWEST.

THROUGH BILLS OF LADING GIVEN TO ALL POINTS.

The Steamers of this Lino are flrst-class in every respect, the Staterooms being supplied with
the celebrated Tucker Hair Si)rlng Mattresses.

TABLE UNSURPASSED.

Each Steamer having on board one of the Chlckerlug's Upright Pianos, with all the other
comforts that could be de.sired by the Pleasure-seeker and the Traveling Public. 1

DAYLIGHT UNE

FROM

PALATKA TO SANFORD AND ENTERPRISE.

One of the new and elegant side-wheel saloon steamers — ANITA or PASTIME — will leave
PALATKA every morning, Monday excepted, for

SlITFORD, ENTERPRISE IND ILL INTERMEDUTE liNDINGS.

RETURNING— Leave Enterprise every morning for Palatka and all intermediate landings,
making the entire distance both ways by daylight.

W. B. WATSON, CHAS. B. FENWICK,

Manager. Ooneral Freight and Passenger Agent.

- 4 TREMONT HOUSE, » -

• JACKSONVILLE, • FLOBIDl.. :t

H. D. DODGS, Proprietor.

This BOUM la BltuBted CORNER PINE AMD FOBSTTH STREETS. Tbe most occeaBlbla ol ur
boiue In tbe city. II hits ]UBI been enlarged to more tbaa twice Its lormer capacity ; bu beenei-
peDBlTsl]' turDMbed ; Electric Bella added ; ba« bot and cold water Batb-rooma, and rooma wltli
baths. Boulh and Eaat eipoaure, and over tour bundred leet ot Plaziaa lor promenadlns; In
abort haaall modern Improremenla. and (be cainM Isuneioelled by any bouse In Florida. Tb*
oomlorta o[ the bouse bave been.Kreatly Improied. but tbe PRICKS BEUAIlf THS SaICB.

SpecUl Raise by (he mobib.

BOOMS MAT BE SECURED BY MAIL OR BY TELEGEAPH.

:Li,,r.lir.r^.-j*t-

-THE -

■>U ^ -Jr _ A^^ _ -1^ ^i- -1^ ^ -X- ^J#« Jst^ f^^

EGMONT,

"'^T'"^-'^"' ■^ "T^ '"T- ^ -l^'g

FERNANDINA, FLORIDA.

This D9W, elf^ontl; furnished and porfoctly appointed HoUl will be apta,ia
usual, for tfae entertainment, under new and euporlor management, of Its old patrons
and tbe general traveling public. Its plan of constmotlon, complete wid perfect u-
rangement, luxurious tumlehlng, eligible situation, the numtier and variety of Its
modem couvealonces and appliances for the comfort and amusement of Its gueeta,
render it positively unsurpassed by any establishment of tiia kind in the South for
superior and attractive accommodations. Ltirge piazzas front the Orst and seoond
floors around the entire structure ; tbe sunlight has aooasB to every room ; lighted
by gas and heated by st«am; open Hres of coal or wood; hot and oold baths on every
floor; oral annunciators in every room; billiard hall, bowling alley, lawn tennis
court and other amusements. A beautiful park of orange and palmetto trees, viUi
fountains, lawn and (1ower-l)eds, is liept for tbe exclusive use of guests. Hunting,
fishing, boating, sailing, riding, driving and eicurslona by water to Dungenesa and
other points and objects of Interest In tlio vicinity are among theamueements offered.
A flrst^iass livery Is connected with the house, and telegraph and telephone statlMt
tor the use of guests can be found In the Hotel office.

A perfect Oaiaine is among the Indisponsables belonging to the OBtabllshment.

For rooms, terras, etc., apply by mall or tolugrapb in advance of arrival to

THE BGMONT,

FERNANDINA, FLA.

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If KITE « SULPHUR * SPRING.

On the Suwannee River, twelve miles from Lake City and eight from Welbom, is
ne of the boldest sulphur springs in the State of Florida, and, we might say the
nest in the Southern States. It is in the thriving little village of White Springs,
'hlch is just now fairly springing into existence, having lain dormant for many years.

