The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-23
ANSWERS TO INouIRERs.

We are satisfied from the best informa.
tion ct hand, that the percentage of
deaths will not average over one to the
thousand throughout the county and city
OF Tampa for the past year.
Steamers'twice week from New Or
leans to Cedar Keys, fare $40; Cedar
Keys to Tampa, steamers twice q week.
fare $3.50, and from Fernandina to Cedar
Keys, fare So, by railroad.
Houses in Tampa at this present writ.
ing are all full, but houses with to 6
rooms and kitchen cost $40 to $12 per
month; board at hotels from $3.50 to $l4
per week.
Butter 25 to 40 cents. eggs Is to 20
cents per dozen, sugar 10 cents, tea so
cents, coffee 20 cents, chickens 90 to 25
cents, beef 5 to 10 cents, pork to 10
cents, bacon IL to Is cents, potatoes 40
cents per bushel, cabbage, tomatoes, Gu
cumbers, squashes, green corn, English
peas, beets, turnips. all cheap when sold
here, but it pays better to ship North.
Oranges l to cents each, lemons, lines
40 cents per hundred, fish any quantity,
three large mullets for 10 cents, oysters
25 cents per hundred delivered, water,
tree stone, wells average from 8 to IA
feet deep, soft water: some in the CITY
use cisterns.
A large number of tradesmen have
come to Tampa lately, mostly carpenters,
and all appear to be engaged, and are
getting from $3.50 to So per 6ay. AL
most any trade will pay here now. Sew
eral new stores opened here lately, and
appear to be doing lively business, and
two others are preparing to open in new
buildings. Clerks get from $40 to Sl25
per month. Blacksmiths and wheel.
rights are all apparently making money,
and room for more.
Unimproved land Mt $1.25 to SIS per
| acre; some government land and State
| and school lands at $1.25 to Sc and 81
per acre-first.cass improved lands de-.
pends on locality and improvements.
Land can be had without groves for
| from S2 to $40, and with groves from 100
to 500 trees, 40 to 160 acres, in some 10.
calities at from S400 to $4,000.
There are many branches of industry
needed here now. We want canning
establishment for canning guavas; en-
extract factory to utilize the lemons and
lines. There is not n single crowded
industry here at this time.
Corn 81, oats 70 cents, peas $1.25 per
bushel, rice 8 cents per pound, cotton 5
cents in seed, long staple.
An orange grove near transportation
and in good condition after planting, IL
considered good property aud brings q
fair price. In localities out from the
conveniences of transportation you can
| get grove verr leap, even up to bear.
ing.
Question. What is the average crop
per acre Of the first season and produc.
tions of oranges up to full bearing?
Answer. About 70 trees to the acre
generally; the first year some 20 as high
as 800 to the tree, but 80 to so is very
good crop.
@, How long from first crop to full
bearing?
A. Three to four years.
Q. How long from the seed or trans.
planting of the orange until it bears, and
at what age is the best to plant the
trees?
A. Some here bear as early as the 5tt
year from the seed, but as q general rule
to years before much frnit ia yielding
Figs and pine apples can be planted any
time; and 4 year old trees are the bes
20 plant.
@. What is an average crop of oranges
worth per acre?
A. The present year some crops her,
made $1,000 cash per acre, but $500 t
5000 in good groves.
Q. What are the facilities for trans
porfation of productions with receipts o
sales?
A. Productions must be shipped Of
for a market, North, South, East O
J West-all are our markets.
r Q. Rates of interest, taxes, &C.?
f a. Interest per cent, taxes low
county out of debt, State taxes reduce
: this year, State will soon be out of deb
q. Cost Of material for building?