The morning news., 1888-06-07
AROUND SOUTH FLORIDA.
KISSIMMEE'S SANITARY CONDI-
TON AND IMPROVEMENTS

TION AND lMPROV hM6N ..
osceola County-Five Thousand Acres
of Sugar Cane-A Profitable Vege-
table Farm-Raising Pine Apples
The Hunting Season-Immigration
Outlook-Welcomet the New Corners
-Bartow-Her Clean Bill of Health
Material Prosperity-Fertile SOFIA
Big Orange Crop - Better Schools
Wanted.
From Orlando, resolved to test the sum-
rner climate of this portion of the peninsula.
fnext proceeded in the smooth-going train of
the South Florida Railroad to Kissimmee,
sodeftly located on the beautiful shores of
lake Tohopekaliga. Here / found the
..Tropical" still open, but passed most of
NV soiourn at the Osceola Hotel, which is
admirably kept by w. L. Van Duzor, and
run both upon the European and Ameri-
ran systems. This little city is one of
tbe noted places of Florida, and gives
promise of bright future. l note
marked improvements during the past
wear. and its health and sanitary condition
are excellent. Several spacious blocks of
buildings, a neat opera house, handsome
Presbyterian church, ice factory, and
quite a number of private dwell
ings have been erected. Among the
new business establishments are
A. E Bearden, dealer in fine domestic and
imported liquors, and r. S. Craig & Co.,
extensive general merchants and operators
in grain and provisions. /: W. Aderhold,
formerly of Macon, Ga, is again Mayor,
and S. R. Barrett continues at the helm of
that sprightly journal, the Kisstmnaee
Leader. During the past year
osCEOLA COUNTY
has been organized. with Kissimmee as its
capital, under the following officers: County
Judge. w. r. johnson; Clerk of Circuit
Court, ]. VI. Lee; Tax Collector, C. F.
Prevatt; Assessor, R. C. Partin; Sheriff, T.
A. Bass; County Treasurer, c. A. Carson;
Superintendent of Schools, w. j. Sears.
Steps will soon be taken to issue county
bonds for the erection of a suitable court
house,
This is the residence of the well-known
William Cannon, who is the largest real
estate dealer III the South. Since the COM
mencement of his career Mr.. Cannon has
disposed of 5000 acres of land, and is
now the agent for the sale of 1000, 900
acres, including the Disston purchase, AMI
the lands of several railway companies
To this gentleman l am indebted for much
valuable information relating to the rapidly
growing
SUGAR INTERESTS
of this region. Up to the present time the
st. Cloud Sugar Company has expended
100000 in the equipment of its mill
alone, with $4,000 TO be added. The
whole cost f the improvements when com
pleted will reach $3.50, 900. The company
have about 800 acres of the recently drained
lands on the lake margin in sugar cane tnis
season, and it is growing most luxuriantly,
already commencing 20 Joln, The crops
also of other individuals IN the vicinity will
be handled, amounting to several hundred
acres, SO that the company will have the
manufacturing of over
ONE THOUSAND ACRES
Of cane next fall. They pay 81 so per ton
for all sugar ca.le delivered at the mill
This is better by several hundred per cent.
tnan raising cotton But the industry is
still in its swaddling clothes The st. Cloud
company will continue to increase the area
under cultivation, and Fell, Davidson s.
Co. will soon have 1000 acres ready to be
seeded down. Other investors are con-
tinually appearing upon the scene,
M. GOBLET,
aFrenchman, who is the proprietor of the
largest asparagus farm i'll the world located
near Charleston, and embracing 2S4 acres,
has just purchased from Mr.. Cannon 1000
acres of this reclaimed lake land, and ex-
poets to Rave 500 acres in cane the next sea-
son. A very liberal estimate places the
crop Of sugar cane that will be raised near
Kissimmee in 1889, at 5000 acres. These
sugar lands are of the best description, even
surprising those of Louisiana in fertility
and the saccharine qualities of the juice of
the cane when expressed. An experienced
cane grower and scientist from that State.
IN a recently published interesting
paper, after analyzing the juice of
samples of cane sent to him from
kissimmee, and comparing it with
that obtained from the home article, makes
the candid admission that the former was
the richer in sugar producing constituents.
When the vast area, reclaimed by the fall
OF seven feet in the lake, caused by the
drainage operations of the A. q G.. G. c.,
Okeechobee Land Company, have been
utilized and brought into cultivation, this
county will represent more capital probably
than any other outside of Duval in the
State. 1t is possible that even the sugar in
terests, however, will be subordinate to
truck farming. Those rich reclaimed loans
yield
WEALTH OF VEGETABLES
without an ounce of fertilizer Mr.. A. B.
McElroy cultivates twenty-five acres of
vegetables, mainly in Irish potatoes, toma-
toes and beans. His shipments will reach
2OOO crates, viz: 1900 filed with tomatoes,
at net profit of So ZACH, and the remainder
at prices not stated. In addition, forty
barrels of potatoes will net him Sc each.
he plants in ordinary hummock land,
using 800 pounds of phosphates per acre.
Two hands only were employed at $40 each
per month This small farm of twenty-five
acres will yield near 81 600, despite one Of
tne dryest seasons on record. 1t is this kind
OF farming on small areas that adds most
10 the population and resources of a coun-
try.
PINE APPLE GROWING
Some Of our readers will be surprised to
learn that this region also produces the
pine apple in its greatest perfection, and
nothlng can be more remunerative.
visited a small patch inside of the corpora
Iion owned by A. Artman, accompanied by
Dr' j. w. Sewel, formerly of Georgia, who
furnished the following particulars. 1t
measured l4O feet in length by 10 feet wide,
making l-32 of an acre. The plants, two
years old, were set 20 inches each way
rather thicker than usual. The soil was a
nlSh, sandy hammock, and no fertilizers
We're applied.
Every plant was bearing fruit, and by
ac'ual calculation produced five apples TO
each nd ba tnta al cf