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MEXICAN GULF COAST ILLUSTRATED.
duced : “ Here is a veritable land of milk and honey, with a climate as fine as that of Southern Italy, and aw that distant land is benefited by the balmy breezes that sweep across the Mediterranean Sea, so this section of Mississippi has all the benefits of the healthful breezes that come like a healing balm from off the bosom of the Gulf of Mexico. To the invalid of the North this section offers a climate for his healing, for the sportsman the great forests abound in game, and to the lover of the rod and reel the waters of the rivers and the Gulf of Mexico offer the finest of fish, while to the tiller of the soil here is not only health with all the word implies, but. that which all alike seek, wealth, for the combined wealth of soil and climate actina in unison make for him who takes advantageof these proffered conditions^riches with the least expenditure of money or toil.”
Riverside is the spot chosen by a wealthy and enterprising citizen of Chicago, T. Swartwout, Esq., for carrying out an enterprise in the development of this Coast country, which will contribute largely in bringing it to L the attention of the country at large, as well as to very many persons who '' desire to find homes on the balmy and healthy northern shore line of the Mexican Gulf. Some time ago he purchased a large tract of land and has sub-divided it into lots and holdings of different areas to meet the wants of different buyers, which are offered for sale on terms at once liberal and easy of payment, monthly or yearly,as we'.l as by cash payment in full if desired. His address is at Orange Grove, and he will furnish all desired information upon request.
ORANGE GROVE.
Orange Grove is thirty-three miles west of Mobile on the L. & N. R. II. It has come into noticeof late years on account of the quantity and quality of its large shipments of early fruits and vegetables. The soil is naturally fertile and on account of the retentive clay subsoil (which during dry weather stores and holds previous rainfall), it affords to plant growths a constant supply of needful moisture. One of the most unvarying and important laws of nature is that of equalization, and its beneficent action is conspicuously illustrated by capillary attraction. When the surface of the earth by reason of excessive and continued hot weather becomes dry and parched, vegetation, unless fed with moisture from some source, withers and dies. A substratum in which water is stored up is a reservoir from which the capillary tubes of plants are fed. From the water-charged depths of tenacious clays, nature sends to the drier surface the vital current which entering into the circulating system of the grateful plant, keeps it in a healthy, growing state. In climatic conditions and healthfulness Orange
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