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Hut this movement towards

..Florida is far more interesting

and of greater import than any

^movement towards land hereto

fore recorded in this country.

The primal influence of this great

"•movement is Charles H. Sieg and

the organization which he has

promulgated.

of the most tremendous land movements ever seen in America

is progressing at the present time towards Burbank-Ocala Colony,

in Marion County, Florida. One simply cannot comprehend what

it means to see a thousand people purchasing farms in just a few days.

One has no idea of a country that one month contains no inhabitants,

and the next thirty days is dotted over with cottages is throbbing and

active with life and movement, and is the center of improvement that

equals, if not surpasses, those

great days of the far west when

whole counties were peopled over

night.

This man is the pioneer of

Florida in the matter of placing

northern men and women upon

••Florida lprms. Less than one year ago Chas. H. Sieg organized his first

colony, which was located in St. Johns Park, Florida. Every acre of the

30,000 comprising this colony was sold within 30 days. The demand was

so great that Mr. Sieg secured another tract of land, amounting to some

36,000 acres, at Jacksonville Heights, and this in turn was sold out with

the rapidity of the first colony.

Today at these two great colonies, St. Johns Park and Jacksonville

Heights, are to be seen many beautiful cottages land values have arisen

100 per cent, and many of those

settlers who bought land, arid have

not even improved it as yet, are ac

tually refusing in profits more than

the amount of money they paid

for their homes.

CHAS. H. SIEG

The Pioneer Small Farm Man

of Florida

Then Mr. Sieg began his search

for his greatest and his best Flor

ida farm community. After careful

scrutiny of all Florida lands, he de

cided that Marion County, north of

the County Seat, Ocala, held the

greatest promise for his ideals,

and he purchased a large tract of

land there.

Upon one side of this property

lies the Atlantic Coast Line Rail

road, on the other the Seaboard Air

Line, and through the heart of it

travels the Ocala & Northern Rail

road. Upon the eastern border of

this colony, which Mr. Sieg has

called Burbank-Ocala, the beautiful

Ocklawaha river runs, and over the

breast of its waters travel passen

ger and freight steamers from Pal

atka to Silver Springs.

It is thus seen that transporta

tion, the greatest and most neces

sary of all adjuncts to a farm com

munity, reaches its highest point of

development at Burbank-Ocala Colony.

But a short time ago Chas. H. Sieg announced through the public press

his intention of selling this property, as he had sold his former colonies

in 1909. The response to these aiiriouncements: was--so great that it sur

passed the ideas of Mr. Sieg. Todky the evidence which this man-lias at

his finger ends of the enormous demand for Florida soil, is more astonish

ing than the reading of a work of fiction.

Surely this is the day of back to. the soil.

To take a trip over Burbank-Ocala Colony is to have a pleasure that

amounts almost to a vacation. Asj one approaches Florida upon any of

the great railroads reaching this sta|te, one is at once struck with the con

versation one hears in the

smoking, dining, or sleeping

car. This conversation is al

most wholly confined to the

topic of Florida, and gives an

insight into the real condi

tion of the fame of this great

state, for these people come

from almost every section of

the North American conti

nent. Every train carries

many men and women who

are going to Florida, and,

strange as it may seem, the

majority of them are routed

to Burbank-Ocala Colony.

The Experiment Farm at Burbank Colony

and bleak mountain camps of the mining districts of the Rockies, from

beautiful California, from chill and snow-laden Canada, from the cities

and from the farms, Catholic and Jew, college professor and bricklayer—

these are the people who are settling today in Burbank-Ocala Colony.

Every race, every religion, every trade and every profession has some

man or woman who is a settler at Burbank-Ocala, and who, from this fact,

prove that this land satisfies all people and all classes of people.

There are three new townsites in this colony, places where Chas. H.

