The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-01-23


hotels and parks and steamship lines
and yethe makes no great noise in the
world. For years and years he has
been perfecting this system. and every
branch OF Is moves along like clock
Ework' Thousands of mon are employed
Eby him and his enterprises have al
ready, added many millions to the
value OF property in Florida. This
bcaqtiful city of Tampa Is q monument
70 his genius. More than half o. CEN
tury ago Richard Henry Wilde wrote a
little egem. beginning My life is like
the summer rose" and The last verse
was n We e.,
My lifesis lika the prints that feet
Soon as thesrising tide shall beat.
All traces Vanish from the sand. ~
Yet asif grievipg to efface,
All vestige of the human race,
On that lone shore loud means the
But none, alas! shall mourn for me. 9
. MIR. Wilde }lwas aa Irishmah, who
came over here after Emmet's untimely
death, and settled in Augusta, and t
suppose he had some reason for PEN
ming such SSad, sweet verses. I wish
that he couM see Tampa now. I wish
that Rev. Frank Goulding was alive to
see 1t, for 1t was here that, he located
that t'tc.rible deWil fish that carried the
boat and his cAildren (t@The l-oung.
Marooners " far Quito sea. There is
no desert strand nSw ;aao lone shores.
Lakeland is a little gem of a town
and | haveanot found, q, better hotel in
Florida than, the Trelnonfs. 1t is Just
fine etenough ana good enough for any
body! 1t overlooks one of the pret-
tiest lakes | have yet seens and, the
town is surrounded by many sOthers.
This is quite railroad center and
might have been city ii Tampa was
father off. 1t will be city Yet, for
such beautiful locations and Surround
ings are not common. even. in Florida.
AS old Father Dobbinss used to saw,
The Creator has quit making land,
but He keeps on making people, land
Lakeland will be found out before
long.
l have been to Barlow, the center, OF
the phosphate region. Thirty com.
panies have organized within the
county and millions Of dollars invested
in land and machinery. There is capi-
tai here from Boston, New York, Bal.
timore. Richmond, Pittsburg, CHARLES
ton, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta.
But all is not gold that glitters. OF
these thirty companies only sixteen,
are in actual operation. or these sfXH:
teen only seven have made any money,
There is phosphate enough, but every
thing depends upon management and
location. visited one plant six miles
in the country that is being operated
by a receiver. What o business this
has gott be! The receiver There
ought to be book upon it just like the
books for lawyers and doctors and
other professions. 1t should be made
a textbook in the schools. I think I
would name it .'The = Lawyers. Har-
vesti the Creditors Grave and the
Stockholders Funeral" But this
phosphate business is yet in its infancy
and Improved methods of mining and
washing will soon be invented. The
PeruIian islands. are exhausted, and
now nature unlocks another storehoGse
in Fl3rida that seems sufficient for cen
turies to come. What is it =" il
4aske9. aIs; itsarttfaal, vegetab 3sin-
,mindral 9n:, 1t 10 a.mi mixt of all, they
say but chiefly mineral. found some
shafk$ teeth. hey a bound in1N ak, of
Fit~ isharks teeth from one-fourth} or an
inch 10 four inches in length. Some of
those efantediluvian monsters ust have
been as large as young whales, but
how in thetworld did they sail congre-
gaze on this peninsula when the great
convulsion came that upheaved it?
Verily.the world is full of mysteries,
and we know nothing hardly. Fortunes
are shrewd and bold and who had good
judgment and foresight. George w.
Scott has sold part of his holdings for
fabulous sums. He owned miles of
phosphate lands on Peau river. Mr..
Codington, the genial, energetic Yam
kee Mayor of Boston, bought largely
at from 50 to $40 an acre and sold for
ten times that amount was his
guest. =" fit ag'in YOU" said he. but
have come down from Michigan to live
with you and | found a cordial well
come. If the railroads would reduce
transportation to cent mile thous-
ands of good. hardy people from the
North would come down. first to see.
few years would be perfect harmony
between the scctions.'
What every town in the South needs
is lcader-a man Of nerve and enter
prise. Our people will follow. but they
fear tolcad. Mr.. Codington is power
in BartOw and will soon have water
works and an electric plant and street
cars and another railroad. He has
been great traveller and lived some
years in Peru while Henry Mciggs was
building railroads there for the gov
ernmcnt. He designed and built gas
plant near the apex Of tho Andes
mountains for the sole purpose Of light
ing the tunnel that Meiggs bored for
his wonderful railroad-a road that
cost $50. 100000 That gas plant is
10000 feet above the sea level. Every
thing for the railroad and the gas plant
was carried up cliif roads on the backs
of mulcs-30O pounds to the mule. Just
think Of it. Yankee genius. Yankee
pluck was behind it all. They are a
wonderful people.
"Whcn Yankee is good he is very
good, indeed, but when he is bad he is
horrid.' And that is what they think
of us, | reckon.
| saw skunk yesterday as it crossed
the road Il few miles out OF town. 1t
was a beauty. Our dog tackled it
forthwith. and then-but you must ask
the dog for further particulars.
BILL ARP.
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