The present owners, Messrs. Wight & Powell, of Cairo, Ga., purchased the prop-
rty two years ago and since that time the village has been built up to four times
43 former size.

A new hotel of sixty rooms has just been completed and nicely furnished, which,
>gether with the old one, will accommodate two hundred guests. The dining-room
ill seat one hundred very comfortably. A large livery stable, bowling-alley, billiard
nd public hall and a beautifully shaded croquet ground are connected with the hotel,
'he bath-house is a three-story building. On the first is a bath pool twenty by thirty
3et, which is one of the most superb plunge baths in the world ; dressing rooms on
tie second floor, and offices and public hall on the third.

The spring pours forth twenty thousand gallons of sulphur water per minute,
'he bath pool is cut from the solid roclt, which gives it a verj^ grand appearance,
'he water is of an even temperature, being about seventy-two degrees F. both sum-
ler and winter, and cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Eruptions of the Skin, and Skin
diseases of all kinds. Dyspepsia, General Debility from overwork and Nervous Ex-
austion. It quiets Nervous Irritation, and invalids who have not enjoyed a good
ight*s sleep for months, invariably sleep well after commencing the bath. It cures
(ladder and Kidney Diseases, and is a balm for all female complaints, such as Ner-
pus Exhaustion and Nervous Debility, Anemia and Spinal Irritation. These heal-
ig waters have only to be tried to be properly appreciated, as thousands are ready
testify.

Hot and cold Baths can be had at the Hotel. Hot Sulphur Baths are working
ronders in curing and relieving the afflicted.

^ Much of the surrounding country is beautiful and fertile, and the orange and
iC Conte pear are produced to perfection. Sea Island cotton, com, potatoes, cane,
nd a great many garden vegetables, are among its products.

The climate is fine, with its balmy atmosphere, the locality of the spring being
igh and dry. We know of no place in the State that is preferable to this for Inva-
[ds and pleasure-seekers.

Mr. C. H. Freeman, the present manager, having had many years* experience will
eep the House in a creditable manner throughout, and it is his and Mrs. Freeman's
esire to make White Springs Hotel second to no resort in the South.

There is also a Chalybeate Spring in the neighborhood, long and favorably known
3r its curative powers, which is owned by Maj. T. F. Wesson, the water from which
) kept on draught at Hotel.

Con-espondence solicited as to locality and price of lots in the village and farm-
ig lands in the neighborhood, by

WIGHT & POWELL, WHITE SPRINGS, FLORIDA.

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■3* LAND DEPARTMENT. *

FlOBIDi RilLWiT AND NiTIGiTIOM CoiPillT.

Col. S. I. WAILES, Land Commissioner.

^ JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA.

On the 17th of May, 1856, the Congress of the United States
granted to the State of Florida (inter alia) '' to aid in the constrnctiQn
of a railroad from Amelia Island, on the Atlantic, to the waters of
Tampa Bay, with a branch to Cedar Key, on the Gulf of Mexico," a
large quantity of Government lands lying along the projected route,
including the right of way and "every alternate section of land des-
ignated by odd numbers for six sections in width on each side of said
road and branch, together with indemnity for lands lost to the grant
within said limits [by entry and settlement previous to the grant] to
be taken from alternate sections within fifteen miles, t. e., between six
and fifteen miles from the said lines as they should be definitely
fixed." (U. S. Statutes, VoL XI, p. 15; Decision of the Secretary of
the Interior, January 30th, 1884 ; Opinion of Supreme Court of the
United States, Baldwin vs. Eailroad Company, 13 Otto, p. 456.)

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Maps and surveys of the projected line were filed, and the lands
ithdrawn from entry and sale, in 1857.

The Statb of Floridai by an act of the Legislature of January 6th,
355, Section 28, granted the right of way oyer State lands.

The lands accruing to that portion of the road first constructed,
Dw known as the Central Division, and extending from Femandinato
^dar Key, amounting to about six hundred thousand acres, were first
elected, and The Florida Land and Lnmigration Company was organ-
;ed to effect their sale and settlement. The lands accruing later to
lat part of the road now known as the Southern Division, extending
om Waldo to the Withlacoochee River, a distance of about one hun-
red miles, now completed, and the portion beyond that river to Tampa
ad Charlotte Harbor now in course of construction, amount to about
3 much more, and are now being offered for sale and settlement by
le Land Commissioner, as the work of construction progresses, in
•acts of forty acres and upwards, at low prices, according to the terms
t the grant, for twenty miles in advance of actual construction.

