The Yale expositor., 1895-11-01

$3.50 per quart has been had. The
pine apple is the staple product OF the
farmer of this section. There are n
few farms owned by companies, In
size from fifteen to forty acres. From
,he superintendent of the Palm Beach
Plnery. G.. @. Matthams, we received
some data as to the revenue he had
derived this year from the pinery OF
his company. The figures he gave as
to cost OF production were doubled
and the revenue derived cut In two in
order that the figures might be
brought down to something that an
ordinary northern farmer can believe.
The basis Is upon one acre for six
years. The first six years produces
fair crops. Mr.. Mattham's figures COW
err the cost OF the land, the cost OF
clearing, the cost Of purchasing and
setting the plants, labor of raising,
fertilizer, interest, taxes and eXn-as.
The red Spanish returns profit per
acre in six years, according to Mr..
Mattham's figures, after doubling the
cost OF production and cutting in two
his receipts, the figures for which he
furnishes from his books OF last year
of $3.50 per acres the Porto Rico. ST.
600 per acre; the Abbaka, $1,000;
Smooth Cayenne, $500; the Egyptian
Queen, $13,100. One memorandum
book shows every item upon Mr.. Mat
tham's books, but they are too
lengthy for publication In detail.
Oranges, lemons, lines and bananas
grow wild, but have not been much
cultivated at this point. In concluding,
recitation OF these fabulous figures as
Al f,K., La
say that green, sweet corn sells for
S1.50 per dozen ears, ranging down
several times to 90 cents per dozen.
Dressed spring chickens % cents per
pound, when weighing about three
pounds These are for the winter ho-
tells at and around this place.
In concluding this lengthy letter, let
MS tell the reader something of the
progress made at Lynton during the
past nine days since our arrival in
Palm Beach. LyntOn is seventeen
miles south OF Palm Beach, and is
named after Congressman w. S. Lyn-
ton. of Saginaw, Mich, who is Presi-
dent Of the South Florida Land Com
pany; ID. Swynton. of the same place,
being secretary. The company controls
some 100000 acres of pine lands In
this section and Lynton Ia the first
town to be started under the supe
vision OF Messrs Lynton and Swyn-
ton. At the time of our first visit 10
Lynton. October LIST. ther, was not
settler in Lynton, the surveyors and
street graders having just commenced
laying out the town and cutting out
the streets. The town is situated on
the drainage canal and the East Coast
railway. Along the canal is strip of
heavy muck land something over q
half mile in width. This land Is to be
devoted 10 early vegetable raising and
is divided into . IL acre lots. Next to
the ocean Is q strip OF hammock land.
covered with wild oranges, lines and
gauvGs. The ocean front Is designed
for winter residences and winter ho-
tells. The surf bathing Is all that could
be asked for winter or summer. The
gulf stream passes within eighty rods
of the beach. Steamers, In going north,
follow In the gulf stream, and In 60.
ing south they take the eddy of the
gulf stream. and come very near TO
the beach inside the gulf stream. A
mile back from the ocean Is the depot
and the center of the town. The resi-.
dence lots are 70x130 feet in size,
numbering several hundred. Then
there has been laid off besides sever.
al five-acre lots In the village. Outside
the village the lots are twenty acres.
Each man III given two and n half
acres Of muck, a five-acre tract In the
village. If he likes. and twenty-acre
tract. Each man is then made a pre-
sent by drawing OF n village lot. He
pays SO per acre for his muck land,
which has no timber upon IL. For his
spruce pine land to be used for pine
apples he pays $25 per acre, while for
his high pine land he pays $50 pei
acre. There is a section Of undrained
muck land in the edge of the Ever.
glades, a mile or more back from the
depot. selling at So per acre. This
will be drained next year. Many Of
the settlers are purchasing about ten
acres Of the high pine land to be used
for orange and lemon purposes and
ten acres OF this undrained muck.
This muck lies next to the high pine
land. and 1t eau he conveniently used
for fertillzlng. For phosphates, the
fish of the ocean will be used for fer.
tilizing.
Yesterday was the day for the divi.
SlpiA vi lAC ny ~. w ntlC
was not settler October LIST. yester.
day forty-one pieces of land were
taken by actual settlers. These people
are all living in tents at present. The
town will have fully 200 heads OF fam.
lilies within thirty days. Most OF the
settlers are from Michigan. Three
men brought their families, while one
lady came from West Branch with
her son. Thirty more men are on their
way from Manistee, and ten or fifteen
will come on from West Branch soon
Large numbers are coming from. Bay
City and Saginaw, and one colony Is
to be on hand shortly from Spring
field. III.
Every man owning land within two
miles OF town sill have his home In
the village. This is for the purpose OF
religious, social. educational and other
privileges. Mr.. Lynton was In his
glory all day yesterday. The scheme
was OF his own conception and he
was highly pleased Mt its success.
Last night he purchased a ship cargo
of cocoanuts, already sprouted. and
banana roots, OF which he makes a
present to the colony by planting
them throughout the town. The cargo
came from the Mahamas, only about