The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-06
HILLS OF INTERLARCHEN.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE
WAY OF IMPROVEMENTS.

Progressive, Pushing People Who
are Proving Their Faith in Florida
by Their Works.
We have had occasion several times to
mention in these columns the improve
ments being made ut Interlaehen, our en-
terprising and ambitious little sister
town, but not until visit 'he:e q few
days since did we know OF the extent
and great importance Of the improve
meuts Of which we had only casually
heard spoken Of.
Interlachen is about eighteen miles
west Of Palatka, on the Florida Southern
railway, in the center Of one OF the NEST
thriving communities in East Florida,
surrounded by Mannville on the east;
the beautiful Pleasant Valley and Ockla-
waha settlement on the south. where are
situated some Of as desirable lands ana
comfortable homes as one would wish to
see; our the west by Keuka and Ed. Rum
lsy-for Ksuka and Mr.. Rumley are
inseparably connected, and to mention
one is but to think of the other-and on
the north by Anderson-a promising
neighborhood surrounding Mariners
Lake and west Putnam-but Anderson
we will speak OF later on. The improve
ments in tho way OF new business houses
and residences in Intsrlachen have been
many within the last year, not the least
Of which is the completion Of Hotel In
terlachen, erected by the Interlachen
Company, Of which Mr.. G.. w. Hastings
is the president, 4 very handsome new
hotel, conducted by Mrs. Al. Z. Knapp
and her son, Mr.. c. r. Knapp, who are
making the hotel an extremely popular
stopping place for all who are lucky
enough to visit that section. The large
two story building of Mr.. Hugo Fried ,
lander, intended for q hardware store, is |
fast nearing completion, and will soon |
he ready for occupancy. Mr.. Fried
lander is An experienced hardware man |
with special northern connections, and |
viii TO doubt do q thriving business !
when no once gets under way. Messrs. !
Bickford & Ewing, snterpris;ng general
merchants, have the foundation laid for |
largo rev store room. Mr.. G. p. Dew
ereu1, of this city, also has q very nice
new TWO story building here, in which
he has a splendid general stock Of goods,
in charge Of Mr.. NJ. d. Steele, who re-
ports . good business. Bssides these
new church building has been erected,
and a large number Of residences, many
Of which will compare for elegance with
Palatk's most beautiful homes. Mr..
Hall has . steam planning mill, where
doors, window frames and all kinds of
carpenter work is done in good style, as
well as a cotton gin, and is doing
good business. Capt. III. E. Anderson,
as jolly and clever an old sailor as ever
commanded crafe. is putting up
building containing q number OF office
rooms. where he proposes to discant on
the advantages OF the Mariners Lake
lands and make his baby town grow
into a vigorus and robust neighborhood.
IANIToBA GROVE AND NURSERY.
The real object in THE NEWS repre-
sentative in going to Interlachen wss to
visit the celebrated Manitoba Grove and
Nursery, belonging to Mr.. David Young.
and the Canadian colony now making
such vast improvements, and this article
to tell OF what was seen and the impress
sion given by a personal inspection So,
after good dinner, We climbed into
spring wagon drawn by good team,
and with Messrs. Young, Knapp and
Capt. Anderson as companions, the Man.
icoba Grove was visited. This now cele
br.ted grove comprises about one hun
drcd acres, on which 10 about $500
young orange trees, in as healthy Wig
orus and growing condition, so far as the
writer could determine, and as he was
assured by number who had most
carefully examined the grove, AS il it had
never passed through freeze. OF
course the leaves are all killed, and per-
#otso far not tree in all the vast grove
Etkves any indication Of dying from the
4dects OF the freeze. 1t is worthy of
kWention that when the freeze came |
sand was heaped up around the trunks
OF every tree in the grove from two to
three feet high, and up to this time about
eight inches Of the trunks Of the trees |
are protected by the sand, which will be
pulled away as soon as the weather gets
steady and warm. The grove is culti-
voted on the s'clsan culture" system,
and the space between the trees are
kept entirely free from all vegetation,
except portion which is cultivated in
cotton. Adjoining this grove. Mr.. |
Young has put out about 1900 Peento
and Honey peach trees, some OF which |
are now in bloom and will bear a fine
crop this ye-.. This land ali about here |
is well adapted to peach and pear cul-