These lands comprise some of the finest in the State, including
U classes of lands and every variety of soil, from ordinary pine lands
) first-class high hammock. They are being rapidly taken up, and
le extension of the Line southward is enhancing their value daily,
'hey have been selected and platted by some of the best and most ex-
erienced land experts in the State, and are offered at prices which are
Eilculated to meet the wants, means and views of every individual ;
•om the cattle grower, who must have large tracts of the best pastur-
ge, to the small fruit grower and truck farmer, whose best possession
J "a little farm well tilled."

All particulars relating to these lands, with maps, plats, prices and
etailed information, can be procured by applying to the Land Com-
dssioner as above.

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THE

o— $^®

CUMBERLAND ROUTE RE-OPENED.

« I I ■ *^ ' I I 9)

ffra OLD AI^D'desebYEDLY popular route complotvB the link between Brunswick and
Femandiun. Dally oonnootlons botwoon tho E. T. V. & G. System at the former point, and
It

the Key Line (F. R. Ac N.) at the latter. For passengers from all points. East. North and West

y to Florida, or vice versa. Thin route dorlvon its name from the fact that it passes for some
twenty miles along tlio shores of beautiful Cumberland Island, through the ohannel between
that Island and the Coast proper, thus avoiding the n>ugh and dangerous waters of the open set.
On this historic Island Is located the old " Nightingale Place." whore reposes the dust of " Llfht
Horse Harry " Lee. of Rovolutionary fame. It was also the homo of Gen. Nathaniel Greene. ThU
Island Is now the property of Mr. Carnegie, and here ho has erected one of the most maffnifloent
of modem rosldences, which can bo seen in passing.

8. C. LITTLEFIELD, General Manager.

'••->5rC::<<-«» —

At Fernandlna connectious are made with trains of the

FLORIDA MILWAI AKB NAVIOATION COMPANY'S LINES,

extending Southward into the extreme peninsula; Southeastward into and through tho Great
Orange Belt, and Westward to and through the Suwannee river Poach and Lumber and Turpen-
tine region, through Middle Florida, tho magnllloent and fertile Hill Country, through Welt
Florida and onward to

PENSACOLA AND NEW ORLEANS.

WALTER a. OOLEMAN, A. 0. MaoDOIIELL,

Gen. Trav. Pass. A.gt., Gen. Pass. & Ticket Agt..

Cor. Bay & Hogan Sts.. Jacksonville, Fla. Fernandina, Florida*

GEO. F. DREW & CO.,

JACKSONVILLE, KLA..,

Wholesale and Retail Dealers In

HARDWARB

DOORS, SASH

AND BUNDS.

STOVES

MIXED PAINTS

OILS AND GLASS.

MILL S STEAMBOAT SUPPLIES.

OUB SPEOIAIiTIES ABE

■wire. Crown Ji

Te FLUHBINO AND TIN BHOP couueoled with our atore.

-WE SOLICIT OKDERS AND COEEESPONDENOE.-

INDUSTRIAL MACHINE

WORKS,

JACKSONVILLE, - ■ ■ FLORIDA.

^FOUNDRY * AND * MACHINE * SHOPS.«

MGIHIS. BOUEES, SII-HILS, FI.UIK(.inil OUTFITS, STEU FDIFS,

Write us lor olrculsre and prices.

SAMPLE ROOM AT-

54 & 56 WEST BAY STREET.

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TO ALL WINTER RESORTS.

Savaiinali, Florida ^^^WesteraRailway

■I^^^XW

WAYCROSS SHORT LINE,

A BTBBIi BAIL TBUNK LINB TO FLOBIDA AND H0nT9EBN OBOBaiA.

