Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-10-23
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monument, to the push, get up, enter.
prise and determination of Atlanta.
The limited space usually allowed in
country newspapers deter me from at.
tempting to give a description of the
Exposition, and will only say, come
n see for yourselves. Railroad fares
are reasonable and good board and
lodging can be obtained az low rates.
Leaving Atlanta on the evening of the
7th we landed in Jacksonville early in
the day of the 9Th. Here we laid over
one day and on visiting we the city
found many good buildings and other
improvements since we left there in
March last. On the way down here
from Jacksonville we came through
st. Augustine, but did moi stop. The
country below Augustine, as a general
thing, Is the most God forsaken looking
place | ever saw. 1t is nothing, at
least along the railroad, but sand,
scrubby timber, palmetto and little
lakes bayous. This town was laid out
about two years ago and now contains
several hundred inhabitants. There
are a number of stores, two saloons,
one church and one school house.
Everything is very high here. To give
your readers some idea will quote the
prices of a few articles. Very ordinary
apples two for five cents, dried apples
fifteen cents per pound, beef 12 to 20
cents, pork IS, whisky Is cents a drink,
board "a 80 and So and very common
at that. On the east side of Lake
Worth is Palm Beach. Here was
opened last winter the Royal Poinciana,
the finest wooden hotel in the South.
and perhaps in the United States. 1t
is the property Of Henry B. Flagler,
the owner of the East Coast Line Rail
road from Jacksonville to this place
which is the terminus. Our Uncle
Henry is having an annex of several
hundred rooms erected to the Royal
and will be completed about the 1st of
December. He is also having a bridge
constructed across the lake and will
run his trains direct to his hotel.
Heretofore they had to ferry. He is
also extending his road south to Bis.
cayne Bay, some sixGy miles. Has the
whole line under contract and is work
ing a large number of hands. The
Knoxville Building and Contracting
Company have the bridge and trestle
work contracted and are working Il
number of carpenters. Certain CON-
panies have engineers out locating
towns on the new line. One place
called Linton, some 10 miles below
here is said to have about 800 or 400
inhabitants already. Unless the coun-
try below is vastly superior to this |
can imagine why any one would To-
cate. There is nothing here to sup
port a town. Everything that is used
in any way has to be shipped in and
when the Flagler work is completed,
at least nine teuths of the residents
will find themselves in a hole. The
fishing industry may amount to some
thing. There are two or three fishing
companies who give employment to O
number of men but this is a precarious
way of making a support as they pay
a certain per cent on what they catch.
No catch no pay. Mosquitoes and sand
flies are the most industrious things
l have run across 30 far. They stick
closer than a brother. They will stay
with you day and night. They are no
respecter of persons and care not what
part of your anatomy they attack,
neither do they care whether you de-
sire their company or not. A shark
weighing over 300 pounds was caught
in the lake here one day last week by a
lot of fishermen. II attracted consider.
able attention. Oranges are scarce in
Florida this year. Pine apples did
well along the Indian River country
but are all gone. Flagler has certainly
done a big thing for the Atlantic coast
section by running his railroad down
through the wilderness. There is much
land by draining and clearing up that
is verv productive and can be very
valuable for pine apples, oranges, ba.
nanas and in fact all semi tropical
fruits. 1t very rarely frosts here.
Scarcely a day during the winter sea-
son but a man feels comfortable in his
shirt sleeves. Straw hats and summer
clothing is still worn here. The wealth.
er is rainy and work is much impeded.
PHELIM.
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