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Such a house as is thus portrayed, as comfortable a Flor- 

 ida home as one need wish, will cost in the near neighbor- 

 hood of one thousand dollars. 



A smaller and rougher but very habitable dwelling can 

 be built for one half this sum, however. 



Lands, direct from the Government or State, may be 

 purchased at from $1.25 to $2.50, and occasionally $7, 

 per acre, but these chances are rapidly becoming things 



of the past. 



Inquiries regarding State lands should be addressed to 

 the State Lancf Office at Tallahassee, while those regarding 

 the United States lands should be sent to the Register 

 United States Land Office at Gainesville. For Govern- 

 ment lands write to the Department of the Interior, Wash- 

 ington. 



Railroad lands are still abundant, and the incoming set- 

 tler would do well to turn his attention in this direction, 

 as, all other points being equal, they are held at lower 

 prices, from $2.50 to $7 50 per acre, sometimes $10 for 

 the best locations, good lands, and near actual or projected 

 toAvns. 



By private owners all prices are asked, and what is more, 

 obtained ; it depends somewhat on the whim or necessities 

 of the seller, but still more on the quality of the land and 

 its location, the latter governing prices even more than the 

 former. Poor lands may be made fertile with cultivation 

 or drainage, but a poor, inaccessible location can not be 

 changed. 



Lands, pine lands, held by private owners, range in price 

 from ten dollars to two or three hundred, while hammock 

 ranges from one to five hundred dollars per acre. 



As to the cost of orange groves, while it is not within 

 the province of our present work to go into details on this 

 point, which has been fully treated of in our previous work 



