New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02
FLORIDA OU1 OF SEASON.
NATURE, BUSINESS AND WINTER RESI-
DENTS

NA1OhEy DOSlNEOC NV
DENTS.
Irpou AN occ AsIoSAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TTBUNEJ
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 27.---It will be
five months before this peninsula attracts much atten-
tion from the elite who promenade the pazzas OF the Dig
hotels and shoot alligator the banks OF the oSa-
waha River but for all that 1t Is by no means rs s's
pant as you night suppose, II you THINK that INC
Foridian lives OH Yankee in summer ana oniy h'n IN
the winter Every year and people of Worth
ern birth are learning that it quite possible 10 stay
here and attend to their business through the sum
mer and experience surprise that the mercury does
not climb far into the nneties except on few occasions
When 1t does almost inevitable thunder tempest
comes TO clear and purify the air. leaving the SKY OF
visbing blue and the orange OF the rich green
that enables one to distinguish a grove miles away.
The orange seems firmly established us the leading
though not the only business here The almost prncey
fortunes asked for large growing groves has stimulated
the planting of which still do not prom
Use to flood the country with the golden fruit ana the
mammoth land companies are having q Dig DOOM Id
orange lands These lands are sold at the Governments
price ST. 25 per acre. except in very favored LOCALITIES
so that man Will eight years has piece OF
aud covered with bearing trees has only to thank MS
own labors the cost of land being nominal The state
Government has been quite free with its lands In selling
and granting to the who are now instrumental id
bringing in settlers and has been censured by many
but the prosperity of the State has apparently already
justified the manner OF the disposal
1t is hoped that the tradedoar will not send the
yagrants southwark We have frozen out about all OF
the dubious money that flooded the country not long
ago. The South was overrun with trade dollars ana
Mexican and Spanish silver, but the determined oppo
son to them and their deprecated value sent them OH
to impose others than darkies and Corn CracRers
About the only remaining coins without legal value
are yellow douboons which cross the Gulf by thou-
sands in exchange for the herds OF cattle that are raised
for the Cuban market This cattle business by the way
ia large and increasing for which South Florida Is
well suited has been proven by some OF the weahest
men In the State who thousands OF animals SNIP
ping agencies established ut Tampa and Punta
Rsss The weight OF each beast recorded aud the pro-
ceeds of Its sale faithfully accounted for that dis
honesty is easy. moe potent preventive may ne
the fact that Florida is about unpop
uar as DEMONSTRATING OF the Western States. To
enter the catteraisng business actively one must TO-
all claim TO civilization and sometimes FOR weeks
one will find better pillow than his saddle. The pro-
ceeds of this business are said % be S3OOOo per month
from Havana alone. ,.-, .,
aside the curtain from the Everglades, the hume OF the
semnoes and rendering the
merce The action OF the great dredges has already
and the company has acquired nall mil Of land
"a one insalment of their contract Win the state
Tev have NOT offered this for sale ~ yet and wisely.
for here as else is desirable to live In newly
drained Districts at least for The first lew non'hs
the worlds sugar In those same brakes where three
wears ago posse sson hardly disputed with the ALI
gator and kindred. The report just published OF the
shp-cana survey Florida assures the pubic tat
there Is no obstacle the OF that enterprise
The celebrated winter residents OF Florida are stu
pursuing business pleasure in tile Tar North Mrs H.
b. stowe OF course, is known as among the trst 10
become of OF the many bea nu places on TIE
ST. Johns Mandarin. Green Cove spr ne u lew miles
abo and the river, Is the winter home OF Ina
deus Dayds OF inky and lovely spot enough
to stay In indefinitely. The spring II a deep pool Oh
water twelve fifteen feet IN diameter AT ne top ana
so clear the least object Is visible at the bottom"
twenty-ve.to thirty feet away. The water Is strongly
impregnated with sulphur ana has strangely braclng
effect on who lathe In the POOLS Enclosed Tor the
purpose. General Spinner, whose unique signature
adorns so many greenbacks has fine place In suburb
OF Jacksonville founder OF the First National
Bank of Florida Another resident Is the widow OF scion
Robinson sd we'll known TO TRIBUNE eaders OF OLD che
has always followed bis custom OF displaying United
States flag conspIcuously staff on each return OF In
dependence Day. the Ownt: OF the most imposing
structure the city is Mr. William Aston His Visit
here oweyer, rare. The Rev. w. W. lbckr has ~
orange grove near switzerland, and A. H. Shipnan III,
| scroll-saw maker. place ut Geneva Why on eartl
these names given to the places Is unaccVuntaDe
| for there isn't mountain In all Florida.