Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1925, Page 14

14 FLORIDA’S LONG RIDGE SECTION OW IN DEVELOPMENT BOOM Eievated Land of Lakes and Orange Groves Looks Down With Contempt on Flat Country—Trees Give Way to 50-Foot Lots. (Continued First Page) [natives. Then the natives sell it at = = | higher p E new north- hief citrus sections. The | erner, wh "ks somebody in the light, sand reaches 1 turns Into a st transaction is irult to the Northern m. v he 50-foot-lotter. vear in lo of he 1 He listens closely as the subdivision little of s | salesmen relate the glories of Flor- ida and the Ridge section in particu nd reaches for his pocketbook tremor, forking over the el pavmeni. e hopes to stick ©f the tourlst grow 1 und. | somebody else with his 50-foot lot, which makes him for hisland failing theve, cither loses his packethook or wire North to|tial payment or huangs on fn the des- ortzage the home. | perate” hope that another 30-foot- as always been a vather pros- | lotter will soon ari : As said befor th Wwide streets about the *w n o bhones down here. | Phey admit i THE EVENING cach other in the ribs and say, num was sure some prophet. I was shown unother development where a few lots, fronting on a lake, liave heea sold for $15,000 each. Back of the lake and stretching for great distances into the flat country ara some 12,000 other 50-foot lots, which will be sold, the salesman in- |formed me with an apologetic cough, for as low as §1,050 each. I saw orange and other citrus groves by the score, their trees show- ing signs of mneglect, but the signs indicating at the same time that an other subdivision d been born. 1 saw subdivision after subdivision in every possible stage of development, from the time they are about to be hought us acreage until they are lined with the little white sticks beckoning to_the awestruck tourist. It might be a wild statement to say that this subdividing will seriously affect the frult crop, but some effect 1s beginning to show already and if it does not stop soon 1t would be difft cult to forcast the end. In the groves of the Pinellas Peninsula, near Tampa and St. Petersburg on the west coast, the subdivisions have taken a great tol!, as they have along the | Ridge. This vear's coming crop is {now estimated at 3,000.000 boxes less | than last, a reduction partly due, how- |ever. to a light crop. On every hana jdown here In the Ridge section the advance of the subdivision is apparent. Beautiful groves are being torn out bodily to make room for 50-foot lots, “|each one of them retaining an orange rence in the Jand involved. tree, which appeals greatly to the ! marketing, wh profits. The farmers have yet to] STAR, W four miles through a heavy, sandy road out from Avon Parf lives a farmer whose place is famous for miles around. He once grew a sweet potato which weighed 100 pounds. Laugh that one off, if you want to, but he does clear $6,000 from each of three acres he has in celery. His Jand is in a low hollow, fed by numer- ous springs. The earth is black and springy. He sprays and fertilizes his crops regularly, works bard over them, and his yield is exceptional There may be other land around this section like it, but it is yet to be discovered. The present owner of this particular property came into possession by homesteading, several years ago. He was not & tourlst who swallowed a salesman's tale and bought a 50-foot lot on the strength of the fact that Florida has a great agricultural background. Status of Orange Business. The citrus fruit business down here 18 like the farming business every- In the first place, it is a . and not a hobby. There are fat years and lean ones. cause of the keen competition in thelr hich cut the growers learn the value of co-operation. They will work through the co-operative organization, the Florida Citrus Fruit Exchange, for one year, then some of them desert it the next and deal with independent companies which offer them cash for fruit on the tree. An SHINGTON, D. C., selling @s groves at about $2,000 an The price is about the same Groves range in size from 10 | frequent! 2 4 A et profit_of $300 |1 o e e a Bt e | 50100 foot_sections of Flor groves will be repeated in the acreage ¥ There will come a time when prices will to 1,320 acres. an acre s an exceptionally good yield from a mature grove. and 50-foot lots. Each of the little towns along the Ridge has its own boom. Town prop- | higher. Buying then will stop. Those erty is selling for as high as $2,500 a front foot in Sebring: £1.400 in Avon Park and from $800 to $1,000 else- where. Good houses near towns can be bought for $10,000, with a 50-foot | tually, make some profit. Those who lot to go with it. The price of acre-|la age varles with the location for sub. from $250 an acre u The fast | | three years have been lean, not be. | ", couse the crops were short, but be. I FRIDAY, The Largest Men's and Boys’ Wear Store in OCTOBER 23, ‘When, and how, will it stop? who can hang on for years, until the country's development with present-prices, may be able to come out even—and perhaps. even- 1925. The general | Who are still waiting to re 111,400 acres. The writer wishes to correct not g0 Aany | errors which occurred in letter from Tampa. The ton” and “Jessup” were vertently in referring to Tampa Ruskin. catches up last bought property when the buy-| A hotel in the Glacier National ing stops will hold the bag—together | Park, Mont., claims to have the only division purposes, and can be bought { with the 50-foot-lotters whose names | full-blooded 'Indian telephone girl in once wero 5o proudly broadcast from ' America. the top of a tower standing in the | They discuss it frankly, and very | middle of a grove of pine trees, and | Female moths have | power of being mates from mil have r 0| exnls [ | Moths’ Strange Power. strange ' their Sclentiats Yoult E’Rflql’m defar’ Studehaker Pouer Qurability Finish PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AT SEVENTH R R T L ] Iy the point which W wild. For ins 8 1 show you lot or B ed | lake, u are n them, running between | i, you will 2 ilt orlworth the money--to tmagination of the buyer. orange grove comes into bearing at The Ridge is not a farming section, | five or six years of age. I was shown, he lowlands about it are rich |as an example, one case where a five- be truck farmer does well. Tfyear grove of 10 acres was expected get an esthnate on a truck fto vield a net of $300 the fifth year il o rofit per acre. But|and $600 the sixth year. This grove el ome here to live as every farm-|just passed its sixth year and the i another {-yon unother beautiful developmen - For instance, | dividend so far has amounted to $34. KlIIng L advertised very conservatively v s E ving, and that | When speculation in orange groves s in the |y only., re 1o other hand, three or | stopped some vears back they were = the census re would ha generous as that. 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It 4s ow who boug sembling v men of learning, like himself; who read with avidity books on try or allied subjects t into the luke and out ng and suffer no embarr ment therefrom, because their neigh- hors understand them. I was shown the home dward Bok, who saved his pennies as a boy, eventu- ally rising to the editorship of the Ladies’ Home Journsl and purchasing If a Winter home in Florida. so shown a place we shall rest-In,”" the same being a st of pine trees with the under- | brush burned av permitting the sand to come into its own. It is flat, this place, and a tower is erected in center of the 50-foot lots. A bus &s tourists to this beauty spot om far and wide—brings them | Sowme | threugh the Ridge section and allows ue upon them | them a free look at a lake. Then they oves. ( are turned over to high pressure sales- permitted to climb the tower and | select thelr lot, and afterward visit it | in company with the salesman | Jobn Smith, for instance, will pur- chase lot No. . 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