OPPORTUNITIES FOR LABOR AND

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rapidly increasing line of water and rail communications
to all parts of the country, cheap rates, and rapid transit;
then turn to those offered to the poor man in the far-off,
bleak, inhospitable West-of vast, treeless, waterless, fruit-
less plains, or comfortless mountains ; where railroads are
the only means of transit, and they are in nearly all cases
without competition, have high rates, and, being generally
monopolists of the soil of their section, hold the settler in
an iron grasp; where Nature offers nothing but a place to
breathe in, and only by hardest labor and through constant
struggle can life be sustained.
 An important consideration for the settler is that Flor-
ida is emphatically a region of health, and of the activities
which come from health. There -is no such thing as "ener-
vating effects," etc., on the settler in this region. It is not
far enough south. I find everywhere, among the people
here from colder climes, the same activity of brain and
body, the same effort to improve, as among the people of
any other locality.
 Look about Florida-see the new towns springing up
everywhere; the railroads, steamboat lines, mills, factories,
stores, new residences, new appliances for cultivation of the
soil, machinery, implements, new schemes for raising, in-
creasing, marketing, shipping, and obtaining profits from
all soil products : are not these conclusive evidences of the
vigor and activity of the new-comers ?
 For, with very few exceptions, it is the Northern people,
so rapidly moving in here, that are developing the true re-
sources and capabilities of the State, and who are engaged in
all the enterprises of private or public benefit. Everywhere
they are planning new improvements, draining swamps,
"locating" town-sites, laying out streets and lots, clearing
large tracts of fertile soil, setting out orange-groves, experi-
menting with new crops, opening stores, founding churches