Sieg and his organization have decided to build cities. When one sees

what these cities were but a short time ago, and looks at them when one

arrives at Burbank-Ocala Colony, one has an idea of what their appear

WHERE THOUSANDS ARE FLOCKING

A Brief Story of Colony Building That Has Astounded the Country—By CLEMENT YORE

A Trainload of Settlers Visiting Burbank-Ocala Colony

From the worn-out hills of

New England, from the cold

H. Sieg, and prepared with a

most comprehensive knowl

edge of all questions arising

in the mind of a man who

contemplates making Flor

ida his home.

This great book is .very ex

pensive, and it is filled with

absolute proof that tells a

story which no man can deny,

and it tells it in the language

of common sense.

To give one some idea of

the value of this property, and

how firmly convinced the com

pany is that it will ^tarifl ,^nyt

investigation,, tUe.,,iBoa!^d, jofe'

Directors of the 'New South'

Farm & Jifime Company have

authorized Chas. H. Sieg to

sell this colony land upon the

strict guarantee that if it is

not satisfactory to the pur

chaser he may ask for and re

ceive back every cent he has

paid, together with 6 per cent

interest, any time before ac

tual delivery of the deed.

ance will be six months from today.

The people are moving upon the fertile fields of Burbank-Ocala Colony

in large numbers they are preparing those fields for the reception of

their first crops they are building their homes, and in the wake of these

settlers is traveling the commerce to the various lines of business that

depend upon an agricultural community for their existence.

Marion County, Florida, is the banner county of the state. It is the

county which but a few years ago

in competition at Tampa, Florida,

with every county in the state,

took first prize for agricultural

and horticultural products.

fields w"e marvel at, make their money and build their homes, not by the,I

man-killing toil of working 160 acres of ground, like is done in the north, I

but Florida is. the _spot where a man is rich who owns a ten-acre farm,

Without the question of a doubt the greatest and most delightful por-?|

tion of .Florida, where pleasure and profit are wound and interwound, is

-Slarjon' County, and in the heart of this great county is located Burbank

iOcafa Colony.

/If you vant to read something of this great colony if you want to

kno\v in the language of irrefutable proof and undeniable facts and fig

ures if you want to see with the eye of a camera what is now being

done at Burbank-Ocala, write

for "Ten Acres and Free

dom," a book issued by Chas.

In an interview with Mr.

Sieg recently he made the

prediction that every acre of

Burbank-Ocala Colony would

be sold before farmers in the

north were enabled to start plowing. This means that many thou

sands of acres must be sold each and every week, and that hundreds of

settlers are buying this land every day.

Marion County has more fine

roads than any county in the

state. It has local and long dis

tance telephones upon its farms,

and one sees here more luxury in

an hour's travel by automobile|

or team than one would believe5"

possible in a farming section.

We must remember in travelings

over Florida that these people:

whose homes we see and whose

This Show's.How Easy it is to Clear Land.

Simply by Setting Fire to the Stumps,

Which Contain Large Quantities

of Turpentine

The office of the Burbank-Ocala. Colony, located at the city of Ocala,

in Marion County, is filled with settlers, and prospective settlers to this

colony, and the best part of.it all is jthat these settlers are satisfied.

Many of them are sent ,to Burbank-Ocala for the purpose of investigating

and making sure, not only for themselVes, but for their friends, relatives

and neighbors, and most of these men buy immediately after seeing this

land for many people.

Settlers Living in Tents Until Their

Homes Are Built

This land is selling at the

price of $-25.00 per acre, upon the terms of 50 cents per acre down arid 50

cents per acre per month until the land is paid for, thus giving every pur

chaser 49 months after his application has been received to complete his

payments, while he can move on and take possession of his farm after a

single payment of only 50 cents per acre. This is at the basis of 17 cents

per day for each 10 acres purchased. My advice to every man who really

wants to make an investment out of his daily savings, that will come

back to him in profits that are limited only by his own capabilities, is

to write at once for the great book called "Ten Acres and Freedom," and

inform himself thoroughly before he buys, and prove to his own satisfac

tion that Burbank-Ocala Colony is really entitled to all of the tremendous

patronage which it is receiving today.

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