The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-05-15

In another column will be found an ar
'ivle under the caption "Florida's OPP
rornnity" While it directs attention
~ The fact that Middle Florida has the
-oil and the climatic conditions essential
20 successful production of vegetables for
. dependence of transporters and Of pro-
AucefS. The former must supply rapid
!, and reasonable transportation or the
farmer labors in vain the latter must
produce in quantity or the former cannot
. ne sustained in business. 1t is shown
hat 4 desirable outlet for the produce Of
f'lor''la all of it's sections, including the
West and South "a well as the Middle
i.IS by steamer from the port of Fernan-
. lima providing that the service be at
! ."a"t semi-weekly, an we presume this
may be assured by general action in
. making shipments via this route even this
, season, while the increased production
, whicA may be anticipated in succeeding
year~ will doubtless call for more frequent
, departures. Heretofore the great bulk of
shipments has been via Savannah, and fire.
! iIuen: complaint is made Of delay in
! transportation which has caused loss and
injury. 1t would seem wise to encourage
The Fernandina line if for no other reason
That that healthy competition would be
induced which would necessarily be for
the advantage Of the producer, while the
support of the Fernandina line wonld aid
| the commerce of Florida city and assist
10 l"nid it up to the consequence to
which its position and it's harbor entitle
! i This Atlantic harbor is Of essential
! Importance as receiving point for the
! railroad system Of Florida, where, it is to
! hoped, daily steamships may ere long be
!, deliver freight and passengers destined
! for all parts Of the State, and beyond it's
! bounds to the westward over the through
T.; lines to Pensacola.
! The "truck industry Of Middle Flor
; ida is in its infancy, but all infancy which
! promises great results of maturity be
=; fore which comes the necessary lapse Of
/. years of growth. 1t is new agriculture
( and business which is being learned, and
time is essential az in acquiring most
J. things which are worth knowing or having
/ Some start into it enthusiastically fancying
! fabulous profits, will not compromise
: their extravagant anticipations for merely
:: good returns, and are disappointed at not
:. reaching figure themselves placed too
high to touch. Some ship to the wrong
! market, at the wrong time, or inferior
{, produce, and get bad returns. So some
;. conclude that the truck business don't
;, and wont pay. They are mistaken, and
] to convince them that they are--that it
i does pay somebody and the community,
!! themselves included as of the community
O.. we "put them on a stand, on the
road leading to the Tallahassee depot,
j say, where they can see the wagons pass
loaded with vegetables-and for these
:. money will come back, brought into the
! country from another section to swell the
!: amount Of currency in this. We ask
4. them what the county had to export at
/. this season to bring money into it before
it shipped vegetables in addition to what
;!|t may have had and still has? They
!. unjust confess that the vegetable return is
! ,cear gain. But they will object, for the
i: :lissatisfied always find pretext, that it
! >cost 50 much to raise the vegetables that
there was small profit. Well, granting
! hat in some instances there is small profit
! 30 the producer, still the money he ex.
I; pended was disbursed, for the most part,
! among the people, and the money re-
! ceived was an addition to the wealth of
{ the county, and indirectly for the benefit
{ Of all to be expended with the laborer,
/ the mechanic, the merchant, who should
all prosper in this land which nature has
! 40 muni6cently endowed with the raw
! material Of prosperity--soil, health and
ss:cliIaate-leaving to man the RESPONSE
! bility of wisely utilizing or foolishly
!