5 Fast Express Passenger Trains to JacksoQTille Daflj.

This Is tho lino neloctod by tho U. S. Govorniriont to cany the Fast Mall between Waab
Ington and JackHonvlllo, and betwoon Washin;^ton and Now Orloann. The Finest

PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPING CARS

Ever placed in sen^lco upon any lino, arc run daily between Washington and Jaokaon-

villo, and Now OrloanH and JackHonvlUe.

PULLMAN PALACE CARS

Daily botwoon Cincinnati and JacjkHonvillo, and LouIhvUIo and JacksonvlUe, only via
the WaycroHH Short Line.

""■^^T^tV'

WM. HUOIIER,

Northwestern PaM. Agent,

OUIOAOO.

H. C. HARDEN,

Eaatcru Para. Agent, 361 Broadway, N. T.

MARION KN0WLE8.

Routhwestem PaM. Agent,

103 OAN AL J9TBBKT, NBW OBLZAJTIL

JA8. L. TAYLOR.

General Paifenger Agent.

xim

GRAND V I BW,^

FORSYTH, BETWEEN BRIDGE AND CLAY STREETS,

■^JACKSONVILLE, FLA.^

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ilnlarged and Newly' Furnished. Electric Lights and Bells, Gas, Bath-rooni&, Hot
and CJold Water, in fact, all the comforts to be had at any First-
Glass Hotel at a much lower price.

The house is centrally located, two and a half blocks from Waycross. and Jacksonyille. Tami;>a
Jid Key West Railways, and People's Line of steamers, and three blocks from Florida Bailwajr
Old Navigation Ck>'8 Depot, and Up River Steamboat Landings, on a high, dry and perfectly healthjr
Ite, commanding an extended and charming view of the magnificent St. John's, unequaled by
kuy house in the city.

The '* GRAND VIEW " is. In fact, the paradise of the tourist No expense or pains have been
spared in building, fitting and furnishing this gem of a house, and the weary traveler on reaching
tex|ieriences the sensation, so sweet to us all. HOME AT LAST. This feeling is verified on re-
lairing to the dinlng-hall, where he finds meals served from the choicest viands, shlp[ied from th«
North and cooked by one of the most celebrated of the White Mountain knights of the gridiron.

A Choice stock of cows are kept to supply the house with milk.

Prices from $2.00 to $3.00 per day, according to location of rooms. Special rates by the week
uid month. Booms may be secured in advance by mail or telegraph.

G. W. SMITH, Proprietor.
D. S. PLUMER, aerk.

S. MAYER Sc GLAUBER

EXCLUSIVE WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

H===^iyiW8ga¥iri¥iYiYi'(rf

yATaA<«Ay^ATJ AT. y. . T . ! V ^jMTOWMW gOT^

SEGARS, TOBACCO. AND LIQUORS A SPECIALTY.

-M WBITB US FOB QUOTATIONS. (6-

^—

BRUNSWICK, GA.1^

<^^ ALBANY, GA

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«<1THE PANA80FKEE COUNTRY. t>*

No brigliter prospect of fatore wealth and prosperilr^ awaits any
section of Florida thw is manifestly in store for that newly-deyeloped
and beautiful region now becoming so widely known as ^^The Panasotkee
Country."

Lymg almost in the heart of the peninsula, on the western slope
of the ridge of high pine lands which extends centrally throughout
the length of Sumter county from north to south; bounded on the
west by the waters of the picturesque Withlacoochee river, which also
forms the western boundary of Sumter ; extending from the northern
boundary line of Sumter to where a small tributary of the Withlacoo-
chee, flowing in a westerly direction from its source in the interior of
Sumter and debouching into the larger stream near Femberton'8
Ferry, forms the northern boundary of that eastern portion of He^
nando county which extends beyond the Withlacoochee to the Merid-
ian Line ; comprising a tract of country some eighteen miles in width
and twenty-five miles long, plentifully watered by the Withlacoochee
and Panasof kee Lake and their numberless tributaries — fed by peren-
nial springs — whose banks are lined for miles with dense for^ts of
cypress, live-oak, water -oak and other hard- wood trees of almost mi-
raculously immense size — this favored region comprises attractions
and advantages more varied and desirable, perhaps, than are to be
found in combination in any other portion of the State.

