The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-26
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STATE EXCHANGES
SIGNS OF INDUSTRIAL ACTrvurv
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CHANGES.
A company has been organized to build
Waterworks at Green Cove.
Over 500 hands are now at work grad
ing tn" South Flor da extension.
A number Of tarpon have been hooked
in the waters off Anastasia Island re-
Gently.
The contract for grading the A., G c..
Il l. railroad will be let in about thirty
days.
1T is said that the Florida Central and
Pennsular railroad is surveying line
from Plant City to the Alfalfa river.
The Ocala and Blue River Phosphate
company has contracted to deliver 90 900
tons of phosphate at Fern4ndina during
tn" present ear.
The prospectus Of the Orlando canning
facto y ith capital o. $1,000, which
might he increased to $4,000, will be
issued i'll few days
The bond Of the Tampa Rifles was
filed last week. Captain c. noley has re-
ceived notice from Adjutant-G General
Lang that he guns have been sh pped
VI. B. Ma"farlane, United States deputy
collector of internal revenue at Tampa
says that on September Is he sold S., 300
worth of to acco Stamps.
Colonel Th' mas reports that the duties
paid on the Mascotte' s cargo at Tampa
| last Thursday amounted to $4,000, and
on las Sunday it was between 50, 600 and
$4,000
Ocala Banner: Capt. John II. Welsh
shipped two cars of his soft phosphate on
an ord'r to hica 0 parties. The freight
on same was $3.50 per ton from Welshton
to Chicago
Monti clio Tribune: The mo nlng tain
| over the Savannah, Florida and Western
now brings the Savannah mail aid Morn
ing News This is decidedly bett~r, as it
ena les our merchants to get the cotton
market Of the previous day little a ter
8 o'clock.
- A farmer froy9xs. adisoI. 6 ..nty Se@s r.
Mont cello Tuesday, who had bale of
C ton weighing over 700 pounds, which
he said was gin"ed from 1, 400 pounds of
S, ed cotton of the Peterkin variety. This
is an unusual yield.
Mo- ticello Tribune: Col. N R. Walker
| of Crawfordville was in the city Ie-
Gently. We learn that he will be can
didate for reading clerk Of the lower
house of the Fiftv-frst congress. "Old
MATS" past experience ably fits him for
the position.
| Kissimmee Leader The rice mill is
going ahead as rapidly as large gang of
workman can push it. The mill will be
45x175 feet on tue gr und and four sto-
RI high. TIE first story will be twelve
| feet in the clear thr second ten feet and
the third and fourth eight feet each.
Frank Bass is boss of the job, and he says
it W IL be pushed as rapidly as he can get
men to do the work
| Jack on county has acted and has ap-
poin ed Judge w H. Milton to represent
the county and Hon. w. j. Daniels to
represent NJ rianna at the Orla"do con
vention, which meets October 7 to con-
slider the important matter Of an exhibit
from Florida at the Wor DIS Fair at Chi
cago. Hon. S. r. Mallory has be ap-
D 'inted 10 represent Escambia county
| Colonel W. D. ChIpley will attend upon a
sp cial invitation The other counties of
| Western Florida will, no doubt, name
their delesatcs during this week. Also
the towns OF Milton, Mariana aud Chip
ley.
The OcaIa correspondent of the Jack
sonville Times . niOn writes AS the
season is coming on conversation turns
the price, of oranges. All the buyers
| in the market are ''bears." and they have
many reasons t. maintain their position
the immense fruit crop all over the
Union, a big crop in California (which
will come in the market month earlier
than usuall, heavy yield abroad, Mex
leo, as compel tor kansas City having
received the first car last week from our
sister ,epublic). And lat, but not least,
| Florida crop, which ia put iywhe
price o f,r spoken Of is Is c nts per bOx
Morehouse, who is here from California,
| saws that he has purchased 200 bo es
an, the Manatee river for immediate ship
ment, for which he paid $l.25 per box /;
but they must he strictly bright and We y
fine. Captain Lytle, of st nton, Lake
| " cir, will begin the immediatr shit ment
of his 'Parson Brown variety of oranges,
which ripen early"
| Barlow Courier Informant: The tre-
mendnus rain. fall OF the last two or three
weeks has brought Pence river up TO q 'od
hig It and the immense volume OF water
8 interfering to some extent, with phos-
phaie mining. The jacksonville Peace
River Company has had to suspend work
on account If It, A gentleman who
came up from Arcadia on Saturday re-
porls The county bridge over Peace river at
tnal place as being in an unsafe condition.
IL had moved about eighie n inches and ii
~as teaied ct Arcadia that II wonld be
swept by the current He went down
here 10 examine forty acres OF phosphate
land which lie owns and found II covered
WI b water, the depth being fifteen feet at
one point
Clear Warter HarbOr Times: Higley
Drew had thrilling experience, beginning
GAtnIdav and ending Sunday. Returning