Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-04-05
Jacksonville, Florida.
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Correspondence of the Bellows Falls Times
Jacksonville. Fla. March 2d 1879.
Editor Times The following Items
Won are at liberty to publish II you con-
s;der them of sufficient interest to your
readers.
jacksonville is situated on the st.
Johns River twenty-five miles from its
mouth and contains with its suburbs
about twelve thousand inhabitants, more
than one-half of whom are co'ored.
The suburbs are Brooklyn and River
side on the west, LaVilla on the north
west and East jacksonville on the east.
The river here runs nearly east, but
short distance above and below its course
is nearly north, and here it is less than a
mile in width, but short distance above
il is six miles wide. The first house was
built here in 1921. There are now ten
streets one mile long running parallel
with the river, and fourteen crossing
these at right angles. Those nearest the
river and parallel with it, being eighty
feet wide and the others seventy feet
wide. The squares or blocks all contain
one and one-half acre each, except those
lying between Laura and Pine streets,
which contain two acres. The former
are divided into six lots the later into
eight lots each. A large portion of the
city was burned during the rebellion,
but within the last two or three years, it
has been built up rapidly and there are
now many nice two and three story
brick blocks as well as many fine wood
buildings, and there are also large
number of cheap ones. The city con
tains about seventy-five stores, two
private banking houses, freedmans
bank, twelve churches, ten hotels besides
a large number of boarding houses all
of which have been well filled with
northern boarders this winter. There is
United States Signal Service Station
here. The Jacksonville Pensacola d
Mobile railroad connects here with
steamboats, tor all points on the st.
Johns and tributaries. This river and
tributaries is said to supply more than
one thousand miles of navigable waters.
The first steamboat, the George Wash
ington, first made its appearance on this
river in 1880, now there are thirty-three
steamboats, and large number of sail
ing vessels coming here with merchan-
disc or in ballast, lading back with yell
low pine, cypress and other lumber. Fiji
teen to twenty of them can be counted
on some days at one time, and there has
been no time this winner but some of
them could have been seen. There are
nine or ten steam mills with gang saws
which can hardly supply these vessels,
although one of them claims to cut more
than forty thousand feet day. The
thermometer has ranged during the last
three months, from % to 80. Garden
truck grows we'll here. G. D. Oak, few
yea ago an apprentice to l.. Amadon Of
your place, has been marketing cab
bages, turnips and beers, radishes, lettuce,
etc., nearly every week during the win
ter, keeping bis stock good by new plants
and has now six thousand or more cab
bages and large number of turnips,
beets, etc. He finds ready sale for, from
100 to 500 cabbages per week to one
dealer. He has already planted four
acres water melons which will ripen in
season for crop of sweet potatos, and
the potatos will ripen in season for a
winter crop of cabbages, thus making
three crops year on the same ground
But he is yankee, natives, many Of
them do not raise one good crop year,
and more do not raise any crop at all,
who have plenty of laud. Mr.. Oak also
has one thousand fruit trees one and TWO
years old among which are orange, lem
on, apricot, nectarine, fig, pomegranate
and peach. He has also a number OF
acres of sugar cane planted. He has a
good sugar mill and last year made
thirty barrels of sugar and number
barrels syrup from his own cane and as
much more for his neighbors. His place
is three miles out of the city and on the
opposite side of the river where there is
good land for sale and which can be cul
tivated proftably by northern men orany
men of energy, and can be bought al
from ten to thirty dollars per acre. But
there are any quantity of lands that car
be bought for fifty cents per acre and
dear at that. B.
- Judge Anderson of Belmont coun
ty, O., recently issued marriage licens,
? for the 18th son of Charles Brandon
there being five still younger than he
The father Of these SO children formerl,
lived in Bellaire, and has been dead only