Its very name bears testimony to the phenomenal productiveness
of its soil. The aborigines, whose habit was to bestow upon natural
objects and localities tne most expressive and unmistakeably appp-

?nate descriptive names, called this rich region "Panasofkee," — "The
•laceof Plentiful Corn!"

But a few years since this whole country was comparatively a
wilderness, sparsely peopled by a few wise and enterprising pioneer
settlers, whose magnificent bearing orange groves are now the pride
of the entire population, old and new, the wonder and am^^ement of
strangers, and the most powerful and convincing evidences of the mar-
velous productiveness and richness of the soil and its peculiar adap-
tability to orange culture ; now the whole country is teeming with
restless, busy lite, enterprise and progress. This transformation has
been accomplished by tne construction of the track of the Florida
Railway and Navigation Company directly through the centre of its
best and richest portion.

Among the dozens of new and vigorous young towns which have
sprung up like magic all along the route of tne railroad is

WILDWOOD.

Wildwood is situated in the " piney-woods," one hundred and six-
ty miles from Fernandina and about seventy-five miles from Tampa,
with the Atlantic about sixty miles to the east and the Gulf of Mexico
forty miles distant on the west. There are a dozen or more stores in

the place, two saw-mills and three hotels. Methodists, Baptists and
Presbyterians have regular services, and there are ample school facil-
ities. The surroundi^ country is healthy and the soil productive
and easily worked.

Another of the new towns is

PANASOFEEE,

situated at the southern point of Lake Panasofkee, from which lake
it takes its name, and just two miles from, and the nearest railroad
point to Sumterville, the county site of Sumter county. The town
was laid out in 1883 upon land owned by D. R. Townes, and is now
about one year old. It is surrounded by a fine section of good pine
lands, fertile hammocks, beautiful lakes and navigable streams. The
country around it is rapidly developing, and many fine farms and
bearing groves are already sending their produce to market The
town is connected by rail (the main line of the Florida Bailwav and
Navigation Company's road being completed to this point) witn Fer-
nandina and Cedar Key direct, and by steamer with the country along
the lake and up the Withlacoochee nver, steamers connecting at this
point with trains upon the railroad. The town has now about 200 in-
habitants and is rapidly increasing in population. It has a public
park containing two acres, three general merchandise stores, a drug
store, a good hotel, livery stables, post-office, express office, telegraph
office, saw-mill, real estate office, insurance office, and a live news-
paper. A lot has been donated for a church and the building wiQ be
erected soon; a good school, free to all, is kept up during six months
of the year.

About three miles north of "Little Withlacoochee" river, the
track of the Florida Kailway and Navigation Company's railroad
crosses that of the Florida Southern, and again crosses it some four
miles south of "Big Withlacoochee" river, thus giving to the
people of this region the most ample transportation faqilities. These
advantages have already attracted many new settlers, and others are
eagerly securing the choicest lands and locations. The new road now
extends to the bend of the Withlacoochee, fifteen miles from Panasof-
kee, and is being rapidly constructed onwards to Tampa and Charlotte
Harbor. On each side of the line, within fifteen miles thereof, lie the
vast bodies of valuable lands belonging to the Company and now be-
ing offered for sale. On the 26th of November last, and for days
thereafter, a crowd of from four to five hundred people, eager to buy,
surrounded the special car occupied by the Land Commissioner and
his assistants, which stood on aside-track several miles below Pana-
sofkee for the convenience of purchasers ; thus demonstrating the ex-
istence of the superior attractions offered, through the purchase of
these lands, to settlers in The Panasofkee Country.

For all information in detail, apply to

S. I. WilLES, Land Commissioner, JiCKSONYILLE, FLi.

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KBY WEST, »- MONROE COUNTY, -» FLORIDA.

A Delightful Winter Beeort, and the only city In the United States below the Frost Une, with an

ATerage Temperature of 70 degrees. TBBM S MODERATE. HUNTING, BOATING, FISHING

AND FINE DBIVBS. Beached by Steamer direct from New York and New Orleans, or

by Can and Steamer from Tampa, Fla.. every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday

P. M., on arrival of trains of South Florida Ball road.

GHAS. T. MEBBILL, Manager.

