The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-20
FLORIDA FACTS.
News Notes Cleaned from Our state
Exchanges.

64cn0MRe9.
The Tampa Phosphate Company have
nearly all their dredging machinery in
place on their lighter.
The farmers of St. Johns county, and
especially those interested in grapes and
peaches, report good crops this year.
Several thousands of dollars have been
realized this spring from the sale of
Peen to peaches from the orchards in the
vicinity Of DeLand.
AS the young fruit grows in size the
fact becomes more evident that a big
crop Of oranges will be gathered in Volu-
sia county next winter.
The steamer Lotus No. 2, which was
sold at Wewahitchka three months ago,
will leave the Chattahoochee river Septem-
Der for Mobile, and will after that date ply
the Warrior river.
The Columbia Phosphate Company now
have work progressing very satisfactorily
at their mines. The railroad TO connect
with the Savannah, Flo rida anG Western
is nearly completed.
Palatka Herald: Many bales of moss are
being shipped north from upriver points
to be made up into mattresses and sold
back to us. The thought naturally occurs
that we ought to do all this right here.
Gainesville Sun: Everybody is anxious
10 see dirt thrown on the Gainesville and
Tallahassee railroad. There are now 400
men at work on the road near Tallahassee,
and a like number should be employed
here.
A. L. Hilleary Of Lochloosa, is soon to
start for South Carolina, from which
state he will bring large colony of rice
growers, which he will locate on the west
side Of the Lochloosa.
J. H. Tatum & Co. of Barlow have
sold 400 acres of fine phosphate land near
Phosphoria to Col. A. E. Willard, and
steps are being taken to establish big
plant at once Col. Willard represents
the Bradley Phosphate Company of New
York. The price was $4,000.
We learn that President Mclean of the
Florida, Georgia and Western railroad
has gone east in the interest Of the road,
and that he will be in Gainesville in ten
or..fifteen days to arrange for putting on
a large force of men at this end of the
road. 1t is said that Mr.. Mclean has the
money. and that he intends to build the
road as speedily as possible.
Sun.
The Arcadia Arcadian says: "Mr.
ANTHONY Peters returned from Boston
last Friday night in good spirits over the
| immediate commencement OF the build.
| ing of the Arcadia, Lakeland and Gulf
railroad. The legislature has granted
the charter and has given a good sized
land grant to aid in its construction.
| The road will be no branch affair, but
will be a trunk line 200 miles in length,
with three deep water outlets. Lakeland
will be the northern terminus. Doca
Grande the southern, where there VIII oe
two terminal points on the Gulf coast az
the mouth or the Manatee river. before
we go to press three surveyin corps VIII
have started to work-from Lakeland
Boca Grande and from the mouth OF the
Manatee river"
At Archer, in Alachua county, ls
small railroad reaching out into the
country distance Of eight or ten miles
and built by Taliaferro y Amber, OF
Jacksonville, for log road. Ihe Z. y.
& f. company has just purchased tnis
road and will extend it on to the Dunnei-
Ion mines without delay. An order 1or
/. 600 tons of railroad iron for the purpose
was sent to New York yesterday. MS
| ia a sharp move to checkmate the 9. r.
& W.. which has thousand men at WORK
on it's extension to Dunnellon.: Wnen
this extension from Archer to Dunnelion
is completed and the F. G. & P. no longer
has to share the freight money with tne
Is. S., o. & G., the shorter mileage 10
FernandinA and the having phosPhaCe
elevator here will give our road an advan-
tage over the S. F. & W. that it can
hardly overcome. me.-Fernandin News.