The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-05-13
more nor less than 4. suburb, If Orlan

more nor less than 4. 'uburs, of Orlan
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Orlando is a much talked ot place
| II is the county.seat of Orange county,
and is truly business place. Space for
bids us Il entioning all We soc here.
This is the terminus of the F. r. 4 y.
system in this direction. Everything
seemed to he busy about here. No 10
ticed an awful crowd At the deIo,
and for awhile. we were under the inn
preston that row was in IN, Src>s, bu I
inquiries revealed that the people were
only tussling for room to post their let.
tiers in the mail car letter box. We
should almost Judge from the crowd that
there was no post Office in the place, but
4 OF course there is. Why is il that some
people will never write until the last
minute, and then rush OIL, pell nell, To
the station. to mail their letters in car,
when they do not know one half the time,
whether they are causing them to lose
"a hours OF time or not.
Leaving Orlando. the country assumes
u more level aspect. and after passing
! Pinecastle. il merges into .iatwood-, un.
til kissimmec is reached. Here We
pass through fine piece of ham
Z s,,Dsl lan1 ANIL ,ha,, 81, r
klssimmee is before us. ieyel as q
checker board. Beautiful Lake Tuhope-
kaliga lies TO the left of us Some good
sized steamboats, navigate this lake.
There are hundreds Of acres Of very rich
prairie land surrounding this lake. and
We understand that "A Louisiana sugar
| company is to move, bag ami baggage,
to this section Of Florida. and raise
cane
The Tropical Hotel is quite an attlar,.
i've feature Of this place. It is large, and
look, cool ard pleasant to the dusty trav-
eler.
Proceeding on, We pass through Hat.
woods, prairics and cypres. swamps for
some thirteen or fourteen miles The
railroad company is busy filling il" MI
OF its tres,le works II is quite n big un-
dsrtaking, but il rapidly nearing cum-
pletion.
| At Horse Creek. we stop for water.
Here il located the iiur,e Creek shinyle
company. 4 few of the old original
SeminoIfs come out at this point and
stare stupidity a' the train They are II
miserable looking Sc, OF human beings.
Their costumes quite take the cake. '
Some of them can boast of Il shnt and
collar, and occasionally II pair VI pants,
! while one young savage was actually
clothed with his how and a uuiy.r Of ar
rows. |, was suggestive of the time
"wheu Adam was n boy. Nire cuGl
costume that. and we'll suited to the eli.
, mate.
From this point on the band gets high
et and more rolling, 4 poor quality Of
pine woods. would be our Judgment.
Haines City is pret,ily situated among
these hills.
| This pine lend continues with few va.
riations as far as Plant city. Some fla-
ces il Is lower and of nucI, bc ter qnal
ity.
From the car windows We sec many
small alligators in the roadside pools and
ponds. They invariably seem to be in q
great rush to get somewhere. We have
travelled up the st, Johns several times
and believe that we saw more gators"
along the South Florida road than on
any one trip down the st, Johns, Occa.
sionally an "old fellow can BE- seen
scurrying off into some pond.
Saw mills abound along this road. a.
they do also along almost every one il
the State.
! Lakeland is reached This i quite on
attractive looking little llncp, ard is i'm.
portant MS the junction ut the Florida
Southern railway Neat and attractive
depot building are one Of the feature
Of this road.
Plant City comes next in onr south
! ward course. This place is located on
some excellent pine land, and is quite n
heavy point for orange shipping. Many
pretty homes make the place attractive
The next place We pas, delights in ,hs
doubtful name Of Cork. Just why
we fail to see There is nothing Of the
place except post Office and store ,ha
is visible to the naked eye.
4 few n lies farther on il the rrrtil
little town Of SetFner. This plat" show
signs Of ol,l-time plantations, and raj
boast Of excellent lard and Il tret', IDcn
tion. 1 few miles farther on, and an
other settlement or tNu, ami We are II
sight of Tampa Ibors A1'h'ion loom
up heavily to the right 1f us. while in ti'
left we catch Occasional glmps"- o
Hillsboro BAY through the trees.
We roll slowly into the town of Tam
, pa. and here our observations end f.
the time being. JACK SELI"h-
IKANSI'ORTA1IDS
J Special Correspondence fuatka News
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