The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-09
BOUND NORTH.
.SoUIHERNERS EN- ROUTE TO
THE G. A. R. ENCAMPMENI.
THEY WILL VISIT ROANOKE.
what rrorninent Southerners Say.
The FIXTURE of AmnistOr--The Orange
Crop in Florida What They Think
or the Force Bill.

The Norfolk and We tern Railroad
Company yesterday morning made
up second section to Nc , east
bound passenger train in order to ac-
commodate a large excursion of South
ern capitalists TO various points in the
North.
The train consisted of i've Pullman
coaches-one from Admission, Ala, to
New York; another from Florida to
Boston,; a third from Floridato,B
ton; and special and regular fr6h
Memphis to Washington.
They arrived in Roanoke at $50 Il.
m. and left an hour later via the
Shenandoah Valley. There, was a
large number of Alabama people on
the train, and when u TIMES reporter
talked to number OF the passengers
he was cordially received. =
Mr.. w. Il. Wallac" II member OF the
city council of Admission, and presi-
dent of the fire department of that
city. is an ardent admiIer Of his home
and says without exception il is the
best laid out town in the South. Her
population now numbers 10000 souls,
and is steadily increasing. y cotton
mill, foundries, pipe works, furnaces
and car shops constitute her manu-
featuring enterprises, and all of which
are now in successful operation.
The reporter also had an interview
with Colonel G. s. Shattuck, com
lnandcr Of the g. \. r. post at Annis.
ton. Colonel Shattuck is Il native OF
Massachusetts, hut has been in the
South for the last eight years. lie
says that the citizens OF Alabama are
opposed to the Force bill to a man,
and that one hundred Northern Re
publicans, now living in Admission,
have pctitioncd the Senate not to pass
the measure.
In the Florida car the reporter saw
Messrs. a. g. Campbell and }. &.
Greeley, of jacksonville, and Mr.. II.
Il. Smith, Of Plymouth.
Mr.. Greeley represents the Land
Mortgage Bank, of Jacksonville. an
English bank house with capital of
-, 500, 600. He and Mr. Campbell
seem to be Justly proud of the health
fuIness of jacksonville, there icing
but twenty-Seven deaths there during
the month of July They are quite
indignant, though, at the census
enumerators. who refuse to enumer-
ate those citizens who have left the
city for the summer, and they report
10, 900 out ont of population of3o,OOO
as absent.
They say that the manufacturing
interests are very quiet, but that great
excitement prevails over the develop
ment of the phosphates in the State,
and that the largest fertilizer COM
panies III America are investing eN-
tensively. There are~said 4to be tens
of thousand of acres Of phosphate
from four to thirty feet deep. These
industries have added greatly to the
population of the State.
III. II. +. Smith. Of Orlando, the
great orange growing county OF the
State, reports the crop this year as only
about 30 per cent. of the average.
owing to the frosts of last winter
and the drouth of this summer. He
says that tie recently perfected sys.
TEN of marketing has given a great
impetus to this industry, and that
hundreds of acres are being planted
yearly. He has now a grove of POI
acres Of his own. besides he is caring
for 800 acres which he planted ion
New England capitalists.
He has two trees which bore this
wear 1000 and 10000 oranges respect
ivelv, while an old tree at Fort Holly
the oldest in the State, bore its uSua
crop of 10000 These three trees are
among the few that esc-R1 81 ss,,,
severe frosts of 1896, which M
most OF the orange trees in theII &