ST. MARKS HOTEL,

(OPPOSITE POST OFFICE,)

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA.

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Centrally loccUedj convenient to all the St. John's River Boats.

•i Take 'Bus Carriage or Street Car, at Depot, direct for Hotel, y

RATE, $2.00 TO $3.00 PER DAY.

r AEE BEGION BEAL ESTATB AGENCY.
Bearing and Non-bearing Groves; Lake Fronts;
Besldences and Town Lots ; Improved and Un-
Improved Lands.

J. NAT. MOOBE. LEESBUBG, FLA.

WAGNOLIA HOUSE, OCALA, FLA. One block
from Public Square. Mbs. Cody & Mbs. Andeb-
SON, Proprietors.

'THE WESTEBVELT HOUSE, 8ILVEB SPBING,
Fla. Accommodations second to none. Boats
for Guests. Good Fishing; Good Hunting.

Every attention paid to guests by polite at-
tendants.

'THE GULF HAMMOCK HOUSE. OTTEB CBEEK.
Florida. The leading resort for Sportsmen on
the Gulf Coast. 49*See large advertisement on
another page.

U/ITHLACOOCHEE HOUSE, WILDWOOD,
Sumter Co., I. E. Babwiok, Proprietor. In the

Midst of the Pines. The Best Fare; the Nicest
Booms ; the Lowest Bates.

"nOSTBOM'S" Double Verandahed House,
O facing the broad Halifax. Boats, shady
croquet grounds and abundance of fruit. A
beautiful shell walk along the high river bank
shaded by giant live oaks ; and a 10 minutes'
walk to the Ocean Beach. $10 per week
J. A. BOSTBOM, Ormond-on-the-Hallfaz, Volusia
County, Florida.

JACKSONVIL LE TRANSFE R COMPANY.

Messengers on all incoming trains. Passengers by giving their checks to messenger Insure
safe and prompt delivery to any point In the city, as this Company Is under bonds to all the rail-
roads for such delivery.

M. I-i. H:A.R>TRI3D0I-B], FR>0FR>IB]T0R>.

._ --<^H. ♦ S. * DUVAL,-^^

-^ CIVIL ENQINEER AND SURVEYOR,^^

(STATE ENGINEEB,)

Addbibs Cabb FLOBIDA IMMIGBANT, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA.

Intricate and disputed surveys, comers, lines, etc., examined, re-located and re-surveyed,
aided by a working experience In Florida of twenty-six years.

«<GEO. B. FORRESTER,^ *<1TALLAHASSEEI>*

i«g FRONT ST., NEW YORK,

CHEHCil IIPRES

OBASOES, PIHB APPLES, BKHI-TROPIC&I. AHD

TBOPIOAI. rBEITB. AND roB VBOETASLES.

PUPAKBD BIPASATEI.T FOB BAOH.

SBMD TOB CIBCULAB.

TRANSFER COMPANY

All baggage deetlnad foe Tallfthaasee t»-
oheoked on trains by meeeengere, and de-
livered promptly to any part ol the dtj.

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JOHN G. SINCLAIB.

N. L. HILLS.

REAL ESTATE AGENC!

Opposite Gharlesiei and Magnolia Hotels,

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ORLANDO, «

4»ORANGE COUNTY.w-

FLORIDA.

Haft for sale some of the finest Orange Groves and Improved and unimproved Beal EstAie
in South Florida, directly on the line of the South Florida Railroad; also Mills, Hotels and
beautiful Lake Fronts, together with some of the best buildings and building lots in the thriving
town of Orlando ; also at Longwf xkI, Maitland, Wlllcox, Fort Gatlln and Eissimmee. It also makes
loans and investments. The success of this Agency is beyond that of any other in this section,
either In amount of sales made or satisfaction given. For prices and full descriptive list of
$1,000,000 worth of Eeal Estate for sale by this Agency, apply by letter or in person. Correspon-
dents may expect immediate attention to their communications.

^ HOTEL * LIST. ^

CENTKAL DIVISION

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Mrs. Tlukrirlge

B.M.Bmiai

Mra.Clarli

G.H. Hotel

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Mra. Funtnov

Oapt, Wm. Batty

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SOUTHEBN DIVISION.

