Tuesday Night 9/8.

My Dear Sweetheart,

Your good letter of Thurs. & Friday was here when I returned from Jax tonight, and I enjoyed every second of it. I was very much interested in what you said about the homesteading idea. I was pretty sure that you felt that way about it and I am glad that you told me just how you felt. I have felt the same way for many years, but it suggested something which I thought might work all alright here. I have given up the idea, so please don’t recall the unpleasant mental pictures you have of the West.

September 8, 1925

Dr. White and I spent all forenoon looking at close in acreage near Jax, and it looked too good to turn down. Each of us made a purchase and “our” tract adjoins his. He bought two lots of 10 acres each & I bought one of 10 acres for an investment. Both his and ours are high and dry, located 8 miles due West of Jax Post office on the Atlantic Coast Line RR. At the present time they are about 3 miles (the way a crow flies) from the city limits and about 5 miles in driving. At $75 per acre, with the boom just beginning at Jax, these tracts were too good to pass up. I feel confident that we could double our money on them in less than a year, probably before Christmas. Jax was 125,000 population last year, is about 160,000 now and it is claimed that by 1930 it will be 500,000. At any rate it is growing, and we bought the closest acreage which is high & dry. Please don’t think I am a pig for property, Dear, as it is only because I don’t like to pass up an opportunity like that.

This property jumps to $100 per acre on the 20th of this month, and when the Northern people get down here it is a question how fast it will increase. This tract is one of our “eggs,” Dear, and I hope it will hatch out something for us. I know that it will.

I love you, Sweetheart, and with a sweet “goodnight,” I am,

Your
Walter.