Tourists' and settlers' guide to Florida . Views in A\intor Park. V. •« tourists and settlers anum to Florida. 129 This company owns 15,000 acres of the best farming landin Gadsden county, and they have invested over ;$300, lands, together with the improvements on the same. Theyraise annually about 1,000 acres of tobacco. The outputat the Quincy factory would represent 8,000,000 cigars perannum. On the plantations they have erected 142 tobaccobarns of the most approved pattern. They have upward of150 dwelling houses for the plantation employes, in addi-tion to the superintendent
Tourists' and settlers' guide to Florida . Views in A\intor Park. V. •« tourists and settlers anum to Florida. 129 This company owns 15,000 acres of the best farming landin Gadsden county, and they have invested over ;$300, lands, together with the improvements on the same. Theyraise annually about 1,000 acres of tobacco. The outputat the Quincy factory would represent 8,000,000 cigars perannum. On the plantations they have erected 142 tobaccobarns of the most approved pattern. They have upward of150 dwelling houses for the plantation employes, in addi-tion to the superintendents dwellings, stables, cattle sheds,etc. They operate eight large plantations, and. in addi-tion to their tobacco crop, cultivate about 2,000 acres ofland each year in corn, oats, sugar-cane, rice, potatoes, peas,etc. Their headquarters are in the town of Quincy, wherethey have two large cigar factories; one is a brick building125 by 124 feet, the other a two-story frame building 90by 100 feet. In addition to these buildings, they have twolarge warehouses, one a
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