Bawthonie
It

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Anthonj

WLftt Spring.

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Wlldwood..'

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Bumterrllle.
PanasoflTkee.

TeniMMee House..
BoArdlnf •house... .
Boardlnc-house.. . .
Boarding-house. . . .

Oltra House

Boarding-house.. . .
Anthony House. . . .
Westenrelt House.
Boarding-house.. . .
Boarding-house.. . .

Ooala House

Ifagnolla House. . .
Allred House ..
Colonnade House.
Peninsular House.
Whitfield House. . .
Boarding-house.. . .
Boarding-house.. . .
Boarding-house.. . .
Lakeside House...
Boarding-house . . .
Wlthlaooochee Ho.
Georgia House . . .
SumtenrlUe Hotel
LakeHouso

B B. Learltt

H J. T/ner

Dr. 0. A. Blmmons. . . .

Mrs. E. White.

I. T. Westerrelt

M.B. Boss

J. E. Webb

L. M. Thajer

Mrs. Ood7 It Anderson

W.J MoGrath.
Mrs. Bedding. . .
Mrs. Brown....

F. 8. Lucius.
I. E. Banrlck.

J. O. B. Hamilton.

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$3.50
$3.50

$4.00
13.00 to $8.00

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$3.00 to $8.00

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$13 00

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Tarares.

Boaoh House

Virginia House ....

I Atkins House

JHemdon House...
; Kentucky House..

Gibbons House

Boarding-house . . .
Boarding-bouse . . .

Tavares Hotel

Peninsular Hotel. .
Whitehall House

D. Boach.

Mrs. Hull. . . .
F. J. Lorelace.

WESTERN DIVISION.

Chattahoochee L'g
Chattahoochee ....
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Blverslde Hotf*l.

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Darbyrllle

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Quimry Houho

iHtockton House....

The L<»on

IThe Morgan

jThe St. James. ...

I Whltaker House. . .

jBoardlng-house.. . .

'Boarding-house.. . .

Boarding-house.. . .

B< »ardlng-house. . . .

'Whitfield House...

! PartrldKe House. . .

Boarding-house.,..

iHoardlng-houHo.. . .

'H<M)ttHoUHO

Boaniinjir-houHe

New Hot<5l

Florida House

Boarding-house.. . .

Boarding-house

j Boarding-house.. . .

; Boarding-house

.Ethel House

{Slate House

'Boarding-house

'Chicago House —

iBorum House

'.Thrasher House..

iGlen House

iHot<}l McClenny... .
1 Everett Hotel

Windsor Hotel. ..
I St. Marks Hotel..

Sunnyside Hotel..

Tremont House....

European Hotid ..

Orand View Hotel.

H. H. Spear

13
20

T. M. Lee

Geo. C. Morgan

Mr. and Mrs Lamb...
Mrs. S. B. Hopkins —
Mrs. W. M. Mclntoeh

Mrs. Gllmore

Mrs. To wnsend

Mrs. Bn)kaw

J L. DeMUly ..

Mrs. L W Whitfield.

B W Partridge

Mrs. Skipper

Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Scott

Mrs. Whitfield

Mrs. Fralelgh...
Mrs. Hankins ..
Mrs Thomas ...
Mrs. Parramore.
Mrs. Gason

• • • •

Mrs. Branan

J. M. Wilson ...

200

160

Miss. T. M. Tilton

Sam. H. Smith

J. M. Lee

F. H. Orvls

Fred. E. Foster

S. M. Hall

Dr. H. DeW. Dodge. . .

F. Betteilnl

G. W. Smith

300

200

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11.60 to $8.00

$7.00to|10.N

$1.60
$3.00

$4.00

$4.00
$3.60 to $3.00
$3.00 to $3.00

$1.60

$3.00
$3.00

$7 00
$10.00

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Special.
Special.
Si>eclal.
$10.00

$7 00
$8.00

I • • • I

$3.00 to $3.60

$1.60

60 to $3.00

$4.00

$3 60 to $3.60

$3.60 to $3.00

$8 00 to $4.00

European

$10.00 to $1S.0

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