The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-11-14
Rich Granulated Bone Ready
For Immediate Use.
Money and Muscle Will Soon
Keep the Railroads Busy Han
ding Rich Phosphates from the
Tallahassee Country.

Three engine houses, each covering an
immense boiler, hosting machine and
a yawning shaft sunk down sixty feet into
the bowels of the earth now crown one
of the lofty hills on the property of the
LaPierre Phosphate Company short dis
tance west of Tallahassee, and mining
operations will be begun in earnest next
week.
The company is capitalized at $780,,
600. 1t owns a strip Of fertile land, rich
in phosphates which is three quarters of
mile wide and mile and three-quar-
ters long-containing one thousand six
hundred and sixty-nine acres
The machinery has a capacity for ta,,-
ing out nine hundred tons of phosphates
each working day of ten hours.
The president Of the company, Mr.. B. c.
Nudge of Boston, is a man Of small stat,nc
"a light weight in avoirdupois, but ten
tonner IN energy and get up and get lie
is one Of the most successful promoters 0;
the day, j. as full Of well weighed cxccu-
tive ability as an egg is Of mcat-in Yves
tern Parlancc: a hustler.
The treasurer Of the company Mr +. L
Owen, j. Il talented journalist and finau-
cleI Of high ability. He resigned lucra
tive position with the Boston Post Pub.
Lshlng company to give Ills entire time to
adyalclDg the interests at tie financial end
OF The LaPierIc Phosphate company.
As TO the quality of the LaPierre rock,
Mes:rs. S,!llwel & Gladding, chemists to
the New York Produce Exchange, say:
We have no hesitation in pronouncing
ms PHOSPHATE high grade article OF the
highest commercial and manufacturing
excellence"
Now assto quantity-Prof Lawrence
7. Johnson, Of the United States Geologi-
Ca Survey, who is recognized ex-
pert personally examined the LaPierrc
property and his estimate is that they have
between 60,0O0.000 and 1OO,O00,O0O tons of
all grades.
Al about eight feet from the surface the
AfsI stratum of phosphate is found. This
Is low grade purple rock averaging
ABOUT 55 per cent of bone phosphate of
Nme without washing Or separation.
by eliminating the sand from this purple
fock high grade, 72 per cent. rock is
obtained, but this the company will not
"oFK at present, for they have 80 much of
'le higher grade that they will leave this
~ ial back ion In the centuries to come.
IAls stratum is seventeen feet thick
beneath il is a stratum of white sand
seven feet thick, then comes a thick LAYER
Of high-grade fre-clay.
Beneath the f1re-clay is found the second
stratum of phosphates-a soft, friable, high
grade, showing 73 per cent. of bone phos-
pnate Of lime. This deposit is four feet
thick.
Immediately below the soft phosphate
ueposlt is a stratum of wonderful natural
sranulated bone, ground and prepared by
nature ready for applying to the soil. This
srsnulated bone has been tested by Florida
pianters and they pronounce it in It's crude
s'a'e to be the very best fertilizer they ever
useo. One of the shafts will be used ex-
ciuslVely for taking out this granulated
zone to put upon the local market at low
price per ton.
1he fourth stratum is of fine hard-rock
~ ieet thick, which analyses 70 per cent
ot bone phosphate of lime, crude.
One of the shafts will be used for taking
ou' nard rock, another for soft rock and
'ne third for the granulated bone.
taking the English basis of % cents per
unit per ton the 70 per cent. grade would